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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. Dunne, Sara. "Randy Newman and the Extraordinary Moral Position", Popular Music and Society, xvi (1992), 53–61, doi: 10.1080/03007769208591487

I'll Be Home" is a song that was also recorded (most notably) by Harry Nilsson ( Nilsson Sings Newman, 1970), Barbra Streisand ( Stoney End), Cass Elliott ( Cass Elliot), The New Seekers ( Beautiful People album), Anne Murray ( Danny's Song), Tim Hardin and Mina ( Mina, in Italian). Newman released a studio version on Little Criminals in 1977. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Howard Shore& John Kurlander (engineer/mixer) (2002)Kamp, David (February 18, 2016). "How Randy Newman and His Family Have Shaped Movie Music for Generations". Vanity Fair. No.Hollywood . Retrieved July 24, 2020. In total, Newman has received 22 Academy Award nominations with two wins, both for Best Original Song. While accepting the award for " We Belong Together" in 2011, he joked "my percentages aren't great." [35] Musical theatre [ edit ] Lubow, Arthur. "Randy Newman". People. Archived from the original on March 17, 2016 . Retrieved February 11, 2014. 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.’ In the 1990s, Newman adapted Goethe's Faust into a concept album and musical, Randy Newman's Faust. After a 1995 staging at the La Jolla Playhouse, he retained David Mamet to help rework the book before its relaunch on the Chicago Goodman Theatre mainstage in 1996. Newman's Faust had a one-time performance at the City Center in New York City on July 1, 2014. [38]

Randy Newman rescheduled ‘An Evening with Randy Newman’ live, in concert 2022 European Tour dates. They’re now on for 2023. Newman performing at the 2014 Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award for Songwriting ceremony My first wife and second wife and kids, they know I'm going to do what I have to do," he says. "I don't know how ruthless I am but it's so important to me that I don't care about anyone's feelings. I sometimes wonder whether that is a pose - 'The ruthless writer, he really doesn't care' - but I really do feel that way. If I can get a song out of it, I don't much care about myself or anyone else."Kevin Courrier (2005). Randy Newman's American Dreams. ECW Press. p.298. ISBN 9781550226904. Archived from the original on June 10, 2023 . Retrieved August 29, 2016.

His 1983 album Trouble in Paradise included the single " I Love L.A.", a song that has been interpreted as both praising and criticizing the city of Los Angeles. This ambivalence is borne out by Newman's own comments on the song. As he explained in a 2001 interview, "There's some kind of ignorance L.A. has that I'm proud of. The open car and the redhead, the Beach Boys... I can't think of anything a hell of a lot better than that." The ABC network and Frank Gari Productions transformed "I Love L.A." into a popular 1980s TV promotional campaign, retooling the lyrics and title to "You'll Love It!" (on ABC) The song is played at home games for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Lakers as well as the Los Angeles Kings who use the song along with their goal horn. In spite of its prominence, however, it failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. Born in 1943, Randy Newman grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, before the family moved to Los Angeles when he was 11. In the 1970s, Newman co-wrote with Jake Holmes the "Most Original Soft Drink Ever" jingle for Dr Pepper. [21] Peppard, Alan (October 13, 1997). "Archives | The Dallas Morning News, dallasnews.com". Nl.newsbank.com. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014 . Retrieved February 11, 2014.He is intrigued with the way that Political Science has returned to prominence. "There is a strain in the country, a frontier, isolationist, aggressive kind of ignorance that wants to forget about the rest of the world. They don't quite want to blow up London or Paris, but they don't want to help anyone or deal with it."