Harps and Angels; Losing You; Laugh and Be Happy; A Few Words in Defense of Our Country; A Piece of the Pie; Easy Street; Korean Parents; Only a Girl; Potholes; Feels Like Home. Randy Newman: piano, ...

You’ve got a friend in ... to the “sadness and cynicism” of Newman’s rendition in Hilburn’s biography. “It’s a strange combination, but Randy always manages to pull it off ...

which feels like the punchline to a Randy Newman song. (Upon winning the first time, he thanked the academy for the opportunity to be publicly humiliated so often.) “You’ve Got a Friend in Me ...

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 ...