Tom Waits (feat. Bette Midler) - I Never Talk To Strangers

from "Foreign Affairs"

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[cemeterydude]

featuring Bette Midler? Huh, it's from HER album!

[shidatatomoyami]

Before you say "Huh" or something, Tom Waits "Foreign Affair". Google it. i bought this album almost 20 years ago.

[TheMeemeister]

Man. You can almost see those two sitting down at the end of the bar, smell the smoke and old booze.

[Sophia Lotsari]

absolutely love it... so beautifully flirtitious... reminds you how important the unexpected is in the course of life...

[kathy neely]

CLASSIC AND UNSUNG AND UNHEARD. LONG LIVE TOM WAITS

[hershelmccoy]

you must be reading my mail.

[maria mari']

lovelovelove

[Morgan Twiston Davies]

you're a fool.

[wildmanmoon]

Bought this album back in the '70's. Fantastic. This song really hits the spot. Love the line "You must be readin' my mail". It's a shame those two never made a video of this song. It's so easy to imagine them sitting in a dive bar crying in their drinks.

[vineys123]

I have been listening to this great song for over 30 years when, as a teenager, I purchased Tom Waits' Foreign Affairs album......

[Lex Wick]

Bette Midler was cool after all

[bacardi119]

The contrast in their voices is just fantastic. I don't why Waits stopped singing with her and with Crystal Gayle.

[Trollheart]

@cemeterydude: Yeah, Midler covered in about a month after Waits on her 1977 album "Broken blossoms", but it was written by Waits and duetted by him and Midler FIRST. Just cos it's on her album doesn't mean it's her song. It's not, it's Waits' song.