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Randy Newman on his career as songwriter: "I didn't make
any calculated decision - 'Well, I'm good at this, so
that's what I'll do.' Wasn't out of any great love for it,
though. I was good at it. I never wanted to be a doctor,
like my father, or a lawyer. Baseball player, I wanted to
be..." As fate would have it, the majors passed him by -
too much music in the blood.
Newman's uncles Lionel and Emil were composer/arrangers and
a number of relatives worked in the music and movie
business; even his physician father, Irving, wrote songs
for a hobby (and had a Bing Crosby B-side credit for "Who
Gave You The Roses" in 1959). But during Newman's
childhood, all other influences were overshadowed by his
"Uncle Al" - the reknowned (prior to the MAD mascot) Alfred
Newma More...
Randy Newman Lyrics List:
(Submit New Randy Newman Lyrics)A Fool In Love LyricsA Wedding in Cherokee County LyricsBack on My Feet Again LyricsBad News from Home LyricsBaltimore LyricsBet No One Ever Hurt This Bad LyricsBetter off Dead LyricsBig Hat, No Cattle LyricsBirmingham LyricsBurn On LyricsChristmas In Capetown LyricsCowboy LyricsDavy the Fat Boy LyricsDayton, Ohio - 1903 LyricsDixie Flyer LyricsEvery Man a King LyricsEvery Time It Rains LyricsFalling in Love LyricsFeels Like Home LyricsFollow the Flag LyricsFour Eyes LyricsGhosts LyricsGod's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind) LyricsGoing Home LyricsGreat Nations of Europe LyricsGuilty LyricsHalf A Man LyricsHave You Seen My Baby? LyricsHe Gives Us All His Love LyricsI'll Be Home LyricsI'm Dead LyricsI'm Different LyricsI Gotta Be Your Man LyricsI Love L.A. LyricsI Miss You LyricsI Think He's Hiding LyricsI think It's Going To Rain Today LyricsI Want Everyone to Like Me LyricsI Want You to Hurt Like I Do LyricsI Will Go Sailing No More LyricsIf You Need Oil LyricsIn Germany Before The War LyricsIt's Money That I Love LyricsIt's Money that Matters LyricsJolly Coppers On Parade LyricsJust Look at Me (World Wrestling Entertainment Version) LyricsKathleen (Catholicism Made Easier) LyricsKingfish LyricsLast Night I Had A Dream LyricsLaughing Boy LyricsLet's Burn Down The Cornfield LyricsLinda LyricsLittle Criminals LyricsLiving Without You LyricsLonely At The Top LyricsLouisiana 1927 LyricsLove Story LyricsLover's Prayer LyricsLucinda Lyrics
Mama Told Me Not To Come LyricsMarie LyricsMasterman and Baby J LyricsMemo To My Son LyricsMiami LyricsMikey's LyricsMr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man) LyricsMr. Sheep LyricsMy Country LyricsMy Life Is Good LyricsMy Old Kentucky Home LyricsNaked Man LyricsNew Orleans Wins the War LyricsOld Man LyricsOld Man On The Farm LyricsPants LyricsPolitical Science LyricsPoor Me LyricsPretty Boy LyricsReal Emotional Girl LyricsRed Bandana LyricsRednecks LyricsRider In The Rain LyricsRoll with the Punches LyricsRollin' LyricsRosemary LyricsSail Away LyricsSame Girl LyricsShame LyricsShort People LyricsSigmund Freud's Impersonation Of Albert Einstein In America LyricsSimon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear LyricsSo Long Dad LyricsSomething Special LyricsSong For The Dead LyricsSpies LyricsStrange Things LyricsSuzanne LyricsTake Me Back LyricsTexas Girl At The Funeral Of Her Father LyricsThat'll Do LyricsThe Beehive State LyricsThe Blues LyricsThe Girls In My Life (Part 1) LyricsThe One You Love LyricsThe Story of a Rock and Roll Band LyricsThe World Isn't Fair LyricsThere's A Party At My House LyricsThey Just Got Married LyricsUncle Bob's Midnight Blues LyricsUnderneath The Harlem Moon LyricsWhen She Loved Me LyricsWilliam Brown LyricsYellow Man LyricsYou've Got a Friend In Me LyricsYou Can't Fool The Fat Man LyricsYou Can Leave Your Hat On Lyrics (Submit New Randy Newman Lyrics)
Review about Randy Newman
It's all in your perspective | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman
I remember when this song got a lot of air time. Randy Newman was interviewed, and he said he was 5'6". He wrote it to be funny, and to point out how absurd it is to judge people based on superficial (ie physical) characteristics.
Incorrect lyrics | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song I think It's Going To Rain Today performed by Randy Newman
It's one of the saddest songs ever written, and because it's all about the lyrical details (overflowing and, instead of overflowing but, is what makes the song so crushing) it's worth getting them correct:
Broken windows and empty hallways
A pale dead moon in a 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 feet
Think I'll kick it down the street
That's the way to treat a friend
Bright before me the signs implore me
To help the needy and show them the way
Human kindness it's overflowing
And I think it's going to rain today
Small changes, sure, but they're important.
Short people | Reviewer: Jan
------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman
I'm short and when I was younger my older cousin sent me the record in the mail. It was the funniest song to me. I still think it is very funny. I have a very short grandson and I told him about the song and he was laughing. It is just how you view things. I like to laugh than not.
I am short | Reviewer: peep
------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman
I am short and I don't think it's offensive
the core message is here:
Short People are just the same
As you and I
(A Fool Such As I)
All men are brothers
Until the day they die
(It's A Wonderful World)
The rest is offensive if it's taken separately from that part.
However, this song can be abused to pick on short people but that was not the singer's intention.
Not a Hater | Reviewer: Louann
------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman
Back when this song was written, there wasn't even an internet, and people didn't have to be SO SO carefull about thier lyrics being analyzed to death. It was just a FUN song. Rhymes with run and gun?.....FUN!
So everybody just chill and get the F over it.
Not mean | Reviewer: Tall since Birth
------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman
When I was growing up, being a girl, I always got made fun of for being taller than everyone. Taller than all the boys and all the other girls; to me that's mean!
To ease my pain my grandmother (who is 5'1) would sing this song to me to make me laugh and feel better about myself (I'm 6'0).
Some say it's mean because they are short, others say it's funny because they are tall (or somewhere in between).
this song is mean | Reviewer: tim
------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman
I hate this song its the meanest thing ive heard in years. I hadnt heard it in years and this week i heard it two times. once was on a bus full of kids and once was with my 12 year old son in the car and he couldnt believe what he was hearing. I really dont know how stupid we couldve been to have allowed something so mean and idiotic on the air. yes yes i am enlightened enough to see the song as a satire and that yes we can discriminate really against any type of person so let pick a group and do it. randy Newman you really should be ashamed of yourself to call yourself a songwriter-you know you really do have a responsibility to a society that makes you rich.and dont think the verse about everybody is a brother redeems that song. you just felt guilty and stuck it in there (which makes it worse its not even an art song anymore it really was mean spirited to begin with so you tried to fix it) or maybe you arent rich maybe youre just a old grey haired man with nobody to love. newman you need to take the song off the air and try to recover what little diginity you have left.
Get a grip people! | Reviewer: Twinkthewonderkid
------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman
Jeez, I swear some people look for things to be offended by. It's a satirical joke! "short people are just like you and me..." just like black people or white people or tall/skinny/bald/French/hairy/whatever... people. The point is that we're all the same underneath and that it's pretty stupid to make rash, idiotic assumptions about people based on their differences to you. I think it's clear in the song that Newman thinks that petty prejudices are moronic. So if, like me, you are short and proud and someone sings this song 'at' you, smile politely and savour the knowledge that they are much dumber than you are because they didn't 'get it'.
its just fun,, | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman
The lyrics are just so funny and outrageous as to be just plain fun. Nobody with an ounce of common sense would believe it true, and if so, the they're the one with egg on their face.
A breath of fresh air in this stuffy PC world we've become.
u suk | Reviewer: kassidilangelo
------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman
your poem song or wutever is ridiculous and i am appauled that u would say such things of me!!!!! u suk and u are just jelous!!! i am a midget and offended. i have to stand on a ladder to write this and there is nothing wrong with that. u r just a stupid tall hobo who has no life and nothing better to do than make fun of short people. show some respect u stupid turd.... bye evil short person against person.
short people | Reviewer: spencer
------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman
that is the funniest song i have`ever heard. but i really think this song is meant to short PEOPLE not short in intelligence. we are running out of thingsto write about but this song is so funny my dad toll me about it and i went look it up and laughed the whole time i read it and after it is so so FUNNY!
Please | Reviewer: claw71
------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman
Randy Newman isn't simple enough to actually pen a song about diminutive people. This song is about people who are short on intelligence, patience, compassion and empathy. Short is a metaphor.
I guess in that includes some of you.
Everyone here is dumb | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman
O.k. please listen to the song... It says, in the chorus, that they are the same as you and I and if you knew anything about Randy Newman, you'd know he was very small. It's a joke, but not about short people. It's about how dumb people are and that size doesn't matter. If you thought how silly and inaccurate this song is, then you just prove his point. He is trying to remind you how dumb it does sound. So the next time a comment says I totally agree and short people are dumb or the opposite Randy Newman is so dumb and this song should be banned, then think twice and think about your own stupidity!
head versus gut | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman
While I know intellectually that this song is pure satire and has a message I applaud, why does it feel like I am being hit in the gut by a brick everytime a tall person sings this "at" me?
this song is stupid | Reviewer: andrea
------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman
it is offensive, but whatever. he didnt like short people and sang about it. tell me thats not running out of things to sing about. its a dumb song and randy newman is a retard. thats what i think...maybe ill write a song about him. hmmm...
Hah | Reviewer: Sarah
------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman
I am quite short, and I think this song is funny. I agree with the person below me that pointed out that this is a satire! It's not written to insult short people. But the guy "Daniel Rollatini" is a bit dumb. Wow, not only did you just misinterprit the song, but you also served to purposely make people feel bed. Good for you.
Aghast | Reviewer: Brandon
------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman
I am deeply horrified at some of the reactions to this song. Mr. Newman should write a song entitled "Dumb People," and talk about how great they are. Then everyone would be happy.
great song! | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song I'm Dead performed by Randy Newman
I'm a Johnny-come-lately to this great song. I heard it on KPIG, and it knocked me off! I am trying to get the song or album, but it is not on ITunes (dood!). This is biting, dark humor in a cool tune--I didn't know it was RN, because it sounded heavier than most of what I have heard from this song writer.
I will keep up the quest, though--I must have this song!!!!
An excellent song | Reviewer: Daniel Rollatini
------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman
I really like the sentiment behind this song, and think that Randy Newman is a really deep thinker.
I'm 6'5", and the short people that I've met in my life meet the description that Newman sets forth. They do have little hands and feet, but oh my, do they do tell those great big lies.
And those tiny, little voices going "beep, beep, beep", and those dirty minds waddling around on those tiny, little feet--all so true.
Thanks so much Randy. Please keep the trenchant criticism coming.
READ THE LYRICS WELL | Reviewer: ME
------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman
people who say it sucks because short people are people too don't understand the song or didn't read it all. just listen to it fully and you'll hear that he doesn't think that short people are less then him at all.
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