Randy Newman

Randy Newman , of its complete name Randall Stuart Newman , is a Auteur-compositeur-interprète and Pianiste American, born the November 28th, 1943 with Los Angeles (the United States).

Biography

Newman was born in California but passed part of its youth to the Orleans News with the family of its mother. They is low there which it acquired its accent of Southerner.

He is recognized like a type-setter and an interpreter of very original songs, sometimes acid. Among most known: " Sail away" , " Birmingham" , " I coils L.A." , " Baltimore" , " Louisiana 1927".

It was made known first of all with the group Harpers Bizarre (formed in 1963 and dissolved in 1970), and their success of 1967: " 59th street bridge song" , begun again song of Paul Simon " Feelin' Groovy". He will make then a career solo, with a first album in 1968 " Randy Newman creates something new under the sun". It was not a business success, but of many artists its songs began again: Alan Price (pianist of the English group The Animals), Judy Hakes, The Everly Brothers, Dusty Springfield.

In 1970, Harry Nilsson recorded the album " Nilsson Sings Newman" , with Newman with the piano, which was appreciated by the musical critics but did not have hoped musical success, in spite of a resumption of " Coil Story" who was on its first disc.

Randy Newman hardly had more success near the general public with its second album " 12 Songs" left in 1970. Its sophisticated enough songs, which spoke in particular about racism or violence, were not in the tone of the time, its talent of type-setter however was recognized with " Mama told me not to come" and " Old Kentucky home". For this second album, Randy Newman was accompanied by excellent musicians of studio like Ry Cooder, Jim Gordon and Clarence White.

Newman had its first business success with the album " Sail Away". Many songs were again Reprise again S by other interpreters like Ray Charles (" Sail Away") and Joe Cocker spaniel (" You Edge Leave Your Hat On").

In its following album, Good Old Servant boys , Newman composed of the songs on the South of the the United States, in connection with Lester Maddox (former racist governor of Georgia) in " Rednecks" or of Long Huey (Governor of the Louisiana of 1928 with 1932) in " Kingfish". In " Rednecks" , he makes fun of the Southerners who had the reputation to be racist and stupid “We' Re Rednecks, and we don' T know our ass from has hole in the ground”, but he with the tooth then also lasts with the northerners “Now your northern Nigger has Negro… the north has set the Nigger free, yes he' S free to Be could in has cage in Harlem in New York City… ”. The album comprises lighter songs (" Rollin") or tender (" Marie"). It was a business success, the album becoming n°36 with the Billboard.

Little Criminals was also a success, with in particular " People" shorts; who as not badly of songs of Randy Newman was rather ambiguous, it was necessary to take it with the second degree, to see more.

In 1973, the ex Beatles Ringo Starr sings " Cut you seen my baby" , composed by R. Newman, in the album Ringo.

In 1983, it composed Trouble in Paradise which had more success than its former albums, grace in particular to " I Coil L.A.". Later, in 1990, it adapted Faust Goethe in a Concept album (Randy Newman holds the role of the devil obviously) and a musical production.

Film musics

His/her uncles and cousins, on the side of his father, themselves were implied in the film music. He will imitate them as from 1971 by composing the music of many films. He was especially made know in this field starting from 1981 with Ragtime, Maverick and several films of Walt Disney.

He was nominated with the Academy Awards for the music of Toy Story in 1995. Its first reward did not come that in 2002 with the Oscar of the best song for If I Didn' T Have You in the film Monstres and Co.

In 2006, the song " Our Town" written for the cartoon Cars and sung by his/her friend James Taylor for the category better original song for a film of cinema or television was nominated, but not gaining the prestigious one with the profit of the singer Melissa Ethridge for her song in the film An Disadvantage thruth of the American politician Al Gore.

" Political science"

An example of composition of Randy Newman, always of topicality and full with squeaking humor, extracted the album " Sail away" :

Discography

Albums

  • 1968 : Randy Newman - Creates something new under the sun
  • 1970: 12 Songs
  • 1972: Sail Away
  • 1974 : Good Old Servant boys
  • 1977: Little Criminals
  • 1979 : Born Again
  • 1982 : One Saturday in December (promotion WEA Children of the rock'n'roll)
  • 1983: Disorder in Paradise
  • 1987: Lonely At the Signal (Best off)
  • 1988: Land off Dreams
  • 1995: Faust
  • 1988 : Guilty: 30 Years off Randy Newman
  • 1999: Bad Coils
  • 2003: The Randy Newman Songbook vol. 1

Film music

Others

  • 1970 : Nilsson sings Newman (RCA)
  • 1993: Mathilde Santing sings Newman : Texas Girl & Pretty Boy" (Columbia NL)

Participations

  • 1968 : Song Cycles Van Dyke Parks (Warner) produced by Lenny Waronker

Catalog of films DVD

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