Somewhere Over the Rainbow (album)

Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Studio album by Willie Nelson
Released	February 1981
Recorded	Gilley's Recording Studios, Pasadena, Texas
Genre	Country
Label	Columbia
Producer	Willie Nelson, Freddy Powers, Paul Buskirk
Willie Nelson chronology
Family Bible (1980)Family Bible1980 Somewhere Over the Rainbow (1981) Always on My Mind (1982)Always on My Mind1982

Somewhere Over the Rainbow is the twenty-ninth 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.

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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" (2:10)

Personnel

• Willie Nelson - guitar, vocals
• Freddy Powers - guitar, vocals
• Paul Buskirk - Tenor Guitar, Mandolin
• Johnny Gimble - Fiddle

Technical

• Bert Frilot - engineer
• Norman Seeff - photography

Chart performance