Tom Waits wrote OL' '55. (Should there be one apostrophe or two? I'd vote for two, but nature seems to abhor two successive apostrophes.) In fact, Tom Waits wrote nearly everything he ever recorded—that's 20 or so original albums besides "best of" compilations.

Others who recorded it were Dave Alvin, Eric Andersen, The Eagles, Richie Havens, The Jazz Mandolin Project, Ian Matthews, and Sarah McLachlan.