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Wednesday, 07 November 2012

Randy Newman - A Few Words in Defense of Our Country

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The Brill Building (built 1931 as the Alan E. Lefcourt Building and designed by Victor Bark Jr.
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Center Theatre Group
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Chicago
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Goodman Theatre
The Goodman Theatre is a theater located in Chicago's Loop. A major part of Chicago theatre, it is the city's oldest currently active nonprofit organization. The building occupies the site of landmark Harris and Selwyn Theaters property.
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Hollywood
Hollywood is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California - situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonym of American cinema, and is often interchangeably used to refer to the greater Los Angeles area in general. The nicknames StarStruck Town and Tinseltown refer to Hollywood and its movie industry. Today, much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as the Westside neighborhood, but significant auxiliary industries, such as editing, effects, props, post-production, and lighting companies remain in Hollywood, as does the backlot of Paramount Pictures.
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La Jolla Playhouse
La Jolla Playhouse is a not-for-profit, professional theatre-in-residence on the campus of the University of California, San Diego.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; , Spanish for "The Angels") is the second most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of California and the western United States, with a population of 3.83 million within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Los Angeles extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of over 14.8 million and it is the 14th largest urban area in the world, affording it megacity status. The metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is home to nearly 12.9 million residents while the broader Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined statistical area (CSA) contains nearly 17.8 million people. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most multicultural counties in the United States. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos" ().
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Louisiana
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New Orleans
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Pixar
Pixar Animation Studios is an American CGI animation film studio based in Emeryville, California, United States. As of 2006, Pixar is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. The studio has earned twenty-four Academy Awards, six Golden Globes, and three Grammys, among many other awards, acknowledgments and achievements and has made $5.5 billion worldwide. It is one of the most (according to Rotten Tomatoes, perhaps the single most) critically acclaimed film studios of all time. It is best known for its CGI-animated feature films which are created with PhotoRealistic RenderMan, its own implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan image-rendering API used to generate high-quality images.
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Seattle
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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A. R. Rahman
Allah Rakha Rahman (; born 6 January 1966 as A. S. Dileep Kumar) is an Indian film composer, record producer, musician and singer. His film scoring career began in the early 1990s. He has won fourteen Filmfare Awards, four National Film Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, two Grammy Awards, and two Academy Awards.
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Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modern music and American folk styles. The open, slowly changing harmonies of many of his works are said to evoke the vast American landscape.
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Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish recording artist, better known as being one member of the duo Eurythmics, which she formed in 1980. Lennox penned some of the band's best-known tracks to date, including "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)", "Here Comes The Rain Again", "Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)" "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" and "Love Is a Stranger".
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Clarence White
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Claudine Longet
Claudine Georgette Longet (born 29 January 1942) was a popular singer and recording artist during the 1960s and 1970s. She was also an actress and a dancer.
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Dave Van Ronk
Dave Van Ronk (June 30, 1936 – February 10, 2002) was an American folk singer, born in Brooklyn, New York, who settled in Greenwich Village, New York, and was eventually nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street."
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David Ansen
David Ansen is a reviewer and senior editor for Newsweek, where he has been reviewing movies since 1977. He came to Newsweek after several years as the chief film critic at Boston's The Real Paper. Ansen appeared in This Film Is Not Yet Rated.
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David Mamet
David Alan Mamet (; born November 30, 1947) is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.
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Deborah Rush
Deborah Rush (born April 10, 1954) is an American actress.
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DJ Paul
Paul Beauregard, better known by his stage name DJ Paul, is an American rapper and record producer from Memphis, Tennessee. He is one half of the current Memphis-based rap group Three 6 Mafia. He is also the half brother of former Three 6 Mafia member Lord Infamous. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp".
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Dusty Springfield
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Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions. His most popular works include the scores to The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Emil Newman
Emil Newman (January 20, 1911—August 30, 1984) was a Jewish American composer and conductor who worked on over 200 films and TV shows. He was nominated for an Oscar for musical direction on the classic Sun Valley Serenade (1941).
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Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album, The Slim Shady LP, which won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. The following album, The Marshall Mathers LP, became the fastest-selling solo album in United States history. It brought Eminem increased popularity, including his own record label, Shady Records, and brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition.
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Enya
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Eric Idle
Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English comedian, actor, author, singer, writer, and comedic composer. He wrote and performed as a member of the British comedy group Monty Python.
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Faust
Faust or (Latin for "auspicious" or "lucky") is the protagonist of a classic German legend. Though a highly successful scholar, he is unsatisfied, and makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. Faust's tale is the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works. The meaning of the word and name has been reinterpreted through the ages. Faust, and the adjective Faustian, are often used to describe an arrangement in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success: the proverbial "deal with the devil." The terms can also refer to an unquenchable thirst for knowledge.
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Fran Walsh
Frances "Fran" Walsh, Lady Jackson, MNZM (born 10 January 1959) is a screenwriter, film producer and musician. She is the wife of filmmaker Peter Jackson. They have two children: Billy and Katie.
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Frayser Boy
Frayser Boy (born Cedric Coleman) is an Academy Award-winning rapper from Memphis, Tennessee. He was formerly signed to Hypnotize Minds, the label run by Three 6 Mafia members DJ Paul and Juicy J. He had released 3 albums under the Hypnotize label: Gone on That Bay (2003), Me Being Me (2005), and Da Key (2008).
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Garou (singer)
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Gene Parsons
Gene Victor Parsons is an American drummer, banjo player, guitarist, singer-songwriter, and innovative engineer, best known for his work with The Byrds from 1968 to 1972. Parsons has also released solo albums and played in bands including Nashville West, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Parsons Green. Parsons is credited with inventing the B-Bender (also known as the StringBender) along with Clarence White and the device is often referred to as the Parsons/White B-Bender, a trademarked name.
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Glen Hansard
Glen Hansard (born 21 April 1970 in Dublin, Ireland) is the principal songwriter and vocalist/guitarist for Irish rock group The Frames. He is also known for starring in the films Once and The Commitments. Hansard co-wrote the song, "Falling Slowly", which appeared in Once. "Falling Slowly" and his success with the song and performance in Once resulted in Hansard winning an Academy-Award for Best Original Song, and between 2007-2008 earned him no less than ten other major nominations or awards altogether.
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Harry Nilsson
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Howard Shore
Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, notable for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 40 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, for which he won three Academy Awards. He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979.
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Huey Long
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Irma Thomas
Irma Thomas (born February 18, 1941, Ponchatoula, Louisiana) is a Grammy Award-winning soul and rhythm and blues singer from New Orleans. She is known as the "Soul Queen of New Orleans".
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Jackie DeShannon
Jackie DeShannon (born Sharon Lee Myers on August 21, 1944 in Hazel, Kentucky), is an American singer-songwriter with a string of hit song credits from the 1960s onwards. She was one of the first female singer-songwriters of the rock 'n' roll period.
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Jeff Bass
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Jerry Zaks
Jerry Zaks (born September 7, 1946) is a German-born American stage and television director, and actor. He won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and Drama Desk Award for directing The House of Blue Leaves, Lend Me A Tenor, and Six Degrees of Separation and the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and Drama Desk Award for Guys and Dolls.
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Joe Cocker
John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE (born 20 May 1944, Sheffield, England) is an English rock/blues musician, composer and actor who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles. He is the recipient of several awards, including a 1983 Grammy Award for his song "Up Where We Belong", a duet which he performed with Jennifer Warnes. He was ranked #97 on Rolling Stone's 100 greatest singers list.
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Joey Newman
Joey Newman (born September 9, 1976) is a Los Angeles-based film composer, orchestrator, arranger and conductor working in the fields of film and television. Joey was educated at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA.
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John Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is a prolific American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning six decades, he has composed many of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including those for Jaws, the Star Wars Saga, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Hook, Jurassic Park, ''Schindler's List, Home Alone, and three Harry Potter'' films. He has composed the music for all but two of director Steven Spielberg's feature films.
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Jorge Drexler
Jorge Drexler (born Jorge Abner Drexler Prada on September 21, 1964) is an Uruguayan musician.
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Juicy J
Jordan Michael Houston, better known by his stage name Juicy J, (born April 5, 1975) is an American rapper and record producer from Memphis, Tennessee and is the co-founder of the Three 6 Mafia. He is also the younger brother of Project Pat. His second solo album, Hustle Till I Die, was released June 16 2009. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp".
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Katey Sagal
Katey Sagal (born January 19th, 1954) is a multiple Golden Globe nominated American actress and singer-songwriter, best known for portraying Peggy Bundy on Married... with Children. She is also known for her roles as Cate S. Hennessy on 8 Simple Rules, Turanga Leela on Futurama, and Gemma Teller Morrow on Sons of Anarchy.
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Leon Russell
Claude Russell Bridges (born April 2, 1942; Lawton, Oklahoma), known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and guitarist.
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Lester Maddox
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Lionel Newman
Lionel Newman (January 4, 1916 - February 3, 1989) was an American conductor, pianist, and film and television composer. He was the brother of Alfred Newman and Emil Newman, uncle of Randy Newman, David Newman and Thomas Newman, and grandfather of Joey Newman.
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Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels, CM (born November 17, 1944) is a Canadian television producer, writer and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it.
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Lynn Anderson
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Mark Linn-Baker
Mark Linn-Baker (born June 17, 1954) is an American actor and director famous for his role as Larry Appleton on the television sitcom Perfect Strangers.
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Markéta Irglová
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Maurice Jarre
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Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician. She has received fifteen Grammy Award nominations winning two , one Academy Award and has sold twenty-seven million albums worldwide and almost fourteen million in the United States alone.
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Michael McKean
Michael John McKean (born October 17, 1947) is an American actor, comedian, writer, composer and musician, perhaps best known for his portrayal of Squiggy's friend, Leonard 'Lenny' Kosnowski, on the sitcom Laverne and Shirley; as David St. Hubbins of Spinal Tap; and for his work in the Christopher Guest ensemble films.
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Monty Python
Monty Python (sometimes known as The Pythons) were a British comedy group that created the influential ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'', a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series. The Python phenomenon developed from the television series into something larger in scope and impact, spawning touring stage shows, films, numerous albums, several books and a stage musical as well as launching the members to individual stardom. The group's influence on comedy has been compared to The Beatles' influence on music.
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Nina Simone
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Paul McCartney
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Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.
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Peggy Lee
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Peter Gabriel
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Randy Neumann
Randy Neumann, born and raised in Cliffside Park, New Jersey in 1948, is a former professional boxer who has been a referee for the New York State Athletic Commission since 1982. He has been the "third man" in many championship boxing matches that have taken place in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. Ray was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm & blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.
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Roseanna Vitro
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Ry Cooder
Ryland "Ry" Peter Cooder (born 15 March 1947) is a US guitarist, singer and composer.
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Ryan Bingham
Ryan Bingham (born March 31, 1981) is an American Academy Award-winning singer/songwriter. He has released three albums on the Lost Highway Records label.
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Stephen Colbert
Stephen Tyrone Colbert ( or born on May 13, 1964) is an American political satirist, writer, comedian and television host. He is the host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, a satirical news show in which Colbert portrays a caricatured version of conservative political pundits.
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Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician and composer.
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Sting (musician)
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, CBE (born 2 October 1951), better known by his professional name Sting, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, activist, actor and philanthropist. Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal songwriter, lead singer and bassist of the rock band The Police.
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Storm Large
Storm Large (born Susan Storm Large, June 25, 1969) is a singer best known as a contestant on the CBS reality television show .
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T-Bone Burnett
Joseph Henry Burnett (born January 14, 1948), widely known as T-Bone Burnett, is an American musician, songwriter, and soundtrack and record producer.
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The Beau Brummels
The Beau Brummels were an American rock band, formed in San Francisco in 1964. The band's original lineup included Sal Valentino (lead vocals), Ron Elliott (lead guitar), Ron Meagher (bass guitar), Declan Mulligan (rhythm guitar, bass, harmonica), and John Petersen (drums). Although their initial musical style blended beat music and folk music and typically drew comparisons to The Beatles, the Beau Brummels later worked with other music genres such as psychedelic rock and country rock.
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The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers (Don and Phil, born Isaac Donald Everly, February 1, 1937, and Phillip Everly, January 19, 1939) are country-influenced rock and roll performers, known for steel-string guitar playing and close harmony singing. The brothers are the most successful U.S. rock and roll duo on the Hot 100. Their greatest period came between 1957 and 1965.
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Thomas Newman
:Not to be confused with Tom Newman
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Tom Jones (singer)
Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE (born 7 June 1940), known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer. Jones is particularly noted for his powerful voice.
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Treat Williams
Richard Treat Williams (born December 1, 1951) is an Screen Actors Guild Award nominated American actor who has appeared on film, stage and television. From 2002 to 2006, he was the star of the television series Everwood.
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Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks (born January 3, 1943) is an American composer, arranger, producer, musician, singer, author and actor. He has worked with performers including Grace Kelly, Delaney Bramlett, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, Loudon Wainwright III, Silverchair, Ry Cooder, Joanna Newsom, Inara George and Ringo Starr.
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Walt Disney
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Randy Newman - Short People

OGWT 1978....

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Randy Newman - Sail Away

Live at the Old Grey Whistle Test...

published: 19 Dec 2007

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Randy Newman- I Iove LA

From Wikipedia: This song is an example of Newman's ambivalence toward the American Dream,...

published: 03 Apr 2009

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You've Got A Friend In Me

Randy Newman at MacWorld 2008 playing his song from Toy Story about Andy & Woody's friends...

published: 16 Jan 2008

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Randy Newman - A Few Words in Defense of Our Country

January 2007 performance. Features full lyrics. Abridged lyrics ran as a New York Times Op...

published: 30 Jan 2007

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Randy Newman - I Think It's Going To Rain Today

From the Lyle Lovett Sound Stage concert (2004)...

published: 10 Mar 2008

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Randy Newman - Rednecks

Randy Newman & Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Roelof van Driesten. Rotterdam, Net...

published: 04 Nov 2008

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Randy Newman "Louisiana 1927"

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927...

published: 27 Nov 2008

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Randy Newman - Feels Like Home

Feels Like Home by Randy Newman...

published: 01 Oct 2008

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The Randy Newman Writing Style

In this www.artistshousemusic.org clip, Randy Newman, artist, songwriter, and film compose...

published: 02 Jul 2007

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Randy Newman with Ry Cooder and Linda Ronstadt - Rider in the Rain

Here's Ry Cooder riding shotgun for Randy Newman and Linda Ronstadt at the Odeon, New York...

published: 09 Jul 2011

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Randy Newman performs Losing You

Randy Newman gives an exclusive performance of his song Losing You and talks about the dif...

published: 06 Jun 2011

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Randy Newman - Louisiana 1927

Jazzopen Stuttgart 2006....

published: 11 Jul 2007

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Randy Newman - God's Song

Randy Newman & Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Roelof van Driesten. Rotterdam, Net...

published: 04 Nov 2008

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MIDWAY - Enter the heroes

Having sat on their nests for weeks without a meal, the exhausted Albatross parents of the...

published: 13 Feb 2012

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Little Criminals

Music Video for Little Criminals (Randy Newman) Buy the EP at iTunes : http://itunes.appl...

published: 01 Jun 2009

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Volume Bikes: 5 Songs with Jason Enns

Welcome to the musical and animal world of Jason Enns. Check out 5 of Jason's favorite tun...

published: 19 Jun 2012

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Randy Newman - Session 1

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People pose with a picture of President Barack Obama during the Election Night Party 2012 following the U.S. Presidential Election, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012.

Barack Obama wins re-election to serve four more years as president

The Daily Telegraph

07 Nov 2012

Barack Obama claimed a second presidential term last night as a progressive coalition of women, minorities and young people came together to return America’s first black president to the White...

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UK nuclear deterrent plan triggers divisions

Al Jazeera

06 Nov 2012

- At an unknown location somewhere deep beneath the world's oceans, a British submarine sits primed to launch up to 40 nuclear warheads with a collective destructive power almost 300 times greater...

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Police surround the bodies of striking miners after opening fire on a crowd at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012.

Marikana: a cover-up for all to see

The Guardian

06 Nov 2012

The inquiry into the miners' deaths is showing how police doctored evidence and revealing a force that believes itself to be above South African law...

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A man waiting to vote at Public School 370 angrily points at a New York City police officer, left, as tempers flare, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012 in the Coney Island section of the Brooklyn borough of New York.

Obama, Romney leave voters facing stark choice

The Leaf Chronicle

06 Nov 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney left Americans to vote Tuesday with a stark choice between their fundamentally different visions for the countrys future...

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A mural depicting the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) in Gaza City as French prosecutors in Paris opened up an official inquiry into Yasser Arafat's death in Gaza City on August 28, 2012. Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas welcomed a decision by French prosecutors to open a murder inquiry into claims the Arafat may have been poisoned.

Arafat's remains to be exhumed on Nov. 26, examined for deadly radioactive isotope

Star Tribune

05 Nov 2012

RAMALLAH, West Bank - A Western diplomat says the exhumation of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's remains will take place Nov. 26....

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Randy Newman
Newman at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 2008
Background information
Birth name	Randall Stuart Newman
Born	(1943-11-28) November 28, 1943 (age 68)
Origin	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres	Piano rock, comedy rock
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, arranger, musician
Instruments	Vocals, piano
Years active	1961–present
Labels	Warner Bros. Reprise Walt Disney (Disney·Pixar films) DreamWorks/Interscope/Universal Nonesuch/Elektra
Website	RandyNewman.com

Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter,^[1] arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for film scores.

Newman often writes lyrics from the perspective of a character far removed from his own experiences, sometimes using the point of view of an unreliable narrator.^[2] For example, the 1972 song "Sail Away" is written as a slave trader's sales pitch to attract slaves, while the narrator of "Political Science" is a U.S. nationalist who complains of worldwide ingratitude toward America and proposes a brutally ironic final solution. One of his biggest hits, "Short People" was written from the perspective of "a lunatic"^[3] who hates short people. Since the 1980s, Newman has worked mostly as a film composer. His film scores include Ragtime, Awakenings, The Natural, Leatherheads, James and the Giant Peach, Meet the Parents, Cold Turkey, Seabiscuit and The Princess and the Frog. He has scored six Disney-Pixar films: Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Cars and most recently Toy Story 3.

Newman has been nominated for twenty Academy Awards, winning twice. He has also won three Emmys, five Grammy Awards, and the Governor's Award from the Recording Academy.^[4] Newman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2007, Newman was inducted as a Disney Legend.^[5]

1 Early life
2 Songwriter
3 Recording artist
4 Film composer
5 Filmography
6 Musical theatre
7 Notable performances and appearances
8 Discography
9 Awards and honors
10 References
11 External links

Early life [link]

Newman was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Adele (née Fox), a secretary, and Irving George Newman, an internist. He lived in New Orleans as a small child and spent summers there until he was 11 years old, his family having by then returned to Los Angeles. The paternal side of his family includes three uncles who were noted Hollywood film-score composers: Alfred Newman, Lionel Newman and Emil Newman. Newman's cousins Thomas and David, and nephew Joey are also composers for motion pictures. He graduated from University High School in Los Angeles. Newman attended the University of California, Los Angeles.

Songwriter [link]

Newman has been a professional songwriter since he was 17. He cites Ray Charles as his greatest influence growing up, stating, "I loved Charles' music to excess."^[6] His first single as a performer was 1962's "Golden Gridiron Boy", released when he was eighteen.^[7] However, the single flopped and Newman chose to concentrate on songwriting and arranging for the next several years.

In various interviews, National Academy of Songwriters to PBS telecasts, Newman has credited The Fleetwoods with giving him his first national break: The trio recorded his song, "They Tell Me It's Summer", as the B side of one of their 11 hit singles, giving Newman great exposure and royalties (piggy-backed on the sale of the Fleetwoods' 1962 hit A side, "Lovers By Night, Strangers By Day"). Two decades later, The Fleetwoods' founder and manager, female lead Vocalist/Songwriter/Arranger Gretchen Christopher selected, from their recordings, two more of Newman's songs to be included among 10 previously unreleased masters, for their 13th album. The Fleetwoods - Buried Treasure LP and cassette, released in 1982, included Newman's "Who's Gonna Teach You About Love" and "Ask Him If He's Got A Friend For Me".

His early songs were recorded by Gene Pitney, Jerry Butler, Jackie DeShannon, The O'Jays and Irma Thomas, among others. His work as a songwriter met with particular success in the UK: top 40 UK hits written by Newman included Cilla Black's "I've Been Wrong Before" (#17, 1965), Gene Pitney's "Nobody Needs Your Love" (#2, 1966) and "Just One Smile" (#8, 1966); and The Alan Price Set's "Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear" (#4, 1967). Besides "Simon Smith", Price featured seven Randy Newman songs on his 1967 A Price on His Head album.

In the mid-1960s, Newman was briefly a member of the band The Tikis, who later became Harpers Bizarre, best known for their 1967 hit version of the Paul Simon composition "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)". Newman kept a close musical relationship with Harpers Bizarre, offering them some of his own compositions, including "Simon Smith" and "Happyland". The band recorded six Newman compositions during their short initial career (1967–1969).

In this period, Newman began a long professional association with childhood friend Lenny Waronker. Waronker had been hired to produce The Tikis, the Beau Brummels, and The Mojo Men, who were all contracted to the Los Angeles independent label Autumn Records, and he in turn brought in Newman, Leon Russell and another friend, pianist/arranger Van Dyke Parks, to play on recording sessions. Later in 1966 Waronker was hired as an A&R manager by Warner Bros. Records and his friendship with Newman, Russell, and Parks began a creative circle around Waronker at Warner Bros that became one of the keys to Warner Bros' subsequent success as a rock music label.^[8]

Randy Newman recently endorsed jazz singer Roseanna Vitro's album, The Randy Newman Project (Motéma Music, 2011).^[9]

Recording artist [link]

His 1968 debut album, Randy Newman, was a critical success but never dented the Billboard Top 200. Many artists, including Alan Price, Van Dyke Parks, Dave Van Ronk, Judy Collins, the Everly Brothers, Claudine Longet, Dusty Springfield, Nina Simone, Lynn Anderson, Wilson Pickett, Pat Boone and Peggy Lee, covered his songs and "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" became an early standard.

In 1969, he did the orchestral arrangements for Peggy Lee's single "Is That All There Is?", as well as her album with the same title (which also contained her cover versions of two of his songs: "Love Story" and "Linda").^[10]

In 1970, Harry Nilsson recorded an entire album of Newman compositions called Nilsson Sings Newman. That album was a success, and it paved the way for Newman's 1970 release, 12 Songs, a more stripped-down sound that showcased Newman's piano. Ry Cooder's slide guitar and contributions from Byrds members Gene Parsons and Clarence White helped to give the album a much rootsier feel. 12 Songs was also critically acclaimed (6th best album of the seventies according to Rolling Stone critic Robert Christgau), but again found little commercial success, though Three Dog Night made a huge hit of his "Mama Told Me Not to Come." The following year, Randy Newman Live cemented his cult following and became his first LP to appear in the Billboard charts, at #191. Newman also made his first foray into music for films at this time, writing and performing the theme song "He Gives Us All His Love" for Norman Lear's 1971 film Cold Turkey.

1972's Sail Away reached #163 on Billboard, with the title track making its way into the repertoire of Ray Charles and Linda Ronstadt. "You Can Leave Your Hat On" enigmatically touches on what it is men find important in relationships, and was covered by Three Dog Night, then Joe Cocker, and later by Keb Mo, Etta James, Tom Jones (whose version was later used for the final striptease to the 1997 film The Full Monty), and the Québécois singer Garou. The album also featured "Burn On," an ode to an infamous incident in which the heavily polluted Cuyahoga River literally caught fire. In 1989, "Burn On" was used as the opening theme to the film Major League, whose focus was the hapless Cleveland Indians.

His 1974 release Good Old Boys was a set of songs about the American South. "Rednecks" began with a description of segregationist Lester Maddox pitted against a "smart-ass New York Jew" on a TV show, in a song that criticizes both southern racism and the complacent bigotry of Americans outside of the south who stereotype all southerners as racist yet ignore racism in northern and midwestern states and large cities. This ambiguity was also apparent on "Kingfish" and "Every Man a King," the former a paean to Huey Long (the assassinated former Governor and United States Senator from Louisiana), the other a campaign song written by Long himself. An album that received lavish critical praise, Good Old Boys also became a commercial breakthrough for Newman, peaking at #36 on Billboard and spending 21 weeks in the Top 200.

Little Criminals (1977) contained the surprise hit "Short People," which also became a subject of controversy. In September 1977, the British music magazine, NME reported the following interview with Newman talking about his then-new release. "There's one song about a child murderer," Newman deadpans. "That's fairly optimistic. Maybe. There's one called 'Jolly Coppers on Parade' which isn't an absolutely anti-police song. Maybe it's even a fascist song. I didn't notice at the time. There's also one about me as a cowboy called 'Rider in the Rain.' I think it's ridiculous. The Eagles are on there. That's what's good about it. There's also this song 'Short People.' It's purely a joke. I like other ones on the album better but the audiences go for that one."^[11] The album proved Newman's most popular to date, reaching #9 on the US Billboard 200 chart.

1979's Born Again featured a song satirically mythologizing the Electric Light Orchestra (and their arranging style) entitled "The Story of a Rock and Roll Band".

His 1983 album Trouble in Paradise included the hit single "I Love L.A.", a song that has been interpreted as both praising and criticizing the city of Los Angeles. This ambivalence is borne out by Newman's own comments on the song. As he explained in a 2001 interview, "There's some kind of ignorance L.A. has that I'm proud of. The open car and the redhead, the Beach Boys...that sounds 'really' good to me." The ABC network and Frank Gari Productions transformed "I Love L.A." into a popular 1980s TV promotional campaign, retooling the lyrics and title to "You'll Love It! (on ABC)". The song is played at home games for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Lakers, and the Los Angeles Kings use the song along with their Goal Horn. In 2003 Newman's song "It's a Jungle Out There" was used for season 2 of the USA Network's show Monk. Newman was awarded the 2004 Emmy Award for Best Main Title Music for It's a Jungle Out There.

In the years following Trouble in Paradise, Newman focused more on film work, but his personal life entered a difficult period. He separated from his wife of nearly 20 years, Roswitha, and was diagnosed with Epstein-Barr virus. He has released three albums of new material as a singer-songwriter since that time: Land of Dreams (1988), Bad Love (1999), and Harps and Angels, which was released on August 5, 2008. Land of Dreams included one of his most well-known songs, "It's Money That Matters", and featured Newman's first stab at autobiography with "Dixie Flyer" and "Four Eyes", while Bad Love included "I Miss You", a moving tribute to his ex-wife.^{[citation needed]} (In an interview with Glenn Tilbrook, half of the writing partnership of English pop band Squeeze, to promote the album (probably on BBC radio), Newman acknowledged that ‘I Miss You’ was written for his ex-wife. When asked by Tilbrook how his current wife felt about this, Newman said that though he had always been obedient to his wives in most things there was one area in which he did as he chose; ‘I write what I write’ he said.) He has also re-recorded a number of songs that span his career, accompanying himself on piano, with The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1 (2003) and The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2 (2011). He continues to perform his songs before live audiences as a touring concert artist.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Newman's "Louisiana 1927" became an anthem and was played heavily on a wide range of American radio and television stations, in both Newman's 1974 original and Aaron Neville's cover version of the song. The song addresses the deceitful manner in which New Orleans's municipal government managed a flood in 1927, during which, as Newman asserts, "The guys who ran the Mardi Gras, the bosses in New Orleans decided the course of that flood. You know, they cut a hole in the levee and it flooded the cotton fields."^[12] In a related performance, Newman contributed to the 2007 release of Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Vanguard), contributing his version of Domino's "Blue Monday". Domino had been rescued from his New Orleans home after Hurricane Katrina, initially having been feared dead.

Film composer [link]

Newman's work as a film composer began in 1971, with his work on the Norman Lear satire Cold Turkey. He returned to film work with 1981's Ragtime, for which he was nominated for two Academy Awards. Newman co-wrote the 1986 film ¡Three Amigos! with Steve Martin and Lorne Michaels, wrote three songs for the film, and provided the voice for the singing bush. His orchestral film scores resemble the work of Elmer Bernstein (with whom he had worked on ¡Three Amigos!) and Maurice Jarre.

Newman has scored six Disney/Pixar feature films; Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Cars, and Toy Story 3. He has earned at least one Academy Award nomination for each of the films he has scored for Pixar, winning the award for Monsters, Inc. and Toy Story 3, both times in the category of Best Original Song. Additional scores by Newman include Avalon, Parenthood, James and the Giant Peach, Seabiscuit, Awakenings, The Paper, Meet the Parents, and its sequel, Meet the Fockers. His score for Pleasantville was an Academy Award nominee. He also wrote the songs for Turner's Cats Don't Dance.

One of Newman's most iconic and recognizable works is the central theme to The Natural, a dramatic and Oscar-nominated score, which was described by reviewer David Ansen of Newsweek as "Coplandesque".

Newman had the dubious distinction of receiving the most Oscar nominations (15) without a single win. His losing streak was broken when he received the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2001, for the Monsters, Inc. song "If I Didn't Have You", beating Sting, Enya and Paul McCartney. After receiving a standing ovation, a bemused but emotional Newman began his acceptance speech with "I don't want your pity!" When the orchestra began playing the underscore signifying that the speaker's time on stage is concluding, Newman ordered them to stop before thanking "all these musicians, many of whom have worked for me a number of times and may not again."

Besides writing songs for films, he also writes songs for television series such as the Emmy-Award winning current theme song of Monk, "It's a Jungle out There". Newman also composed the Emmy-Award winning song "When I'm Gone" for the final episode.

Newman wrote the music for the Walt Disney movie The Princess and the Frog. During the Walt Disney Company's annual shareholder meeting in March 2007, Newman performed a new song written for the movie. He was accompanied by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. The New Orleans setting of the film played to Newman's musical strengths, and his songs contained elements of Cajun music, zydeco, blues and Dixieland jazz.^[13] Two of the songs, "Almost There" and "Down in New Orleans", were nominated for Oscars.^[14]

In total, Newman has received 20 Oscar nominations with two wins, both for Best Original Song. While accepting the award for "We Belong Together" in 2011, he joked "my percentages aren't great".^[15]

Filmography [link]

¡Three Amigos! (1986) -The Singing Bush, Also Writer

Musical theatre [link]

A revue of Newman's songs, titled Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong, was performed at the Astor Place Theater in New York City in 1982, and later at other theaters around the country. The New York cast featured Mark Linn-Baker and Deborah Rush,^[16] and at one point included Treat Williams.^[17]

In the 1990s, Newman adapted Goethe's Faust into a concept album and musical, Randy Newman's Faust. After a 1995 staging at the La Jolla Playhouse, he retained David Mamet to help rework the book before its relaunch on the Chicago Goodman Theatre mainstage in 1996. Newman's Faust project had been many years in the making, and it suffered for it; a central joke was Newman's depiction of Faust as a shallow heavy metal music fan in thrall to Satan, and this had to be modified to accommodate the less-than-devil obsessed age of grunge rock that was in fashion by 1995.

In 2000, South Coast Repertory (SCR) produced The Education of Randy Newman, a musical theater piece that recreates the life of a songwriter who bears some resemblance to the actual Newman. Set in New Orleans and Los Angeles, it was modeled on the celebrated American autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams. Newman, together with Jerry Patch and Michael Roth, surveyed Newman's songs to find those that, taken together, depict the life of an American artist in the last half of the 20th century. After its premiere at SCR, it was reworked with additional songs written specifically for the show by Newman and presented in Seattle by ACT.

In 2010, the Center Theatre Group staged Harps and Angels, a musical revue of the Randy Newman songbook, interspersed with narratives reflecting on Newman's inspirations. The revue premiered at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and included, among other songs "I Think It’s Going to Rain Today," "Sail Away," "Marie," "Louisiana 1927," "Feels Like Home," "You've Got a Friend in Me" and "I Love L.A." The revue was directed by Jerry Zaks and featured Ryder Bach, Storm Large, Adriane Lenox, Michael McKean, Katey Sagal and Matthew Saldivar.^[18]

Notable performances and appearances [link]

In 2000, Newman hosted a PBS special on Sunset Blvd, in his native Los Angeles. Driving a convertible, he followed the road from the Amtrak train station downtown, through Silver Lake, on past his alma mater UCLA, and finished in Santa Monica.
Randy Newman appeared on The Colbert Report on October 9, 2006, performing "Political Science" after his interview. At the end of the performance Stephen Colbert said "I hope they're listening in D.C." This appearance came days after North Korea conducted an underground test of a nuclear weapon.
Newman appeared on the season two finale of the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun, accompanying the character Harry Solomon's performance of "Life Has Been Good To Me" on piano in a dream sequence.
He appeared as a musical guest at the end of the Keynote Address at Macworld's 2008 San Francisco Macworld Expo, performing the songs "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country" and "You've Got a Friend in Me".
Newman appeared as a musical guest on the second episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live in 1975,^[19] as well as on the show's Mardi Gras special in 1977.^[20]
In June 2010, Newman was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Monty Python's Eric Idle presented at the ceremony

Discography [link]

Main article: Randy Newman discography

Compilations [link]

Lonely at the Top: The Best of Randy Newman (1987)
Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman (1998) (Box set)
The Best of Randy Newman (2001)
The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1 (2003) (New recordings of previously released songs)
The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2 (May 2011)

Other Contributions [link]

Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Vanguard, 2007)^[21]

Film scores [link]

Performance (1970) (song: Gone Dead Train)
Cold Turkey (1971)
Ragtime (1981)
The Natural (1984)
¡Three Amigos! (1986) (songs: "The Ballad of the Three Amigos," "My Little Buttercup," and "Blue Shadows")
Parenthood (1989)
Major League (1989) (song: "Burn On")
Awakenings (1990)
Avalon (1990)
The Paper (1994)
Maverick (1994)
Toy Story (1995)
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
Michael (1996)
Bean (1997) (song: I love L.A.)
Cats Don't Dance (1997) (songs: "Danny's Arrival Song","Little Boat On The Sea","Animal Jam Session","Big and Loud","Tell Me Lies", and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now")
A Bug's Life (1998)
Babe: Pig in the City (1998) (song: "That'll Do" by Peter Gabriel)
Pleasantville (1998)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Meet the Parents (2000)
Jurassic Park 3 (2001) (song: "Big Hat, No Cattle")
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Seabiscuit (2003)
Meet the Fockers (2004)
Cars (2006)
Leatherheads (2008)
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Toy Story 3 (2010)

Awards and honors [link]

Academy Award
- 2011: Winner – Best Original Song – "We Belong Together" – Toy Story 3
- 2010: Nominee – Best Original Song – "Almost There" – The Princess and the Frog
- 2010: Nominee – Best Original Song – "Down in New Orleans" – The Princess and the Frog
- 2007: Nominee – Best Original Song – "Our Town" – Cars
- 2002: Winner – Best Original Song – "If I Didn't Have You" – Monsters, Inc.
- 2002: Nominee – Best Original Score – Monsters, Inc.
- 2001: Nominee – Best Original Song – "A Fool in Love" – Meet The Parents
- 2000: Nominee – Best Original Song – "When She Loved Me" – Toy Story 2
- 1999: Nominee – Best Original Dramatic Score – Pleasantville
- 1999: Nominee – Best Original Musical or Comedy Score – A Bug's Life
- 1999: Nominee – Best Original Song – "That'll Do" – Babe: Pig in the City
- 1997: Nominee – Best Musical or Comedy Score – James and the Giant Peach
- 1996: Nominee – Best Original Song – "You've Got a Friend in Me" – Toy Story
- 1996: Nominee – Best Original Musical or Comedy Score – Toy Story
- 1995: Nominee – Best Original Song – "Make Up Your Mind" – The Paper
- 1991: Nominee – Best Original Score – Avalon
- 1990: Nominee – Best Original Song – "I Love to See You Smile" – Parenthood
- 1985: Nominee – Best Original Score – The Natural
- 1982: Nominee – Best Original Score – Ragtime
- 1982: Nominee – Best Original Song – "One More Hour" – Ragtime

Golden Globe
- 2000: Nominee – Best Original Song – "When She Loved Me" – Toy Story 2
- 1999: Nominee – Best Original Score – A Bug's Life
- 1996: Nominee – Best Original Song – "You've Got a Friend in Me" – Toy Story
- 1991: Nominee – Best Original Score – Avalon
- 1990: Nominee – Best Original Song – "I Love to See You Smile" – Parenthood
- 1982: Nominee – Best Original Song – "One More Hour" – Ragtime

Grammy
- 2011: Winner – Best Score Soundtrack Album – Toy Story 3
- 2011: Nominee – Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media – "Down in New Orleans" – The Princess and the Frog
- 2007: Winner – Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media – "Our Town" – Cars
- 2004: Nominee – Best Score Soundtrack Album – Seabiscuit
- 2003: Winner – Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media – "If I Didn't Have You" – Monsters, Inc.
- 2003: Nominee – Best Score Soundtrack Album – Monsters, Inc.
- 2001: Winner – Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media – "When She Loved Me" – Toy Story 2
- 2001: Nominee – Best Score Soundtrack Album – Toy Story 2
- 2000: Winner – Best Instrumental Composition – A Bug's Life
- 2000: Nominee – Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media – "The Time of Your Life" – A Bug's Life
- 1992: Nominee – Best Instrumental Composition – Avalon
- 1992: Nominee – Best Instrumental Composition – Awakenings
- 1990: Nominee – Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media – Parenthood
- 1985: Winner – Best Instrumental Composition – The Natural (tied with John Williams' Olympic Fanfare)
- 1983: Nominee – Best Album of Original Score – Ragtime

Emmy
- 2010: Winner – Original Music and Lyrics ("When I'm Gone") – Monk
- 2004: Winner – Main Title Theme Music ("It's a Jungle Out There") – Monk
- 1991: Winner – Achievement in Music and Lyrics – Cop Rock

Annie Award
- 2007: Winner – Music in an Animated Feature Production – Cars
- 2003: Nominee – Music in an Animated Feature Production – Monsters, Inc.
- 2000: Winner – Music in an Animated Feature Production – Toy Story 2
- 1997: Winner – Music in an Animated Feature Production – Cats Don't Dance
- 1996: Winner – Music in an Animated Feature Production – Toy Story

BAFTA Award
- 1983: Nominee – Original Song – "One More Hour" – Ragtime

Chicago Film Critics Association Award
- 1999: Nominee – Original Score – A Bug's Life
- 1996: Winner – Original Score – Toy Story

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award
- 1981: Winner – Music – Ragtime

Online Film Critics Society Award
- 1999: Winner – Original Score – Pleasantville

References [link]

^ "Desert Island Discs featuring Randy Newman". Desert Island Discs. 2008-10-19. BBC. Radio 4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20081019.shtml.
^ Ellis, Iain (2008). Rebels Wit Attitude: Subversive Rock Humorists. Berkeley, California: Counterpoint Press. p. 124. ISBN 978-1-59376-206-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=n6hDB4kV9s4C. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
^ "Randy Newman on Short People". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5WS3P37edQ&feature=related.
^ See his career chronology at Randynewman.com
^ Randy Newman Disney Legend
^ All Songs Considered (2008-08-04). "Guest DJ Randy Newman". NPR. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93183763. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
^ http://books.google.com/books?id=CBgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT4&lpg=PT4&dq=%22golden+gridiron+boy%22+%2B+billboard&source=bl&ots=tt7s5mT7d6&sig=UoEW9AGbnItW6SLjL3qE18L-UOk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gDUJT83XI8v4gge0-YW5Ag&sqi=2&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false
^ Fred Goodman, The Mansion on the Hill: Dylan, Young, Geffen, Springsteen and the Head-on Collision of Rock and Commerce (Random House, 1997), p.65
^ All About Jazz. "Roseanna Vitro: Following Her Muse". Allaboutjazz.com. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=40042&page=1. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
^ Peggy Lee discography
^ Tobler, John (1992). NME Rock 'N' Roll Years (1st ed.). London: Reed International Books Ltd. p. 304. CN 5585.
^ Newman discusses "Louisiana 1927" in a Village Voice interview
^ Burlingame, Jon (November 16, 2009). "Newman mines Big Easy music for 'Frog'". Variety. http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=awardcentral&jump=features&id=Music_Preview&articleid=VR1118011431.
^ "Randy Newman, T Bone Burnett Earn Oscar Nominations". Billboard. February 2010. http://www.billboard.com/news/randy-newman-t-bone-burnett-earn-oscar-nominations-1004064249.story.
^ Chilton, Martin (28 February 2011). "Oscars 2011: Randy Newman wins best joker award". The Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/8352642/Oscars-2011-Randy-Newman-wins-best-joker-award.html. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
^ Gussow, Mel (March 15, 1982). "A Revue Built From Newman's Music". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/15/theater/theater-a-revue-built-from-newman-s-music.html. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
^ "New 'Wrong' Is Almost Right". Miami News (AP report, archived). March 1982. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19820318&id=z4EmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VAEGAAAAIBAJ&pg=1078,2327107.
^ "World Premiere of Randy Newman's Harps and Angels Opens Nov. 21". Playbill. November 21, 2010. http://www.playbill.com/news/article/145128-World-Premiere-of-Randy-Newmans-Harps-and-Angels-Opens-Nov-21.
^ "Saturday Night Live Transcripts Season 1 Episode 2". http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75b.phtml.
^ "Saturday Night Live Transcripts Season 2 Mardi Gras Special". http://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/mardigras.phtml.
^ Contributing his version of Domino's "Blue Monday".

External links [link]

Official website
Randy Newman at the Internet Movie Database
Randy Newman at the Songwriters Hall of Fame
Randy Newman: American Dreams, Kevin Courrier (2005) ISBN 1-55022-690-8
Interview with Randy Newman on the Art of Songwriting
Randy Newman in NPR's All Songs Considered
Randy Newman at Movieguide
Randy Newman at NNDB

v t e Academy Award for Best Original Song (2001–2010)

"If I Didn't Have You" Music and lyrics: Randy Newman (2001) "Lose Yourself" Music: Eminem, Jeff Bass and Luis Resto Lyrics: Eminem (2002) "Into the West" Music and lyrics: Fran Walsh, Howard Shore and Annie Lennox (2003) "Al otro lado del río" Music and lyrics: Jorge Drexler (2004) "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" Music and lyrics: Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard (2005) "I Need to Wake Up" Music and lyrics: Melissa Etheridge (2006) "Falling Slowly" Music and lyrics: Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová (2007) "Jai Ho" Music: A. R. Rahman Lyrics: Gulzar (2008) "The Weary Kind" Music and lyrics: Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett (2009) "We Belong Together" Music and lyrics: Randy Newman (2010)

Complete list (1934–1940) (1941–1950) (1951–1960) (1961–1970) (1971–1980) (1981–1990) (1991–2000) (2001–2010) (2011–2020)

v t e Randy Newman

Main albums	Randy Newman (1968) 12 Songs (1970) Randy Newman Live (1971) Sail Away (1972) Good Old Boys (1974) Little Criminals (1977) Born Again (1979) Trouble in Paradise (1983) Land of Dreams (1988) Bad Love (1999) The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1 (2003) Harps and Angels (2008)

Compilations	Lonely at the Top: The Best of Randy Newman (1987) Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman (1998) The Best of Randy Newman (2001)

Musicals	Randy Newman's Faust (1995)

Films scored	Cold Turkey (1971) Ragtime (1981) The Natural (1984) Parenthood (1989) Awakenings (1990) Avalon (1990) The Paper (1994) Maverick (1994) Toy Story (1995) James and the Giant Peach (1996) Michael (1996) Cats Don't Dance (1997) A Bug's Life (1998) Pleasantville (1998) Toy Story 2 (1999) Meet the Parents (2000) Monsters, Inc. (2001) Seabiscuit (2003) Monk (TV) (2002-2009) Meet the Fockers (2004) Cars (2006) Leatherheads (2008) The Princess and the Frog (2009) Toy Story 3 (2010) Monsters University (2013)

Songs	"Mama Told Me Not to Come" "Sail Away" "He Gives Us All His Love" "Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear" "Political Science" "You Can Leave Your Hat On" "Louisiana 1927" "Rednecks" "Short People" "I Love L.A." "Feels Like Home" "You've Got a Friend in Me" "When She Loved Me" "We Belong Together"

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