Randy Newman & Lenny Waronker on Lonely at the Top Box Set
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- Опубликовано: 21 апр 2017
- Randy Newman chats with longtime producer and friend Lenny Waronker about Lonely at the Top: Studio Albums, 1968-77, the new vinyl box set of Randy's first five studio albums, released for Record Store Day 2017. Details: www.nonesuch.com/albums/lonely...
Randy is so funny. I hope he realises how many people love and appreciate all of his music.
Faust is a complete masterpiece. I still start meetings at work by saying "Everybody gather round me, I got something I wanna tell you."
Especially my favorite, "How Great Our Lord." When the Buddhists arrive at the Pearly Gates: "What'd ya do, Lord?" "I had to have them put out with the trash."
If you tell me i will never forget...too much fun for one day.😮
What stood out to me about this interview is the discussion of vinyl vs digital sound quality. 20 years ago I met Mr. Newman after a show he did at The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA. While signing one of his albums, a brief discussion of CD vs vinyl sound quality was had with a couple of fans in which he lamented the loss of quality on digital recordings. 20 years later his opinion has not changed.
The world needs more Randy Newmans.
Im only 20 so toy story was how i first heard him but ive really got into randys albums he is brilliant.....and definitely right about vinyl !
Americas greatest living composer. Fortunately I have ALL your LP's Randy, and bought them the week they were released. I will buy any digital box set as well. Keep up the great work. It has meant a great deal to me and my music.
Randy Newman thank you for sharing your talent with us. you have made memories in music and woven words with wisdom
I've love Randy since the early 80's back at Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ. He's incredibly talented, artistic & just so damned funny! I love that Randy always speaks his mind. No filter needed!
Oh my god. this is great! Randy Newman has a youtube that no one pays attention to. that's amazing. thank you Randy. This made my day.
it cracks me up how much he jabs on his own music. what a humble guy.
I have searched high and low for the PBS Soundstage show from about 1975 with Randy. An hour of songs with his phenomenal banter.
I guess it has copyright issues, but still, I search.
That was really entertaining. It would be hard to find a brilliant musician who's more self-deprecating than Randy Newman.
This man of color loves RANDY NEWMAN.He's a treasure!!
I have never seen Randy Newman giggle. Fantastic
This is really wonderful. More artists should do unboxings of their own work.
Nothing makes me happier than to know I haven't heard all of your music (yet) Randy. Grateful for the tunes.
That single version of “Last Night I Had A Dream” is a stone cold fuzzed out masterpiece. Wish I can get my hands on an original or the repress!
this is an orgasmic moment. a great & moving clip. shame the box set does not have a booklet. most box sets have a nice accompanying book...
It's funny to hear Randy talk so disparagingly (but so truthfully!) about his early records. It really reminds you that these records were made by very young men (supremely gifted ones, though) who had absolutely no idea what they were doing.
What guides their work throughout that magic Laurel Canyon period is a wonderful sense of play, and the willingness of the powers-that-be (Lenny Waronker included) to just let artists do what they felt was fun and good and special to listen to. No pressure to conform to whatever was popular at the time: Randy Newman was doing this stuff, also on Warner, at the exact same time James Taylor was doing "Sweet Baby James," which was monumentally successful in a very pop-star kind of way.
James was talented too, of course, but there was not much pressure on artists like Randy Newman or his pal Ry Cooder to be James Taylor's KIND of talented. What a wonderful age: as a result, we didn't get singer-songwriters who were all soundalikes and lookalines. We got creators who were real individuals, and who complemented each other, who were all different from each other. It wasn't necessarily that there were more talented people then: it's that the talented people were allowed to be themselves, with no pressure to sound like everybody else on the radio (or streaming service). I hope we get back to that sometime.
I bought the set. I love it. I love Randy Newman.
The only thing that got us through this miserable week of yet another massive stupid attack was listening to Randy every day.
Though he’s been quite successful, his the sheer excellence of si much of his work still under appreciated. He’s up there with anyone.
Progress doesn't always bring progress. Brilliant.
Just listen to Sail Away. What a fucking great album. Completely underrated.
Always been a fan of Randy.
Last night I had a dream, "a terrible record" Oh, Please. That scared me the most. Even more than a vampire or a ghost, and I know what your name is.
Awesome.
randy, release bad love and harps and angels on vinyl!
Good ol' Randy Newman.
When's the new album coming out??
I don't know how to use a computer..nice to meet you.
So clever! x
You are an incredibly tall man. 🤠 🎹 🎶
Yes yes yes
Hello
Wondered whether Lenny was still around. I sometimes thought it would be funny to actually get to talk to Rand by calling him and claiming to whomever answered the phone that I'm "Lenny" or "Russ" (Tittleman - sp.?). But then, I'd need Rand's phone # to begin with .. &:-x)
He says he loved Captain & Tennille's "Love Will Keep Us Together" -- I'm surprised Newman didn't know that song was good because it was written by the great team of Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield. Sedaka has written many great melodies over the years.
I like Randy but I'm hesitant to listen to these types of discussions. I always fear the artist or producer is going to say something contrary to what I feel about his work. Poke fun at a song, have a poor memory of a track, consider the tunes inferior.
Recently, I read an interview with Clint Eastwood who said "Kelly's Heroes" was a brutal movie to make, took too long, not memorable & not one of his favorites. That just burst my balloon on one of my favorite films by Eastwood. I wished I never read it. I was expecting that from Newman as he went through the 5-record collection but fortunately, his "remarks" were more personal than self-deprecating though he made a few stabs.
Surprisingly, Newman and Waronoker never reminisced that the first LP "Randy Newman" sold so poorly that Warners offered buyers to trade it in to get another Warner's LP in exchange. The LP was also out of print for 15 years. It's not even the original cover. The original cover had Newman standing looking more like Rod McKuen than Newman. The songs' publishing on that LP was signed away by Newman. Artists do that when they need money. That would have made for an interesting exchange between Newman & Waronker. Or, maybe they found that era a little sad to reminisce about.
Randy's career only really got started with the release of Short People on the "Little Criminals" LP. As luck would have it Warners/Reprise stood by him. Few artists get 4 albums released by a major label before they hit paydirt on the 5th. Of Newman's solo LPs -- only one "Little Criminals" charted high at #9 -- with the exception of the soundtrack to "Cars," which hit #6.
He's blessed that Reprise stuck with him for 20 years with not a lot of high chart success. He made his money with other artists covering his varied songs & a loyal fan base.
I don't get it .. so his long-time producer can come up with a box set collection of his work and Randy never sees it (or presumably has any input on it) until the damn thing comes out (?) I still wish Rand would put out a collection of all of his tunes about geographical locations (e.g. cities, states, counties, countries, regions, etc.) as a sort of musical geography lesson w/o a book. Maybe call it "Around the World w. Randy Newman" ? (note the double-entendre, ala "Happy Ending"/Las Vegas). &:-D)
Randy and Lenny are friends from childhood
Where the hell was Randy during lockdown?
Where the hell was any artist of intellect, and linked with integrity, during lockdown?
Stupid me, last year I gave away my record player as I became too lazy to dust the records each time.. 😮
Mp3 certainly is a lossy format listen to things on the internet you loose a lot of the quite sounds and overtones that give the music depth its just not there with mp3 so a lot of modern music doesn't pay attention to that when recording
motzart had a problem whith vinal he hated it
And apparently,he couldn't spell it.
The producer is a mix of Joe Pesci and Neil Sedaka... next to Randy, i'd say new movie; Where is Quentin Tarantino?