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He studied music at the University of California in the same city, but dropped out shortly before completing his B.A. 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 four Toy Story pictures, Monsters Inc. and Monsters University, Seabiscuit, James and the Giant Peach, A Bug’s Life, and Meyerowitz Stories. Randy Newman Live is a live album by American singer Randy Newman. It is one of only two official live recordings he has released (the other was 2011's Live in London.) The album was recorded over three evenings between September 17 and 19, 1970 at the Bitter End, New York. The song had been written in 1970, he says, before people of vaguely that persuasion took power. "It was pre-Reagan, and even Reagan, in retrospect, wasn't that far to the right in many ways. The right to me means, 'We're not going to help people who might need help.' They might deny this and say, 'Do you think we have no hearts? Do you think we don't care?' and I would say, 'Yeah, I do think that.' Trakin, Roy. "Randy Newman Inks Deal With Downtown Music Publishing". Billboard . Retrieved November 25, 2015.

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After starting his songwriting career as a teenager, Newman launched into recording as a singer and pianist in 1968 with his self-titled album Randy Newman. Throughout the 1970s, 80s, and 90s he released several acclaimed albums such as: 12 Songs, Sail Away, Good Old Boys, Little Criminals, Born Again, Trouble in Paradise, Land of Dreams, and Bad Love. Randy Newman announces London Palladium show following the release of his new album Dark Matter, his first album of new material in nine years. With songs that run the gamut from heartbreaking to satirical and a host of unforgettable film scores, Randy Newman has used his many talents to create musical masterpieces widely recognized by generations of audiences. Multi-award winner Randy Newman is one of the world’s most prolific songwriters and composers, with a career spanning five decades. He released Dark Matter, the follow-up to 2008’s best-selling Harps and Angels, in August to widespread critical acclaim. In the words of the Daily Telegraph, ‘Newman has made an album that is a match for anything in his canon. Both topical and timeless.’

His cousin is the well-known film and TV composer, Thomas Newman who has recently received wide acclaim for his score for World War I epic, 1917. He has been following the California gubernatorial election, and is wary of people from the world of showbiz playing on a political stage. "In general, if someone from showbusiness told me the sky was blue, I wouldn't believe them. It's too weird a life - it's too divorced from anything real for the most part. What the hell does Arnold Schwarzenegger know about life's reality at this point? He's isolated from it." Newman wrote the music for Walt Disney Animation Studios' The Princess and the Frog. During Disney's annual shareholder meeting in March 2007, Newman performed a new song written for the movie. He was accompanied by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. The New Orleans setting of the film played to Newman's musical strengths, and his songs contained elements of Cajun music, zydeco, blues and Dixieland jazz. [33] Two of the songs, " Almost There" and " Down in New Orleans", were nominated for Oscars. [34] BBC/MMVIII, under license to Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.Born in 1943, Randy Newman grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, before the family moved to Los Angeles when he was 11. a b "Randy Newman Disney Legend". D23.com. Archived from the original on June 9, 2011 . Retrieved September 28, 2014. In 2003 Newman's song " It's a Jungle Out There" was used for season 2 of the USA Network's show Monk; it won him the 2004 Emmy Award for Best Main Title Music. In 1985 Newman performed a set at the first Farm Aid concert that included a duet with Billy Joel on facing grand pianos. Newman performed " Sail Away". Winkler, Peter. "Randy Newman's Americana," in Middleton, Richard, ed. Reading Popular Music (2000, Oxford University Press) ISBN 978-0198166115. originally published in Popular Music [Great Britain], vii (1988), 1–26

I'm F**king Matt Damon" – Music and Lyrics by Tony Barbieri, Sal Iacono, Wayne McClammy, Sarah Silverman, and Dan Warner (2008)Burlingame, Jon (November 16, 2009). "Newman mines Big Easy music for 'Frog' ". Variety. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Nicholas Everett; Paul R. Laird (December 9, 2002). The Cambridge Companion to the Musical. Cambridge University Press. p.241. ISBN 978-0-521-79639-2. Archived from the original on July 4, 2023 . Retrieved January 11, 2017. Newman performing at the 2014 Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award for Songwriting ceremony

All Songs Considered (August 4, 2008). "Guest DJ Randy Newman". NPR. Archived from the original on August 4, 2011 . Retrieved September 19, 2011. Newman's mother's family came from Louisiana, a state that was later to inform what many regard as his finest album, Good Old Boys, a double-edged but affectionate portrait of the south made in 1974. Randy did not follow his father into medicine, choosing instead to pursue the other family profession of writing music for films, like his celebrated uncles Alfred, Lionel and Emil.Kamf, David (February 18, 2016). "How Randy Newman and His Family Have Shaped Movie Music for Generations". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on February 20, 2016 . Retrieved February 26, 2020. I've never seen anyone whose goal was to make money be happy because of that," says Newman. "They are never satisfied, never. I find myself not liking rich people, even though I am one... well, I never liked myself that much either. All that talk about private planes and Air France first class and lasering their underarms. I hear it but I don't like it much. I like musicians, unless they get rich." He laughs. "And even when they do."