Randy Newman

Randall Stuart Newman born November 28 1943 is an American singersongwriter pianist composer and arranger Born in Los Angeles to an extended family of Hollywood film composers he is known for his Americanainspired songs nonrhotic Southernaccented singing and lyrics that are often mordant or satirical and delivered by an unreliable narrator Since the 1990s he has worked mainly in film scoring most popularly for Disney and Pixar Newman began his professional career in the early 1960s composing incidental music for television and later penning UK hits for acts such as Cilla Black Gene Pitney and the Alan Price Set After he formed part of a creative circle at Warner Bros Records in 1966 the company released his first solo album Randy Newman 1968 Other artists subsequently enjoyed chart success with recordings of his songs Mama Told Me Not to Come 1967 I Think Its Going to Rain Today 1968 and You Can Leave Your Hat On 1972 His own hits as a recording artist include Short People 1977 I Love LA 1983 and Youve Got a Friend in Me 1995 Three of his eleven studio albums have charted in the US top 40 Good Old Boys 1974 Little Criminals 1977 and Harps and Angels 2008 Newman has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards out of 22 nominations three Emmys seven Grammy Awards as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and seven Golden Globe Awards His awardwinning film work includes Ragtime 1981 The Natural 1984 Toy Story 1995 A Bugs Life 1998 Pleasantville 1998 Monsters Inc 2001 Cars 2006 The Princess and the Frog 2009 Toy Story 3 2010 and Marriage Story 2019 He was honored with the Recording Academys Governors Award in 2003 a Disney Legend award in 200756 and inductions into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013 Description above from the Wikipedia article Randy Newman licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia