I have been enjoying Randy Newman for years, and I quote here from Wikipedia just to support my enthusiastic praises expressed about him previously: "multi-award-winning singer-songwriter, pianist, composer, and arranger from the United States, known for his biting and satirical songs and for his numerous soundtracks." I would also add "eccentric, cultured, and appreciated for his many collaborations, his unmistakable bluesy voice, and the biting and irreverent humor that is often unwelcome if not forbidden, with which he speaks cruelly about 'short people' and American society and politics, narcissistic, cynical, and careless in their racism and bigotry, if not about little criminals (Little Criminals...)."
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