“Aggressively ignorant”: how Don Henley helped Randy Newman write one of his best songs
Don Henley was the ultimate LA artist, but he decided Randy Newman was the man to pen a song about the City of Angels. Read ...
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Why Randy Newman Is Least Loved for His Best Work
the songs Randy Newman wrote for hit kid-friendly movies—“You’ve Got a Friend in Me,” from Toy Story; “I Love to See You Smile,” from Parenthood—are surely what he is best known for ...
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A half-century of Randy Newman classics
Pianist, composer and singer-songwriter Randy Newman started out writing songs for other artists, and not always with success. Frank Sinatra famously rejected all his musical offerings.
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10 things we learned from Randy Newman’s Mastertapes
But he makes it clear that, while being proud of his work, those songs probably wouldn’t make it on to a Randy Newman solo album ... “I got them for, like, not my best work.” ...
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Randy Newman: “I’m slowly realising just how stupid I am!”
Originally published in Uncut's Take 178 It might surprise you to learn that Randy Newman has only ... Been Wrong Before’ is the best recording of one of my songs I’ve ever heard”), and ...