“Randy Newman is a unique and brilliant songwriter ... Barbra Streisand, Three Dog Night, Linda Ronstadt, Harry Nilsson, Judy Collins, Dusty Springfield, Peter Gabriel, Bonnie Raitt, Johnny ...

That Bob or Paul Simon, Jackson Browne, Don Henley, Linda Ronstadt ... ‘You’ve Got a Friend in Me,’ but the greatness of Randy Newman, his real legacy, are all the brilliant songs he ...

Randy Newman attends the 92nd Oscars Nominees Luncheon ... one of the things I programmed earliest in my tenure was an evening with Linda Ronstadt, and I asked her about ‘Faust.’ ...

For the last 55 years or so, you’ve had a friend in Randy Newman, if you have a thing for songs that offer eviscerating, uncompromising, even devastating dissections of the human condition and ...

“It’s a strange combination, but Randy always manages to pull it off,” he adds. Likewise, Newman earned the respect of Etta James, who recorded an electrifying cover of one of his ...

A FEW WORDS IN DEFENSE OF OUR COUNTRY: The Biography of Randy Newman, by Robert Hilburn Randy Newman was a nepo baby, a sprig of musical royalty. Three of his uncles were Hollywood film composers.