Randy Newman discography

Randy Newman discography
Newman at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 2008
Studio albums11
Soundtrack albums23
Live albums2
Compilation albums5
Singles12
Video albums2

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.

Albums

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
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
 163 42 — — — — — — —
Good Old Boys
  • Released: September 10, 1974
  • Label: Reprise Records
  • Formats: LP
 36 — — — 58 — 7 — —
Little Criminals 9 29 — — 9 — 3 — —
Born Again
  • Released: August 1979
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
  • Formats: LP
 41 65 23 — 81 — 23 — —
Trouble in Paradise * Released: January 17, 1983
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
  • Formats: LP
 64 — 8 — — 33 9 — —
Land of Dreams
  • Released: September 1988
  • Label: Reprise Records
  • Formats: LP, CD
 80 — — — — — — 12 —
Bad Love 194 — — 43 — 52 30 — —
Harps and Angels 30 — 29 13 — 25 10 25 46
Dark Matter
  • Released: August 4, 2017
  • Label: Nonesuch Records
  • Formats: LP, CD
 106 — 35 13 — 48 8 20 61

Songbooks

New solo studio recordings of previously issued compositions.

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
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
 — 92 53
The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 3
  • Released: September 30, 2016
  • Label: Nonesuch Records
  • Formats: CD, download
 — 111 —

Live albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
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

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
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
  • Released: April 1, 2008
  • Labels: Ace Records
  • Formats: CD
 –
The Randy Newman Songbook
  • Released: September 23, 2016 (LP);
    December 16, 2016 (CD)
  • Labels: Nonesuch Records
  • Formats: LP, CD
 –

Musical

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
US
[1]
Randy Newman's Faust –

Soundtracks

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
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
 80 191 94 [a]
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
 —[b] — —
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:

Year Song(s) Album Notes Ref.
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 soundtrack Song 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

Title Year Peak chart positions Certification
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" 1977 2 25 2 1 - 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" 1982 51 36 - - - 100
"I Love L.A." / "Miami" 110 - - - - -
"Dixie Flyer" / "Something Special" 1988 99 - - - - -
"It's Money That Matters" / "Falling in Love" 60 - - - - -
"A Few Words in Defense of Our Country"[c] 2007 - - - - - -
"You've Got a Friend in Me" / "We Belong Together" 2010 - - - 40 119 -

Written by Randy Newman

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

Title Year Artist Peak 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 - - - 17 81
"Nobody Needs Your Love" 1966 Gene Pitney - - - 2 -
"Just One Smile" Gene Pitney 64 - - 8 55
"Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear" 1967 The Alan Price Set - - - 4 49
"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 - 2 3 10
"I Think It's Going To Rain Today" Tom Northcott - - 46 - -
"Mama Told Me (Not To Come)" 1972 Wilson Pickett 99 16 - - -
"Living Without You" Manfred Mann's Earth Band 69 - - - -
"I Think It's Going To Rain Today" 1980 UB40 - - - 6 90
"You Can Leave Your Hat On" 1986 Joe Cocker 35 - - - 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]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Randy Newman Chart History - Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved November 12, 2021.
  2. ^ a b Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 216. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  3. ^ "Randy Newman In Der Österreichischen Hitparade". Das Österreichische Hitparaden (in German). Retrieved November 13, 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Discografie Randy Newman". Ultratop Flanders (in Dutch). Retrieved November 13, 2021.
  5. ^ "RPM Magazine search results".
  6. ^ "Discographie von Randy Newman". Offizielle Deutsche Charts (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved November 13, 2021.
  7. ^ a b c "Discografie Randy Newman". Dutch Charts (in Dutch). Retrieved November 12, 2021.
  8. ^ "Randy Newman". Swiss Hitparade (in German). Retrieved November 13, 2021.
  9. ^ "Randy Newman full Official Chart History". Official Charts. Retrieved November 12, 2021.
  10. ^ "Gold & Platinum". RIAA. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  11. ^ "Soundtrack Chart History - Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved November 13, 2021.
  12. ^ "Discographie Randy Newman". Les Charts (in French). Retrieved November 13, 2021.
  13. ^ "Soundtrack/Randy Newman". Spanish Charts. Retrieved November 13, 2021.
  14. ^ "Randy Newman Chart History - Kids Albums". Billboard. Retrieved November 13, 2021.
  15. ^ "Randy Newman Chart History - Soundtracks". Billboard. Retrieved November 13, 2021.
  16. ^ "Overboard (1987) - IMDb".
  17. ^ "Gold & Platinum". RIAA. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  18. ^ "The 100 Best Songs of 2007". Rolling Stone. December 11, 2007. Archived from the original on December 14, 2007. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
  19. ^ "Gold & Platinum". RIAA. Retrieved 2019-07-22.