Land of Dreams is a 1988 studio album by Randy Newman featuring vignettes of his childhood in New Orleans. Reception It placed 10th in the 1988 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll. "Whether or not ['Dixie Flyer' and 'New Orleans'] are simple autobiography, they're presented as such," wrote Greil Marcus, "and for a man who's always sung as a character actor, it's a shock". While "Dixie Flyer" was the name of the train line mentioned in the lyrics, "Dixie" was also the nickname of Adele "Dixie" Fuchs/Fox, Randy Newman's mother, who, as the song describes, came from a southern Jewish family. Chart performance The album's single "It's Money That Matters" 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 was also featured in the trailer of the film Awakenings, for which Newman also wrote the music, 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 and was used as the opening theme of the short-lived 1990 ABC sitcom, The Marshall Chronicles. Track listing All songs written by Randy Newman. "Dixie Flyer" – 4:10 "New Orleans Wins the War" – 3:27 "Four Eyes" – 3:34 "Falling in Love" – 3:00 "Something Special" – 3:07 "Bad News from Home" – 2:45 "Roll with the Punches" – 3:29 "Masterman and Baby J" – 3:27 "Red Bandana" – 2:35 "Follow the Flag" – 2:15 "It's Money That Matters" – 4:04 "I Want You to Hurt Like I Do" – 4:07 Personnel Randy Newman – piano, vocals, arranger, conductor Mark Knopfler – guitar & background vocals on Dixie Flyer Tom Petty – guitar, background vocals Dean Parks, Buzz Feiten, Steve Lukather, Michael Landau, Mike Campbell – guitar Lee Sklar, Nathan East, Neil Stubenhaus – bass guitar Jeff Lynne – keyboards, background vocals James Newton Howard – synthesizer, keyboards David Paich, Guy Fletcher, Larry Fast, Michael Boddicker, Robbie Weaver – synthesizer Kevin Maloney – synthesizer, background vocals Phil