Randy Newman - The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1
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Artist: Randy NewmanBrand: NEWMAN,RANDY
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2003-09-30
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- It's Lonely at the Top
- God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)
- Louisiana 1927
- Let Me Go
- Rednecks
- Avalon
- Living Without You
- I Think It's Going to Rain Today
- You Can Leave Your Hat On
- It's Money That I Love
- Marie
- When She Loved Me
- Sail Away
- The World Isn't Fair
- Political Science
- The Great Nations of Europe
- In Germany Before the War
- Ragtime
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Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 30-SEP-2003
Although he's now best known as the curly haired Prince of Pixar (he's written hit songs for a number of animated blockbusters, including Toy Story 2 and A Bug's Life, Randy Newman began his career as a misanthropic satirist and thwarted romantic. It?s this version of Newman who shows up for Songbook Vol. 1, revisiting 18 of his compositions, most written in the '60s or '70s, and all stripped down to just voice and piano. The idea is borrowed from vintage tributes to the masters, the "songbooks" of Jerome Kern or Cole Porter, usually interpreted by a great vocalist such as Ella Fitzgerald. In Newman's case, it's hard to imagine anyone else singing a slave trader's smooth sales pitch ("Sail Away"), a deity's bemused take on mankind ("God's Song"), or a child murderer's creepy meditation ("In Germany Before the War"). Stripped of rock backbeats or orchestral sweetening, Newman's songs reveal their stark beauty and classic craftsmanship even more keenly. What may be most remarkable, however, is how prescient some of the songs seem now ("Lonely at the Top" predates the rise of People magazine and a revolving cast of whining superstars by half-a-decade) and how timely some of its humor is. "Political Science" may have been written during the Vietnam War, but its clueless narrator ("No one likes us I don't know why/We may not be perfect but heaven knows we try") sounds a lot like a Bush Jr. cabinet member or this season's hottest Fox News pundit. Since the early '80s, Newman has focused the lion's share of his attention on soundtrack scores and sly but cuddly buddy songs. Songbook Vol. 1 makes one wish Newman would devote more of his energies to writing new songs as topical, vibrant, and biting as his old ones. --Keith Moerer
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