One from the Heart (album)

The album was the last in an almost decade-long collaboration between Tom Waits and producer Bones Howe. Howe recounts how Waits broke the news to him: "He called me up and said 'Can we have a drink?' He told me he realised one night that as he was writing a song, he found himself asking 'If I write this, will Bones like it?' I said to him that we were getting to be kind of like an old married couple. I said I don't want to be the reason that an artist can't create. It was time for him to find another producer. We shook hands and that was it. It was a great ride."^[9]

In the midst of scoring the film, Waits and Howe took a two-month leave of absence to record Waits' seventh studio album Heartattack and Vine^[10].

The Austin Chronicle wrote: "Of course Waits fans might chafe at the Crystal clarity of the country music siren's ringing cry, but like the last and best duet on the soundtrack explains, 'This One's From the Heart'."^[11]

Waits reflected that scoring One from the Heart refined his approach to songwriting and added discipline to his work ethic. “Up till then, writing songs was something I did when I’d been drinking, and I wasn't absolutely sure I was capable of doing it in terms of being a craftsman. And being part of something very large, you have to discuss openly what it is you do and how it relates to a carpenter, a designer, a lighting guy and an actor. So it made me more responsible and more disciplined.”^[12]

Francis Ford Coppola himself also helped bring some of these changes to the surface. “I remember one evening at Coppola’s house listening to a Puccini aria. It was a particularly thrilling musical experience, because I started to get a feeling for how a collection of songs has to have a shape, how the songs have to work together.” ^[12]

• Tom Waits – vocals, piano, orchestral arrangements
• Crystal Gayle – vocals