Born Again (Randy Newman album)

Born Again

Studio album by Randy Newman

Released

August 1979

Recorded

1979
Warner Brothers Recording Studios, North Hollywood; A&M Studios, Hollywood

Genre

Rock, avant-pop^[1]

Length

34:48

Label

Warner Bros., Reprise

Producer

Lenny Waronker, Russ Titelman

Randy Newman chronology

Little Criminals
(1977)

Born Again
(1979)

Trouble in Paradise
(1983)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Robert Christgau	B+^[3]
Rolling Stone	(unfavorable)^[4]

Born Again is the sixth album by American composer Randy Newman.

Newman later said he thought the album, "was great and would create a big stir. I was looking forward to it coming out so much that I didn't fly any small planes before it was released. It's a weird album full of peculiar songs like the one about an ELO fan getting everything wrong. It's very idiosyncratic, with small subjects. If it had been a hit to follow it might have been different but I have always written the same way."^[5] Ironically, Jeff Lynne would later be among the producers of Land of Dreams.

Track listing

All songs written and arranged by Randy Newman.

"It's Money That I Love" – 3:38
"The Story of a Rock and Roll Band" – 2:53
"Pretty Boy" – 4:00
"Mr. Sheep" – 3:53
"Ghosts" – 2:28
"They Just Got Married" – 2:51
"Spies" – 3:55
"The Girls in My Life (Part One)" – 2:36
"Half a Man" – 3:38
"William Brown" – 1:50
"Pants" – 3:06

Personnel

Randy Newman – vocals, piano, Fender Rhodes
Waddy Wachtel – guitar
Buzzy Feiten – guitar
Chuck Findley – horns
Tom Scott – horns
Victor Feldman – Fender Rhodes, drums, percussion
Michael Boddicker – synthesizer
David Shields – bass
Willie Weeks – bass
Andy Newmark – drums
Lenny Castro – percussion
Carlos Vega – percussion
Stephen Bishop – background vocals
Valerie Carter – background vocals
Arno Lucas – background vocals

References

↑ Grimstad, Paul. "What is Avant-Pop?". Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
↑ Born Again at AllMusic
↑ Robertchristgau.com
↑ Rolling Stone
↑ Martin Chilton. "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/randy-newman-talks-music/". The Telegraph. External link in |title= (help)

Randy Newman

Studio albums	Randy Newman (1968) 12 Songs (1970) Sail Away (1972) Good Old Boys (1974) Little Criminals (1977) Born Again (1979) Trouble in Paradise (1983) Land of Dreams (1988) Bad Love (1999) Harps and Angels (2008)

Live albums	Randy Newman Live (1971)

Compilations	Lonely at the Top: The Best of Randy Newman (1987) Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman (1998) The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1 (2003) The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2 (2011)

Musicals	Randy Newman's Faust (1995)

Films scored	Cold Turkey (1971) Ragtime (1981) The Natural (1984) Parenthood (1989) Awakenings (1990) Avalon (1990) Yakety Yak, Take it Back (1991) Trash Talk (1992) The Paper (1994) Maverick (1994) Toy Story (1995) James and the Giant Peach (1996) Michael (1996) Cats Don't Dance (1997) A Bug's Life (1998) Pleasantville (1998) Toy Story 2 (1999) Meet the Parents (2000) Monsters, Inc. (2001) Seabiscuit (2003) Meet the Fockers (2004) Cars (2006) Leatherheads (2008) The Princess and the Frog (2009) Toy Story 3 (2010) Monsters University (2013) Cars 3 (2017) Toy Story 4 (2018)

Soundtrack albums	Avalon (1990) Meet the Parents (2000) Cars (2006) The Princess and the Frog (2009)

Songs	"Mama Told Me Not to Come" "Sail Away" "He Gives Us All His Love" "Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear" "Political Science" "You Can Leave Your Hat On" "Louisiana 1927" "Rednecks" "Short People" "I Love L.A." "You've Got a Friend in Me" "When She Loved Me" "We Belong Together" "It's a Jungle Out There"

Related	Discography Brill Building Nilsson Sings Newman Raising the Bar

Family	Alfred Newman David Newman Emil Newman Joey Newman Lionel Newman Thomas Newman

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