Critics found much to admire in the songs ... well as spit-take funny and profoundly emotive. In his new book, A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman, Robert Hilburn ...

Randy Newman is celebrated in a new bio by noted journalist Robert Hilburn. I spoke with Hilburn about the book, ...

But he makes it clear that, while being proud of his work, those songs probably wouldn’t make it on to a Randy Newman solo album. “You think I’d write You’ve Got a Friend in Me?