That eerie feeling: 10 strange songs from equally strange artists
Tom Waits said that "all songs are strange, when you're strange", and he would know better than most. Here are ten of the ...
“Aggressively ignorant”: how Don Henley helped Randy Newman write one of his best songs
Don Henley was the ultimate LA artist, but he decided Randy Newman was the man to pen a song about the City of Angels. Read ...
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Randy Newman, Music's Most Biting Storyteller, Gets His Own Story Told: Ex-L.A. Times Critic Robert Hilburn on Penning the Singer-Composer's Biography
For the last 55 years or so, you've had a friend in Randy Newman, if you have a thing for songs that offer eviscerating, uncompromising, even devastating dissections of the human condition and the ...
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Randy Newman's iconic 'I Love L.A.' opened the Grammys. Here's how the performance came together
“This song breaks so many pop-songwriting rules ... Says Griffin Goldsmith: “I grew up a Randy Newman addict — it’s some of the most formative music of my life. But I’m also a massive ...
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All-Star Rendition of Randy Newman’s ‘I Love L.A.’ Opens Grammys
Most recently, the song was ever-present during the Los Angeles ... “That sounds really good to me.” Next: Randy Newman Got Slick But Stayed Sharp on 'Trouble in Paradise' ...
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A half-century of Randy Newman classics
Pianist, composer and singer-songwriter Randy Newman started out writing songs for other artists, and not always with success. Frank Sinatra famously rejected all his musical offerings.
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42 Years Later, One Grammys Supergroup Just Rebooted an Underrated Classic
And if you didn't recognize that track, it's actually a killer Randy Newman song from 1983. That song is "I Love L.A." which was the first track on Newman's album Trouble in Paradise. This album ...
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Brad Paisley Teams With Dawes for New Song ‘Raining Inside'
However, following their show-opening all-star performance of Randy Newman's "I Love L.A." at last month's Grammys ... Paisley and Dawes - who previously debuted the song together on the Ryman ...