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Jon Batiste Shares How His Mission to 'Document the Real' Led to 3 Grammy Nods — and a 'Bond' with Randy Newman (Exclusive)

Randy Newman hadn’t been doing much singing when he got a cold call from Jon Batiste. The musicians had met a decade earlier and spent some time together, but time went by, and they drifted apart. Now ...

Taylor Swift Helps The ‘Toy Story’ Franchise Reach A New Chart Peak

The Toy Story 5 soundtrack brings the franchise to a new peak on the Billboard 200 and helps Randy Newman earn a debut No. 1 ...

Taylor Swift Recalls Bonding with Friend Jack Antonoff About How “Toy Story ”'Really Shaped Our Childhood'

In a new interview with 'GMA,' Swift spoke about calling Antonoff about writing "I Knew It, I Knew You" after she saw an early screening of 'Toy Story 5' ...
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Taylor Swift's 'Toy Story 5' speech, Randy Newman duet melts Pixar fans

LOS ANGELES – Taylor Swift has conquered another major frontier: the Pixar Universe with "Toy Story 5." Swift, 36, completed her Pixar domination at the June 9 "Toy Story 5" Hollywood premiere, where ...
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How Taylor Swift and Randy Newman Shape Toy Story 5 Music

Composer Randy Newman returns alongside pop star Taylor Swift to craft the cross-generational soundtrack for Pixar's "Toy ...
American Songwriter

The Classic Set of Randy Newman Lyrics That Rose Out of a Conversation With Don Henley

All it takes is an idea to get a great songwriter off and running. Even if that idea comes from an outside source, the writer can turn it into something special and unique based on their own ...

Randy Newman on “Toy Story 5”, Taylor Swift and 30 Years of Soundtracking Pixar Magic: 'It's Been a Privilege' (Exclusive)

The decorated composer is once again scoring the adventures of Woody and Buzz Lightyear — and explaining what makes his work ...
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Randy Newman on why he sold his publishing and what he learned from his biography

Randy Newman at home in Pacific Palisades in 2017. The musician and songwriter is the subject of a new biography by former Times pop music critic Robert Hilburn. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) In ...
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Legendary composer Randy Newman reveals frantic timeline of Taylor Swift's 'Toy Story 5' duet

Randy Newman revealed the chaotic backstage timeline behind his spontaneous Toy Story 5 premiere duet with pop superstar Taylor Swift.
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‘Randy Newman’s Faust,’ the Songwriter’s Brilliant but Rarely Produced Stage Musical, Rises Again for a Weekend in L.A. at the Soraya

Newman and the show's director talk about bringing the underseen 1995 musical back to life for a Northridge engagement that was 10 years in the making. This “Faust” is being done with narration to ...
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Randy Newman Doesn’t Love This Lyric of His, but We Do

We can all agree that music is a subjective enterprise, with personal taste determining what’s good and what’s not for each listener. As it turns out, that theory can also apply to an artist who is ...
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Randy Newman’s songs return to stage in ‘All the King’s Men’

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Randy Newman’s fans know that while ‘I Love L.A.’ celebrates his ...