Kojak Variety

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Kojak Variety
Cover album by Elvis Costello
Released	May 9, 1995
Recorded	1989-1994
Genre	Rock
Length	53:57
Label	Warner Bros. Rhino (August 3, 2004 Reissue)
Producer(s)	Kevin Killen and Elvis Costello
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link The Music Box link Robert Christgau (dud) link Rolling Stone link
Elvis Costello chronology
The Very Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1977-86 (1994)	Kojak Variety (1995)	Deep Dead Blue (1995)

Kojak Variety is a 1995 covers album by Elvis Costello. "Days" had previously appeared on the Until the End of the World, the 1991 soundtrack to Wim Wenders' film of the same name.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Bonus disc (2004 Rhino) 2 Personnel 3 Charts

[edit] Track listing

1. "Strange" (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) – 2:39
2. "Hidden Charms" (Willie Dixon) – 3:29
3. "Remove This Doubt" (Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, Edward Holland, Jr.) – 3:52
4. "I Threw It All Away" (Bob Dylan) – 3:23
5. "Leave My Kitten Alone" (Little Willie John, Titus Turner, Jay McDougal) – 3:10
6. "Everybody's Crying Mercy" (Mose Allison) – 4:05
7. "I've Been Wrong Before" (Randy Newman) – 3:01
8. "Bama Lama Bama Loo" (Richard Penniman) – 2:45
9. "Must You Throw Dirt in My Face?" (Bill Anderson) – 3:49
10. "Pouring Water on a Drowning Man" (Drew Baker, Dani McCormick) – 3:39
11. "The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble) – 3:42
12. "Payday" (Jesse Winchester) – 2:57
13. "Please Stay" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 4:49
14. "Running Out of Fools" (Richard Ahlert, Kay Rogers) – 3:04
15. "Days" (Ray Davies) – 4:54

[edit] Bonus disc (2004 Rhino)

1. "Ship of Fools" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 5:21
2. "My Resistance Is Low" (Harold Adamson, Hoagy Carmichael) – 2:00
3. "Innocent When You Dream" (Tom Waits) – 4:30
4. "I'm Coming Home" (T-Bone Burnett) – 3:13
5. "The Dark End of the Street" (Chips Moman, Dan Penn) – 3:10
6. "Congratulations" (Paul Simon) – 2:47
7. "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" (Dylan) – 2:13
8. "Pouring Water on a Drowning Man" (Alternate version) (Baker, McCormick) – 2:54
9. "Still Feeling Blue" (Gram Parsons) – 2:23
10. "Brilliant Disguise" (Bruce Springsteen) – 4:03
11. "How Long Has This Been Going On" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:31
12. "Sleepless Nights" (Felice Bryant, Boudleaux Bryant) – 3:58
13. "Step Inside Love" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:49
14. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" (Lennon, McCartney) – 2:38
15. "Sally Sue Brown" (Arthur Alexander) – 2:19
16. "Sticks and Stones" (Turner) – 1:36
17. "That's How You Got Killed Before" (with The Dirty Dozen Brass Band) (Dave Bartholomew) – 3:14
18. "The Night Before Larry Was Stretched" (traditional) – 5:10
19. "But Not for Me" (with Larry Adler) (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 5:04
20. "Full Force Gale" (Van Morrison) – 2:59

[edit] Personnel

• Elvis Costello – harmonica, vocals
• James Burton – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, rhythm guitar
• Jim Keltner – drums
• Larry Knechtel – piano Hammond organ, electric piano
• Marc Ribot – banjo, electric guitar, rhythm guitar, horn, classical guitar
• Jerry Scheff – bass
• Pete Thomas – drums

[edit] Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1995	The Billboard 200	102

Elvis Costello
Albums
My Aim Is True | Spike | King of America | Brutal Youth | Mighty Like a Rose | Kojak Variety | North | Il Sogno
Elvis Costello and The Attractions
This Year's Model | Armed Forces | Get Happy!! | Trust | Almost Blue | Imperial Bedroom | Punch the Clock | Goodbye Cruel World | Blood and Chocolate | All This Useless Beauty
Elvis Costello and The Imposters
When I Was Cruel | Cruel Smile | The Delivery Man
Collaborations
The Juliet Letters with The Brodsky Quartet | Terror & Magnificence with John Harle | Painted from Memory with Burt Bacharach | The Sweetest Punch with Bill Frisell | For the Stars with Anne-Sofie von Otter | My Flame Burns Blue with The Metropole Orkest | Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland | The River in Reverse with Allen Toussaint
Live albums
Live at the El Mocambo | Deep Dead Blue | Costello & Nieve
Soundtracks
G.B.H. | Jake's Progress
Collections
Taking Liberties | Ten Bloody Marys & Ten How's Your Fathers | The Best of Elvis Costello & The Attractions | Out of Our Idiot | Girls+£÷Girls=$&Girls | 2 ½ Years | The Very Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1977-86 | Extreme Honey | The Very Best of Elvis Costello | Singles, Vol. 1 |Singles, Vol. 2 |Singles, Vol. 3
Categories
Elvis Costello albums | Elvis Costello songs