"Which US singer/songwriter recorded the albums ""The Heart of Saturday Night"", ""Heartattack and Vine"", ""Swordfishtrombones"", etc?"
The Heart of Saturday Night night. Dig?" In a retrospective review, 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. In 2003, it was ranked number 339 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, his highest placing. All songs written and composed by Tom Waits. Side one Side two All personnel credits adapted from the album's liner notes. The Heart of Saturday Night The Heart of Saturday Night is the second studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released in
Tom Waits as a songwriter before signing a recording contract with Asylum Records. His first albums, the jazz-oriented "Closing Time" (1973) and "The Heart of Saturday Night" (1974), reflected his lyrical interest in nightlife, poverty, and criminality. Repeatedly touring the U.S., Europe, and Japan, he attracted greater critical recognition and commercial success with "Small Change" (1976), which he followed with "Blue Valentine" (1978) and "Heartattack and Vine" (1980). He produced the soundtrack for Francis Ford Coppola's 1981 film "One from the Heart" and subsequently made cameo appearances in several Coppola films. During the 1970s, he also had relationships with two prominent performers,