Where in the Actual Hell Is Randy Newman? And Other Questions Raised by the New York Times’ Greatest Living American Songwriters List

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Where in the Actual Hell Is Randy Newman? And Other Questions Raised by the New York Times’ Greatest Living American Songwriters List
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Who's Missing From the New York Times' Greatest Songwriters List?

The New York Times' list of the greatest living American songwriters upset fans of the MIA Randy Newman. Tom Waits, Patti Smith. Jimmy Webb and others.

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“Each of them— #Webb, #Byrne, #Newman —has composed #songs so brilliant that I am envious. If I taught a class on #songwriting, we would study their work in class.” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia... #music #MusicSky #DavidByrne #RandyNewman #JimmyWebb

The NY Times Asked Me to Pick ...
The NY Times Asked Me to Pick the Greatest Living American Songwriters

Here's my ballot for the Times survey

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Randy Newman - Sail Away (Live in London)

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Joe Cocker - You Can Leave Your Hat On

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Joe Cocker - You Can Leave Your Hat On

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Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear (2002 Remaster)

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Jay Roach – „Meine Braut, ihr Vater und ich“ (2000)

Peinlichkeit ist politisch! Besonders dann, wenn sie im Wohnzimmer von weißen, wohlhabenden, protestantischen, amerikanischen Familien entsteht. Und dieser Film baut seine gesamte Komik auf dieser sozialen Spannung auf. Ein Mann besucht die Eltern seiner Freundin. Ein Wochenende, das für alle zur Prüfung wird. Ein Vater, will entscheiden, ob dieser Mann seiner Tochter würdig ist. Das ist im Kern so ein archaisches Ritual, eigentlich wie gemacht, für eine Komödie. Mit Robert De Niro und Ben Stiller. (ZDF, Wh.)

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A Natural Woman is a 1969 album by Peggy Lee. It was arranged and conducted by Bobby Bryant and Mike Melvoin. John Engstead took the cover photograph.

Review by John Bush

A Natural Woman was her most successful fusion yet, thanks to the work of arrangers/conductors/upstarts Mike Melvoin and Bobby Bryant (neither of whom were true youngsters, though Melvoin had apparently gleaned much from session work with the Beach Boys, Curt Boettcher, and Judy Collins)...Lee does perform a superb version of Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" (Newman actually arranged "Is That All There Is?"), and utterly transforms the one standard from an earlier era, Billie Holiday's classic "Don't Explain."..

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