“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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All-Star Rendition of Randy Newman’s ‘I Love L.A.’ Opens Grammys
In 2014, Newman admitted the song was a love letter to Los Angeles, warts and all. “There’s some kind of ignorance L.A. has that I’m proud of. The open car and the redhead, the Beach Boys ...
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Randy Newman, Music's Most Biting Storyteller, Gets His Own Story Told: Ex-L.A. Times Critic Robert Hilburn on Penning the Singer-Composer's Biography
But the case for Newman as popular music's greatest ... There's a lot of generosity and decency in Randy. I think he tries to see the best in somebody, actually. I think he's an optimist at ...
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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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Randy Newman's iconic 'I Love L.A.' opened the Grammys. Here's how the performance came together
The last three and a half weeks have convinced Griffin Goldsmith that he might, as he puts it, be “living in a simulation.” On Jan. 8, the drummer of the rootsy Los Angeles rock band Dawes ...
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Randy Newman: “I’m slowly realising just how stupid I am!”
It might surprise you to learn that Randy Newman has only ever bought “around ... version of ‘I’ve Been Wrong Before’ is the best recording of one of my songs I’ve ever heard ...
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10 things we learned from Randy Newman’s Mastertapes
Two Academy Awards, six Grammys, 200,000 (by his own, admittedly shaky, estimation) devoted fans, Randy Newman thoroughly deserves ... “I got them for, like, not my best work.” ...
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Daddy-Daughter 'You've Got a Friend in Me' Duet Captures Hearts of 89 Million Viewers (and Counting!): 'We Love Music'
Dave Crosby and his 4-year-old daughter Claire teamed up to perform a heartwarming rendition of Randy Newman's "You've Got a Friend in Me" Is this the best daddy-daughter duet ever? Dave Crosby ...