Randy Newman performs Losing You

Randy Newman gives an exclusive performance of his song Losing You and talks about the difficult events that inspired it

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[MrFarvis]

Randy gets panned for some of the sillier settings, but you only need to spend like 15 minutes listening to his stuff to realize how incredible he is. The man is a freaking institution.

[jimsonnenberg]

America’s greatest living songwriter. A national treasure.

[JPaulMooreFloridaRealtor]

Having lost a 13-year old son in an automobile crash many years ago, I want Mr. Newman to know that his simple, pure song tells my story too.

[michelemdw]

Sitting here in my office crying listening to this, hoping no one comes in and catches me.

[callenderslady]

There is no other songwriter, still living or long gone, with such capacity to touch my heart and move me to tears.

[saahwn]

I don't think there's any song that can bring me to tears as quickly as this one. The simplicity and nostalgia of the music mixed with the really direct sadness in the lyrics, it's just killer.

[mountainstatematt]

This pulled the tears right out of me.

[Ezra.emerson]

Randy has never written a bad song. He's a genius

[merrillmchenry]

I had the blessing of meeting him many years back (in Tulsa, during a super cold streak too!). I told him "Miss You" could be another "Feels like home: (a WAY underrated love song).
He said the "up there in Idaho" line would get in the way - I said leave it out.
Anyway, he was most gracious and an unforgettable time in my life.
"Thank you eternally Randy".

[eberniewon]

..breathtakingly and agonizingly beautiful...Newman is a genius..

[hugosanchez]

The chord progression of the last part is so emotional. Randy Newman is such an underrated composer

[mantis]

I️ lost my daughter the day she was born... this song is one of the most affectionate I’ve ever heard...

[MississippiDave]

Perfectly complex and simple at the same time. I'm not sure songs like this even come from planet earth. I think they're channeled from space. Randy Newman has a satellite dish in his head.

[JohnWhiteside]

Randy Newman is a master story teller.

[ManuscriptRe]

The chord choice after he says "losing you" in the second half of the song is beautiful and pretty brilliant IMO. Up until that point the song is melancholy but that chord just pushes it over the cliff into true grief.

[exthomes]

I can't explain why you move me like you do.  Thank you Randy, there's only one of you.

[zetetick]

I'd never considered that before,
that as you get old you don't have time to get right with the things that've happened to you any more (And the older you get the more ppl get sick and die around you)

- A great clear idea for a song made with a depth of Human understanding that only the many years alive on Earth can give. Fantastic song / songwriter.

[oldgypsytap]

Randy knows more about longing, pain, sadness and how to turn it into music than any musician ever born. Not only musically but lyrically also. I can't count the number of his pieces that elicit tears within the first bar of music. Not to ignore his way with a lyric A treasure, for sure.

[PiotrBarcz]

One thing I never see talked about is Newman's INSANE bebop skills. His work on Luxo Jr. and of course the ever popular up tempo performance of If I Didn't Have You.

[pacrimco]

I'll never get over losing my older brother, Randy for explaining how I've felt over the years since he passed.