Land of Dreams
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 1988
GenreRock
Length40:18
LabelReprise
ProducerJames Newton Howard, Jeff Lynne, Mark Knopfler, Tommy LiPuma
Randy Newman chronology
Trouble in Paradise
(1983)
Land of Dreams
(1988)
Randy Newman's Faust
(1995)
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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Robert Christgau(B+)[2]
Rolling Stone[3]

Land of Dreams is a 1988 album by Randy Newman featuring vignettes of his childhood in New Orleans. It placed 10th in the 1988 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.[4]

Randall Stuart 'Randy' Newman (born November 28, 1943) is a singer/songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is notable for his mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for his many film scores. Newman is noted for his practice of writing lyrics from the perspective of a character far removed from Newman's own biography.

'Whether or not ['Dixie Flyer' and 'New Orleans'] are simple autobiography, they’re presented as such,' wrote Greil Marcus, 'and for a man who’s always sung as a character actor, it’s a shock.'[5].

Avatar tamil dubbed full movie free download. The album's single 'It's Money That Matters' 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.[6] Prior to the album's release, the song 'Something Special' was closing title music for the 1987MGM 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[edit]

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[edit]

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

References[edit]

  1. ^AllMusic
  2. ^Robertchristgau.com
  3. ^Rolling Stone
  4. ^Christgau, Robert (February 28, 1989). 'The 1988 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll'. The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
  5. ^Marcus, Greil (September 1988). 'Real Life Rock Top 10'. The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
  6. ^Randy Newman - 'It's Money That Matters' (official video) on YouTube
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