The Randy Newman Songbook

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Randy Newman fans were thrilled to welcome the "Randy Newman Songbook Series," which arrived in two volumes on CD in 2003 and 2011. Now, this limited-edition box on CD is bringing those collections to vinyl for the first time—along with 16 additional songs from a newly released third volume plus five bonus tracks! You’ll hear the essential songs from all across the revered singer-songwriter’s five-decade career, as performed on the original albums by Randy himself and compiled here in a new, thematic sequence. Let the limited-edition vinyl set reintroduce you to the intriguing characters, scathing satires, heartbreaking realities and masterful compositions that abound across "I Think It’s Going to Rain Today," "It’s Lonely at the Top," "You Can Leave Your Hat On," "Ragtime," "The World Isn’t Fair," "Rednecks," "Dixie Flyer," "Short People," "Losing You," "Last Night I Had a Dream," "Sail Away," "Mama Told Me Not to Come," "You’ve Got a Friend in Me," "Real Emotional Girl," "I Love to See You Smile," "I Love L.A.," "Old Man," "I’m Dreaming," "I’ll Be Home," "Wandering Boy"…a catalog of songs and a compilation of performances like none other, impeccably compiled! Nonesuch.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 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.