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			'''''The Heart of Saturday Night''''' is the second studio album by singer and songwriter ], released on October 15, 1974, on ].<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-heart-of-saturday-night-remastered/1485071401\|title=The Heart of Saturday Night (Remastered) by Tom Waits\|publisher=]\|accessdate=October 9, 2020}}</ref> The title song was written as a tribute to ].<ref>{{cite news\|last=Chilton\|first=Martin\|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/tom-waits-his-25-best-songs/tom-waits12/\|title=Tom Waits: his 25 best songs – No 10: (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night (The Heart of Saturday Night, 1974)\|newspaper=]\|date=May 10, 2017\|accessdate=October 10, 2020}}</ref> The album marks the start of a decade-long collaboration between Waits and ], who produced and engineered all Waits' recordings until the artist left Asylum.

			== Cover ==
			The album cover is based on '']'' by ].<ref name="notes"/> It is an illustration featuring a tired Tom Waits being observed by a blonde woman as he exits a neon-lit ] late at night.{{sfn\|Jacobs\|2010}} ] was the art director and the cover art was created by Lynn Lascaro.<ref name="notes"/>

			== Critical reception ==
	{{Album ratings		{{Album ratings
	\| rev1 = ]		\| rev1 = ]
	\| ~~rev1Score~~ = {{Rating\|3.5\|5}}<ref name="Ruhlmann">~~Ruhlmann, William. .~~ ]. ~~Retrieved~~ ~~on 2009-08-05.~~</ref>		\| rev1score = {{Rating\|3.5\|5}}<ref name="Ruhlmann">{{cite web\|last=Ruhlmann\|first=William\|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-heart-of-saturday-night-mw0000198247\|title=The Heart of Saturday Night – Tom Waits\|publisher=]\|accessdate=October 9, 2020}}</ref>
	\| rev2 = ]		\| rev2 = '']''
			\| rev2score = C+<ref>{{cite book\|last=Christgau\|first=Robert\|author-link=Robert Christgau\|chapter=Tom Waits: The Heart of a Saturday Night\|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=3995\|accessdate=May 14, 2017\|via=robertchristgau.com\|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies\|title-link=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies\|publisher=]\|year=1981\|isbn=0-89919-026-X}}</ref>
	\| rev2Score = C+<ref name="Christgau">Christgau, Robert. . '']''. Retrieved on 2009-08-05.</ref>
	\| rev3 = '']''		\| rev3 = '']''
			\| rev3score = 7/10<ref>{{cite magazine\|last=Johnston\|first=Emma\|title=Tom Waits: Reissues\|magazine=]\|issue=248\|date=May 2018\|page=98}}</ref>
	\| rev3Score = {{Rating\|4\|4}}<ref name="Seigal">Siegal, Buddy. . '']''. Retrieved on 2009-08-05.</ref>
	\| rev4 = '']''		\| rev4 = '']''
			\| rev4score = {{Rating\|4\|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine\|title=Tom Waits: The Heart of Saturday Night\|magazine=]\|issue=200\|date=July 2010\|page=76}}</ref>
	\| rev4Score = (favorable)<ref name="Davis">Davis, Stephen. "". '']'': 119. December 21, 1975.</ref>
	\| rev5 = '']''		\| rev5 = ''Overdose''
			\| rev5score = B<ref>{{cite magazine\|last=Hull\|first=Tom\|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)\|url=http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/arch/rekord3.php\|title=The Rekord Report: Third Card\|magazine=Overdose\|date=April 1975\|accessdate=June 26, 2020\|via=tomhull.com}}</ref>
	\| rev5Score = (favorable)<ref name="LaBate">LaBate, Steve. . '']''. Retrieved on 2009-08-05.</ref>
	\| rev6 = '']''		\| rev6 = '']''
			\| rev6score = 7.9/10<ref name="pm">{{cite web\|last=Deusner\|first=Stephen M.\|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/tom-waits-closing-timethe-heart-of-saturday-nightnighthawks-at-the-dinersmall-changeforeign-affairsblue-valentineheartattack-and-vine/\|title=Tom Waits: The Asylum Era\|website=]\|date=March 24, 2018\|accessdate=March 24, 2018}}</ref>
	\| rev6Score = {{Rating\|4\|5}}<ref name="Qmag">Columnist. ". '']'': 100. October 1992.</ref>
	\| rev7 = '']''		\| rev7 = '']''
			\| rev7score = {{Rating\|4\|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine\|title=Tom Waits: The Heart of Saturday Night\|magazine=]\|issue=73\|date=October 1992\|page=100}}</ref>
	\| rev7Score = {{Rating\|4\|5}} <small>1974</small><ref name="Holden">Holden, Stephen. . '']''. Retrieved on 2009-08-05.</ref> <small>2004</small><ref name="Hoard">Hoard, Christian. . ''Rolling Stone'': 854–855. November 2, 2004.</ref>
	\| rev8 = '']''		\| rev8 = '']''
			\| rev8score = {{Rating\|4\|5}}<ref>{{cite book\|last1=Coleman\|first1=Mark\|last2=Scoppa\|first2=Bud\|editor1-last=Brackett\|editor1-first=Nathan\|editor1-link=Nathan Brackett\|editor2-last=Hoard\|editor2-first=Christian\|editor2-link=Christian Hoard\|chapter=Tom Waits\|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide\|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide\|publisher=]\|edition=4th\|year=2004\|isbn=0-7432-0169-8\|pages=}}</ref>
	\| rev8Score = (mixed)<ref name="Maslin">Maslin, Janet. "". ''The Village Voice'': 105–106. November 21, 1974.</ref>
	\| rev9 = ]		\| rev9 = '']''
			\| rev9score = {{Rating\|4\|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine\|last=Gill\|first=Andy\|title=What Is He Building in There..?\|magazine=]\|issue=175\|date=December 2011\|pages=52–53}}</ref>
	\| rev9Score = (favorable)<ref name="DiMartino">DiMartino, David. . ]. Retrieved on 2009-08-05.</ref>
			\| rev10 = '']''
			\| rev10score = B−<ref name="VV"/>
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			In a contemporary review for '']'', ] regarded the songs as tawdry affectations of "a boozy vertigo" marred by Waits' vague lyrics and ill-advised puns on an album that is "too self-consciously limited" in mood. "It demands to be listened to after hours", Maslin wrote, "when that cloud of self-pitying gloom has descended and the vino is close at hand".<ref>{{cite news\|last=Maslin\|first=Janet\|author-link=Janet Maslin\|title=Tom Waits: On the Road, On the Town\|newspaper=]\|page=106}}</ref> Fellow ''Village Voice'' critic ] was also critical of Waits' compositions, writing that "there might be as many coverable songs here as there were on his first album if mournful melodies didn't merge into neo imagery in the spindrift dirge of the honky-tonk beatnik night. Dig?"<ref name="VV">{{cite news\|last=Christgau\|first=Robert\|author-link=Robert Christgau\|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv49.php\|title=Consumer Guide (49)\|newspaper=]\|date=October 24, 1974\|accessdate=May 14, 2017}}</ref>

			In a retrospective review for the '']'', ] was more impressed by Waits' "touchingly, unashamedly sentimental" songs, calling ''The Heart of Saturday Night'' perhaps the singer's most "mature, ingenuous and fully realized" album.<ref name="Seigal">{{cite news\|last=Siegal\|first=Buddy\|author-link=Buddy Seigal\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-07-ol-1109-story.html\|title=Tom Waits: 'The Heart of Saturday Night' (1974); Asylum\|newspaper=]\|date=January 7, 1993\|access-date=August 5, 2009}}</ref> It was ranked number 339 on '']'' magazine's list of ].<ref>{{cite magazine\|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231/the-heart-of-saturday-night-tom-waits-19691231\|title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time: The Heart of Saturday Night – Tom Waits\|magazine=]\|date=December 11, 2003\|accessdate=October 10, 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101220150010/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231/the-heart-of-saturday-night-tom-waits-19691231\|archive-date=December 20, 2010\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine\|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/tom-waits-the-heart-of-saturday-night-49233/\|title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time\|magazine=]\|date=May 31, 2012\|accessdate=September 9, 2019}}</ref>
	'''''The Heart of Saturday Night''''' is the second ] by singer and songwriter ], released in 1974 on ]. In 2003, the album was ranked number 339 on '']'' magazine's list of ], his highest placing. The album cover is based on '']'' by ].<ref>Art Director: Cal Schenkel Cover Art: Napoleon aka Lyn Lascaro </ref> ] was the art director and the cover art was by Lyn Lascaro aka Napolean.

	==Track listing==		==Track listing==
	''All songs written by Tom Waits.''		All songs written and composed by Tom Waits.

	'''Side one'''		'''Side one'''
			{{Track listing
	{{tracklist
	\| title1 = New Coat of Paint		\| title1 = New Coat of Paint
	\| length1 = 3:23		\| length1 = 3:23
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	\| title5 = Diamonds on My Windshield		\| title5 = Diamonds on My Windshield
	\| length5 = 3:12		\| length5 = 3:12
	\| title6 = (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night		\| title6 = ]
	\| length6 = 3:53		\| length6 = 3:53
	}}		}}

	'''Side two'''		'''Side two'''
			{{Track listing
	{{tracklist
			\| total_length = 41:28
	\| title1 = Fumblin' with the Blues		\| title1 = Fumblin' with the Blues
	\| length1 = 3:02		\| length1 = 3:02
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	\| length5 = 3:16		\| length5 = 3:16
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	=="(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night"==
	"(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night" has since been covered by ], ], ], ], ], ] and ].

	==Personnel==		==Personnel==
			All personnel credits are as listed in the album's liner notes.<ref name="notes">{{cite AV media notes\|title=The Heart of Saturday Night\|others=]\|publisher=]\|year=1974\|id=7E-1015\|type=liner notes}}</ref>
	* ] - ]
	* ] - ]
	* Jim Hughart - ]
	* ] - Vocals, Piano, Guitar
	* ] - Arranger

			;Performer
	==Notes==
			*Tom Waits – vocals, piano, guitar
	{{reflist}}

			;Musicians
			*] – ]
			*] – ]
			*] – ]
			*] – ]
			*] – ]
			*] – "head" arrangements and complementary orchestral arrangements and direction

			;Technical personnel
			*] – ], ]
			*Geoff Howe – engineer
			*Pamela Vale – production coordinator
			*Terry Dunavan – ]

			;Design personnel
			*] – ]
			*Lynn Lascaro – illustrations
			*Scott Smith – photography

			==Certifications==
			{{Certification Table Top}}
			{{Certification Table Entry\|region=United Kingdom\|title=The Heart of Saturday Night\|artist=Tom Waits\|type=album\|award=Gold\|id=2792-3029-2\|relyear=1999\|certyear=2008\|accessdate=October 9, 2020}}
			{{Certification Table Bottom\|nosales=yes}}

	==References==		==References==
			{{reflist}}
	{{refbegin\|colwidth=30em}}

	* {{cite book\| author = ], Christian Hoard \| title = ] \| others = Completely Revised and Updated 4th Edition\| publisher = ]\| year = 2004\| location = \| isbn = 0-7432-0169-8}}
			==Bibliography==
	{{refend}}
			*{{cite book\|last=Jacobs\|first=Jay\|title=Wild Years: The Music and Myth of Tom Waits\|publisher=]\|edition=illustrated, revised\|year=2010\|isbn=9781554902613\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8q0KBucLXm4C}}

	==External links==		==External links==
	* '''' at ]		* '''' at ]
	* at '']''
	* at Treble

	{{Tom Waits}}		{{Tom Waits}}

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Latest revision as of 01:19, 10 September 2024

For the Blue Bloods episode, see Blue Bloods season 14. 1974 studio album by Tom Waits

The Heart of Saturday Night

Studio album by Tom Waits

Released

October 15, 1974 (1974-10-15)

Studio

Wally Heider's Studio 3 (Hollywood)

Genre

Length

41:28

Tom Waits chronology

Closing Time
(1973)

The Heart of Saturday Night
(1974)

Nighthawks at the Diner
(1975)

Singles from The Heart of Saturday Night

"Blue Skies (non-album single)"
Released: October 1974
"San Diego Serenade"
Released: 1975

The Heart of Saturday Night is the second studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released on October 15, 1974, on Asylum Records. The title song was written as a tribute to Jack Kerouac. The album marks the start of a decade-long collaboration between Waits and Bones Howe, who produced and engineered all Waits' recordings until the artist left Asylum.

Cover

The album cover is based on In the Wee Small Hours by Frank Sinatra. It is an illustration featuring a tired Tom Waits being observed by a blonde woman as he exits a neon-lit cocktail lounge late at night. Cal Schenkel was the art director and the cover art was created by Lynn Lascaro.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Christgau's Record Guide	C+
Classic Rock	7/10
Mojo
Overdose	B
Pitchfork	7.9/10
Q
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
Uncut
The Village Voice	B−

In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, Janet Maslin regarded the songs as tawdry affectations of "a boozy vertigo" marred by Waits' vague lyrics and ill-advised puns on an album that is "too self-consciously limited" in mood. "It demands to be listened to after hours", Maslin wrote, "when that cloud of self-pitying gloom has descended and the vino is close at hand". Fellow Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was also critical of Waits' compositions, writing that "there might be as many coverable songs here as there were on his first album if mournful melodies didn't merge into neo imagery in the spindrift dirge of the honky-tonk beatnik night. Dig?"

In a retrospective review for the Los Angeles Times, Buddy Seigal was more impressed by Waits' "touchingly, unashamedly sentimental" songs, calling The Heart of Saturday Night perhaps the singer's most "mature, ingenuous and fully realized" album. It was ranked number 339 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Tom Waits.

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"New Coat of Paint"	3:23
2.	"San Diego Serenade"	3:30
3.	"Semi Suite"	3:29
4.	"Shiver Me Timbers"	4:26
5.	"Diamonds on My Windshield"	3:12
6.	"(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night"	3:53

Side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Fumblin' with the Blues"	3:02
2.	"Please Call Me, Baby"	4:25
3.	"Depot, Depot"	3:46
4.	"Drunk on the Moon"	5:06
5.	"The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House)"	3:16
Total length:		41:28

Personnel

All personnel credits are as listed in the album's liner notes.

Performer

Tom Waits – vocals, piano, guitar

Musicians

Jim Hughart – double bass
Pete Christlieb – tenor saxophone
Tom Scott – clarinet
Jim Gordon – drums
Bob Alcivar – arranger
Mike Melvoin – "head" arrangements and complementary orchestral arrangements and direction

Technical personnel

Bones Howe – producer, engineer
Geoff Howe – engineer
Pamela Vale – production coordinator
Terry Dunavan – mastering

Design personnel

Cal Schenkel – art direction
Lynn Lascaro – illustrations
Scott Smith – photography

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)	Gold	100,000
Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

^ Ruhlmann, William. "The Heart of Saturday Night – Tom Waits". AllMusic. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
"The Heart of Saturday Night (Remastered) by Tom Waits". Apple Music. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
Chilton, Martin (May 10, 2017). "Tom Waits: his 25 best songs – No 10: (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night (The Heart of Saturday Night, 1974)". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved October 10, 2020.
^ The Heart of Saturday Night (liner notes). Tom Waits. Asylum Records. 1974. 7E-1015.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
Jacobs 2010.
Christgau, Robert (1981). "Tom Waits: The Heart of a Saturday Night". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor and Fields. ISBN 0-89919-026-X. Retrieved May 14, 2017 – via robertchristgau.com.
Johnston, Emma (May 2018). "Tom Waits: Reissues". Classic Rock. No. 248. p. 98.
"Tom Waits: The Heart of Saturday Night". Mojo. No. 200. July 2010. p. 76.
Hull, Tom (April 1975). "The Rekord Report: Third Card". Overdose. Retrieved June 26, 2020 – via tomhull.com.
Deusner, Stephen M. (March 24, 2018). "Tom Waits: The Asylum Era". Pitchfork. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
"Tom Waits: The Heart of Saturday Night". Q. No. 73. October 1992. p. 100.
Coleman, Mark; Scoppa, Bud (2004). "Tom Waits". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 854–55. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
Gill, Andy (December 2011). "What Is He Building in There..?". Uncut. No. 175. pp. 52–53.
^ Christgau, Robert (October 24, 1974). "Consumer Guide (49)". The Village Voice. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
Maslin, Janet. "Tom Waits: On the Road, On the Town". The Village Voice. p. 106.
Siegal, Buddy (January 7, 1993). "Tom Waits: 'The Heart of Saturday Night' (1974); Asylum". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 5, 2009.
"500 Greatest Albums of All Time: The Heart of Saturday Night – Tom Waits". Rolling Stone. December 11, 2003. Archived from the original on December 20, 2010. Retrieved October 10, 2020.
"500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. May 31, 2012. Retrieved September 9, 2019.
"British album certifications – Tom Waits – The Heart of Saturday Night". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved October 9, 2020.

Bibliography

Jacobs, Jay (2010). Wild Years: The Music and Myth of Tom Waits (illustrated, revised ed.). ECW Press. ISBN 9781554902613.

External links

The Heart of Saturday Night at Discogs

v t e Tom Waits
Studio albums	Closing Time The Heart of Saturday Night Nighthawks at the Diner Small Change Foreign Affairs Blue Valentine Heartattack and Vine Swordfishtrombones Rain Dogs Franks Wild Years Bone Machine Mule Variations Blood Money Alice Real Gone Bad as Me
Live albums	Big Time Romeo Bleeding: Live from Austin Glitter and Doom Live
Soundtracks	One from the Heart Night on Earth The Black Rider
Compilations	Bounced Checks Anthology of Tom Waits Asylum Years The Early Years, Volume One The Early Years, Volume Two Beautiful Maladies Used Songs 1973–1980 Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Notable songs	"Ol' '55" "(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night" "Tom Traubert's Blues" "The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening with Pete King)" "Step Right Up" "Somewhere" "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis" "Romeo Is Bleeding" "Kentucky Avenue" "Heartattack and Vine" "Jersey Girl" "In the Neighborhood "16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six "Jockey Full of Bourbon" "Hang Down Your Head" "Time" "Downtown Train" "Hang On St. Christopher" "Innocent When You Dream" "Way Down in the Hole" "Alice" "Bad as Me" "Back in the Crowd"
Tours	Glitter and Doom Tour
Musicals	The Black Rider Woyzeck
Related articles	Discography Kathleen Brennan Greg Cohen Bones Howe Jim Jarmusch Rickie Lee Jones Marc Ribot Larry Taylor Chuck E. Weiss Big Time (film) Wicked Grin Come On Up to the House: Women Sing Waits New Coat of Paint Step Right Up: The Songs of Tom Waits Tom Waits for No One

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