#music: RANDY NEWMAN’S IN GERMANY BEFORE THE WAR, BY PAUL D. BRAZILL
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For many years, Randy Newman meant very little to me although he had always been in my peripheral vision. I knew Alan Price’s version of ‘Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear’ from when I was a kid and I was aware of ‘Short People’ but he was someone on the horizon; maybe a writer of novelty songs. Of no interest to someone who grew up on glam rock and punk, then.
#music: RANDY NEWMAN’S IN GERMANY BEFORE THE WAR, BY PAUL D. BRAZILL
#music: RANDY NEWMAN’S IN GERMANY BEFORE THE…
#music: RANDY NEWMAN’S IN GERMANY BEFORE THE WAR, BY PAUL D. BRAZILL
For many years, Randy Newman meant very little to me although he had always been in my peripheral vision. I knew Alan Price’s version of ‘Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear’ from when I was a kid and I was aware of ‘Short People’ but he was someone on the horizon; maybe a writer of novelty songs. Of no interest to someone who grew up on glam rock and punk, then.