land of dreams
RANDY NEWMAN
Birth Name: Randall Stuart Newman
Born: November 28, 1943
Genres: Rock, Pop
basic information
| release date | 1988 Sept, 30 |
| country of manufacture | Germany [Cass., CD, LP] |
| label | Reprise |
| catalog no. | 7599-25773-4 [Cass.], 7599-25773-2 [CD], 7599-25773-1 [LP] |
| format | Cass., CD, LP |
| note of registration | P & ©1988 WEA international Inc. for the word outside of U.S. [Cass., LP], P & ©1988 Reprise Records for the U.S. [CD] |
| recording | Schnee Studios, Circle Seven, Oceanway, Lionshare, The Complex, Westlake Audio, MC Studios, The Studio, The Enterprise & Summa Group |
| mixing | n/a |
| mastering | Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk, New York |
| production | Mark Knopfler |
| credits | Special thanks: Frank Wolf, Guy Fletcher, Michael Manson, Cathy Kerr, Carlin Andrus & Shari Sutcliffe |
musicians
| Randy Newman | n/a |
| Mark Knopfler | guitars, background vocals [11] |
| Guy Fletcher 5) | synclavier piano, vocals, background vocals [11] |
| Leland Sklar | bass |
| Carlos Vega † | drums |
| Jeff Lynne | background vocals [11] |
| Tom Petty † | background vocals [11] |
| Dana Drum | background vocals [11] |
| Bob Hilburn jr. | background vocals [11] |
| Adrienne Howell | background vocals [11] |
| Nicole Jones | background vocals [11] |
| Jesse Kanner | background vocals [11] |
| Kevin Maloney | background vocals [11] |
| Deborah Neal | background vocals [11] |
| Jeannie Novak | background vocals [11] |
| Twila Rice | background vocals [11] |
| Karen Verkoelen | background vocals [11] |
| Frank Wolf | background vocals [11] |
tracks [CD]
| 1 | Dixie flyer (4:10) |
| 2 | New Orleans wins the war (3:27) |
| 6 | bad news from home (2:45) |
| 7 | roll with the punches (3:29) |
| 8 | masterman and baby J (3:27) |
| 10 | follow the flag (2:15) |
| 11 | it‘s money that matters (4:04) |
lyrics
1. dixie flyer
dixie flyer
(Randy Newman)
I was born right here, November ‘43
My dad was a captain in the army
Fighting the Germans in Sicily
My poor little momma
Didn’t know a soul in L.A.
So we went down the Union States and made our getaway
Got on the Dixie Flyer bound for New Orleans
Across the state of Texas to the land of dreams
On the Dixie Flyer bound for New Orleans
Back to her friends and her family in the land of dreams
Her own mother came to meet us at the station,
Her dress as black as a crow in a coal mine
She cried when her little girl got oft the train
Her brothers and her sisters drove down from Jackson, Mississippi
In a great green Hudson driven by a Gentile they knew.
Drinkin’ rye whiskey from a flask in the back seat
Tryin’ to do like the Gentile do
Christ, they wanted to be Gentiles, too.
Who wouldn’t down there, wouldn’t you?
An American Christian. God damn!
On the Dixie Flyer bound for New Orleans
Back to her friends and her family in the land of dreams
On the Dixie Flyer bound for New Oreleans
Across the state of Texas to the land of dreams
Across the state of Texas to the land of dreams.
©1988 Twice As Nice Music ASCAP.
2. New Orleans wins the war
New Orleans wins the war
(Randy Newman)
Don’t remember much about my baby days,
But I been told
We used to live on Willow in the Garden District
Next to the Sugar Bow!
Momma used to wheel me past an ice cream wagon
One side for White and one side for Colored
I remember trash cans floatin’ down Canal Street
It rained every day one summer
Momma used to take me to Audubon Park
Show me the ways of the world
She said, “here comes a white boy, there goes a black one, that one’s an octoroon
This little cookie here’s a macaroon, that big round thing’s a red balloon
And the paper down here’s called the Picayune
And here’s a New Orleans tune”
In 1948 my Daddy came to the city
Told the people that they’d won the war
Maybe they’d heard it, maybe not
Probably they’d heard it and just forgot
‘Cause they built him a platform there in Jackson Square
And the people came to hear him from everywhere
They started to party and they partied some more
‘Cause New Orleans had won the war
(We knew we’d do it, we done whipped the Yankees)
Daddy said, “I’m gonna get this boy out of this place
Bound to sap his strength
People have fun here, and I think that they should
But nobody from here ever come to no good
They’re gonna pickle him in brandy and tell him he’s saved
Then throw fireworks all ‘round his grave”
So he took us down to the airport, and flew us back to L.A.
That was the end of my baby days
Ble blue morning, blue blue day
All your bad dreams drift away
It’s blue blue morning, of a blue blue day
Lose those bad dreams
Those gray clouds above you, what you want them around with you for?
You got someone to love you
Who could ask for more?
It’s blue blue morning, of a blue blue day
All your bad dreams drift away
©1988 Twice As Nice Music ASCAP.
6. bad news from home
bad news from home
(Randy Newman)
High on a cliff in Mexico
Staring down at the rocks and the sea below
I can here the church bells ring
I can here the choir
I remember the night she left
I drove to the station in the pouring rain
Sat all night behind my big iron desk
The oil on the water made a rainbow
At the end of this bone-white gravel road
They both lie sleeping on a feather bed
And her hair is black as the sky at night
But her eyes are gray like the moon
You can run but you can’t hide
You can run but you can’t hide
You said you love me but I know you lied
You said you love me but I know you lied
©1988 Twice As Nice Music ASCAP.
7. roll with the punches
roll with the punches
(Randy Newman)
They say that people are livin’ in the street
No food in their belly, no shoes on their feel
Six black children livin’ in a burned-up room
One bare light bulb swinging
Little black kid come home from school
Pul his key in the door
Mr. Rat’s on the stairway, Mr. Junkie’s lyin’ in his own vomit on the floor
You gotta roll with the punches, little black boy
That’s what you got to do
You got to roll with this punches
Tap it baby
There’s all these boring people, you see ‘em on the TV
And they’re making up all these boring stories
About how bad things have come to be
They say “You got to, got to, got to feed the hungry”
“You got to, got to, got to heal the sick”
I say we ain’t gotta do nothin’ for nobody
‘Cause they won’t work a lick, you know
They just gonna have to roll with the punches, yes they will
Gonna have to roll with them
They gonna have to roll with the punches, yes they will
It don’t matter whether you’re white, black or brown
You won’t get nowhere putting down
The old Red, White and Blue
Tap it baby. Alright. All right!
Look at those little short’s he’s got on, ladies and gentlemen
You can see all the way to Argentina
Get it
So pretty
Let ‘em go to Belgium, let ‘em go to France
Let ‘em go to Russia
Well at least they ought to have the chance to go there
We have talked about the red, we have talked about the blue
Now we gonna talk about the white
That’s what we’re gonna do
Now we had to roll with the punches, yes we did
We had to roll with ‘em
We had to roll with the punches
Yes we did
We had to roll with ‘em
I don’t care what you say
You’re livin’ in the greatest country in the world
When you’re livin’ in the USA
Tap it out baby, alright
All right
©1988 Twice As Nice Music ASCAP.
8. masterman and baby J
masterman and baby J
(Randy Newman)
People tell me that I brag a lot ‘cause I call myself the Masterman
Always talkin’ ‘bout how I got dynamite in every hand
Hit it
Me and my brother we live alone, got no television, got no telephone
But when we walk down the street people get out the way
They say “Here come the Masterman and Baby J”
“Here come the Masterman and Baby J”
Hit it – hit it
When we get on the mike we’ll be number one
Even top D.M.C. and Run
Everybody’s really gonna have some fun
‘Cause we’re talkin’ ‘em all the way down
We’re takin’ ‘em all the way down
Gonna rap about this, gonny rap about that
Gonna tell everybody where it’s at
All over the world people gonna say
You got to dig the Masterman and Baby J
You got to dig the Masterman and Baby J
Hit it
People tell me “Man you live in a dump”
“You won’t never be nothin’ but a pumped-up chump”
You got no money – you got no sense
You won’t never be nothing, you won’t ever be nothing
I say well – well – well – well
When I look out my windows, you know what I see
I don’t see no whores in the stinkin’ street
I don’t see no drunks and junkies dying
I don’t see no bums or garbage flyin’
I see me and J in the L.A. Coliseum
100.000 people on their feet
And they’re laughin’ and bumpin’ and screamin’ and cryin’
And jumpin’ up on their seat
And then the band begins to play and then they hush up
And then the band begins to play and then they hush up
And it gets real quiet in the Coliseum with the stage all dark and bare
Maybe a little rain begin to fall – yeah
But the people stayin’ right there
Then you can hera that announcer say
Please welcome! (the crowd roars)
Please welcome! (the crowd roars)
L.A.'s own, the number one
The biggest, the best, the number one bad in the USA
The Masterman and Baby J!
The Masterman and Baby J!
©1988 Twice As Nice Music ASCAP.
10. follow the flag
follow the flag
(Randy Newman)
You can stand alone
Or with somebody else
Or stand with all us us, together
If you can believe
In something bigger than yourself
You can follow the flag forever
They say it’s just a dream
That dreamers dreamed
That it’s an empty thing that really has no meaning
They say it’s just a lie
But it’s not a lie
I’m going to follow the flag ‘til I die
Into every life a little rain must fall
But it’s not gonna rain forever
You can rise above – you can rise above it all
We will follow the flag together
We will follow the flag together
©1988 Twice As Nice Music ASCAP.
11. it's money that matters
it’s money that matters
(Randy Newman)
Of all of the people that I used to know
Most never adjusted to the great big world
I see them lurking in book stores
Working for the Public Radio
Carrying their babies around in a sack on their back
Moving careful and slow
(Chorus)
It’s money that matters
Hear what I say
It’s money that matters
In the USA
All of these people are much brighter than I
In any fair system they would flourish and thrive
But they barely survive
They eke out a living and they barely survive
When I was a young boy, maybe thirteen
I took a hard look around me and asked what does it mean?
So I talked to my father, and he didn’t know
And I talked to my friend and he didn’t know
And I talked to my brother and he didn’t know
And I talked to everybody that I knew
(Chorus)
It’s money that matters
Now you know that it’s true
It’s money that matters
Whatever you do
Then I talked to a man lived up on the country line
I was washing his car with a friend of mine
He was a little fat guy in a red jumpsuit
I said “You look kind of funny”
He said “I know that I do”
“But I got a great big house on the hill here
And a great big blonde wife inside it
And a great big pool in my backyard and another great big pool beside it
Sonny it’s money that matters, hear what I say
It’s money that matters in the USA
It’s money that matters
Now you know that it’s true
It’s money that matters whatever you do”
©1988 Twice As Nice Music ASCAP.
notes
³ source: database by Wolf-Dieter Mattick
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Brasilian edition:
label: Reprise catalog no.: 767.9012 note of registration: ℗ 1989 Reprise Records
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look at:
basic information
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Grecian? edition:
label: WB Records catalog no.: 925 773-4 note of registration: ?
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US-American edition:
label: Reprise catalog no.: C 100527 note of registration: ℗ & © 1988 Reprise Records
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US-American edition:
label: Reprise catalog no.: 25773-4 note of registration: ℗ & © 1988 Reprise Records
with track it's money that matters :
Sampler
| album network - CD tune up [vol.] 24 | rock star special [vol.] 1 : Disco International No. 8 | |||
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| 1988 | 1989 |
Tracks Dixie flyer, New Orleans wins the war, it‘s money that matters, masterman and baby J (Demo) also available
guilty: 30 years of Randy Newman
release date: 1998 Nov, 3
country of manufacture: U.S.A.
label: Rhino / Reprise
catalog no.: 8122-75567-2
format: 4 CDBox³
note of registration: (P) + (C) 1998 Warner Bros. Records & Rhino Entertainment Company
| 16 | Dixie flyer (4:07) |
| 17 | New Orleans wins the war (3:28) |
| 19 | it's money that matters (4:02) |
info:
masterman and baby J - Demo Version (1:50)
Musician only: Randy Newman, Vocals & Piano
¬the¬ best of Randy Newman
release date: 2001 Sept, 18
country of manufacture: U.S.A.
label: Rhino / Reprise
catalog no.: 8122-74364-2
format: CD³
note of registration: (P) + (C) 2001 Warner Bros. Records & Rhino Entertainment Company
| 16 | Dixie flyer |
- label: Warner / Rhino? • country of manufacture: Canada? • catalog no.: 8122-74364-2? • format: CD • note of registgration: (P) + (C) 1998 Warner Bros. Records ? & Rhino Entertainment Company
with track: it's money that matters
| stereo music : the best in stereo | our songs : singers & songwriters encore | simply the best of rock | ¬the¬ 80's collection : hits don't stop | classic drive : the very best of | ¬the¬ 80's collection : hits don't stop |
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with tracks: Segment 1 dixie flyer (live), it's money that matters; Segment 2 New Orleans wins the war, (money for nothing), roll with the punches; Segment 4 yes it's me & I'm in love again (live); Segment 5 (local hero); Segment 6 follow the flag
Westwood one presents Timothy White's rock stars [#48]³ [1988]
revised
05.07.2019