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"Sail Away" is a song by Randy Newman, the title track to his 1972 album. In a 1972 review in Rolling Stone , Stephen Holden describes "Sail Away" as presenting "the American dream of a promised land as it might have been presented to black Africa in slave running days."
Sail Away is the third studio album by Randy Newman, released on May 23, 1972. It was produced by Lenny Waronker and Russ Titelman and issued on Reprise Records . While all of its songs were written and composed by Newman, several had already been recorded by other artists.
Newman re-recorded the song for his album Sail Away the following year. The ballad is both brief (running 1:52 in its Sail Away version) and very sparsely arranged. It opens with the delicate sounds of a string section and is maintained by Newman's piano in a slow "four to the bar" tempo.
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) Randy Newman's Faust (1995) Bad Love (1999) The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1 (2003) Harps and Angels (2008) The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2 (2011) The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 3 ...
Randy Newman Live is a live album by American singer Randy Newman. It is one of only two official live recordings he has released (the other was 2011's Live in London .) The album was recorded over three evenings between September 17 and 19, 1970 at the Bitter End , New York.
Political Science" is prominently performed by Newman on the final credits of the 1999 film Blast from the Past. Newman also rerecorded the song for his 2003 release The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1. [3] In October 2006, Newman performed the song on The Colbert Report after being interviewed by Stephen Colbert. [citation needed]
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic writes "a collection like The Best of Randy Newman isn't simply welcome, it's necessary" and goes on to say "This may not be every longtime fan's choice for the very best of Randy Newman, but it does give a good sense of his genius and how far-reaching it is by featuring all those previously mentioned songs, along with many others that confirm the depth of ...