One from the Heart (album)

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Template:Music ratings One from the Heart is a soundtrack album of Tom Waits compositions for the Francis Ford Coppola film of the same name.<ref name="auto"/> It was recorded from October 1980 to September 1981. It was during this period that Waits met his wife Kathleen Brennan, an employee at the studio where it was recorded.<ref name="auto"/> While the film was released in February, the soundtrack album release was delayed until October 1982 due to a dispute between Columbia Records and Coppola's Zoetrope Studios.<ref name="Rolling Stone">Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Crystal Gayle sings on the record, performing either solo or in duets with Waits. The soundtrack was nominated for an Academy Award for Original Music Score.<ref name="SP">Template:Cite book</ref>

The movie was re-released on DVD on January 27, 2004, and the DVD contains remixed and remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound of the soundtrack from Waits' original studio sessions, a documentary on the making of the soundtrack, as well as previously unreleased demo recordings and alternate takes.

Production

The album was the last in an almost decade-long collaboration between Waits and producer Bones Howe. Howe recounts how Waits broke the news to him: "He called me up and said 'Can we have a drink?' He told me he realised one night that as he was writing a song, he found himself asking 'If I write this, will Bones like it?' I said to him that we were getting to be kind of like an old married couple. I said I don't want to be the reason that an artist can't create. It was time for him to find another producer. We shook hands and that was it. It was a great ride."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In the midst of scoring the film, Waits and Howe took a two-month leave of absence to record Wait's 7th studio album, Heartattack and Vine <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Critical reception

The Austin Chronicle wrote: "Of course Waits fans might chafe at the Crystal clarity of the country music siren's ringing cry, but like the last and best duet on the soundtrack explains, 'This One's From the Heart'."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Legacy

Waits reflected that scoring One from the Heart refined his approach to songwriting and added discipline to his work ethic. “Up till then, writing songs was something I did when I’d been drinking, and I wasn't absolutely sure I was capable of doing it in terms of being a craftsman. And being part of something very large, you have to discuss openly what it is you do and how it relates to a carpenter, a designer, a lighting guy and an actor. So it made me more responsible and more disciplined.”<ref name="auto1">Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Coppola himself also helped bring some of these changes to the surface. “I remember one evening at Coppola’s house listening to a Puccini aria. It was a particularly thrilling musical experience, because I started to get a feeling for how a collection of songs has to have a shape, how the songs have to work together.” <ref name="auto1"/>

Track listing

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Personnel

  • Tom Waits – vocals, piano, orchestral arrangements
  • Crystal Gayle – vocals

Musicians

Technical personnel

  • Bones Howe – producer, sound, engineer, remixer
  • Biff Dawes – engineer
  • Tim Boyle – second engineer
  • Dave Demore – second engineer
  • Bob Winder – second engineer
  • Richard Beggs – sound montages
  • Kathy Morton – sound assistant

References

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