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Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer, songwriter, arranger, pianist, composer and conductor known for his non-rhotic Southern-accented singing style, early Americana -influenced songs (often with mordant or satirical lyrics), and various film scores. [5]
Apr 23, 2024 · Randy Newman, American composer, songwriter, singer, and pianist whose character-driven, ironic, and often humorous compositions won him a cult audience and who had a successful parallel career as a composer of scores and songs for movies. Learn more about his life and music.
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- “I Love L.A.” I wrote “I Love L.A.” because Don Henley said to me, “Everybody’s writing L.A. songs, people not from here. You’re from here. Why don’t you write one?”
- “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today” This might have been 1964 or ’63. I may have had the first two chords of the tune, where the voice starts. I have always loved those vanilla-kind of chords, straight-ahead Stephen Foster.
- “Davy the Fat Boy” It’s sung by a con man who is telling these parents that he is going to. take care of their son, who is a freak – in the carnival sense of the.
- “Have You Seen My Baby” I arranged the horns for Fats Domino when he recorded this in 1969. I. wrote it for me. But when he did it, it was like him imitating me imitating.
The definitive biography of songwriter Randy Newman, told with his full cooperation, by acclaimed biographer and longtime Los Angeles Times music critic, Robert Hilburn. Read more.
Randy Newman’s 'Roll with the Punches: The Studio Albums (1979–2017)' The eight-LP box set, released for Records Store Day's RSD Drop in July 2021, comprises his latest seven studio albums ...
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Randy Newman is widely hailed as one of America’s all-time greatest songwriters, equally skilled in the sophisticated melodies and lyrics of the Gershwin-Porter era and the cultural commentary of his own generation, with Bob Dylan and Paul Simon among his most ardent admirers.