Somewhere Over the Rainbow (album)

Somewhere over the Rainbow
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Studio album by Willie Nelson
Released	February 1981
Recorded	Gilley's Recording Studios, Pasadena, Texas
Genre	Country
Label	Columbia
Producer	Willie Nelson, Freddie Powers, Paul Buskirk
Willie Nelson chronology
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Somewhere over the Rainbow is an 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 gypsy 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
• Freddie Powers - guitar, vocals
• Paul Buskirk - Tenor Guitar, Mandolin
• Johnny Gimble - Fiddle

Chart performance

Chart (1981)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	1
U.S. Billboard 200	31
Canadian RPM Top Albums	23

Preceded by Horizon by Eddie Rabbitt

Top Country Albums number-one album May 2–16, 1981

Succeeded by Feels So Right by Alabama