Innocent When You Dream (song)
| "Innocent When You Dream" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Tom Waits | |
| from the album Franks Wild Years | |
| Released | August 1987 |
| Recorded | Sunset Sound Factory, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles, Universal Recording Corp., Chicago, IL |
| Genre | Experimental rock |
| Length | 4:15 |
| Label | Island |
| Songwriter(s) | Tom Waits |
| Producer(s) | Tom Waits |
Innocent When You Dream is a song by Tom Waits appearing on his tenth studio album Franks Wild Years. The song was used as the soundtrack to the closing sequence, Auggie Wren's Christmas Story, in the 1995 film, Smoke.
Accolades
[edit]| Year | Publication | Country | Accolade | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Elvis Costello | United Kingdom | The Best Songs from the 500 Best Albums Ever[1] | * |
| 2005 | Bruce Pollock | United States | The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944–2000[2] | * |
| 2006 | Blow Up | Italy | 100 Songs to Remember[3] | 18 |
| 2011 | Toby Creswell | Australia | 1001 Songs[4] | * |
(*) designates unordered lists.
Personnel
[edit]Adapted from the Franks Wild Years liner notes.[5]
- Tom Waits – vocals
- Musicians
- Ralph Carney – violin
- William Shimmel – piano
- Production and additional personnel
- Biff Dawes – recording, mixing
- Danny Leake – recording
- Howie Weinberg – mastering
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Costello's 500". Vanity Fair. November 1, 2000. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
- ^ The All-Time Top 100 Singles (2000). Routledge. 2005. Archived from the original on September 30, 2015. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
- ^ "100 Songs to Remember". Blow Up. December 2006. Archived from the original on October 3, 2015. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Creswell, Toby (2005). 1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them. Hardie Grant. ISBN 1742731481. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
- ^ Franks Wild Years (booklet). Tom Waits. London, United Kingdom: Island Records. 1987.
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