Unless the ghost of Hanuka Past comes for a midnight visit, count on Liar Joe to be the key vote that kills the public option. The one and only thing that makes the Bush presidency look good in hindsight is the thought that this man could have been a heartbeat away from the presidency. Liar Joe Lieberman voted with the Democratic majority Saturday night to bring the health care bill to debate on the...
The Disney animated feature The Princess and the Frog opens in theaters on December 11. The soundtrack album featuring original songs and socre by Randy Newman will be released tomorrow. Samples of the songs performed by Ne-Yo, Anika Noni Rose...
Ron Clements and John Musker talk about their fairy tale 'valentine' to New Orleans. The Disney animation team of Ron Clements and John Musker wrote and directed the 1989 blockbuster musical fairy tale "The Little Mermaid," and followed that up with 1992's "Aladdin" and 1997's "Hercules." Seven years after their last Disney film, 2002's "Treasure Planet," the...
it's friday neet and you're drunk as a skunk. well, i am. your missus has gone to bed and after 2 pints of Stella and 2 bottles of Aldi wine you're paralytic/mortal what dus youse lissen to in that period of drunken abandon and regret? 1: God loves a drunk/Richard Thompson 2:Severn meadows/Ivor Gurney/but must be sung by Ian Partridge 3:Some fool's mess/Gallon drunk 4:Peggy Gordon/The Clancy brothers...
Well thirty-four seems little different to thirty-three, apart from the fact that it seems to involve a severe headache and an aversion to bright lights. What I need is a lunch and the King’s Wark and a couple of pints and I’ll be right as rain. Hopefully. You’ll be blindly indifferent to know that after [...]
TWILIGHT ZONE Dr. John Babylon Atco : 1969 [Buy It] Back in my teens, if you had asked me to dream up the ideal musician, I would have imagined an unholy combination of Sly Stone, Randy Newman, and Roky Erickson, and I wouldn't have known that the thing I was dreaming already existed, and that it was named Dr. John. There's an occasion for this post, a birthday, and as a result it isn't a post where...
And Randy Newman does (most of) the music: Dr. John sings the opening number, "Down in New Orleans," which Newman hesitates to describe except to agree that "it sounds of the place and of the period. Bessie Smith could have done something like it. "I thought they'd ask me to do it," Newman adds about the vocals, "but they wanted Dr. John's voice. They had us doing a part,...
The Princess And The Frog-OST-2009-DOH Track list: 1. Ne-Yo – Never Knew I Needed 3:38 2. Anika Noni Rose – Down in New Orleans (Prologue) 0:27 3. Dr John – Down in New Orleans 2:26 4. Anika Noni Rose – Almost There 2:24 5. Keith David – Friends on the Other Side 3:35 6. Michael Leon-Wooley, Bruno Campos & Anika Noni 2:22 Rose featuring Terence Blanchard on Trumpet...
Sure, Joe Cocker doing *You Can Leave Your Hat On* is creepy in an "Adrian Lyne softcore porn creepy" kinda way. Randy Newman, on the other hand, doing *You Can Leave Your Hat On* (which he wrote, by the way),...
I think "Albatross Songs" is worthy of its own post, as started in the Jazz Club comments, so here it is... So far we have: "Shiny Happy People" - REM "Creep" - Radiohead "Nothing Compares 2 U" - Sinead O'Connor "The King Of Rock & Roll" - Prefab Sprout "Born In The USA" - Teh Boss "Rip It Up" - Orange Juice "Hi Ho Silver...
Good news: the longest-serving Senator in US history isn't unreconstructed racist asshole Strom Thurmond anymore. Bad news: it is now a former Klansman. Robert Byrd, our US Senator from the great...
Linked bits of Animationland, just for you. Mr. Newman admits it's just not the same. [ Princess and the Frog ] composer Randy Newman ... said writing for traditional animation was a little different from writing for Pixar's GC toons. "The music has a diifferent movement. You can't really play too long because the mood will change ..." ("GC toons". It is the french "Graphique...
The legend of Faust has found many a place in the world of modern music, from Robert Johnson's mythical trip to the Crossroads to Randy Newman's musical "Faust." It's a theme worth exploring, especially in these hyper-marketing days: How much would you compromise your art for a taste of wealth and fame? Friday night at the Off Center Theater in Crown Center, Alacartoona addressed that theme...
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