Today, this gentleman below is celebrating his birthday; one of the shoulders I’ve leaned on for a long time. Here he is in '86 at the Tenco Prize with a fantastic version of Burma Shave. Burma Shave was a famous brand found on billboards along American highways. The young Waits thought it was a town, and that the signs were placed there to guide motorists to it. Burma Shave is a story linked to the American dream, to death, to desire. A slogan that in the fifties meant something like "going downhill."
Tom Waits - BURMA SHAVE - San Remo (live) 1986
Tom Waits - BURMA SHAVE - San Remo (live) 1986
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