basement jukebox
Gene Pitney, “Just One Smile” (Randy Newman), 1966
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Dusty Springfield, “I Don’t Want to Hear It Anymore” (Randy Newman), 1969
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random sights
other day, Monhegan Island, Maine
basement jukebox
three by Randy Newman
“I Don’t Want To Hear Anymore” (AKA “I Don’t Want To Hear It Anymore”), Jerry Butler, 1964
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“I’ve Been Wrong Before,” Cilla Black, 1965
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“Just One Smile,” Gene Pitney, 1966
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found words
Best of the Web: Celebs Who Are Older Than You Think
something cheery to start the week
There’s some things, you reach a certain point in life when you just don’t have time to get better from it.
—Randy Newman
Randy Newman, “Losing You,” live, London, 2011
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musical thoughts
How many of my records, I wondered the other day while sorting CDs, will I never listen to again? How many will never be heard again by anyone?
Without hitting you over the head with his classical training, this guy, early in his career, took pop songs to new places—melodically, harmonically, structurally.
Randy Newman
Dusty Springfield, “I Don’t Want To Hear It Anymore” (1969)
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“Just One Smile”
Gene Pitney (1966 [#8, UK Charts])
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Blood, Sweat & Tears (1968)
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Randy Newman, live (TV broadcast [with The BBC Concert Orchestra, London]), “I Think It’s Going To Rain Today” (2008; first recorded in 1966 [Julius LaRosa, 8/66; Judy Collins, 11/66])
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To me, someone who writes really good songs is Randy Newman. . . . You know, he’s got that down to an art. Now Randy knows music. He knows music.—Bob Dylan (1991)
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