Randy Newman - Kingfish

Randy Newman & Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra,
cond. Roelof van Driesten.
Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1979

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• Huey
• P.
• Long

[Jesuisquejesuis]

Can't think of another songwriter who understands American populism better than this boy. So glad I found these vids, and grateful to Scofak for uploading them.

[jeremiah098]

Scofak: Glorious selection from an album whose relevance (and wit) never fades. You want to hear genius at work, get hold of the CD that has a second disk containing rehearsals, out-takes & such.

Thanks for the post. Got any more from this tour?

[MrFriendlyCares]

@rockermanmatt hahaah....yeah the funny thing about Irony is not everyone gets it.....One time Randy was attacked buy a bunch of midgets throwing stuff at him all over the "short people" song....I really like Randys wit and always have. Randy in this era was just great

[theoriginalbadbob]

@nocajun1981 Everything you recount about Huey is absolutely correct, but does that make him a bad guy? NOBODY could do business in LA, or many other states, without kick-backs, etc., so he wasn't the only one whose friends made money. The difference between Huey Long and everybody else was the fact that he helped the people of LA by building roads, hospitals, schools, etc., while putting thousands of people to work. People in Washington, D.C. were afraid of Huey; that's why he was assassinated.

[nocajun1981]

@theoriginalbadbob actually he was a populist. He was a drunk, dirty, kick-back machine. He along with every other dirty politician in the GNO set back LA politics... well there all still dirty as hell. He used poor uneducated cajuns for their vote so he could gain more power in the state of LA than was intended for any single man. He would change the state constitution as he seen fit. He was assassinated by a medical doctor at the capitol building. He was a womanizing drunk.

[theoriginalbadbob]

"The Kingfish gonna save this land." I've been a big fan of Randy's for a very long time, but this is the first time I've heard this song. It's about the "Kingfish," who was Huey Long, governor of Louisiana in the late 1930s, who was assassinated in the statehouse by a "lone gunman." The suck-ass media then, and now, portray Huey as a thief, a con man, and a bunch of other bad things. Randy, being born in Louisiana, knows that the media portrayal is bull shit. Huey Long was a great man.

[MrZetteke]

Sheet Music for the whole album is available via Amazon I think.. Or just search for it on Google I found it there..

[MrZetteke]

For some reason .. And I'm NOT complaining , Dutch TV Repeats this concert regularly , It's with The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra .. Infamous in The Netherlands.

[asmodeon]

@streakerbabe Dangerous to Standard Oil maybe, but frankly I live in Louisiana and if I had to pick between men like Bobby Jindal, and Huey Long, I'd take the Kingfish any day. In this state everyone's dirty, at least Huey worked for the people of the state, not the Oil men, and if that's being a communist then lets get out the red paint.

[fionesidhe]

@VeganBoy13507 His score for "The Natural" is downright symphonic.

[taariqtaariq]

I have my randy Newman ticket to see him LIVE with the Melbourne symphony orchestra this month July 2011.

[Chamomileable]

I REALLY wish I had the sheet music for this song.