RANDY NEWMAN: HOW JOE COCKER TRANSFORMED ‘YOU CAN LEAVE YOUR HAT ON ‘ & ‘SAIL AWAY’

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[@davidatkinson-Music-and-More]

It's wonderful to listen to such a thoughtful and intelligent composer like Newman. Accommodating enough to do a deep dive into the meaning of his songs. I could listen to him all day. Unique in popular music.

[@brigittepritz7038]

It's so sad, why any people don't understand the lyrics of Randy Newman, he's a special composer with special songs, a music genius!!!

[@mickjames5388]

He’s realllly bad. Music and singing isn't good, regardless if the lyrics are. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@LucyBlue0823]

@@mickjames5388You just don’t get it. Go listen to someone else.

[@lyallg7925]

Newman is such a great song writer. He has written such beautiful songs, and slightly sarcastic songs ❤ I’d love to hear him talking about many more of his songs eg, ‘I Think It’s Going To Rain Today’.

[@katherinea.rodgers8366]

Randy Newman is a great songwriter! I love the quirkt way he spins a song!! I am a short person who loves LA!!

[@ankapleune]

To hear Randy Newman talking makes his music ❤

[@TheNaturalust]

Amazing songwriter! Just love his piano playing and how others took the tunes to another level.

[@karl662]

I hung around after one of his shows long enough to go backstage with several others and talk with him, individually. He is the coolest, most down-to- earth guy. Just so accommodating to everyone. One of the musical greats.

[@FrettingProductions]

There will never be a voice like Randy again it would be auto tuned to death today which is such a shame

[@crmlcd]

I remember Randy’s version very well and I understood it just the way Randy’s has described it here. I am a Randy Newman fanatic!

[@scottlucas9551]

Great stuff! Randy Newman is a national treasure. Read an interview once where he claimed (bullshitting, perhaps) that the lyrics were about getting his little daughter ready for her bath."You can leave your hat on" because she didn't need to wash her hair. 😊

[@TheJohnnyBE]

Thank you so much for this. No one like Randy. The oldest LPs I've held onto, I'm 73, date back to '68: Randy's, Randy Newman, and Nyro's, Eli & the 13th Confession. I am so HAPPY that Randy is still with us.

[@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES]

You're very welcome! Randy is special

[@amsterdaminbeeld]

To me there always will be 4 great songwriters/performers: Bob Dylan, Neil Young, John Lennon, and Randy Newman. But there is still so very little we know of this Icon compared to the others. Makes this vid even more meaningfull.

[@ankapleune]

This is a good interview! Whatever happened, I hope you are fine Randy Newman.

[@HippoYnYrEira]

I've been 40years trying to Overstand Randy's songs. This was a great help. He cracks me up. Thank you.

[@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES]

Glad to help!

[@FrettingProductions]

I find it amazing that someone would write sail away from a point of view of a confidence trickster slaver guy, that's why I say Randy a movie maker in song incredible

[@tomcat7525]

I loved Harry Nillson's version of Sail Away too.

[@SakariLehtonengopromo]

Wonderful, thanks John !

[@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES]

Cheers!

[@alistairclyne9362]

Fascinating insight to the song 👍

[@honeywoodpilot]

Mahler and Schubert on the piano for creative source material? I would love to see what Randy has in his library. Well posted John.

[@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES]

Thanks !

[@tomcat7525]

Fabulous. 👍

[@dianehghzn7670]

For god knows years i have loved randys songs but i had never seen a picture of him i allways thought he was a black american im completely surprised anyway i hope you live for some years to come randy and enjoy life and we can love your songs and enjoy them as well ❤🌈🌈🌈☔️☔️☔️🙏🇦🇺🇦🇺🇮🇩🇮🇩🇺🇦 peace ☮️ and love ❤️ to all 😂❤

[@benmeltzer]

Jerry Garcia/Merl Saunders also covered "You Can Leave Your Hat On" (with Saunders on lead vocal).

[@stevenreiff4442]

this is essentially a COMICAL song. the dewd's unusual requests are oddly kind and hopeful.

[@Jcazzblues]

thanks John!!!

[@brianprager8050]

Randy Newman was never a guy who sang from the perspective of the swaggering male self that Tom Jones or even Joe Cocker embodied with You Can Leave Your Hat On. It's a different mood with far less irony in their versions. Same with Sail Away; I can't imagine anyone performing that song without a heavy, heavy dose of irony.

[@papadopp3870]

Yeah, absolutely. I’ve been trying to put that sentiment in words. I’ve been in situations where the singer did Sail Away like a sensitive love song- or American anthem. Eventually, we got down and I told him what was going on lyrically. After gettin’ it, he said, “Jeezus, man. I pictured an older European- y’know- a father, hand on his son, Wog’s, shoulder inviting him to sail to America! Oh, Jeezus! Buckwheat and watermelon, no, no,no”. Pretty funny watching him wake up.!

[@lightbox617]

I loved the original and the cover but I greatly appreciate the original with the explanation behind it. I hope I can explain this: Helmut Newton photographed many female nudes in B&W. It seems to me that the nude women were tall, strong and, in the poses that demanded dominance over the fully dressed male figures in the images

[@vajrasiddhi]

I like his original version best and I don't see it as a weak man/pro woman thing at all. To me it's from the viewpoint of a wizened mature dude but who still has his crutch of desire and grasping and articulates it seductively well after a long day of some battle lol.

[@clafong9]

Randy is a genius. I do think Cocker's version is great though. To see/hear his best version, look for 'Joe Cocker - You Can Leave Your Hat On (LIVE in Rotterdam)'.

[@cosmicdrifter287]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@doctorstreamspunk9996]

Randy Newman is the patron saint of marginalized characters. A lot of characters in his songs sound like my my avoidant negligent father begging for sympathy.

[@hypnoticfloor4842]

Joe Cocker staged this song and Randy Newman played it (whatever the meaning is). Similar to JJ Cale songs played by Clapton or Jack Bruce songs played by Collosseum (theme for an imaginery western, Rope on ladder to the moon).

[@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES]

Randy wrote the song and recorded it himself in 1972

[@doctortheopolis3122]

"Strippers used it immediately"

[@williampaul8556]

My wife felt sorry for the guy in the song. She though of a pathetic guy. She got it on the spot. No life with no power at all and no relationships just paying for someone. Pathetic.

[@pretorious700]

Helps to have a sense of humor.

[@stevewalker2114]

interviewer is not audible. why? I'm guessing you know better..

[@a.sam.2976]

Randy is cool, but he didn't have the balls to "Sex Up" the song. Maybe its a Jewish thing. But Joe hung out with Rockers and Bluesmen and grew up with a certain take on life that gave the song an unapologetic zing. You can't be sheepish when singing this song. Gotta have Swag and Confidence.

[@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES]

Randy explains in the interview that when he wrote the song he thought it was about a rather pathetic guy - not confident sexually. Joe’s version is obviously very different but that doesn’t make Randy’s less valid

[@moonboy6475]

Aside from the anti-Semitism, this song is meant to be ironic. The narrator that Randy Newman portrays, is not a tough sex god but a rather pathetic whoremonger. It only makes it more ironic and hilarious that so many people see the song as "sexy" with that "swag and confidence" you're talking about and thus completely miss the underlying meaning🤣🤣

[@markpx]

Hat can also mean condom.

[@theelvisguru9490]

Why would he be telling a woman to leave her condom on?