"Step Right Up" by Tom Waits

I've been listening to this old record I found at Savers a week or two ago.  It's cool that this album was part of the University of Utah Library at some point.  There's a date scribbled inside the cover: 12-13-79, almost 40 years ago.

I've played side 2 several times and pretty fine.  This song starts off side 2 and it's really fun.  I discovered when I looked it up on you tube that the version on this album is a shortened version, 2:54 long.  All the ones I see on YouTube are around 5:41, so they cut out about 3 minutes for the sampler record.

The live 1977 video recorded in West (that seems so weird now) Germany is so freakin' awesome, just so crazy cool man!  His voice is so awesome!  I've always loved the quote in the Tom Waits article on Wikipedia:

Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding like "it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car"

"... It makes excuses for lipstick on your collar."  LOL 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URp-Dbhr7EU
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2_snSkpULQ
YouTube (Topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z73NCyEs7-g
YouTube (lyrics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGShQsxiy1c
YouTube (live 1977): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByomIJf5n9w
YouTube (live 1979): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rpJZQfz2no
YouTube (live 1979): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6he-jo814U