Randy Newman is guesting the 831th (Christ on a bike!) episode of Marc Maron´s pod WTF and talks about this and that. Well worth a listen! Maron´s intro being longer than usual, Randy appears 20 minutes in.
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Thanks. Being able to skip Maron’s intro means I’ll give this a listen.
For a long time Maron annoyed me too, but since he kept on talking to – mainly – musicians I like, I kept on listening. After a while I started to warm to him.
I haven’t tried that hard but I did give his sitcom a try on Netflix. I’m afraid I only lasted one episode.
Have Netflix, but haven’t seen his sitcom.
Cheers for this, Neela.
When I was a teenager, most of my friends wanted to be Dave Gilmore, Peter Gabriel or Mick Jagger. I wanted to be Randy.
So how randy were you?
A teenager who prefers Randy to Jagger probably needs and definitely deserves a hug.
Wow! Never worked with teenage girls my age, just their grandmas.
Teenage Grandmas? TMFTL.
Fan-bloody-tastic.
Just listened to it and learned Newman is – maybe – playing piano on Memo From Turner. Is that – maybe – a fact?
Could well be, the Stones didn’t play on the film version, and Randy has a couple of tunes on the soundtrack too
Wiki cites an interview with Russ Titleman. Interestingly the article also says Lowell George played on it but he is not included in wiki.
The third version of the song, typified by its slide guitar, was the one recorded for the soundtrack to the movie Performance, starring Mick Jagger as the song title’s “Turner”. It is featured prominently in the movie, with Mick Jagger, as Turner, lip-synching it. This is the more well-known version of the song, as it was released as a solo single by Jagger in England in 1970 and is featured on the later Singles Collection: The London Years. This track was recorded in Los Angeles in early 1970, and uses the vocal track of the first, slow version. The tape of Jagger’s vocals was sent to Jack Nitzsche, where all music parts were recorded by Ry Cooder on slide guitar, Russ Titelman (guitar), Randy Newman (piano), Jerry Scheff (bass) and Gene Parsons (drums).[2]
Gene Parsons played drums on that ‘slide’ version ‘MfT’? I had no idea. Fantastic job he did, so funky.