Land of Dreams (Randy Newman album)

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Two music videos filmed to support the album, for "It's Money That Matters" and "Falling in Love", feature Newman and model Laura Howard, and serve as prequel and sequel to the video for "I Love L.A.". <ref name="Wuench 2013">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Wuench 2017">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Reception

It placed 10th in the 1988 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.<ref name="Pazz & Jop">Template:Cite news</ref> "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".<ref name="Real Life Rock Top 10">Template:Cite news</ref> While "Dixie Flyer" was the name of the train line mentioned in the lyrics,<ref name=prince2>Template:Cite book</ref> "Dixie" was also the nickname of Adele "Dixie" Fuchs/Fox, Randy Newman's mother, who, as the song describes, came from a southern Jewish family.

Chart performance

The album's single "It's Money That Matters" rose to the top of the Mainstream Rock chart for two weeks (and peaked at No. 60 on the Hot 100), to become Newman's only number one hit on any U.S. chart; it features Mark Knopfler on guitar.<ref>Template:YouTube</ref> 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, for which Newman also wrote the music, 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 and was used as the opening theme of the short-lived 1990 ABC sitcom, The Marshall Chronicles.

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

Charts

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Chart performance for Land of Dreams

Chart (1988)	Peak position