“Louisiana 1927,” a classic from Randy Newman’s album “Good Old Boys” (1974), could have easily been written any time in the past hundred years. With Hurricane Katrina, history was ...

Said Griffin Goldsmith: “I grew up a Randy Newman addict — it ... In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Newman’s mid-’70s song “Louisiana 1927” — about a Southern city being ...

In 1974, Randy Newman opened his album “Good Old Boys ... often as darkly hilarious as “Sail Away,” “Baltimore,” “Louisiana 1927” and “It’s Money That I Love”; he also ...

And people often ask, what's your favorite Randy Newman song? It's so hard. But if I were naming five, one I would definitely push in there is "Louisiana 1927." Because it tells you so much about ...

By Bob Mehr Around the summer of 1966, a song on the radio recorded by the Italian American pop crooner Julius La Rosa caught Bob ... from Los Angeles named Randy Newman. “Randy’s song was ...

Productions were mounted at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego and ... The week we covered Randy Newman’s Faust, that article was ranked “least appealing.” The editors puzzled over this ...

Randy Newman attends the 92nd Oscars Nominees Luncheon ... and we started dreaming about creating this LA concert. That was in 2016. We programmed it in the spring of 2020, but you know what ...

Says Griffin Goldsmith: “I grew up a Randy Newman addict — it ... In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Newman’s mid-’70s song “Louisiana 1927” — about a Southern city being ...