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Artist: Tom Waits
Title: Blue Valentine
Format: 12"
Label: Asylum Records
Cat No: 6E-162
Released: 1978
Country:
Genres: Piano BluesElectric Blues
Status Have
Added To List 28th November 2025
Disc 1 | 12"
SP - Specialty Pressing, Gatefold 
A Matrix:
6E-162-A SP  
B Matrix:
6E-162-B SP  

Additional Information

Comments "SP" in label matrix and "SRC" logo stamped in runouts denote [l=Specialty Records Corporation] pressing.

Issued in gatefold jacket.

Track A1 subtitle: From "West Side Story"
Track B2 title on labels: Whistlin' Past The Graveyard

℗ & © 1978 Elektra/Asylum Records [back cover]
℗ 1978 by Asylum Records [labels]

Lyrics © 1978 Fifth Floor Music, Inc. (ASCAP) except A1.

Recorded to 2-track tape at Filmways/Heider Recording, Hollywood, California on July 24, 25; & August 10, 17, 23 & 26, 1978.
Disc Mastering, Elektra Sound Recorders, Hollywood, Calif.

All Songs Published by Fifth Floor Music, Inc. ASCAP
except A1 Published by G. Schirmer, Inc. and Chappell & Co., Inc. ASCAP

Production and Sound by Bones Howe
A B.H. Production

Herb Cohen Management: from Winchell's Donut Shop to the Brown Derby—a step up.

Thanks to MOJO for a great guitar and a great bottle of wine, Chuck E. Weiss for his support and encouragement, Louis "The Mug" Lista, Dee Barnett, Diane "Steal That Black Jockey Off The Lawn" Quinn, Mary Simon – Custom Car Painting and Design on the Thunderbird, Harold Battiste for his patience. Bones, Howe did we do it?
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