Ol' '55

"Ol' '55"
Single by Tom Waits
from the album 'Closing Time'
Released 1973
Length 3:55
Label Asylum Records
Writer(s) Tom Waits

"Ol' '55" is a song written and recorded by Tom Waits. It is the opening track on Waits' 1973 debut album, Closing Time. The song was covered by the Eagles on their 1974 album On the Border.

Waits has been critical of cover versions of the song, admitting that he was "not that particularly crazy about [the Eagles'] rendition of it ... I thought their version was a little antiseptic."[1]

Recordings

Live versions

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