Kojak Variety

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Kojak Variety
Kojak Variety cover
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
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

[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

[edit] Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1995 The Billboard 200 102


 v • d • e Elvis Costello

My Aim Is True • Spike • King of America • Brutal Youth • Mighty Like a Rose • Kojak Variety • North • Il Sogno

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

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
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