RANDY NEWMAN covered Vols I-III | Albums that should exist

Covered: Randy Newman, Volume 1: 1963-1973

Covered: Randy Newman, Volume 2: 1973-1999

Covered: Randy Newman, Volume 3: 1999-2025

These are fun of course from Cilla Black to Jackie De Shannon, Alan Price to Joe Cocker, Sarah McLachlan to Dr John

all the covers as broad as they are

follow the links to all 3

Rider in The Rain - Randy Newman, Linda Ronstadt & Ry Cooder 1983

 Randy Newman,Linda Ronstadt & Ry Cooder "Rider In The Rain"

Live at the Odeon" NYC - 1983

Top Hat Crew's "Live Music Archives"

Classic songs, birthdays and singer songwriters! | RANDY NEWMAN : SHORT PEOPLE!

 Took me a while Randy (81 today) to get this level of humour . . . . . . sheesh but then when you get it . . . .you know by LISTENING! then you get it . . . . . probably couldn’t sing it no mo’!

Happy birthday to Randy Newman, born as Randall Newman in Los Angeles, California on this day in 1943. 

Short people got no reason to live.

but then I have always been tall! . . . . . getting shorter by the day mind! [true story]

I wasn’t the biggest fan until my brother liked him and played him to me and when you GET it . . . you get it! 

Sail Away!

thanks to Route                [they’re a publisher tha knows!?]

THE FILM QUENTIN TARANTINO CALLED: “One of the greatest rock movies of all time” | PERFORMANCE

 

THE FILM QUENTIN TARANTINO CALLED:
 "one of the greatest rock movies of all time"

No stranger to scenes of graphic violence in his own movies, it makes complete sense that Quentin Tarantino would be enamoured with a film that proved to be so contentious that the studio which backed the production initially refused to release it.

Written by Donald Cammell – who co-directed alongside Nicolas Roeg – Performance was initially envisioned as a much more light-hearted and comedically-tinged affair, which Cammell proposed as a starring vehicle for his friend Marlon Brando during the earliest stages of development.

The longer it was worked on, though, the darker it became. With the film featuring one of Mick Jagger’s first major acting performances in a role where he played a reclusive rock star, Warner Bros largely stayed away from Performance under the assumption it would be to the Rolling Stones what A Hard Day’s Night was to The Beatles.

Instead, Cammell and Rogue delved deep into sex, psychology, psychedelia, and drug addiction, which took the studio by shock. Legend claims that during a test screening, the wife of an executive threw up after being completely unprepared for what was about to unfold, causing then-boss Ken Hyman to indefinitely shelve the film and deny it a theatrical release.

That stance ultimately softened, albeit after significant re-editing, with Performance released in the United States in the summer of 1970. Among those instantly won over by its unique charms was a young Tarantino, who called it “one of the best movies that has a two-director team”.

The story follows James Fox’s unruly Chas, who ends up on the run from both his criminal boss and the authorities, which leads him directly into the path of Jagger’s hedonistic musician. Gradually putting their mutual distrust to one side, they each become increasingly fascinated with each other’s lifestyle, altering them on a foundational level forever.

“This film is one of the greatest rock movies of all time, and one of the best films that deals with this period,” Tarantino outlined to Sky Cinema when promoting Performance‘s addition to its line-up of classics. “This is the bad side of the psychedelic 1960s dream.”

Never mind Jagger, Tarantino was completely blown away by Fox, who he describes as giving “my favourite British gangster performance of that type.” It was hugely controversial at the time, to such an extent that the studio flat-out refused to make it available to the general public, but Performance has gone on to become an enduring and influential classic that’s inspired many more auteurs beyond the creator of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.

The combination of sex, drugs, and rock and roll has always been an alluring one for obvious reasons, and once Warner Bros overcame its skittishness of seeing the three depicted so outrageously on the big screen, Performance was finally given the run in cinemas that it deserved after a few minor tweaks to prevent any more vomiting incidents

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✍️ Scott Campbell

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Get Away

Gone Dead Train - Randy Newman and ensemble

Sunday Musics II | The Alan Price Set : The Time Has Come (Anne Briggs cover)

anne briggscover

B Side to Alan’s Hit now sadly wildly racist hit single and given that it still show one of the only clips from TOTP featuring notorious serial sexual predator and child abuser, the execrable Jimmy Savile ‘Don’t Stop The Carnival’ we will play this in stead! . . . . . . 

So he also covered Randy Newmanwhich showed some brighter intelligence and clearer foresight!

START THE WEEK :: Classic Album Tracks of All Time . . . . and Film Soundtrack CLASSICS!

Well this should blow the cobwebs off! 

Here’s another favourite (both film and soundtrack!) bought when it came out! [seen when it was released and still a favourite Nic Roeg film]

Ladies and Gentlemen 

Mr Randy Newman and Mr Ryland P Cooder 

Gone Dead Train! - Performance Soundtrack (Jack Nietzsche et al)

name that film? go on you know it!

New Mexico Central Railroad train wreck, engine 365, New Mexico Photographer: Jesse Nusbaum Date: ca. 1912

In an occasional series pop tracks that meant a great deal to me comes this Randy Newman song from the soundtrack of Performance, I bought the album after seeing the film when it came out and it has haunted me ever since . . . .. . . .to those who don't know the soundtrack features Mick (Jagger) and Ry Cooder especially but this track is just staggering in it's cover of dark forces at play in a rock song
What IS it about? Whatever don't get on that 'Gone Dead Train' . . . . . . . . 

Gone Dead Train - Randy Newman