[2016-09-23] Randy Newman "Songbook Vol. 3" CD and "Songbook" limited edition 4LP vinyl box set (Nonesuch)

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Aug 15, 2016 5:04 pm

The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 3
(CD Standalone)

Description
Nonesuch Records releases The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 3 on September 23. The album is the third in a series comprising solo recordings of songs from throughout Newman's five-decade career. Previous volumes were released in 2003 and 2011. (A four-LP, vinyl-only limited-edition box set, The Randy Newman Songbook, containing all three volumes in a new, thematic sequencing, is being released simultaneously.) Mitchell Froom and Newman's lifelong friend and colleague Lenny Waronker produced The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 3.

The New York Times said of the first volume of The Randy Newman Songbook: "The great craftsmanship is more apparent in the stripped-down context," and the Associated Press said, "Few singer-songwriters could inject more new life into solo piano versions of their work than Randy Newman." The UK's Uncut called Vol. 2 "another subtly sublime stroll through the master's back catalogue," noting that Newman is "owner of a peerless canon," and that the album "isolates his full range of qualities: the improbable juxtapositions of caustic topicality and heart-wrenching universality, the concise character studies, and singing and piano playing that seem to emanate from the very fabric of America."

Tracklist
1. Short People
2. Mama Told Me Not to Come
3. Love Story
4. Burn On
5. You've Got a Friend in Me
6. Rollin'
7. Guilty
8. Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear
9. Davy the Fat Boy
10. Red Bandana
11. Old Man
12. Real Emotional Girl
13. I Love to See You Smile
14. I Love L.A.
15. Bad News from Home
16. I'll Be Home

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IUGCKLM/?tag=imwan-20

The Randy Newman Songbook
(4LP Box Set)

Description
Nonesuch Records releases the four-LP, vinyl-only, limited-edition The Randy Newman Songbook box set on September 23, 2016. Nonesuch's Randy Newman Songbook series—comprising solo recordings of songs from throughout Randy Newman's five-decade career—previously included two volumes, released on CD in 2003 and 2011; the box set marks their first release on vinyl. Sixteen additional songs from a newly released third volume, along with five bonus tracks ("Feels Like Home," "A Wedding in Cherokee County," "Family Album: Homage to Alfred, Emil and Lionel Newman," "I'm Dreaming,"and "Wandering Boy"), join those first two volumes in a new, thematic sequencing, to create this new complete Songbook box set. Mitchell Froom produced The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1 and was joined on Vol. 2 and Vol. 3 by Newman's lifelong friend and colleague Lenny Waronker. The Randy Newman Songbookbox set will be released on CD and digital formats in late 2016.

The New York Times said of the first volume of The Randy Newman Songbook: "The great craftsmanship is more apparent in the stripped-down context," and the Associated Press said, "Few singer-songwriters could inject more new life into solo piano versions of their work than Randy Newman." The UK's Uncut called Vol. 2 "another subtly sublime stroll through the master's back catalogue," noting that Newman is "owner of a peerless canon," and that the album "isolates his full range of qualities: the improbable juxtapositions of caustic topicality and heart-wrenching universality, the concise character studies, and singing and piano playing that seem to emanate from the very fabric of America."

Tracklist
[LP1]
1. I Think It's Going to Rain Today
2. It's Lonely at the Top
3. God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)
4. Rednecks
5. Let Me Go
6. Living Without You
7. You Can Leave Your Hat On
8. Ragtime
9. It's Money That I Love
10. Political Science
11. The World Isn't Fair
12. In Germany Before the War
13. The Great Nations of Europe
14. Marie

[LP2]
1. Louisiana 1927
2. Dixie Flyer
3. Yellow Man
4. Suzanne
5. The Girls in My Life (Part 1)
6. Kingfish
7. Short People
8. When She Loved Me
9. Losing You
10. My Life Is Good
11. Birmingham
12. Last Night I Had a Dream
13. Laugh and Be Happy
14. Cowboy

[LP3]
1. Sail Away
2. Mama Told Me Not to Come
3. Love Story
4. Burn On
5. Rollin'
6. Guilty
7. You've Got a Friend in Me
8. Avalon
9. Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear
10. Davy the Fat Boy
11. Lucinda
12. Baltimore
13. Real Emotional Girl
14. Sandman's Coming

[LP4]
1. Feels Like Home
2. I Love to See You Smile
3. A Wedding in Cherokee County
4. Red Bandana
5. Bad News from Home
6. Same Girl
7. I Love L.A.
8. Family Album: Homage to Alfred, Emil and Lionel Newman
9. Old Man
10. Dayton, Ohio - 1903
11. A Few Words in Defense of Our Country
12. I'm Dreaming
13. I'll Be Home
14. Wandering Boy

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JGQIKCI/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Aug 15, 2016 5:11 pm

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Sep 19, 2016 12:17 pm

Bump: Added the cover image for the 4LP box set to the first post.

Neal Alhadeff · 07 Jan 2007

Great covers. I love this series. I didn't expect a third volume. Looking forward to it!

[2016-09-23] Randy Newman "Songbook Vol. 3" CD and "Songbook" limited edition 4LP vinyl box set (Nonesuch)

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