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Foreign Affairs is the fifth studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released on September 13, 1977, on Asylum Records. It was produced by Bones Howe, and featured Bette Midler singing a duet with Waits on "I Never Talk to Strangers".
Jan 26, 2022 · So, one might be surprised to learn that, allegedly, the bold Bette Midler and the dark and melancholy Tom Waits once had a romantic arrangement. Sources indicate that for a brief time early in Waits’ career, Midler and he had what some describe as a “sporadic affair.”
Foreign Affairs. Tom Waits. Released September 13, 1977. Foreign Affairs Tracklist. 1. Cinny's Waltz Lyrics. 2. Muriel Lyrics. 3. I Never Talk to Strangers (Ft. Bette Midler) Lyrics. 4. Medley:...
Foreign Affairs is possibly Waits’ most consistently “Chandlerian” album, a series of vignettes from “dimestore novels” and “penny arcades” that could all take place in the same seedy block of skid row Los Angeles (or New York, in the case of “Potter’s Field”). Features Waits’ duet with Bette Midler on the singles-bar ...
His singing again shows traces of that gritty but well-modulated, Fred Neil-like style that made Closing Time so insistent; his duet with Bette Midler on “I Never Talk to Strangers” is ragged...
Mar 9, 2018 · Opening with the instrumental “Cinny’s Waltz” and featuring some new standards like “Muriel” and “I Never Talk To Strangers”, his dramatic duet with Bette Midler, this album gets into some of Waits’ most ambitious storytelling ever.
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Mar 24, 2018 · “I Never Talk to Strangers,” a duet with Bette Midler, sounds like a rehash of “I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You,” and “A Sight for Sore Eyes” plumbs the same nostalgia as ...
