Released February 1981 Release date February 1981 Genre Country music | Artist Willie Nelson Label Columbia Records | |
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Recorded Gilley's Recording Studios, Pasadena, Texas Producer Willie Nelson, Freddy Powers, Paul Buskirk Somewhere Over the Rainbow
(1981) Always on My Mind
(1982) Nominations Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance Similar Born for Trouble, Rainbow Connection, Without a Song, Tougher Than Leather, The Promiseland | ||
Somewhere Over the Rainbow is an album by country music singer Willie Nelson, released in 1981. It features 1940s pop standards arranged by Nelson. The album's acoustic jazz instrumentation was also meant to play tribute to one of his heroes, Belgian gipsy jazz guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt, who influenced Nelson's playing.
Contents
Side one
- "Mona Lisa" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) (2:28)
- "Exactly Like You" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) (2:22)
- "Who's Sorry Now?" (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Ted Snyder) (2:58)
- "I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" (Al Neiburg, Doc Daugherty, Ellis Reynolds) (3:30)
- "Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon" (Rex Griffin) (2:28)
Side two
- "Over the Rainbow" (E.Y. Harburg, Harold Arlen) (3:33)
- "In My Mother's Eyes" (Willie Nelson) (3:06)
- "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" (Fred E. Ahlert, Joe Young) (2:58)
- "It Wouldn't Be the Same (Without You)" (Fred Rose, Jimmy Wakely) (2:54)
- "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" (2:10)
Personnel
Songs
1Mona Lisa2:35
2Exactly Like You2:27
3Who's Sorry Now?3:00
References
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