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Land of Dreams (album)

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Released
  
September 1988

Artist
  
Randy Newman

Label
  
Reprise Records

Length
  
40:18

Release date
  
27 September 1988

Genre
  
Rock music

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Land of Dreams (1988)
  
Randy Newman's Faust (1995)

Producers
  
James Newton Howard, Jeff Lynne, Mark Knopfler, Tommy LiPuma

Similar
  
Randy Newman albums, Rock music albums

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Land of Dreams is a 1988 album by Randy Newman featuring vignettes of his childhood in New Orleans. The best-known song on the album is "It's Money That Matters", which rose to the top of the Mainstream Rock chart for two weeks (and peaked at #60 on the Hot 100), to become Newman's only number one hit on any U.S. chart; it features Mark Knopfler on guitar.

Contents

Prior to the album's release, the song "Something Special" was closing title music for the 1987 MGM production Overboard starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell and was also featured in the trailer of the film Awakenings, which Randy Newman also wrote the music for, and the piano bridge from the song "Dixie Flyer" would subsequently often be utilized as break or filler music, most notably on the Car Talk radio program. The song "Falling in Love" features in the credits to the 1989 Tom Selleck film Her Alibi.

Track listing

All songs written by Randy Newman.

  1. "Dixie Flyer" – 4:10
  2. "New Orleans Wins the War" – 3:27
  3. "Four Eyes" – 3:34
  4. "Falling in Love" – 3:00
  5. "Something Special" – 3:07
  6. "Bad News from Home" – 2:45
  7. "Roll with the Punches" – 3:29
  8. "Masterman and Baby J" – 3:27
  9. "Red Bandana" – 2:35
  10. "Follow the Flag" – 2:15
  11. "It's Money That Matters" – 4:04
  12. "I Want You to Hurt Like I Do" – 4:07

Personnel

  • Randy Newman - piano, vocals
  • Adrienne Howell - background vocals
  • Bill Reichenbach Jr. - trombone
  • Bob Hilburn, Jr. - background vocals
  • Carlos Vega - drums
  • Dan Higgins - flute, piccolo, tenor saxophone
  • Dana Drum - background vocals
  • David Paich - synthesizer
  • Dean Parks - guitar
  • Deborah Neal - background vocals
  • Guy Fletcher - Synclavier
  • Buzz Feiten - guitar
  • James Newton Howard - synthesizer, keyboards
  • Jeannie Novak - background vocals
  • Jeff Lynne - keyboards, background vocals
  • Jeff Porcaro - drums
  • Jerry Hey - trumpet, flugelhorn
  • John "J.R." Robinson - drums
  • Karen Verkoelen - background vocals
  • Kevin Maloney - synthesizer, background vocals
  • Larry Fast - synthesizer
  • Leland Sklar - bass
  • Lenny Castro - percussion
  • Marc Russo - saxophone
  • Mark Knopfler - guitar, vocals
  • Michael Boddicker - synthesizer
  • Michael Landau - guitar
  • Mike Campbell - guitar
  • Nathan East - bass
  • Neil Stubenhaus - bass
  • Nicole Jones - background vocals
  • Phil Jones - drums
  • Robbie Weaver - synthesizer
  • Steve Lukather - guitar
  • Tom Petty - guitar, background vocals
  • Twila Rice - background vocals
  • Songs

    1Dixie Flyer4:08
    2New Orleans Wins the War3:27
    3Four Eyes3:36

    References

    Land of Dreams (album) Wikipedia