The Randy Newman Songbooks (Remastered) Randy Newman

• Songbook Vol. 1:
• 1 It's Lonely at the Top 03:13
• 2 God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind) 03:25
• 3 Louisiana 1927 02:58
• 4 Let Me Go 02:38
• 5 Rednecks 03:07
• 6 Avalon 00:59
• 7 Living Without You 02:18
• 8 I Think It's Going to Rain Today 02:58
• 9 You Can Leave Your Hat On 02:33
• 10 It's Money That I Love 02:20
• 11 Marie 02:55
• 12 When She Loved Me 01:03
• 13 Sail Away 02:59
• 14 The World Isn't Fair 03:08
• 15 Political Science 02:05
• 16 The Great Nations of Europe 03:26
• 17 In Germany Before the War 03:51
• 18 Ragtime 01:25
• Songbook Vol. 2:
• 19 Dixie Flyer 03:20
• 20 Yellow Man 02:05
• 21 Suzanne 02:48
• 22 The Girls in My Life (Part 1) 01:49
• 23 Kingfish 02:16
• 24 Losing You 02:46
• 25 Sandman's Coming 02:18
• 26 My Life Is Good 03:26
• 27 Birmingham 02:22
• 28 Last Night I Had a Dream 01:57
• 29 Same Girl 02:46
• 30 Baltimore 03:05
• 31 Laugh and Be Happy 02:20
• 32 Lucinda 01:37
• 33 Dayton, Ohio - 1903 01:53
• 34 Cowboy 02:21
• Songbook Vol. 3:
• 35 Short People 02:09
• 36 Mama Told Me Not to Come 02:33
• 37 Love Story 03:05
• 38 Burn On 02:30
• 39 You've Got a Friend in Me 02:05
• 40 Rollin' 02:33
• 41 Guilty 02:46
• 42 Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear 01:48
• 43 Davy the Fat Boy 02:39
• 44 Red Bandana 02:20
• 45 Old Man 02:39
• 46 Real Emotional Girl 02:33
• 47 I Love to See You Smile 02:26
• 48 I Love L.A. 02:34
• 49 Bad News from Home 03:01
• 50 I'll Be Home 02:23
• 51 Feels Like Home 04:53
• 52 A Wedding in Cherokee County 02:58
• 53 Family Album: Homage to Alfred, Emil and Lionel Newman 04:07
• 54 A Few Words In Defense of Our Country 04:07
• 55 I'm Dreaming 03:11
• Total Runtime 02:25:50

Info for The Randy Newman Songbooks (Remastered)

This album-set marks their first release on HighResaudio. Sixteen additional songs from a newly released third volume, along with five bonus tracks ("Feels Like Home," "A Wedding in Cherokee County," "Family Album: Homage to Alfred, Emil and Lionel Newman," "I'm Dreaming,"and "Wandering Boy"), join those first two volumes in a new, thematic sequencing, to create this new complete Songbook album-set. Mitchell Froom produced The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1 and was joined on Vol. 2 and Vol. 3 by Newman's lifelong friend and colleague Lenny Waronker.

The New York Times said of the first volume of The Randy Newman Songbook: "The great craftsmanship is more apparent in the stripped-down context," and the Associated Press said, "Few singer-songwriters could inject more new life into solo piano versions of their work than Randy Newman." The UK's Uncut called Vol. 2 "another subtly sublime stroll through the master's back catalogue," noting that Newman is "owner of a peerless canon," and that the album "isolates his full range of qualities: the improbable juxtapositions of caustic topicality and heart-wrenching universality, the concise character studies, and singing and piano playing that seem to emanate from the very fabric of America."

Randy Newman, vocals, piano

Digitally remastered

Randy Newman
The recipient of two Academy Awards for Best Original Song, 20 Oscar nominations, six Grammy awards, and 14 Grammy nominations, Newman is a singular figure who over the course of his career has explored various styles and sounds of the canon of 20th-century American music.

A Los Angeles native, Randy Newman became famous during the 1960s and '70s for writing quirky, darkly funny, or sharply satirical songs detailing the lives of characters of his own making. This idiosyncratic style alternated between sweeping cinematic pop and rolling R&B, a style heavily influenced by time spent in New Orleans during his youth. After Randy Newman’s self-titled debut album was released in 1968, his reputation as a songwriter grew quickly, as Judy Collins, Dusty Springfield, Peggy Lee, Harry Nilsson, and Joe Cocker, among others, recorded his songs. Newman began a career as a film composer in the early 1980s. Among his film compositions are many kid-friendly songs, including Toy Story’s “You’ve Got a Friend in Me.”

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