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RANDY NEWMAN The Randy Newman Songbook hails from 2016 and is a SEALED limited edition  180 gram 4LP box set. 

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 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."

After starting his songwriting career as a teenager, Newman began recording as a singer and pianist in 1968 with his self-titled album. Throughout the 1970s he released several other acclaimed albums such as: 12 Songs, Sail Away, and Good Old Boys. In addition to his solo recordings and regular international touring, Newman began composing and scoring for films in the 1980s. The list of movies he has worked on since then includes The Natural,Awakenings, Ragtime, all three Toy Story pictures, Seabiscuit, James and the Giant Peach, A Bug's Life, and most recently, Disney/Pixar's Monsters University, the prequel to Monsters Inc. (which he also scored).

LP1

I Think It's Going to Rain Today

It's Lonely at the Top

God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)

Rednecks

Let Me Go

Living without You

You Can Leave Your Hat On

Ragtime

It's Money That I Love

Political Science

The World Isn't Fair

In Germany before the War

The Great Nations of Europe

Marie

LP2

Louisiana 1927

Dixie Flyer

Yellow Man

Suzanne

The Girls in My Life (Part 1)

Kingfish

Short People

When She Loved Me

Losing You

My Life Is Good

Birmingham

Last Night I Had a Dream

Laugh and Be Happy

Cowboy

LP3

Sail Away

Mama Told Me Not to Come

Love Story (You and Me)

Burn On

Rollin'

Guilty

You've Got a Friend in Me

Avalon

Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear

Davy the Fat Boy

Lucinda

Baltimore

Real Emotional Girl

Sandman's Coming

LP4

Feels Like Home *

I Love to See You Smile

A Wedding in Cherokee County *

Red Bandana

Bad News from Home

Same Girl

I Love L.A.

Family Album: Homage to Alfred, Emil and Lionel Newman *

Old Man

Dayton, Ohio – 1903

A Few Words in Defense of Our Country

I'm Dreaming

I'll Be Home

Wandering Boy *

* Bonus Track