{"id":23858,"date":"2015-05-15T10:29:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T18:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=23858"},"modified":"2015-05-15T14:56:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T22:56:49","slug":"refreshed-and-updated-tom-waits-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-05\/refreshed-and-updated-tom-waits-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Refreshed and Updated:  Tom Waits on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3502\" title=\"389202_TomWaits-2Portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/389202_TomWaits-2Portrait-601x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/389202_TomWaits-2Portrait-601x600.jpg 601w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/389202_TomWaits-2Portrait-150x149.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/389202_TomWaits-2Portrait-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-05\/watch-tom-waits-last-night-on-david-letterman\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Following last night&#8217;s Waits-ian finale on Letterman<\/strong><\/a>, it makes sense to refresh and update our old <em><strong>TW on TV<\/strong><\/em> compendium.\u00a0 As mentioned earlier today, one of our favorite songwriters, performers, and interviewees is <strong>Tom Waits<\/strong>. With respect to the latter, his television interviews\/performances are legendary, dating from the mid-70s on <strong>The Mike Douglas Show<\/strong> and the underrated <strong>Fernwood Tonight<\/strong>. This is one very talented, bright and hilarious lad. And it&#8217;s the stellar string of <strong>Letterman Show<\/strong> performances over the last 30+ years that best capture the humor and live performances. He&#8217;s a national treasure, plain and simple.\u00a0 This was further supported last night with Waits&#8217; final appearance on the Letterman Show.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the 1976 piano performance and interview with <strong>Mike Douglas<\/strong> to start and then his <strong>Fernwood Tonight<\/strong> (<em><strong>The<\/strong><\/em> <em><strong>Piano Has Been Drinking<\/strong><\/em>) spot, and then a series of <strong>Letterman segments<\/strong>, and at the very bottom a <strong>Conan<\/strong> spot and then a stunning delivery of <strong><em>Tom Traubert&#8217;s Blues, <\/em><\/strong>and a few others to boot. There&#8217;s lots more where these came from so we&#8217;ll just keep updating.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QAAzhm1YBBY&#038;feature=related<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-gwUtEEjZJ8&#038;feature=related<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BU-vNpmjfsI&#038;feature=related<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s part 2 to that <strong>1983 Letterman<\/strong> segment. Check out his performance of <em><strong>On The Nickel. <\/strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">If you aren&#8217;t moved by this song, starting at 1:59, you simply have no soul.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JdL-fOFNVFs&#038;feature=related<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LEttHwPXARk\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gwY4nvvxz0c\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/33lOH7MPZQI\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NR5SHuJDlUQ\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x0UcIXsQgG4\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0l64BgFAJbs\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XNJT14Mt2AE\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1wfamPW3Eaw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/5532728?color=747575&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/5532728\">Tom Waits on Late Night With Conan O&#8217;Brien 05.04.2007<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/antirecords\">Anti Records<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And then it gets really heart-felt, and you have to <em><strong>Waltz with Matilda<\/strong> <\/em>and <strong>Tom<\/strong> right here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ZmqbcBsTAw\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XrkThaBWa5c\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4_prEyjUT6o\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8b6gGc883dM\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following last night&#8217;s Waits-ian finale on Letterman, it makes sense to refresh and update our old TW on TV compendium.\u00a0 As mentioned earlier today, one of our favorite songwriters, performers, and interviewees is Tom Waits. With respect to the latter, his television interviews\/performances are legendary, dating from the mid-70s on The Mike Douglas Show and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23858"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23876,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23858\/revisions\/23876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}