Innocent When You Dream (song)

"Innocent When You Dream"
Song by Tom Waits
from the album Franks Wild Years
ReleasedAugust 1987 (1987-08)
RecordedSunset Sound Factory, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, Universal Recording Corp., Chicago, IL
GenreExperimental rock
Length4:15
LabelIsland
Songwriter(s)Tom Waits
Producer(s)Tom Waits

Innocent When You Dream is a song by Tom Waits appearing on his tenth studio album Franks Wild Years. The song was used as the soundtrack to the closing sequence, Auggie Wren's Christmas Story, in the 1995 film, Smoke.

Accolades

Year Publication Country Accolade Rank
2000 Elvis Costello United Kingdom The Best Songs from the 500 Best Albums Ever[1] *
2005 Bruce Pollock United States The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944–2000[2] *
2006 Blow Up Italy 100 Songs to Remember[3] 18
2011 Toby Creswell Australia 1001 Songs[4] *

(*) designates unordered lists.

Personnel

Adapted from the Franks Wild Years liner notes.[5]

Musicians
Production and additional personnel

See also

References

  1. ^ "Costello's 500". Vanity Fair. November 1, 2000. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
  2. ^ The All-Time Top 100 Singles (2000). Routledge. 2005. Archived from the original on September 30, 2015. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
  3. ^ "100 Songs to Remember". Blow Up. December 2006. Archived from the original on October 3, 2015. Retrieved October 1, 2015. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ Creswell, Toby (2005). 1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them. Hardie Grant. ISBN 1742731481. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
  5. ^ Franks Wild Years (booklet). Tom Waits. London, United Kingdom: Island Records. 1987.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)