Randy Newman discography

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Randy Newman discography
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Studio albums15
Live albums2
Compilation albums5
Video albums2
Singles12
Soundtrack albums23

American musician Randy Newman has released eleven solo studio albums, two live albums, six compilation albums, two extended plays (EPs), 15 singles, one musical, and 23 soundtrack albums.

Contents

Albums

Studio albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
US
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
BEL
[4]
CAN
[5]
GER
[6]
NL
[7]
SWI
[8]
UK
[9]
Randy Newman
12 Songs
  • Released: April 1970
  • Label: Reprise Records
  • Formats: LP
Sail Away
  • Released: May 1972
  • Label: Reprise Records
  • Formats: LP
16342
Good Old Boys
  • Released: September 10, 1974
  • Label: Reprise Records
  • Formats: LP
36587
Little Criminals 92993
Born Again
  • Released: August 1979
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
  • Formats: LP
4165238123
Trouble in Paradise * Released: January 17, 1983
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
  • Formats: LP
648339
Land of Dreams
  • Released: September 1988
  • Label: Reprise Records
  • Formats: LP, CD
8012
Bad Love 194435230
Harps and Angels 30291325102546
Dark Matter
  • Released: August 4, 2017
  • Label: Nonesuch Records
  • Formats: LP, CD
10635134882061

Songbooks

New solo studio recordings of previously issued compositions.

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
US
[1]
BEL
[4]
NL
[7]
The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1
  • Released: September 30, 2003
  • Label: Nonesuch Records
  • Formats: CD
The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2
  • Released: May 10, 2011
  • Label: Nonesuch Records
  • Formats: CD
9253
The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 3
  • Released: September 30, 2016
  • Label: Nonesuch Records
  • Formats: CD, download
111

Live albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
US
[1]
NL
[7]
Randy Newman Live
  • Released: June 1971
  • Labels: Reprise Records
  • Formats: LP
191
Live in London
  • Released: November 8, 2011
  • Labels: Nonesuch Records
  • Formats: CD
77

Compilation albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
US
[1]
Lonely at the Top: The Best of Randy Newman
  • Released: May 18, 1987
  • Labels: Warner Bros. Records
  • Formats: LP, CD
Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman
The Best of Randy Newman
  • Released: September 18, 2001
  • Labels: Rhino Records
  • Formats: CD
On Vine Street: The Early Songs of Randy Newman
The Randy Newman Songbook
  • Released: September 23, 2016 (LP);
    December 16, 2016 (CD)
  • Labels: Nonesuch Records
  • Formats: LP, CD

Musical

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
US
[1]
Randy Newman's Faust

Soundtracks

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
US
[1] [11]
FRA
[12]
SPA
[13]
Peyton Place
  • Released: 1966
  • Label: Epic Records
  • Format: LP
Cold Turkey
  • Released: December 4, 2007
  • Label: Percepto Records
  • Format: CD
Ragtime
The Natural 202
Parenthood
Avalon
  • Released: December 8, 1990
  • Label: Reprise Records
  • Format: CD
Awakenings
  • Released: January 10, 1991
  • Label: Reprise Records
  • Format: CD
The Paper
  • Released: March 22, 1994
  • Label: Reprise Records
  • Format: CD
Maverick
  • Released: January 10, 1995
  • Label: Reprise Records
  • Format: CD
Toy Story 94
James and the Giant Peach
  • Released: March 26, 1996
  • Label: Walt Disney Records
  • Format: CD
Michael
  • Released: December 17, 1996
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
  • Format: CD
A Bug's Life
  • Released: October 27, 1998
  • Label: Walt Disney Records
  • Format: CD
Pleasantville
Toy Story 2
  • Released: November 9, 1999
  • Label: Walt Disney Records
  • Format: CD
111
Meet the Parents
Monsters, Inc.
  • Released: October 23, 2001
  • Label: Walt Disney Records
  • Format: CD
25
Seabiscuit
Meet the Fockers
  • Released: January 11, 2005
  • Label: Varèse Sarabande
  • Format: CD
Cars
  • Released: June 6, 2006
  • Label: Walt Disney Records
  • Format: CD
6
Leatherheads
  • Released: March 25, 2008
  • Label: Varèse Sarabande
  • Format: CD
The Princess and the Frog
  • Released: November 23, 2009
  • Label: Walt Disney Records
  • Format: CD
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Toy Story 3
  • Released: June 15, 2010
  • Label: Walt Disney Records
  • Format: CD
Monsters University
  • Released: June 18, 2013
  • Label: Walt Disney Records
  • Format: CD
Cars 3
  • Released: June 16, 2017
  • Label: Walt Disney Records
  • Format: CD
The Meyerowitz Stories
  • Released: October 13, 2017
  • Label: IAC Films
  • Format: CD, LP
Toy Story 4
  • Released: June 21, 2019
  • Label: Walt Disney Records
  • Format: CD
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Marriage Story
  • Released: December 13, 2019
  • Label: Lakeshore Records
  • Format: CD

Other album appearances

Newman composed original songs that were used in the following films, but did not compose the scores for these films:

YearSong(s)AlbumNotesRef.
1986"The Ballad of the Three Amigos", "My Little Buttercup", "Blue Shadows" Three Amigos soundtrack
1987"Something Special" Overboard soundtrack [16]
1989"Falling In Love" Her Alibi soundtrack
1997"Danny's Arrival Song", "Little Boat On The Sea", "Animal Jam Session", "Big and Loud", "Tell Me Lies", "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" Cats Don't Dance soundtrack
1998"That'll Do" Babe: Pig in the City soundtrackSong performed by Peter Gabriel
2002"Scorpion's Theme"[ citation needed ] Spider-Man: The Movie Video Game soundtrack

Newman also performed a song he did not write ("Gone Dead Train"), and conducted Jack Nitzsche's original music, for the soundtrack of the 1970 film Performance . In the following year, Newman's song "Let Me Go" was used in the film The Pursuit of Happiness .

Newman's song "I Love L.A." was used in The Naked Gun and Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie , and over the end credits of Volcano . Newman's 1972 song "Burn On" was used as the opening song in Major League (1989) while his song "Political Science" was featured in Blast from the Past (1999). Newman also covered the Fats Domino song "I'm In Love Again" for the soundtrack of Shag (1989).

Singles

Performed by Randy Newman

TitleYearPeak chart positionsCertification
US US AC CAN Top 100 Canada AC UK AUS [2]
"Golden Gridiron Boy" / "Country Boy"1962------
"The Beehive State" / "I Think It's Going To Rain Today"1968------
"Last Night I Had A Dream" / "I Think He's Hiding"------
"Yellow Man" / "Old Kentucky Home"1970------
"Sail Away" / "Political Science"1972------
"Birmingham" / "Naked Man"1974------
"Short People" / "Old Man on the Farm"197722521-12
"Sigmund Freud's Impersonation of Albert Einstein in America" / "Baltimore"------
"Rider in the Rain" / "Kathleen (Catholicism Made Easier)"------
"The Blues" (with Paul Simon) / "Same Girl"19825136---100
"I Love L.A." / "Miami"110-----
"Dixie Flyer" / "Something Special"198899-----
"It's Money That Matters" / "Falling in Love"60-----
"A Few Words in Defense of Our Country" [lower-alpha 3] 2007------
"You've Got a Friend in Me" / "We Belong Together"2010---40119-

Written by Randy Newman

The following is a list of Randy Newman compositions that were chart hits for other artists.

TitleYearArtistPeak chart positions
US US
R&B
CA UK AU
"Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)"
co-written with Jeannie Seely , Judith Arbuckle and Pat Sheeran
1964 Irma Thomas 52----
"I Don't Want To Hear Anymore" Jerry Butler 95----
"I've Been Wrong Before"1965 Cilla Black ---1781
"Nobody Needs Your Love"1966 Gene Pitney ---2-
"Just One Smile"Gene Pitney64--855
"Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear"1967The Alan Price Set---449
"I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore"1969 Dusty Springfield 105-59--
"Love Story"1970 Peggy Lee 105----
"Mama Told Me (Not To Come)" Three Dog Night 1-2310
"I Think It's Going To Rain Today" Tom Northcott --46--
"Mama Told Me (Not To Come)"1972 Wilson Pickett 9916---
"Living Without You" Manfred Mann's Earth Band 69----
"I Think It's Going To Rain Today"1980 UB40 ---690
"You Can Leave Your Hat On"1986Joe Cocker35---23
"Mama Told Me (Not To Come)"2000 Tom Jones & Stereophonics ---4-

Video albums

Notes

  1. Replaced Alan Menken
  2. Toy Story 4 did not enter the Billboard 200, but it peaked at number 7 on the Kid Albums chart [14] and at number 20 on the Soundtracks chart. [15]
  3. Rolling Stone ranked "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country" number 2 on its list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007. [18]

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