Talk:Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis

A fact from Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 June 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in the late 1970s, Tom Waits often performed his song "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis" as a medley with cover versions of "Goin' Out Of My Head" and "Silent Night"?

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“Christmas Card” is adapted from a Charles Bukowski poem called “Charlie I’m Pregnant”[edit]

The only source for this claim I can find is from the article cited; the author of that article has no citation for their claim.

I cannot find a poem called Charlie I'm Pregnant by Bukowski anywhere. Neither can others who have searched.

Should this quote be condensed to the following?

"There are more creative Tom Waits songs[...] but there aren’t quite as many that can utterly devastate a ro"om full of people with quite the same slurred, finely-detailed aplomb. For maximum tears in your bourbon, watch [the] live version, which features a bedraggled interpolation of 'Silent Night' and Waits’ rendition of that Little Anthony and the Imperials record. The audience laughs a bit at some of the lyrical gems, but after that final verse, you can hear a pin drop." 99.30.146.109 (talk) 17:55, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

see "[1]"..."This is an admirably barefaced brand of bullshit. The Roominghouse Madrigals exists, and it's really not that hard to track down a copy. There's no poem called "Charlie, I'm Pregnant" there or anywhere else." Ceoil (talk) 19:50, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]