Over My Head (album)

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Over My Head
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Studio album by
Released1994
Recorded1993–1994
StudioTye Farm, Hartfield, East Sussex
Genre Rock, pop
Length50:39
Label Polydor
Producer Gerry Rafferty, Hugh Murphy
Gerry Rafferty chronology
On a Wing and a Prayer
(1992)
Over My Head
(1994)
One More Dream: The Very Best of Gerry Rafferty
(1995)

Over My Head is the eighth studio album by Gerry Rafferty, released in 1994. It is the follow-up to his album On a Wing and a Prayer and features many of the same musicians. The album includes songwriting contributions from Joe Egan and a John Lennon cover. The album also includes Rafferty's version of "Lonesome Polecat" a mournful ballad from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers . The final track on the album is a reworking of a song written for The Humblebums.

Contents

This was the last album Hugh Murphy produced before his death in 1998.

Track listing

All songs by Gerry Rafferty except where noted:

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bajan Moon" 4:27
2."The Waters of Forgetfulness" 3:40
3."Down and Out" 5:49
4."Over My Head" 2:48
5."The Girl's Got No Confidence" 2:51
6."Wrong Thinking" Joe Egan 3:54
7."Lonesome Polecat" Gene de Paul, Johnny Mercer 5:25
8."Right or Wrong"Joe Egan, Rafferty4:20
9."Late Again"Joe Egan, Rafferty3:50
10."Clear Day"Joe Egan, Rab Noakes, Rafferty3:12
11."Out the Blue" John Lennon 3:33
12."A New Beginning" 4:10
13."Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway" 2:40

Personnel

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