Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Willie Nelson album)

Somewhere Over the Rainbow is an album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

by country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

singer Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...

, released in 1981.
The album features 40's pop standards arranged by the singer. The album's acoustic jazz instrumentation was also meant to play tribute to one of Nelson's heroes, Belgian gypsy jazz guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt was a pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture...

, who influenced Nelson's playing.

Track listing

Side 1

Mona Lisa 2:28
Exactly Like You 2:22
Who's Sorry Now? 2:58
I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) 3:30
Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon 2:28

Side 2

Over the Rainbow 3:33
In My Mother's Eyes 3:06
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter 2:58
It Wouldn't Be the Same (Without You) 2:54
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star 2:10

Chart performance

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

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