The Randy Newman Songbook

Randy Newman

CD1

  1. It's Lonely at the Top
  2. God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)
  3. Louisiana 1927
  4. Let Me Go
  5. Rednecks
  6. Avalon
  7. Living Without You
  8. I Think It's Going to Rain Today
  9. You Can Leave Your Hat On
  10. It's Money That I Love
  11. Marie
  12. When She Loved Me
  13. Sail Away
  14. The World Isn't Fair
  15. Political Science
  16. The Great Nations of Europe
  17. In Germany Before the War
  18. Ragtime

CD2

  1. Dixie Flyer
  2. Yellow Man
  3. Suzanne
  4. The Girls in My Life (Part 1)
  5. Kingfish
  6. Losing You
  7. Sandman's Coming
  8. My Life Is Good
  9. Birmingham
  10. Last Night I Had a Dream
  11. Same Girl
  12. Baltimore
  13. Laugh and Be Happy
  14. Lucinda
  15. Dayton, Ohio - 1903
  16. Cowboy

CD3

  1. Short People
  2. Mama Told Me Not to Come
  3. Love Story
  4. Burn On
  5. You've Got a Friend in Me
  6. Rollin'
  7. Guilty
  8. Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear
  9. Davy the Fat Boy
  10. Red Bandana
  11. Old Man
  12. Real Emotional Girl
  13. I Love to See You Smile
  14. I Love L.A.
  15. Bad News from Home
  16. I'll Be Home
  17. Feels Like Home
  18. A Wedding in Cherokee County
  19. Family Album: Homage to Alfred, Emil and Lionel Newman
  20. A Few Words In Defense of My Country
  21. I'm Dreaming

 

 

 

Nonesuch Records released the three-CD box set The Randy Newman Songbook on December 16, 2016. Nonesuch's Randy Newman Songbook series—comprising solo recordings of songs from throughout Newman's five-decade career—previously included two volumes, released on CD in 2003 and 2011. 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," "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country," and "I'm Dreaming"), join those first two volumes to create this new complete Songbook box set. Mitchell Froom produced The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1 (which has been remastered for this box set) 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."

After starting his songwriting career as a teenager, Newman began recording as a singer and pianist in 1968 with his self-titled album. Throughout the 1970s he released several other acclaimed albums such as: 12 Songs, Sail Away, and Good Old Boys. In addition to his solo recordings and regular international touring, Newman began composing and scoring for films in the 1980s. The list of movies he has worked on since then includes The Natural, Awakenings, Ragtime, all three Toy Story pictures, Seabiscuit, James and the Giant Peach, A Bug's Life, and most recently, Disney/Pixar's Monsters University, the prequel to Monsters Inc.(which he also scored).

Randy Newman's many honors include six Grammys, three Emmys, and two Academy Awards. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013—the same year he was given an Ivor Novello PRS for Music Special International Award. Mostly recently, Newman was presented with a PEN New England Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence Award in June 2014.

The highly praised 2008 Harps and Angels was Newman's first album of new material since 1999. The Austin Chronicle wrote "the characters are memorable, the satire sharp, the music luxurious, and the arrangements maybe the most gorgeous in all pop music." It was followed in 2011 by Vol. 2 of the Songbook series and a live CD and DVD recorded at London's intimate LSO St. Luke's, where he was accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Robert Ziegler. Newman is currently working on his next album of new material, which Nonesuch will release in 2017.

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