“The Princess and the Frog. During Disney”
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Randy Newman
Randall Stuart Newman is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, composer, and arranger. Born in Los Angeles to an extended family of Hollywood film composers, he is known for his Americana-inspired songs, non-rhotic Southern-accented singing, and lyrics that are often mordant or satirical and delivered by an unreliable narrator. Since the 1990s, he has worked mainly in film scoring, most popularl…
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Born 28 November 1943 · Q318475
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2026· 5 entries
Released album “Toy Story 5: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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Released album “Cinema Sounds: Film Music”.
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2025· 1 entry
Released album “Toy Story: Songs to Infinity and Beyond”.
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Randy Newman’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
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2021· 1 entry
Released album “Roll With the Punches (The Studio Albums 1979-2017)”.
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2020· 2 entries
Released album “I Still Play”.
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Newman wrote a song called “Stay Away” to support people during the COVID-19 pandemic
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2019· 2 entries
Released album “Marriage Story”.
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Released album “Toy Story 4: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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2018· 1 entry
The Guardian: Randy Newman: ‘I've written a song about Trump and Ivanka – but it needs a little work’
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2017· 10 entries
Released album “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)”.
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The Guardian: Randy Newman: 'I would never not play You've Got a Friend in Me'
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The Guardian: Randy Newman: Dark Matter review – not dark enough
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Released album “Dark Matter”.
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The Guardian: Randy Newman: Dark Matter review – classy song satirist still bites
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The Guardian: Randy Newman writes comic song about Donald Trump's penis
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The Guardian: The week in radio: Randy Newman’s America; Wimbledon; Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City: The Days of Anna Madrigal
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Released album “Cars 3 (original score)”.
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Released album “Lonely at the Top: The Studio Albums, 1968-77”.
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But he was putting out this song early because "I think that people will lose interest after this surfeit of political talk and attention after the election
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2016· 4 entries
The Guardian: Family life: The too-short lives of the Semple boys, Randy Newman’s Political Science, and golden butterscotch
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Released album “Randy Newman Airwaves”.
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Released album “The Randy Newman Songbook, Volume 3”.
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Released album “The Randy Newman Songbook”.
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2015· 3 entries
The Guardian: Randy Newman review – a great American songbook all by himself
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The Guardian: All comedians have a friend in Randy Newman
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Released album “The Legacy Collection: Toy Story”.
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2014· 3 entries
Released album “The People Dressed Like Monkeys”.
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Where Newman starred as the Devil
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Released album “Montage: Great Film Composers and The Piano”.
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2013· 3 entries
Released album “Monsters University”.
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Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2013).
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Released album “Live In Germany 2006”.
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2012· 2 entries
The Guardian: Rumer's old music: Randy Newman - Marie
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And wrote "I'm Dreaming", a satirical song about voting for White candidates
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2011· 6 entries
Released album “Live in London”.
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Released album “Original Album Series”.
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Song for We Belong Together (2011).
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Released album “The Randy Newman Songbook, Volume 2”.
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For "We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3
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Newman endorsed jazz singer Roseanna Vitro's album, The Randy Newman Project (Motéma Music, 2011)
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2010· 4 entries
Released album “Toy Story 3”.
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Released album “Tiana y el sapo”.
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Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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The Center Theatre Group staged Harps and Angels, a musical revue of the Randy Newman songbook, interspersed with narratives reflecting on Newman's inspirations
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2009· 4 entries
Released album “La principessa e il ranocchio”.
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Released album “Küss den Frosch”.
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Released album “The Princess and the Frog”.
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Released album “La Princesse et la Grenouille (Bande originale française du film)”.
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2008· 3 entries
Released album “Leatherheads”.
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Released album “Harps and Angels”.
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Reported net worth: $50M (as of 2008).
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “Cold Turkey”.
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Awarded Disney Legends (2007).
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2005· 2 entries
Released album “Meet the Fockers”.
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Newman's "Louisiana 1927" became an anthem and was played heavily on a wide range of American radio and television stations, in both Newman's 1974 original and Aaron Neville's cover version of the song
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “Vers L'Infini Et Au-Dela! (Chansons De Disney・Pixar Toy Story & Toy Story 2)”.
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2003· 3 entries
Released album “The Randy Newman Songbook, Volume 1”.
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Newman's song "It's a Jungle Out There" was used for season 2 of the USA Network's show Monk; it won him the 2004 Emmy Award for Best Main Title Music
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A Disney Legend award in 2007, and inductions into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Song for If I Didn't Have You (2002).
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For "If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters, Inc
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2001· 3 entries
Released album “Seabiscuit”.
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Released album “Monsters, Inc.”.
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Released album “The Best of Randy Newman”.
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2000· 2 entries
Released album “Meet the Parents”.
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South Coast Repertory (SCR) produced The Education of Randy Newman, a musical theater piece that recreates the life of a songwriter who bears some resemblance to the actual Newman
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1999· 3 entries
Released album “Toy Story 2”.
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Released album “Bad Love”.
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Released album “Toy Story Music Collection: Limited Edition Collector's Pack”.
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1998· 4 entries
Released album “Pleasantville (Original Motion Picture Score)”.
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Released album “Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman”.
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Released album “A Bug’s Life”.
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Released ep “Mis Canciones Favoritas Disney: Toy Story”.
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1997· 1 entry
Randy was hired by director Wolfgang Petersen to do the soundtrack of the movie Air Force One, however he was rejected because Petersen thought that the score sounded like a parody
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1996· 4 entries
Awarded Annie Award (1996).
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Released album “Michael”.
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Released album “James and the Giant Peach”.
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Released album “James y el melocotón gigante: Banda sonora original y en español”.
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1995· 2 entries
Released album “Toy Story”.
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Released album “Randy Newman’s Faust”.
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1994· 2 entries
Released album “The Paper: Music From the Motion Picture”.
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Released album “Maverick”.
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “Awakenings”.
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “Avalon”.
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1989· 2 entries
Released album “Parenthood”.
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"Burn On" was used as the opening theme to the film Major League, whose focus was the hapless Cleveland Indians
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1988· 2 entries
Released album “Land of Dreams”.
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Released ep “I Love L.A.”.
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “Lonely at the Top: The Best of Randy Newman”.
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1985· 1 entry
Newman performed a set at the first Farm Aid concert that included a duet with Billy Joel on facing grand pianos
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “The Natural”.
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1983· 2 entries
Released album “Trouble in Paradise”.
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Released album “Retrospect”.
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1982· 1 entry
And later at other theaters around the country
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1981· 1 entry
Released album “Ragtime”.
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1979· 1 entry
Released album “Born Again”.
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “One Night in Amsterdam”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Little Criminals”.
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1974· 1 entry
Released album “Good Old Boys”.
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1972· 2 entries
Released album “Sail Away”.
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Released album “Live At The Boarding House '72”.
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1971· 1 entry
Released album “Randy Newman Live”.
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1970· 2 entries
Released album “12 Songs”.
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Harry Nilsson recorded an entire album of Newman compositions (Newman played piano) called Nilsson Sings Newman
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1969· 2 entries
Recorded "Gone Dead Train" for the 1970 movie and soundtrack album to Performance, starring Mick Jagger
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Did the orchestral arrangements for the songs "Minstrel of the Dawn" and "Approaching Lavender" on Gordon Lightfoot's Sit Down Young Stranger (later renamed If You Could Read My Mind) (1970), and for Peggy Lee's singl
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1968· 2 entries
Released album “Randy Newman Creates Something New Under the Sun”.
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“I Think It's Going to Rain Today”
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1966· 3 entries
The company released his first solo album, Randy Newman (1968)
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An album of Newman's Peyton Place music appeared, credited to The Randy Newman Orchestra
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Waronker was hired as an A&R manager by Warner Bros
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1965· 1 entry
Released album “Peyton Place (Original Music From the Hit Television Show)”.
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1943· 2 entries
His father's 30th birthday, in Los Angeles, California
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Born 1943-11-28.
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1927· 1 entry
During which, as Newman asserts, "The guys who ran the Mardi Gras, the bosses in New Orleans decided the course of that flood
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