Closing Time (album)

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Closing Time
Studio album by Tom Waits
Released	May 1973
Recorded	Sunset Sound, Hollywood
Genre	Rock, Singer-Songwriter
Length	45:46
Label	Asylum
Producer(s)	Jerry Yester
Professional reviews
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Tom Waits chronology
	Closing Time (1973)	Heart of Saturday Night (1974)

Closing Time is the debut album of Tom Waits, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music) on Asylum Records.

Contrary to some belief, the song "Ice Cream Man" is a Waits original, not a cover of the John Brim blues standard of the same title. Waits' version, however, was covered in 1993 by Screamin' Jay Hawkins for his album Black Music For White People.

A cover version of "Ol' '55" was later a hit for The Eagles, who recorded it for their 1974 album On the Border.

The song "Midnight Lullaby" borrows its opening line from the English nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence".

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Tom Waits.

1. "Ol' '55" – 3:58
2. "I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You" – 3:54
3. "Virginia Avenue" – 3:10
4. "Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)" – 3:40
5. "Midnight Lullaby" – 3:26
6. "Martha" – 4:30
7. "Rosie" – 4:03
8. "Lonely" – 3:12
9. "Ice Cream Man" – 3:05
10. "Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)" – 3:38
11. "Grapefruit Moon" – 4:50
12. "Closing Time" (instrumental) – 4:20

[edit] Musicians

• Delbert Bennett – trumpet
• Shep Cooke – vocals, guitar
• Arni Egilsson – bass
• Jesse Ehrlich – cello
• Peter Klimes – guitar
• Bill Plummer – bass
• John Seiter – drums, background vocals
• Tony Terran – trumpet
• Tom Waits – celeste, vocals, guitar, piano