Kojak Variety

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Kojak Variety
studio album by Elvis Costello
Released	May 9, 1995
Recorded	1990, Blue Wave Studios, Barbados
Producer	Elvis Costello & Kevin Killen
Label	Warner Bros.
Length	53:57

Tracks

	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	Strange	Screamin' Jay Hawkins	2:48
2.	Hidden Charms	Willie Dixon	3:30
3.	Remove This Doubt	B. Holland, L. Dozier & E. Holland	3:51
4.	I Threw It All Away	Bob Dylan	3:21
5.	Leave My Kitten Alone	W. John, T. Turner & J. McDougal	3:18
6.	Everybody's Crying Mercy	Mose Allison	4:05
7.	I've Been Wrong Before	Randy Newman	2:58
8.	Bama Lama Bama Loo	Richard Penniman	2:45
9.	Must You Throw Dirt In My Face	Bill Anderson	3:47
10.	Pouring Water On A Drowning Man	Drew Baker & Danny McCormick	3:35
11.	The Very Thought Of You	Ray Noble	3:37
12.	Payday	Jesse Winchester	2:58
13.	Please Stay	Burt Bacharach & Bob Hilliard	4:50
14.	Running Out Of Fools	Kay Rogers & Richard Ahlert	3:02
15.	Days	Ray Davies	4:58

Credits

• Elvis Costello - guitar and vocal
• James Burton - guitar
• Marc Ribot - guitar
• Jim Keltner - drums
• Jerry Scheff - bass
• Larry Knechtel - keyboards
• Pete Thomas - drums
• Produced by: Elvis Costello and Kevin Killen

Kojak Variety (2004 Rhino/Edsel edition)

Disc 1
	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	Strange	Screamin' Jay Hawkins	2:48
2.	Hidden Charms	Willie Dixon	3:30
3.	Remove This Doubt	B. Holland, L. Dozier & E. Holland	3:51
4.	I Threw It All Away	Bob Dylan	3:21
5.	Leave My Kitten Alone	W. John, T. Turner & J. McDougal	3:18
6.	Everybody's Crying Mercy	Mose Allison	4:05
7.	I've Been Wrong Before	Randy Newman	2:58
8.	Bama Lama Bama Loo	Richard Penniman	2:45
9.	Must You Throw Dirt In My Face	Bill Anderson	3:47
10.	Pouring Water On A Drowning Man	Drew Baker & Danny McCormick	3:35
11.	The Very Thought Of You	Ray Noble	3:37
12.	Payday	Jesse Winchester	2:58
13.	Please Stay	Burt Bacharach & Bob Hilliard	4:50
14.	Running Out Of Fools	Kay Rogers & Richard Ahlert	3:02
15.	Days	Ray Davies	4:58

Disc 2
	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	Ship Of Fools	Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter	5:18
2.	My Resistance Is Low	Hoagy Carmichael & Harold Adamson	1:58
3.	Innocent When You Dream	Tom Waits	4:27
4.	I'm Coming Home	T Bone Burnett	3:11
5.	The Dark End Of The Street	Dan Penn & Chips Moman	3:07
6.	Congratulations	Paul Simon	2:44
7.	You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go	Bob Dylan	2:10
8.	Pouring Water On A Drowning Man (Alternate Version)	Drew Baker & Danny McCormick	2:51
9.	Still Feeling Blue	Gram Parsons	2:20
10.	Brilliant Disguise	Bruce Springsteen	4:00
11.	How Long Has This Been Going On	George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin	2:27
12.	Sleepless Nights	Felice Bryant & Boudleaux Bryant	3:53
13.	Step Inside Love	John Lennon & Paul McCartney	2:44
14.	You've Got To Hide Your Love Away	John Lennon & Paul McCartney	2:35
15.	Sally Sue Brown	A. Alexander, E. Montgomery & T. Stafford	2:16
16.	Sticks And Stones	Henry Glover & Titus Turner	1:33
17.	That's How You Got Killed Before (with The Dirty Dozen Brass Band)	Dave Bartholomew	3:10
18.	The Night Before Larry Was Stretched	Traditional	5:07
19.	But Not For Me (featuring Larry Adler)	George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin	5:02
20.	Full Force Gale	Van Morrison	2:59

Notes

• There was an extremely rare edition of the CD limited to 200 copies, only half of them released to retail, where customers only learnt what they had upon opening the package. It contained two bonus tracks, "Step Inside Love" and "Sticks And Stones", both of which appear on the Rhine/Edsel reissue bonus disk.

Internal links

• Home Page discography page  •  A01  •  A02  •  A03  • 
• Singles: S01  •  S02  •  S03  •  S04
• Lyrics  •  Liner notes

External links

• Elvis Costello Reissues: Kojak Variety
• Allmusic
• Wikipedia
• Discogs
• Amazon