From the album. Buy Album. Album Title: Roseanna Vitro and The Music of Randy Newman Label: Motema Music Released: 0 Listen. Sign in to view listen count . About the Album "Sail Away" is one of Randy ...

When celebrating Newman’s 1971 classic Sail Away and hailing its involvement amid his five favourites, Wilson went one step further and crowned it “the best.“ The praise might be lofty but it is also ...

Randy Newman has come through again and again in those departments during his illustrious career. ... ‘Sail Away,’ Randy Newman’s Fearless Breakthrough. August 7, 2024 6:30 am.

In 1974, Randy Newman opened his album “Good Old Boys” with “Rednecks,” a song about American racism so honest and shocking — not least because Newman brandishes the N-word in the voice ...

Hilburn works best as a researcher who can contextualise Newman’s more historically and conceptually ambitious works: the slaver-shyster saga Sail Away, the recurring flood myth of Louisiana ...

Randy Newman has been a great exception to this unhappy norm. ... Perhaps the greatest example is “Sail Away,” recorded in 1972. As the strings of an orchestra swell behind him, ...

In his political songs, however, Newman deploys satire in deft and original ways to highlight a horrific aspect of the nation’s past. Perhaps the greatest example is “Sail Away,” recorded in ...

Breaking out of his shell, the brainy and dyspeptic Newman proceeded to write one of the enduring trilogies in American music: “12 Songs” (1970), “Sail Away” (1972) and “Good Old Boys ...

HIlburn also explains why he thinks Newman’s latter-day albums are as good as landmark 1970s efforts like “Sail Away.” More from Variety Randy Newman's Publishing and Recorded Music Rights ...

The week we covered Randy Newman’s Faust, that article was ranked “least appealing.” The editors puzzled over this and decided not to blame Faust. ... In his third album, Sail Away, ...

Starting with “Sail Away” from 1972 — with its audacious title track, an advertising jingle for American slavery — Newman spent the next decade turning out a series of increasingly ...

Randy Newman's catalog sale to Litmus Music encompasses his share of his recorded music and publishing rights to his Disney and solo career hits.