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Born Again (Randy Newman album)

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Released
  
August 1979

Artist
  
Randy Newman

Label
  
Warner Bros. Records

Length
  
34:48

Release date
  
August 1979

Genre
  
Rock music

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Recorded
  
1979 Warner Brothers Recording Studios, North Hollywood; A&M Studios, Hollywood

Born Again (1979)
  
Trouble in Paradise (1983)

Producers
  
Lenny Waronker, Russ Titelman

Similar
  
Randy Newman albums, Rock music albums

Born Again is the sixth album by American composer Randy Newman.

Contents

Newman later said he thought the album, "was great and would create a big stir. I was looking forward to it coming out so much that I didn't fly any small planes before it was released. It's a weird album full of peculiar songs like the one about an ELO fan getting everything wrong. It's very idiosyncratic, with small subjects. If it had been a hit to follow it might have been different but I have always written the same way." Ironically, Jeff Lynne would later be among the producers of Land of Dreams.

Track listing

All songs written and arranged by Randy Newman.

  1. "It's Money That I Love" – 3:38
  2. "The Story of a Rock and Roll Band" – 2:53
  3. "Pretty Boy" – 4:00
  4. "Mr. Sheep" – 3:53
  5. "Ghosts" – 2:28
  6. "They Just Got Married" – 2:51
  7. "Spies" – 3:55
  8. "The Girls in My Life (Part One)" – 2:36
  9. "Half a Man" – 3:38
  10. "William Brown" – 1:50
  11. "Pants" – 3:06

Personnel

  • Randy Newman – vocals, piano, Fender Rhodes
  • Waddy Wachtel – guitar
  • Buzzy Feiten – guitar
  • Chuck Findley – horns
  • Tom Scott – horns
  • Victor Feldman – Fender Rhodes, drums, percussion
  • Michael Boddicker – synthesizer
  • David Shields – bass
  • Willie Weeks – bass
  • Andy Newmark – drums
  • Lenny Castro – percussion
  • Carlos Vega – percussion
  • Stephen Bishop – background vocals
  • Valerie Carter – background vocals
  • Arno Lucas – background vocals

    • Songs

    1It’s Money That I Love3:42
    2The Story of a Rock and Roll Band2:53
    3Pretty Boy4:04

    References

    Born Again (Randy Newman album) Wikipedia
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