TagsTagsBroken windows and empty hallways A pale dead moon in the sky streaked with gray Human kindness is overflowing And I think it's going to rain today Scarecrows dressed in the latest styles With frozen smiles to chase love away Human kindness is overflowing And I think it's going to rain today Lonely, lonely Tin can at my ...
There’s a great version of this cynically on-target song on The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1. (Here it is at the iTunes Store.) [Video] Cain slew Abel, Seth knew not why If the children of Israel were supposed to multiply Then why must any of the children die? So he asked the Lord And the ...
There’s an excellent version of this Randy Newman song on The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1. The video is from his 2008 appearance with the BBC Concert Orchestra. [Video] When Karl Marx was a boy he took a hard look around He saw people were starving all over the place while others were painting ...
Some albums I bought recently at Amazon’s MP3 store, and highly recommend. Lots of different styles in this batch, from prog rock to African chants with banjo. The Amazon widget lets you listen to 30-second excerpts from any song on these albums, and if you click through and buy, the ...
Music, T-Bone Burnett, Randy Newman, Ben Folds, Ry Cooder, Bela Fleck, Frost*
An eerie, haunting song by Randy Newman, performed at the 2007 Jazz Open festival in Stuttgart: “In Germany Before the War.” The song is available on The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1, a highly recommended collection of Randy’s classic songs rearranged for just voice and piano. This is songwriting at its ...
A beautiful version of a song that’s been covered by several artists, from Randy’s new album Harps & Angels. [Video]