Heartattack and Vine

Heartattack and Vine
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 9, 1980 (1980-09-09)
RecordedJune 16–July 15, 1980
StudioFilmways/Heider Studio B, Hollywood, California
Length44:31
LabelAsylum
ProducerBones Howe
Tom Waits chronology
Blue Valentine
(1978)
Heartattack and Vine
(1980)
One from the Heart
(1982)

Heartattack and Vine is the seventh studio album by Tom Waits, released on September 9, 1980,[1] and his final album to be released on the Asylum label.

"On the Nickel" was recorded for the Ralph Waite film of the same name. It was later used as the theme song for the 1985 "The Atlanta Child Murders" miniseries. "Heartattack and Vine" was recorded again later by Screamin' Jay Hawkins. In 1993 this version was used without Waits' permission in a Levi's commercial, for which Waits took legal action and won a settlement.[2] Jean-Luc Godard used "Ruby's Arms" in his 1983 film First Name: Carmen. Bruce Springsteen performed "Jersey Girl" live (and was joined onstage by Waits to sing it on August 24, 1981), including it in his retrospective "Live/1975–85".[3]

  1. ^ "Releases". Anti-. p. 1. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  2. ^ "Tom Waits's Levis Copyright case". Tom Waits Library. Archived from the original on 16 November 2007. Retrieved 23 November 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ JensdePens (2011). "Tom and Bruce - Jersey Girl - Full Version - 1981". YouTube. Retrieved 7 December 2019.