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Foreign Affairs is an album by Tom Waits, released in 1977 on Elektra Entertainment. It was produced by Bones Howe, and features Bette Midler singing a duet with Waits on "I Never Talk to Strangers".
Production
Bones Howe, the album's producer, remembers the album's original concept and production approach thus:
[Waits] talked to me about doing this other material[...] He said, 'I'm going to do the demos first, and then I'm gonna let you listen to them. Then we should talk about what it should be. 'I listened to the material and said, 'It's like a black-and-white movie.' That's where the cover came from. The whole idea that it was going to be a black-and-white movie. It's the way it seemed to me when we were putting it together. Whether or not it came out that way, I don't have any idea, because there's such metamorphosis when you're working on [records]. They change and change. [1]
Artwork
Rickie Lee Jones, Waits' then-girlfriend, is pictured on the front cover with Waits.
Track listing
All tracks written by Tom Waits, except where noted.
- "Cinny's Waltz" (instrumental) - 2:17
- "Muriel" - 3:33
- "I Never Talk to Strangers" - 3:38
- "Medley: Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come" ("California, Here I Come" written by Joseph Meyer, Al Jolson and Buddy De Sylva) - 5:01
- "A Sight for Sore Eyes" - 4:40
- "Potter's Field" (words: Waits, music: Bob Alcivar) - 8:40
- "Burma-Shave" - 6:34
- "Barber Shop" - 3:54
- "Foreign Affair" - 3:46
Personnel
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