Randy shines. Paul shines. That’s a lot of shining, and this is one darn good song!
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085: Randy Newman: ‘I Think It’s Going to Rain Today’
Randy Newman’s first album sold numerous dozens of copies and remains almost unheard of even today.
I’ll tell you what I think of the album. I think it’s one of the greatest works of art to arise from the ‘rock’ idiom.
157: Nilsson, ‘One’
Nilsson, Part II–the many gems he made in the short time before he embarked on self-destruction.
“I’m sure he influenced the Beatles as much as the Beatles influenced him.”–Al Kooper
140: Randy Newman, ‘Sail Away’
How would Donald Trump react to Randy Newman’s ‘Sail Away’, in which a slavemaster gives a pep talk to his African charges setting off in chains on a cruise to the Promised Land?
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