| One from the Heart | |
| Type: | soundtrack |
| Artist: | Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | October 1982[1] |
| Recorded: | October 1980–September 1981 |
| Studio: | Wally Heider's Studio 3 (Hollywood) |
| Genre: | |
| Length: | 41:45 |
| Label: | CBS |
| Producer: | Bones Howe[2] |
| Chronology: | Crystal Gayle |
| Prev Title: | True Love |
| Prev Year: | 1982 |
| Next Title: | Cage the Songbird |
| Next Year: | 1983 |
One from the Heart is a soundtrack album of Tom Waits compositions for the Francis Ford Coppola film of the same name. It was recorded from October 1980 to September 1981. It was during this period that Waits met his wife Kathleen Brennan, an employee at the studio where it was recorded. While the film was released in February, the soundtrack album release was delayed until October of 1982 due to a dispute between Columbia Records and Coppola's Zoetrope Studios.[3]
Crystal Gayle sings on the record, performing either solo or in duets with Waits. The soundtrack was nominated for an Academy Award for Original Music Score.[4]
The movie was re-released on DVD on January 27, 2004, and the DVD contains remixed and remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound of the soundtrack from Waits' original studio sessions, a documentary on the making of the soundtrack, as well as previously unreleased demo recordings and alternate takes.
The album was the last in an almost decade-long collaboration between 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."[5]
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'."[6]