Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Willie Nelson album)

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Somewhere Over the Rainbow
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ReleasedFebruary 1981
Studio Gilley's Recording Studio (Pasadena, Texas)
Genre Country, pop, jazz
Length28:27
Label Columbia
Producer Willie Nelson, Freddy Powers, Paul Buskirk
Willie Nelson chronology
Family Bible
(1980)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
(1981)
Always on My Mind
(1982)
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow is a studio 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

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Mona Lisa" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) (2:28)
  2. "Exactly Like You" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) (2:22)
  3. "Who's Sorry Now?" (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Ted Snyder) (2:58)
  4. "I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" (Al Neiburg, Doc Daugherty, Ellis Reynolds) (3:30)
  5. "Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon" (Rex Griffin) (2:28)

Side two

  1. "Over the Rainbow" (E. Y. Harburg, Harold Arlen) (3:33)
  2. "In My Mother's Eyes" (Willie Nelson) (3:06)
  3. "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" (Fred E. Ahlert, Joe Young) (2:58)
  4. "It Wouldn't Be the Same (Without You)" (Fred Rose, Jimmy Wakely) (2:54)
  5. "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" (Traditional; arranged by Willie Nelson) (2:10)

Personnel

Technical

Charts

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References

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  2. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 499, 501.
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