The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1 contains newly recorded, stripped down versions of some of Newman

Randy Newman

Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant pop songs and for film scores....

's best known songs, performed by Randy Newman singing and playing the piano without accompaniment.

The album spans a 33-year period, from early songs like "I Think It's Going To Rain Today" and "Living Without You" to "The World Isn't Fair" from his Bad Love

Bad Love (Randy Newman album)

Bad Love is the tenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Randy Newman released 1999. It was Newman's first solo album since 1988s Land of Dreams and followed an 11-year hiatus during which Newman had focused on film soundtracks, receiving several Academy Award nominations.It received...

album (1999). Also included are three instrumental extracts from his film scores.

Track listing

All tracks composed and arranged by Randy Newman

1. "It's Lonely At The Top" (actually a medley of the uncredited "Dexter's Tune", an instrumental from 'Awakenings', and "Lonely At The Top") – 3:13
2. "God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)" – 3:23
3. "Louisiana 1927
   Louisiana 1927
   "Louisiana 1927" is a 1974 song telling the story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 that left 700,000 people homeless in Louisiana and Mississippi...
   
   " – 2:56
4. "Let Me Go" – 2:37
5. "Rednecks
   Rednecks (song)
   "Rednecks" is a song by Randy Newman, the lead-off track on his 1974 album Good Old Boys.- Lyrics and interpretation :"Rednecks" is sung from the perspective of a Southern "redneck". In it he expresses his dismay at the way that the North looks down upon The South...
   
   " – 3:05
6. "Avalon" (Instrumental) – 0:58
7. "Living Without You" – 2:16
8. "I Think It's Going to Rain Today
   I Think It's Going to Rain Today
   "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" is a song written by Randy Newman, and appears on the album Randy Newman, as well as The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1 and all of Newman's official and bootleg live albums...
   
   " – 2:57
9. "You Can Leave Your Hat On
   You Can Leave Your Hat On
   "You Can Leave Your Hat On" is a song written by Randy Newman and appearing on his 1972 album Sail Away. It was made famous by Joe Cocker when featured in the 1986 Adrian Lyne film 9½ Weeks during the striptease scene....
   
   " – 2:32
10. "It's Money That I Love" – 2:16
11. "Marie" – 2:56
12. "When She Loved Me" (Instrumental) – 1:03
13. "Sail Away
    Sail Away (Randy Newman song)
    "Sail Away" is a song by Randy Newman, the title track of his 1972 album.-Lyrics and interpretation:"Sail Away" is representative of Newman's trademark unconventional and clever approach to songwriting: it takes the form of a "come on" or a "pitch" from an American slave trader to potential slaves...
    
    " – 2:58
14. "The World Isn't Fair" – 3:07
15. "Political Science
    Political Science (song)
    "Political Science" is a song written and performed by singer-songwriter Randy Newman on his 1972 album, Sail Away. In going along with the theme of the rest of the album, the song is a satire of a particular part of American culture and history, namely its foreign policies at the time...
    
    " – 2:02
16. "The Great Nations Of Europe" – 3:24
17. "In Germany Before The War" – 3:49
18. "Ragtime" (Instrumental) – 1:25

Lyric Changes

A line in "It's Money That I Love" was changed from "it'll get you a half-pound of cocaine And a sixteen-year old girl" to "it'll get you a half-pound of cocaine And a nineteen-year old girl" (in the US, the age of consent

Age of consent

While the phrase age of consent typically does not appear in legal statutes, when used in relation to sexual activity, the age of consent is the minimum age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts. The European Union calls it the legal age for sexual...

varies between sixteen and eighteen on a state-by-state basis).