What made Randy Newman invisible at the Oscars?
David Hepworth, The Word, September 2003
RANDY NEWMAN comes from Hollywood's leading musical family. Two of his uncles were major screen music composers and conductors. His own father was a musician turned doctor. While in his teens Randy was a contracted songwriter and arranger for Liberty Records. He signed to Reprise as a recording artist, making the first of a number of lugubrious solo albums in 1970.
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