So now I say, who else is on my list of the top five ... And people often ask, what's your favorite Randy Newman song? It's so hard. But if I were naming five, one I would definitely push in ...

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 ...

Newman has won seven Grammys, three Emmys and two Oscars over a career that began with 1968’s debut album, the self-titled Randy Newman.His string of hits include "Mama Told Me Not to Come ...

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. “You think I’d write You’ve Got a Friend in Me?

Says Griffin Goldsmith: “I grew up a Randy Newman addict — it’s some of the most formative music of my life. But I’m also a massive Lakers and Dodgers fan. I think I went to eight Dodgers ...

An all-star lineup of musicians opened the 2025 Grammys with a rendition of Randy Newman’s classic ... s darker elements. In 2014, Newman admitted the song was a love letter to Los Angeles ...

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.