"By 1965, while attending Hilltop High School within the Sweetwater Union High School District, Chula Vista, Waits was playing in an R&B/soul band called The Systems and had begun his first job at Napoleone Pizza House in National City (about which he would later sing on "I Can't Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue)" from "Small Change" and "The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House)" on "The Heart of Saturday Night").
В 1965 году, во время учёбы в средней школе города Чула-Виста в округе Сан-Диего, Уэйтс начал играть в ритм-н-блюз / соул группе The Systems и работать в Napoleone Pizza House, который он впоследствии воспел на альбомах "Small Change" («I Can’t Wait to Get Off Work») и "The Heart of Saturday Night" («The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone’s Pizza House)»).