True Orphans pt 4 (1990-1992) - Final Season Specials

Into the 1990s, Martin and Sam return for more unreleased Waits tracks, splitting the decade into two more manageable chunks. This first episode sees some repurposed music, a few live songs, as well as Waits delivering heart-felt advice alongside Thelonius Monster.

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Serrano, flexi-disc insert for the book 'Sylvia Plachy's Unguided Tour', Tom Waits (1990)

Russian Dance, The Black Rider, Tom Waits (1993)

I Left My Heart In San Francisco, live recording, Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco CA, w. George Corey / Douglass Cross (31 December 1990)

I Left My Heart In San Francisco, I Left My Heart In San Francisco, Tony Bennett (1962)

Auld Lang Syne, live recording, Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco CA (31 December 1990/1 January 1991)

It’s Alright With Me, Red Hot + Blue, Tom Waits / w. Cole Porter - music video dir. Jim Jarmusch (1990)

It's Alright With Me, Can-Can Original Broadway Cast Recording, C.K Alexander / w. Cole Porter (1953)

It's Alright With Me, We Must Believe In Magic, Crystal Gale (1977)

Thousand Bing Bangs, Devout Catalyst, Ken Nordine / Tom Waits (1991)

A Thousand Bingbangs (solo version), Transparent Mask, Ken Nordine (2011)

First Kiss, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

The Movie, Devout Catalyst, Ken Nordine / Tom Waits (1991)

I'm Not Your Fool Anymore, Mississippi Lad, Teddy Edwards / Tom Waits (1991)

Adios Lounge, Beautiful Mess, Thelonius Monster / Tom Waits (1992)

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Lord I've Been Changed / Tell It To Me / First Kiss - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards [353/354/355]

Jeffrey’s with Martin and Sam for a second Orphaned week, delighting in gospel music, songs of absentee fathers, and approximately 500 Bing Bangs. Waits sidesteps his irony to celebrate religion (or at least its musical traditions), we get down and dirty with a country music legend, and Jeffrey… falls in love!

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Lord I've Been Changed, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

Lord I've Been Changed, from Freedom Highway, dir. Phillip King (2001)

Know I've Been Changed, Wicked Grin, John Hammond / Tom Waits (2001)

Know I've Been Changed, Great Day, Staples Singers (1975)

Tell It To Me, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

Louise, Friends of Mine, Ramblin' Jack Elliott / Tom Waits (1998)

Lucille (aka 'a country song in 3/4 time'), Kenny Rogers, Kenny Rogers (1976)

The Cowboy Waltz (aka 'another country song in 3/4 time'), Asch Recordings vol 4, Woodie Guthrie (1999/?)

First Kiss, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

Thousand Bing Bangs, Devout Catalyst, Ken Nordine / Tom Waits (1991)

A Thousand Bingbangs, A Transparent Mask, Ken Nordine (2011)

The Movie, Devout Catalyst, Ken Nordine / Tom Waits (1991)

Circus, single, Ken Nordine / Tom Waits (2019)

Funky Moped, live on TOTP, Jasper Carrot (1975)

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