MUSIC NEWS - Singer-songwriter (and Oscar winner), Randy Newman , 64, has had to delay his upcoming European tour due to his severe back pain. He's posted a statement on his website that he had "severe limitations" caused by narrowed blood vessels in his neck and back. His first performance was due to take place in Berlin this Saturday, and said he "deeply regretted" having to postpon...
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A giant of a man in anyone's definition of popular music, the great RANDY NEWMAN speaks candidly to Mogger TERRY STAUNTON, in an interview which first appeared in the UK music magazine Record Collector:http://www.recordcollectormag.com/ When Randy Newman finally picked up an Oscar in 2002, after 15 previously unsuccessful nominations, the biggest cheers were not from the A-list audience in s...
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I like Randy Newman --- always have. Just saying. Here's the Daily OM Music (copy and paste) review of his album, "Sail Away," (1972) and a website to check out more of his stuff.http://www.randynewman.com/February 27, 2007Sail AwayRandy Newman 1972"Randy Newman, born in New Orleans and raised in Los Angeles, still has the Big Easy in his dark soul. Although his uncles were major film compose...
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My special x'mas present for y'all moggers, an a++ recording of Randy Newman (circa _Sail Away_) in San Francisco:Randy Newman "Live at the Boarding House, San Francisco, June 11, 1972.":http://www.bigozine2.com/archive/ARrarities06/ARrnfrisco.html"Political Science":http://www.bigozine.com/MP3/RNfrisco/RNfrisco13.mp3No one likes us-I don't know whyWe may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try...
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1) They start wearing hats on the CD covers (James Taylor, Marshall Crenshaw, the Edge)2) They stop appearing AT ALL on the CD covers (too many to name)3) Their photos are so retouched they look like they belong in a coffin (Jules Shear - Allow Me)Other examples?
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Well, friends tonight is a special night. Tonight is the night that John McCain and Barack Obama descend upon my humble little hometown to do some good ol' fashioned debatin'. Now, you may have gathered from my previous flurry of politically-themed posts that I like to know what's going on in the world, and am taking this race very seriously. So in celebration of Nashville being impossible to n...
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I've been humming a Randy Newman song lately, and it's one you'd hardly expect from this staunch and loyal San Franciscan. But I've got my reasons for embracing "I Love L.A.," Newman's sunny, but benignly sarcastic tribute to his hometown.After the cloistered state that I endured in romantic Monterey since my unfortunate early-November encounter with a careening auto, I was nothing less than gl...
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Its Friday People! Time to shake these bones and get down. Now generally speaking Randy Newman isn't the first name that leaps to mind when someone hollers Play That Funky Music......but the guy has got the chops, and the wry humor and jaundiced wit to pull it off. ............Okay, so, Funkadelic he's not, But this ain't bad.
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Another embraced release in 08 and again, can't pass on that title - he's writing the soundtrack as he does so well. Great tune for the new year
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A giant of a man in anyone's definition of popular music, the great RANDY NEWMAN speaks candidly to Mogger TERRY STAUNTON, in an interview which first appeared in the UK music magazine Record Collector:http://www.recordcollectormag.com/ When Randy Newman finally picked up an Oscar in 2002, after 15 previously unsuccessful nominations, the biggest cheers were not from the A-list audience in s...
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