| | Randy Newman 12 Songs CD Randy Newman Discography of CDs
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Newman began his career as a contract songwriter, before embarking on a recording career renowned for sardonic wit. On this, his second album, the singer opted for simple accompaniment, his ragged voice and stylized piano supported largely by a crisp backing group that included Byrds guitarist Clarence White. Superb melodies were matched by an intense lyricism that embraced sometimes disquieting images previously unheard of in rock. Cynicism, bitterness and sexual perversion are unleashed in turn as Newman adopts different roles and personae. His dispassionate delivery demands decisions from the listener, an interaction that is as compulsive as it is disquieting.
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Personnel: Randy Newman (vocals, piano); Clarence White, Ron Elliott (guitar); Ry Cooder (slide guitar); Al McKibbob, Lyle Ritz (bass); Gene Parsons, Jim Gordon (drums); Milt Holland, Roy Harte (percussion).
Q (p.125) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "Newman carved out an idiosyncratic niche rooted in biting satire and traditional pop structures."
Mojo (Publisher) (3/00, p.116) - "...replaced the orchestra with an Americana rock rhythm section...and the more conventional presentation found Newman a college audience attuned to his wry singularity..."
NME (Magazine) (2/14/00, p.42) - 6 out of 10 - "...marked the beginning of his ascent to the rock elite when 'Mama Told Me Not To Come' became a massive hit when covered by Three Dog Night..." Randy Newman 12 Songs Songs Purchase 12 Songs CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Randy Newman Born Again CD (1979)
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| | Randy Newman Sail Away CD (1972)
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Though 1968's RANDY NEWMAN introduced a major songwriting talent, and ...
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| | Joan Sebastian Tambora 2 CD (1995)
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| | Nat "King" Cole Unforgettable CD (2004)
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| | Carol Duboc All Of You CD (2005)
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| | Lesser Birds Of Paradise Suitable Frame, A CD (2000)
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| | Terumasa Hino Kuroi Orfe CD (2006)
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| | Jahanara Laura Mangus Aramaic Sound Pilgrimage-Holy Wanderings In The Ec CD (2007)
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In the Christian scriptures, so the story goes, the disciples asked Isho’a (Jesus), "Lord, teach us to pray." Isho’a did not answer them. Instead, he offered them an Invitation - with his words and with his life. In listening to these prayers, you are invited to experience a taste of what this invitation might have been... And still is today.Sung in Aramaic, these exquisite prayers hold within them an ancient and powerful wisdom tradition of the Middle East; sound mysticism. One could say that each sound, each word, are seeds, that when fed with the love of devotion, cause a wild sprouting in our hearts that releases a special bliss.The words and meditative back drone hold a constant within which is woven a variety of instruments (guitar, Turkish saz, viola, bass, dumbek, bells, rattle) and voices, creating a wonderfully textured sound that keeps the words actively moving, sprouting, singing deep inside the heart, mind and body. *Perfect for meditation, body-work, yoga, journeying, group and individual chanting practice. Includes a 12-page companion insert with “expanded renderings,” story, and soul-stirring artwork by Pamela Zagarenski.*“Something ancient becomes something alive and part of me, here and now. A deep sense of joy dances throughout. ...
| | Your Roses Open Mind Open Skies CD (2007)
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| | The Essential Roy Orbison CDs (2006)
12 Songs
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Roy Orbison has been in such need of a comprehensive, career-spanning compilation like Legacy's 2006 double-disc The Essential Roy Orbison that it's especially frustrating that it falls short of the mark. Not counting Bear Family's exhaustive 2001 set, which gathered everything Roy recorded between 1955 and 1965, including alternate takes, it is the first multi-disc Orbison compilation since 1988's four-disc box The Legendary Roy Orbison, which was released in the midst of his remarkable comeback that peaked the following year with the posthumous comeback Mystery Girl, which arrived too late to be part of Legendary. So, Orbison's catalog truly was missing a set that spanned from "Ooby Dooby," his first hit for Sun in 1956, all the way to his last charting single, 1992's "I Drove All Night." Essential attempts to do that, touching on every phase of his career -- the early rockabilly for Sun in the '50s, his cinematic hits for Monument in the early '60s, the cult classics for MGM in the late '60s, his '80s comeback -- over the course of 40 tracks. It gets a lot right, particularly on the first disc, which has most of the big hits from "Ooby Dooby" to 1964's "Oh, Pretty Woman," all presented in chronological order. Where things start to go wrong is on the second disc, where the comp suddenly abandons all pretense at chronological order, opening up with four cuts from Mystery Girl (including the hits "You Got It" and "She's a Mystery to Me"), before doubling back to the '60s for five MGM singles -- "Ride Away," "Crawling Back," "Best Friend," "Communication Breakdown," and "Walk On" -- then proceeding to the '80s, first with the Emmylou Harris duet "That Lovin' You Feeling Again" from the Roadie soundtrack, and then with re-recordings of "Running Scared" and "In Dreams," two '60s masterworks that are only available here in these solid but inferior remakes. The jumbled chronology results in a bit of a disconcerting listen, since the production styles don't comfortably sit together, but that would be easier to forgive if "Running Scared" and "In Dreams" were present in their original versions; without them, Essential isn't quite the concise, comprehensive collection it aspires to be. It's a major flaw, but not necessarily a fatal one, since the remainder of the set does offer his biggest hits -- "Only the ...
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