Born Again (Randy Newman album)

Born Again
Studio album by Randy Newman
Released	August 1979
Recorded	1979 Warner Brothers Recording Studios, North Hollywood; A&M Studios, Hollywood
Genre	Rock, avant-pop[1]
Length	34:48
Label	Warner Bros., Reprise
Producer	Lenny Waronker, Russ Titelman
Randy Newman chronology
Little Criminals (1977) Born Again (1979) Trouble in Paradise (1983)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Robert Christgau	B+[3]
Rolling Stone	(unfavorable)[4]

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

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."^[5] 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

References