12 Songs
by Randy Newman
- Type: Album
- Released: April 1970
- Label: Reprise
- Country: United States
- Length: 29:50
- Community rating: 3.89/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Shedding the heavy orchestration of his debut for a delightfully ragged, swampy rock-and-roll backing, Randy Newman delivered an absolute masterclass in cynical American songwriting. '12 Songs' is wonderfully warm and fiercely sarcastic, pairing incredibly humorous, remarkably deadpan vocal deliveries with highly satirical, blues-inflected character studies.
Genres
Descriptors: satirical, male-vocals, piano, melodic, storytelling
Tracklist
- Have You Seen My Baby? (2:34)
- Let's Burn Down the Cornfield (3:05)
- Mama Told Me Not to Come (2:10)
- Suzanne (3:07)
- Lover's Prayer (1:58)
- Lucinda (2:44)
- Underneath the Harlem Moon (1:53)
- Yellow Man (2:23)
- Old Kentucky Home (2:39)
- Rosemary (2:10)
- If You Need Oil (2:59)
- Uncle Bob's Midnight Blues (2:02)
Credits
- Randy Newman - primary artist, piano, written-by, vocal
- Ed Thrasher - art direction
- Al McKibbon - bass, bass guitar
- Lyle Ritz - bass
- Gene Parsons - drums
- Jim Gordon - drums
- Doug Botnick - engineer, mixed by
- Lee Herschberg - engineer, mixed by
- Clarence White - guitar
- Ron Elliott - guitar
- Milt Holland - percussion
- Roy Harte - percussion
- Tony Newman - photography
- Lenny Waronker - producer
- Ry Cooder - slide guitar [bottleneck], slide guitar
- Jack Nitzsche - co-producer
- Harry Revel - written-by
- Mack Gordon - written-by