Twenty-three track radio session Randy Newman cut while in New York City in August of 1971 for WPLJ FM. Stripped down, solo piano. The session serves to both highlight ma...
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The Chronicle 's Austin City Limits Music Festival supplement starts circulating today, will be online by the end of the afternoon, and gets inserted into this Thursday's...
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Versatile singer and songwriter famed for Feel Like Makin' LoveGene McDaniels, the American singer and songwriter, who has died aged 76, began and ended his career as the...
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Dan Israel loves the music of the 60’s and 70’s but he makes music more akin to the mid-western rock circa 1986. While his bio sites Elvis Costello, Randy Ne...
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I may be a rocker at heart, or as Clapton once phrased it, have "A Rock And Roll Heart", but there are a couple of albums that I always come back to that don't have anyt...
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Randy Newman gives an exclusive performance of his song Losing You and talks about the difficult events that inspired itBen KapeAndy GallagherJohn Domokos
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Randy Newman might be one of the pre-eminent songwriters of his generation, but that hasn't stopped many of his best-known songs from being misunderstoodRandy Newman sits...
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This album is proof of the power of one man and his piano. Rating: * * * * *
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British singer FLORENCE WELCH was nursing a tragic secret as she sang at the Academy Awards on Sunday (27Feb11) - her father was seriously injured in a bicycle smash just...
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Randy Newman is delving back into his considerable catalog to reinterpret songs with just his voice and piano in “Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2,” due May 10. T...
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No matter how many times he has been nominated, the quirky composer looks forward to Oscar night.
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When it comes to playing Oscar night, where he'll perform "We Belong Together," the composer says it's no surprise that the academy doesn't take his ideas very seriously....
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