RANDY NEWMAN – LAND OF DREAMS LP – Nr MINT CONDITION 1988

Randy Newman – Land Of Dreams
(Warner Bros Records  1988  WX212)

Sleeve in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
– some wear on top right corner
Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT condition

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition

Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist known for his Southern-accented singing style, early Americana-influenced songs (often with mordant or satirical lyrics), and various film scores. His best-known songs as a recording artist are “Short People” (1977), “I Love L.A.” (1983), and “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” (1995), while other artists have enjoyed more success with cover versions of his “Mama Told Me Not to Come” (1966), “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today” (1968) and “You Can Leave Your Hat On” (1972).

Born in Los Angeles to an extended family of Hollywood film composers, Newman began his songwriting career at the age of 17, penning hits for acts such as the Fleetwoods, Cilla Black, Gene Pitney, and the Alan Price Set. In 1968, he made his formal debut as a solo artist with the album Randy Newman, produced by Lenny Waronker and Van Dyke Parks. Four of Newman’s non-soundtrack albums have charted in the US top 40: Sail Away (1972), Good Old Boys (1974), Little Criminals(1977), and Harps and Angels (2008).

Since the 1980s, Newman has worked mostly as a film composer. He has scored nine Disney-Pixar animated films, including all four Toy Story films (1995–2019), A Bug’s Life (1998), both Monsters, Inc. films (2001, 2013), and the first and third Carsfilms (2006, 2017), as well as Disney’s  James and the Giant Peach (1996) and The Princess and the Frog (2009). His other film scores include Cold Turkey (1971), Ragtime (1981), The Natural (1984), Awakenings (1990), Pleasantville (1998), Meet the Parents (2000), Seabiscuit (2003), and Marriage Story (2019).

Newman has received twenty-two Academy Award nominations in the Best Original Score and Best Original Song categories and has won twice in the latter category, contributing to the Newmans being the most nominated Academy Award extended family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories. He has also won three Emmys, seven Grammy Awards and the Governor’s Award from the Recording Academy. In 2007, he was recognized by the Walt Disney Company as a Disney Legend. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 and to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.

Land of Dreams is a 1988 album by Randy Newman featuring vignettes of his childhood in New Orleans. The best-known song on the album is “It’s Money That Matters”, which 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.

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 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

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
• Adrienne Howell – Background vocals
• Bill Reichenbach Jr. – Trombone
• Bob Hilburn, Jr. – Background vocals
• Carlos Vega – Drums
• Dan Higgins – Flute, Piccolo, Tenor saxophone
• Dana Drum – Background vocals
• David Paich – Synthesizer
• Dean Parks – Guitar
• Deborah Neal – Background vocals
• Guy Fletcher – Synclavier
• Buzz Feiten – Guitar
• James Newton Howard – Synthesizer, Keyboards
• Jeannie Novak – Background vocals
• Jeff Lynne – Keyboards, Background vocals
• Jeff Porcaro – Drums
• Jerry Hey – Trumpet, Flugelhorn
• John “J.R.” Robinson – Drums
• Karen Verkoelen – Background vocals
• Kevin Maloney – Synthesizer, Background vocals
• Larry Fast – Synthesizer
• Leland Sklar – Bass
• Lenny Castro – Percussion
• Marc Russo – Saxophone
• Mark Knopfler – Guitar, Vocals
• Michael Boddicker – Synthesizer
• Michael Landau – Guitar
• Mike Campbell – Guitar
• Nathan East – Bass
• Neil Stubenhaus – Bass
• Nicole Jones – Background vocals
• Phil Jones – Drums
• Robbie Weaver – Synthesizer
• Steve Lukather – Guitar
• Tom Petty – Guitar, Background vocals
• Twila Rice – Background vocals