Hal Willner

Just now noticed this on his Amazon page: LP way OOP, but discogs has details, incl. him as associate producer; All performances were recorded live outdoors in the streets and parks of New York City.
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Stars-Of-The-Streets/release/1522484

Listening on a better boombox (Panasonic RX-D55) has clarified several things, incl. that xpost U2-Eltie "Bang A Gong" is actually good all the way through; he and the horns should sign up for a longer tour ov duty, all rootie. Also lots of words, like "Let's do it lik we're friends, do it like we're friends," and maybe that will happen for us as well, and even Emily Haines's vocals all through "The Ballrooms of Mars,", where "John Lennon knows your name and I've seen his," fair enough.

Sorry, listening again and it's "John Lennon knows your name and I've seen his," still fair and also little zing

On the other hand, it's clearer than ever that, while the musos do real good, esp. into finale, Perry Farrell only lends a nerf vocal to what still seem like built-in limitations of "Rock On," heard here as plodding rehash of "Bang a Gong," to which maybe it was the follow-up, like they used to do back then, for inst. whatever it was that was meant to milk a little more "Rhinestone Cowboy" feel and money.
(Perhaps this is more apparent because "Rock On" has to Disc 2's opener, Father John Misty's "Main Man"---and every other strong track, now revealed to be all of Disc 1.

has to *follow* Disc 2's opener

Never really listened to his tribute albums but did go to a Raymond Scott event he was a part of. Saw him on a few panels

2 years after his passing, his wife did a tribute show @ St Ann's in NYC. Tom Waits did some songs as did others

First Tom Waits public performance in a while at a Hal Willner tribute event last night. Three songs: "Shenandoah" (from Willner's pirate-songs album), Sinatra's "I'll Be Seeing You" (name of event), and ??. A few photos from IG, but tell me someone took video… pic.twitter.com/dssLKgcI56

— Ray Padgett (@rayfp) April 7, 2022

https://www.nme.com/news/music/tom-waits-gives-rare-live-performance-at-hal-willner-tribute-event-3201089

I did find some short video clips on IG, but not of Waits. One was of Elvis Costello and John C. Reilly's duet, but they only uploaded the first minute, which is the band slowly starting up and Reilly's opening verse.

A Facebook friend of mine shared a Tom Waits video clip on FB, but she didn't set the privacy for public (only her FB friends can see it)

How had I not heard of this?! Or had I:

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man is a 2005 film by Lian Lunson about the life and career of Leonard Cohen. It is based on a January 2005 tribute show at the Sydney Opera House titled "Came So Far for Beauty", which was presented by Sydney Festival under the artistic direction of Brett Sheehy, and produced by Hal Willner. Performers at this show included Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, The Handsome Family, Beth Orton, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Teddy Thompson, Linda Thompson, Antony, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, with Cohen's former back-up singers Perla Batalla and Julie Christensen as special guests. The end of the film includes a performance by Leonard Cohen and U2, which was not recorded live, but filmed specifically for the film at the Slipper Room in New York in May 2005.

Antony now Anohni , new alb w the Johnsons out July 7. Perla Betalla had an album that I really liked, didn't seem much like anything else.