Article: CD Of The Week: Randy Newman: Harps & Angels: Playful or just wilful?

Article: Randy Newman, Inc.
The Washington Post;  May 3, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Grouch or Susan Lucci references for Randy Newman. After 16 nominations without a...four CD-set, "Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman." Over those decades, Newman has...1968 issued the hopefully titled "Randy Newman Creates Something New Under the...

Article: COMPOSED AS EVER BUT `SHORT PEOPLE' STILL BIG PROBLEM FOR SARDONIC SONGWRITER RANDY NEWMAN.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  August 20, 2003 ;     700+ words ......has taken almost 40 years, but Randy Newman is finally warm and fuzzy - sort...Disney soundtracks have mellowed Randy Newman? ``I think you get a LITTLE less...Political Science and Sail Away. Randy Newman's biggest roadblock on the path...

Article: Randy Newman talks about his all-star recording of Goethe's 'Faust'.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  September 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ...Randy Newman once tried to write simple, normal, direct...and Tim Allen's voices and three new Randy Newman songs. And he's talking about ``Faust...undergrad by the name of Henry Faust. Randy Newman's ``Faust'' (Warner Bros.), out Tuesday...

Article: The Robert Chalmers Interview: FEELING RANDY He is one of the few truly unique figures in music. A satirist who creates unforgettable melodies. A writer whose lyrics are poetry. A political commentator who knows just what Donald Rumsfeld is up to. So why is he best known for his 'Toy Story' score? Randy Newman talks about drugs, death threats and depression - and why he wishes he could be more like Elton John
The Independent on Sunday;  February 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ......revered? I understand the pain of Randy Newman's ardent fans, I tell the singer...proclaimed underachievers go, Randy Newman is in a league of his own. He has...record, and his latest CD, The Randy Newman Songbook Vol One, in which he revisits...

Article: YOU HAVEN'T HEARD THE LAST OF RANDY NEWMAN.(L.A. LIFE)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  November 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Shuster Daily News Music Writer If Randy Newman's subtly outrageous songs were...Newman's work, ``Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman'' (Rhino/WaNewmaner Archives...can we expect from the new album? Randy Newman: There are a couple of historical...

Article: Movie scores keep him on his toes, says veteran songwriter Randy Newman, but, as he tells Alan Taylor, he never rested on his laurels
The Sunday Herald;  September 28, 2003 ;     700+ words ......short IT is three decades and more since I first saw Randy Newman amble on to the stage at the Royal Festival Hall. Then...But for now, he has contented himself by recording The Randy Newman Songbook - three albums' worth of new versions of old...

Article: Arts: Just don't get me started... He's been called America's greatest living songwriter. He has yet another Oscar nomination. So why is Randy Newman so bitter?
The Independent - London;  February 17, 2000 ;     700+ words ......booklet that accompanies Guilty, Randy Newman's fine four-CD box set, there's...so nice. When people don't like Randy Newman, they generally say it's because...knowledge, that the only thing Randy Newman had to be angry about would be...

Article: Randy Newman will always come up `Short' in minds and ears of many
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 11, 1998 ;     662 words ...Singer-songwriter Randy Newman is resigned that his 1977...retrospective, "Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman" (Rhino Records), that's just...hit of Los Angeles resident Newman's lengthy recording career...with. Few people realize that Newman, 54, also wrote Three Dog...

Article: Profile: Songs of Randy Newman go on stage in Seattle in the show called "The Education Of Randy Newman"
NPR Morning Edition;  October 28, 2002 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 Profile: Songs of Randy Newman go on stage in Seattle in the show called The Education Of Randy Newman Host: BOB EDWARDS Time: 11:00 AM-...recently Billy Joel. Now the songs of Randy Newman are on stage in Seattle. The show...

Article: A Few Words In Praise of Randy Newman
The Village Voice;  August 6, 2008 ;     353 words ...A Few Words In Praise of Randy Newman Randy Newman Harps and Angels Nonesuch The full-grown good old...big one to drop BY RYAN FOLEY On the title track to Randy Newman's first studio album in nine years, the man once...

Article: Newman's Own.(The Education of Randy Newman, musical revue)(Brief Article)
Los Angeles Magazine;  June 1, 2000 ;     482 words ......ANYTHING BUT WRITE I LOVE L.A., RANDY Newman would still be beloved by local...then called me `the respectable Randy Newman,' he says with outright disdain...straight with The Education of Randy Newman, a revue of some 40 Newman songs...

Article: Interview: Randy Newman talks about his new CD, "The Randy Newman Songbook, Volume 1"
NPR Morning Edition;  October 8, 2003 ;     686 words ......Morning Edition (NPR) 10-08-2003 Interview: Randy Newman talks about his new CD, "The Randy Newman Songbook, Volume 1" Host: BOB EDWARDS Time: 10:00-11:00 AM (Soundbite of song) Mr. RANDY NEWMAN (Entertainer): (Singing) Last night I saw...

Article: Randy Newman Has No Shortage Of Ironies to Tell
Chicago Sun-Times;  July 21, 1993 ;     434 words ......singer-songwriters master contradiction as well as Randy Newman. Consider that on Monday's beautiful midsummer night at Ravinia, Newman performed inside the intimate Murray Theatre on the festival grounds. Newman, who turns 50 in November, also creates...

Article: Randy Newman's acerbic songs press every emotional button.
Morning Call (Allentown, PA);  October 10, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Len Righi Randy Newman is thinking out loud, debating with...be on stage during his new solo tour. Newman's problem, however, is not in coming...talents. But it's hard not to do it. Newman, whose songs can be acerbic, provocative...