Randy Newman

Known for SoundBorn 1943-11-28 (age 82)Los Angeles, California, USA

Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, composer, and arranger. Born in Los Angeles to an extended family of Hollywood film composers, he is known for his Americana-inspired songs, non-rhotic Southern-accented singing, and lyrics that are often mordant or satirical and delivered by an unreliable narrator. Since the 1990s, he has worked mainly in film scoring, most popularly for Disney and Pixar. Newman began his professional career in the early 1960s composing incidental music for television and later penning UK hits for acts such as Cilla Black, Gene Pitney, and the Alan Price Set. After he formed part of a creative circle at Warner Bros. Records in 1966, the company released his first solo album, Randy Newman (1968). Other artists subsequently enjoyed chart success with recordings of his songs "Mama Told Me Not to Come" (1967), "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" (1968), and "You Can Leave Your Hat On" (1972). His own hits as a recording artist include "Short People" (1977), "I Love L.A." (1983), and "You've Got a Friend in Me" (1995). Three of his eleven studio albums have charted in the U.S. top 40: Good Old Boys (1974), Little Criminals (1977), and Harps and Angels (2008). Newman has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards (out of 22 nominations), three Emmys, seven Grammy Awards as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and seven Golden Globe Awards. His award-winning film work includes Ragtime (1981), The Natural (1984), Toy Story (1995), A Bug's Life (1998), Pleasantville (1998), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Cars (2006), The Princess and the Frog (2009), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Marriage Story (2019). He was honored with the Recording Academy's Governors Award in 2003, a Disney Legend award in 2007,[5][6] and inductions into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013. Description above from the Wikipedia article Randy Newman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

The BRIT Awards

Toy Story 5

Hollywood in Vienna

Randy Newman: Live in London

Magic in the Bayou: The Making of a Princess

Rock Concert

Toy Story

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Marriage Story

Toy Story 3

Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville

Monsters, Inc.

The Midnight Special

Chytilová Versus Forman

Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans

Hacks

Awakenings

Bobbie Gentry

Toy Story 4

For Our Children

Toy Story 2

All You Need Is Klaus

The Pixar Story

3rd Rock from the Sun

The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story

The Story Behind 'Toy Story'

Joe Cocker: Mad Dog with Soul

Monsters at Work

Score: A Film Music Documentary

The Princess and the Frog

Pleasantville

Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)

Monsters University

Cats Don't Dance

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Cars

Seabiscuit

Cars 3

The Colbert Report

A Bug's Life

Everybody's Live with John Mulaney

Mike's New Car

Maverick

Ragtime

Major League

The Natural