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13. Jan. 2022 · Track List:1-41. Randy Newman - Have You Seen My Baby? (0:00) 2. Randy Newman - Let's Burn Down The Cornfield (2:34)3. Randy Newman - Mama Told Me Not To Com...
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- Short People
- Have You Seen My Baby?
- Lonely at The Top
- You Can Leave Your Hat on
- When She Loved Me
- Love Story
- Mama Told Me Not to Come
- Birmingham
- Political Science
- Louisiana 1927
To hear Newman assert that vertically challenged people have “no reason to live”, it beggars belief that anyone could have taken his obvious satire at face value – yet Short People sparked a genuine controversy, with reviewers criticising him for his “vicious attack”. Naturally, it became his biggest solo hit – “the worst kind of hit anyone could h...
The opening track to Newman’s 1970 album 12 Songs (hailed by critic Robert Christgau as “a perfect album”) was a swampy yet concise slice of Americana. Covered by Fats Domino and Ringo Starr, it plays like a rollicking standard but is distinguished by its undercurrent of unease.
The lament of a jazz singer, jaded by applause, parades and his “pick of any girl”, Lonely was written for Frank Sinatra – who walked out of the studio, hearing himself as the butt of the joke. Certainly the doleful trad-jazz suggests that this lounge lizard’s best days are behind him, but it’s a self-effacing take on the isolation and fleeting sat...
It is Newman’s curse that his songs are most popular when recorded by other artists, but few instances are more ironic than this. What Newman intended as a stuttering, even faintly sinister attempt at seduction by a “fairly weak fellow”became, in Joe Cocker and Tom Jones’s hands, swaggering and cocksure. (At least Jones’s, for The Full Monty, was k...
Of all of Newman’s work for film – most notably his longstanding relationship with Pixar beginning with the Toy Story song You’ve Got a Friend in Me – this, from its sequel, is the composition that most closely rivals his solo work, realising the heartbreak of an abandoned toy. With the voice of Jessie the Yodelling Cowgirl a bit beyond Newman’s re...
The modesty of the title belies the scope of Newman’s ambition, encapsulating a relationship that lasts a lifetime in a little over three minutes – from early courtship to children to the retirement home “where we’ll play checkers all day / Till we pass away”. It’s one of his finest arrangements, too, unearthing the dignity in this union from its s...
Newman at his most playful, the unsteady piano and free-roaming guitar capturing his strait-laced narrator’s aghast response to finding himself at “the craziest party that ever could be”. Written for the Animals’ Eric Burdon, it was turned into a hit by Three Dog Night, who fleshed it out while retaining its tongue-in-cheek spirit; Tom Jones and th...
In his clear-eyed interest in America and wry empathy for characters often reduced to “the other”, Newman is reminiscent of the author George Saunders. With its cheery, storytelling tone, Birmingham seems to celebrate a humble steel mill worker’s home-town pride – until Newman hints that his narrator may not justbe merely ignorant of the city’s sig...
One of Newman’s most straightforward satires, Political Science is a jaunty, jingoistic take on the time-honoured US foreign policy of dropping “the big one” on every continent bar Australia (“don’t want to hurt no kangaroo”). Remarkably prescient on release, today it plays as the bullish delusions of a fading world superpower.
From Good Old Boys, his quasi-concept album about the deep south, Newman sings of the devastation of the Great Mississippi Flood and the dispassionate response from Washington: “They’re tryin’ to wash us away.” Newman even dignifies the government’s response; in fact, President Coolidge didn’t even visit the flooded areas at all. It later became id...
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