The singer, songwriter, and composer Randy Newman had a fascination ... s the way to treat a friend. Newman began to deal with bleaker themes in his first solo album, released in 1968, which ...

That was all the aspiring recording artist needed ... for himself. “Randy Newman Creates Something New Under the Sun” hit stores when Mr. Newman was 24, about the same first-album age, Mr ...

"Randy Newman is a unique and brilliant songwriter, composer, and performer whose body of work has proven him to be an artist for the ... began with 1968’s debut album, the self-titled Randy ...

But he makes it clear that, while being proud of his work, those songs probably wouldn’t make it on to a Randy Newman solo album. “You think I’d write You’ve Got a Friend in Me?

On the same album, he amused himself in the ... In addition to his eleven studio albums, Randy Newman has not shied away from the 7th art. Mostly as a composer of soundtracks, from Milos Forman's ...