One from the Heart
Waits's debut release was the 1973 single "Ol' '55", which was the lead single for his debut album "Closing Time" (1973). He began recording in 1971, but these first sessions would not be released until the beginning of the 1990s. For most of the 1970s he recorded for Asylum Records. After cutting his first soundtrack album for the Francis Ford Coppola musical film "One from the Heart", Waits signed with Island Records for the 1980s.