Randy Newman - 10 Baltimore (Jazz Open 06)

[philateliceun]

After watching the wire I suddenly understood where this was about. This was always one of my favorite songs but I never knew the real meaning behind it. I knew baltimore was a city but I never knew it there were such terrible things happening there.

[MrsTok0]

@philateliceun ... it's like in the top ten on the worst cities list.... i live here

[whitekeith18]

best concert ever

[jmaxcamp]

i will cry everytime i hear this song.i dont know why. man its hard.

[sportfanatic91]

How can anyone dislike this song....? Smh

[bobn1955]

The piano on this is beautiful. The lyrics are heart-rending, especially the last verse.

[jkhtlh1117]

Fabulous.

[joininglife]

NAILED IT! ... from a Baltimore boy. ~

[laaxe]

Yep. The world's over. Randy Newman playing a private corporate event for short/fat/bald dweebs, next to their shiney corporate headquarters, and sitting coldly in their little corporate chairs, without even a clue as to what he's singin' about.

These empty souls are so polite.

Some of them even clapped...

[poltronafrau]

@laaxe quite the judgmental fellow, i see.

[laaxe]

@poltronafrau Was quite judgemental wasn't it? Merely a sign of age & discontent. The irony is that Randy's singing to the very desensitized/soulless inhumanity to which most of his early work was directed.

Just smells as though Randy was their CEO's idol, & those attending (who at this point in their lives, realize they no longer have a shot at being that CEO, which the "American Dream" promised), are disappointed Randy's other songs aren't as funny as "Short People." Observation inaccurate?

[poltronafrau]

@laaxe it's a jazz concert with an attentive crowd, get a clue. it's called respect for the artist.

i don't know about you, but this song silences me, and i think it's a lot better than 'short people'. i think most people watching this song that evening in stuttgart would agree with me.

[laaxe]

@poltronafrau Though Short People was one of Randy's most overt satires, half of those who liked it didn't get the message of bigotry, thinking it merely funny. This one silences me as well, but just sad to see his performance wasted on a "me generation" audience (mostly disco era kids), who likely haven't given five minutes thought about man's inhumanity to man, which is what Randy mostly wrote about.

Q. Do Germans usually hold their "jazz concerts" next to corporate structures?

[poltronafrau]

@laaxe I think half of the people at this concert probably get offended by Short People, because they just don't see the satire in it. But that would probably have to with language and sense of humor. I don't think this perfomance is wasted at all because if you listen to the response you can hear they clearly enjoy it.

I agree that the setting is very corporate and soulless. I do not know if Germans usually do that with jazz concerts, next to big office blocks, but it's still a good concert.

[fiche444]

CHECK OUT DAVID GRAY'S VERSION OF THIS SONG!!!!

[MANHATTANBEEFMAN]

Nice performance from the old dude. He's either crying at the end - or else his medicine is wearing off.

[charmcity401]

i love all his songs but this one is bout my hometown!

[MoveOverCasanova]

what is so astonishing about musicians like him is how their music transcends age -

i mean he wrote much of that stuff when he was partly much younger, but it all blends pefectly with his latter songs --

he is a real living music maker

[JahWorks420]

pretty mesmerizing

[cohenc]

Just heard the Nina original on Jarvis Cocker, found it mesmering, in a different way love Randy's original, the Tamlins awaits & it's made me really wanna see The Wire

[Klangzauberer]

It's hoord to live just to live...

[Hoboscouts]

hard

[Klangzauberer]

I spelled it the way he sings it.

[Klangzauberer]

Great piano riff,

[Klangzauberer]

2:49 :D

[Klangzauberer]

The audience seems to become crazy :D

[MrJohnmacek]

GOODSTUFF!!

[MrJohnmacek]

The way Randy can so seamlessly switch the piano tempo and keep his vocals on track MAKES Him APRO!!!!! we should all be such HARD WORKING JEW BOYS!!!!!!.....just kidding!!!!

[tmdwo20023]

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[Vibe1028]

I had listened only to Nina's version. But hearing Randy's "Baltimore" only made me appreciate the song all the more. Thanks for posting it.

[Rembez01]

This song has always been relevant and is becoming more so

[partsmet]

well, you're right. As Baltimore gets better and better, other cities, like Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, etc keep falling.

[wmjdovensky]

Mr Jeff Jennings Check out NPR :

' Live in Concert All Songs Considered ".

Newman played in LA for 200 only, I was not there. New album Harps and Angels.

Baltimore: this song from Little Crimminals Album 1977.

GREAT Album.

[jeffreyjennings]

Great song...Thank god i am not a musician (yet i am) and am never required to play in New England or the Midwest...Just assume that is where this is by the audience

[BERSERKERpoetry]

Brings to mind films and TV series like Diner, Tin Men, Avalon, Liberty Heights, Homicide: Life on the Streets, The Corner, The Wire, etc... heartbreaking, really.

[robertgrassi]

sublime

[MoveOverCasanova]

ledzep is a typical "newie" - needs the internet to re-explore randy newman

[Klangzauberer]

I like the studio version better (with drums etc.) but this is also nice.

[LedZepLive]

Wow, I haven't heard that song in 30 years. One of the many great things about the Internet.

[MoveOverCasanova]

one of his very finest songs. full of suspense - this is music of real passion!

[AXOU2203]

The "Celine" of US song writing.

[MoveOverCasanova]

what the hell do you mean

[AXOU2203]

you should read "voyage au bout de la nuit"

I don't know the english title of its translation, book considered among the ten biggest of the 20th cent. And look to Celine's (louis ferdinand) life, too.

[tradecraft46]

I went to Hopkins and he sure knows 'Charm City'.

[LisaTobin1979]

Nina Simone's version is better

[RedrumsounD]

great song.. check out The tamlins version, heavy roots style

[Feesharp9er]

And they hide their faces And they hide their eyes cause the citys dyin And they dont know why Get my sister sandy And my little brother ray Buy a big old wagon Gonna haul us all away Livin in the country Where the mountains high Never comin back here til the day I die

[Feesharp9er]

Beat-up little seagull On a marble stair Tryin to find the ocean Lookin everywhere Hard times in the city In a hard town by the sea Aint nowhere to run to There aint nothin here for free Hooker on the corner Waitin for a train Drunk lyin on the sidewalk Sleepin in the rain

[JackKerouac1922]

stunning song!great artist

[kurt8990]

Very true..Baltimore in the 1970's..tough town back then....

[headman844]

still is

[meekmop]

Not Nearly as bad

[RealXT]

A Great Man

[Cr381v3]

he sounds like the "oracle" in the movie

"O Brother Where Art Thou"

[Jiggytarmac]

love

[lizziemay31]

Yes but it was much better !

[AngryMan410]

This is a great song...=D

[MANHATTANBEEFMAN]

...favorite Randy Newman song - not a bad rendition - sad and haunting piano refrain...

[sosafan91]

I saw Randy in Seattle this October. He was dynamite. He played solo piano, and this song too. Quite the showman.

[ralphended]

What a dead-ass crowd! Randy Newman is genius though.

[Gwynne66]

He's in Germany. The crowd isn't "dead", They're just being polite.

[ralphended]

"Polite?" they're practically catatonic, lol!

[Jiggytarmac]

i guess it's easy to hink you suck with certain crowds and sing as though you are trying to rescue the set. even though you are killing it. i see what you mean.

[derReisepass]

@ralphended

Die, die da sitzen denken darüber nach wie sie den Bahnhof kaputtmachen können. Die hören nicht zu. Du kannst dir nicht vorstellen wie hässlich und unmenschlich der Pariser Platz ist auf dem RN sein Konzert gab.

[wyost]

Thanks so much for posting.

[sprechendeutsch]

Just an awesome song. Forgot all about how much I liked it when I was 19 (I'm considerably older than that now). ;-)

I've viewed this 2 or 3 times a day now for the last week.

[kenemore]

They should've used this song on The Wire! Randy ruelz.

[slapbush]

randy newman like your uncle, you're the greatest!!!

[vinyljunkie07]

I preffer the Nina Simone version

[Hoboscouts]

she stole it you fag

[RockingJamboree]

Beautiful. So sad and majestic. It's hard to describe the feelings I get hearing this song. Sort of like "Waterloo Sunset" by the Kinks. Thanks for posting.

[jackie4mail]

I'm ecstatic!!! My all time favorite song.  I was never able to post the song to MySpace-now I can post the video. Wow! He still sounds so good. I used to play this song repeatedly-from the vinyl, daily. Thanks for posting it.

[Send1UrLuv]

You made my day with this one.

[manwithnoname123]

Randy Newman is one of the premier singer/songwriters of our time. such a brilliant writer and melodist, too...

[cmallaby]

he has a very strange style of song!

[dylandorsten]

Great to see Randy again!!

[Gev1]

great song.

[easystreets70]

Thnx 4 adding.