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Every day from December 1st until December 25th (for the benefit of our Festivus-celebrating friends, that’s Christmas Day), we’re presenting a brand-new Randy Newman-style movie theme song, posted at our spanky-new Bandcamp page. Oh, and they’re all available for download absolutely FREE! Of course, you’re certainly welcome to pay for them, if you like. (The site allows you to choose any amount…always appreciated, but by no means required) The songs are also available via iTunes and an RSS feed.
So head on over each morning to our Bandcamp page and check out the new daily Newman. It’s like an Advent calendar, but without the candy, and with a better soundtrack. Thank you to everyone who made movie suggestions—if you hear a movie that you suggested, go ahead and take some credit for it.
UPDATE: We’re writing and recording these as we go along, so movie suggestions are still welcome.
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Hot dog, do I ever love those Newman songs. Thanks for the Godfather, and for making this the BEST DECEMBER EVER!!
Yes!
Great first entry! Go Godfather Go!
BTW – Any great story to go along with the shot of you with Newman?
A strong start and a sure sign of things to come. Thanks, guys! This is gonna be awesome!
I smiled big when I heard the “nobody believed that he could win” line. Classic.
Good start, hopefully they’ll all be this good.
My friends are amazed that I’ve still never seen The Big Lebowski. But now I feel a bit more like I did.
It looks like the iTunes feed is down. I was able to download yesterday’s song that way, but today I get a “Does not seem to be a valid Podcast URL” message. Have you guys clogged the internet again? Remember your fiber!
@Simalot The problem hat they need to remember is that they decided to dump all this to the net and forget a rule of the Internet. The Internet is not just something you “dump” something on, ok? It’s not a big truck, it’s a series of tubes. And those tubes can be filled with enormous amounts of materials, enormous amounts of materials.
I know it’s too late for suggestions, but somehow I can’t stop hoping that “Tron” makes it into the mix, with a slightly roboticized Randy Newman voice.
What time of day are we supposed to listen to the song? I’m Jewish so I never had an advent calendar. I’m loving this btw. I’m really hoping for a Back to the Future song. Go Marty Go! You’ve got a reason to live!
The RSS feed itself should now be completely valid; pinged iTunes as well, but they usually take a while, even when you ping them to update “immediately.” Keep fingers crossed.
Stay vigilant!
P&S.
iTunes is back now, too.
The Theme from The Shining is great, but now I see one of the hard things about writing these. When you’ve only got room for a couple lines, you’re left with some tough choices about what not to put in. (The creepy twins, the axe in Scatman’s gut, the maze, etc.)
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy…
Re: The Shining: How FREAKING awesome was that?!
Alright, I have to do it. See if you can guess this one:
Singin’ songs
’bout droppin’ bombs
Short People was wonderfully wrong
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Nobody gonna tell you what you can do
You wrote the theme to Seabiscuit
No one thought that you did it
Nobody believed that he could win
Go, Randy, Go!
People criticize
They don’t recognize
You write songs for all kinds of lives
But little man
You got a great big plan
To be the one to make them clap their hands
You don’t let it get you down
When you’re ripped off by a couple of clowns
Nobody believed that he could win
But you’re gonna show ’em, they’ll see
Nobody believed that he could win
Go, Randy, go
You’re my friend
Go, Randy, go
You got a reason to live
Has Randy Newman really only written one melody for all his songs?
Go, Paul and Storm, go
You’re my friend
Heard you guys on Bob and Tom yesterday. Big time laughs were had in the car!
Movies I’d like to hear Randy’d:
1) Top Gun
2) Wedding Crashers
3) Rambo
4) Chasing Amy
5) This Is Spinal Tap
6) The Rock
7) Rocky IV
8) Tombstone
9) Cannonball Run
10) Days of Thunder
My suggestions … Arthur, Clerks, or Jaws.
A few more suggestions:
Dawn of the Dead
2010-A Space Odyssey
A Christmas Story
Gone with the Wind
Shawshank Redemption
The Dark Knight
Finally, there’s actually a movie I’ve seen! After “The Shining”, the next several movies (Cloverfield, The Big Lebowski, 300) were not ones I’ve actually seen, so the songs don’t mean much to me…I was starting to get discouraged there for a bit, until I saw that today’s was “The Crying Game.” Nice one. (Of course, I never actually saw “The Godfather” either — yes, I know, I know, I’m probably the only one on the planet — but pop culture references to it are everywhere, so I still liked the song even though I didn’t actually get the last line.)
As for movie suggestions, I still say you need to do “Serenity” — might help you get somewhere on Whedon Watch!
Also – that fan video of “Shame and Cookie Dough” is at the top of Mental_Floss’s weekend links! http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20558
I think it would be great if you did Saw or something. Or maybe something like Memento.
I second Serenity, and I’d like to add Tron, The Yellow Submarine, and The Host.
Shaun of the Dead
Shawshank Redemption
The Dark Knight
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Producers
Young Frankenstein
Duck Soup
I’m probably not the first to say so, but….Go Fight Club, Go.
OK. I thought that “Vampire. Vampire. Vampire…” was pretty funny, but I totally busted out laughing as soon as I heard the Stephen Hawking voice. Not to dis Storm’s great Newman impression, but for the sheet funny, that one’s the best one so far, IMHO.
Um, *sheer* funny. (Damn it.)
Go The Happening, Go…
Go The Aristocrats, Go…
Go Alex Hayley’s Roots, Go…
Oh, I definitely second Back To The Future. Would love to hear it. For some reason, I think Harold and Kumar would be hilarious too.
I want to see you take on “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.”
I’m sticking with Dr. Horrible’s Singalong Blog.
Wall-E
“W.”
Pulp Fiction
and I also think 2001 would be pretty epic.
Deliverance, Aliens, Der Utergang, or possibly Resivoir Dogs.
Go Gump, Forrest Gump Go! One of the best so far!
Boogie Nights.
I’d love Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind… fit that into the song
Go eternal sunshine of the spotless mind go… you don’t remember your reason to live
oooh and also planet of the apes
Ghost Dad
OldBoy
Milk
Empire Records
Sabrina
Still hoping for a Three Amigos Randy Newman theme.
I’d love to hear one for “Requiem for a Dream” or “Trainspotting”.
I totally vote for a Chamber of Commerce Theme. Or Randy Newman’s theme to the Supreme Court of the US. Or Six String Samurai. “Float away, little butterfly, just…flutter away.”
You get major groans for the Miracle Worker. (But now we can do our own Karaoke versions.)
Thank you. Thank you! THANK YOU! For A Brief History of Time. That one is my FAY-VOH-RIGHT!!!
PS, fellow Minions and Centurians of the Inner Sanctum Guard, check out Erik Deckers’ piece on 25DON – I’ve attached the link.
Try this link instead. It’s the Tuesday, December 9 entry.
hahahahahahahahahah! Miracle Worker! hahahahahahahaha!
On the one hand, kind of a cheat for you guys. On the other, massive funny!
I am proud to have figured out the surprise at the bottom of the bowl before I heard it.
But can she play pinball?
my suggestions…in no particular order.
Nell
Silence of the Lambs
Raising Arizona
Reservoir Dogs
Highlander
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Jingle All the Way
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
No Country For Old Men
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Life is Beautiful
Million Dollar Baby
Titanic
Rain Man
Dirty Harry
Im totally going to do a radio show with just these song and see how long people can listen to them over and over ^^
suggestion
1. sport movie like The Rocket
2. some sort of horror movie
3. the mummy
4. romeo and juliet
Genius, sirs…
I’m all for Shawshank.
or Usual Suspects?
or even a Muppet Movie…ha
Jason – great suggestions all. Kaiser SOSAY!!
I’m glad that the “go xxx, go” lines have shifted away from simply inserting the title of the films. I loved the Lord of the Rings and Passion of the Christ themes because they mentioned the characters, not the film titles. Not that they aren’t all generally brilliant little ditties, but the Stephen Hawking and Miracle Worker stand out so far – thank you Paul & Storm for being a couple of silly, silly bastiches.
Movies I’d like to hear (being a list of the most un-Randy-like films I can think of):
The Thing
Manos the Hands of Fate or Plan 9 from Outer Space or Evil Dead
Steel Magnolias
Kramer vs. Kramer
Misery
Akira
Yojimbo
Go Prosthetically Enhanced Marky Mark Go?
Randy Newman’s Theme to Stargate Continuum
Not since the haiku, Petrarch’s sonnets or Mason Williams’s Them Poems, I tell you. Keep ‘em comin’.
I know the request list must already be long – but I have one more vital than any single movie:
could you post your backing keyboard track? It’s the least you can do now that all intelligent Christmas road trips will be replacing the License Plate Game or Yes & Know books with impromptu group “Go, _______, Go” theme songs.
I cried at my desk laughing over The Miracle Worker! Thank you, thank you, for 25 DON!
Somewhat related: a theme song for the upcoming Jonathan Coulton-DVD – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Wu-_z7BmI – sung by an unprofessional singing person (i.e., me). Have fun, anyway!
Jutze
(seconds the Clerks-suggestion)
Did you just slam Paul Williams? Who slams Paul Williams? The star of Headless Body in Topless Bar?!?!
OK, I could see that. Well played
You must do 2001.
Or I will take your lives.
I 2nd the call for a Fight Club one…. thanks guys! You rock and rule!
Holy crap. Memento. Win, Paul and Storm. Win.
I was totally going to suggest doing Memento that way, but I couldn’t think of the name of the movie.
After a chat with the wife she says it’s ok for me to have a 4% crush on you guys for the Memento one:)
Now how about Run Lola Run for the next foray into non linear lyrics.
I am in agreeance with Roman and Jack. Memento-Randy-Newman = win.
Randy Newman Memento is brilliant.
You should do a Ghostbusters one.
Caligula
I didn’tthink anything could possibly beat the Memento one. I thought it should have been saved for last.
Then “go zombies go” happened. DotD very nearly edges out Memento from the top spot. Good follow-up.
Great closing comment on Dawn of the Dead!
After Day 25, can we have a poll for our favorite??
A Newman song every day PLUS “Dexter, The Credit Debt Badger”? Should we start to refer to you guys as prolific?
Fitting request:
24 Hours on TBS: A Christmas Story
I didn’t see The Goonies on here.
Um, I am surprised to not see anyone wanting a Newman’d Harry Potter.
Please to be getting on this.
GO HARRY GO.
Nice JoComage there at the end of DotD.
These are great. I’d like to suggest Monty Python and the Holy Grail… or for that matter, any Monty Python movie.
Schindler’s List really isn’t the kind of movie that ought to be spoofed in this way, is it?
Also, it wasn’t Spielberg putting the rock (or was it a flower?) on Schindler’s grave at the end, it was Liam Neeson.
I think that part of the humor in the 25 Days of Newman comes from the incongruity between Randy Newman’s style and these movies. Part of that ridiculousness comes from what pushes the bounds of good taste. Of course Schindler’s List shouldn’t be mocked, but I don’t think it is being mocked here. Would it have been a terrible choice for Spielberg to have had Newman write a Shindler’s List Theme Song like this one? Yes! It would have been horrible! That’s the whole point. That’s why it’s funny. And, of course, because I’ve explained why it’s funny, it won’t be funny to anybody anymore. I’m sorry, because this is funny.
Paul and Storm admit it’s a delicate subject in the song with the line, “Going to leave it right there. Already pushed our luck.”
lmao “hey you said you weren’t goign to eat my eyes??”
truley the best moment since the end of the muppets one.
Well done on the parting shot on Dawn of the Dead, well done indeed.
I saved up a bunch of Newmans for this morning. And by this morning, I mean the middle of the afternoon. And by a bunch of Newmans, I mean nigh all of them. But Muppets make everything right in my world, the Miracle Worker was so wrong and yet so right, and I take full credit for the Shawshank Redemption. You’re welcome.
Oooooh, and Memento. AWESOME.
My all time favorite movie! It’s just like those miserable psalms, always so depressing. Now knock it off!
Nice!!! Loved the ending for Dawn of the Dead there =D. Brief History of Time is another fav..keep it up guys!!
I also think A Christmas Story is one that needs to be done. C’mon you have a leg lamp made in Italy (it says Fragile on the box!) That’s just asking for a song.
I second Ginny’s suggestion of Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog.
You guys totally nailed Holy Grail! Thanks for taking my suggestion… truly a Festivus Miracle.
Yay, you did Serenity! Awesome! And you got a mention on Whedonesque, too (http://whedonesque.com/comments/18444); perhaps this will advance Whedon Watch!
You might want to put a spoiler warning on the page for the, like, 3 people who listen to you and haven’t actually seen the movie, though.
Proud to count myself among the *real* geeks.
You know, I was skeptical when you first announced the 25 Days of Newman, but I’m really enjoying it. Thanks for doing this, guys!
If you’re still taking movie suggestions, how about The Fifth Element, or Labyrinth (the one with Bowie)?
You guys should do Newman-a-Week. Look what Thing-a-Week did for JoCo. And you’ll never run out of new material.
“Princess Bride” and “Holy Grail” were two of my favorite movies as a wee and unpopular lass of six or seven, and I quoted them both incessantly, so the fact that all three of those qualifying points are in a Randy Newman song is awe-inducing, and also somewhat creepy.
Seriously, though, you two just fixed what had recently become a very shitty day. You rock, and thank you.
You two are brilliant. I love these!
I had the misfortune of sitting through Twilight recently, per se. and so I had to re-listen to your song. Yeah, it basically hits the nail on the head, per se.
Some last-minute suggestions:
Star Wars
The Matrix
Harry Potter
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Godzilla
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Clerks
Terminator
Aliens
Fight Club
This has been a most execellent month of music!
I second the Ghostbusters song!! If someone asks you if you’re a god Ray you say yes!!
Gentlemen, you have inspired me. In an uncharacteristic fit of creative fervor, I made my own Randy-Newman-style theme song for some guy you might know.
P.S. I can’t compete with Storm’s Randy Newman impression, so I didn’t even try.
P.P.S. I went and recorded a slightly different version. Both versions are here. OK, I’m done now. Really this time.
Colleen,
Beautifully done!
P&S, thanks for this.
Hee-hee! You called Peter Billingsley “Messy Marvin.” Thank you for that.
And thanks, Rhett.
Do I get lucky comment 100?
I just discovered that I must have seen A Christmas Story at some point… nothing on the wikipedia article about it seemed familiar, but I remember the thing about drinking Ovaltine.
In fact, I think it stuck in my mind because that’s the first time I’d ever heard of Ovaltine. By the way, it’s called Ovomaltine here in Switzerland, apparently there was some kind of typo when they started selling it to other countries.
Ovamaltine? In my head, I sing that just as Homer sings Sax-a-ma-phone.
Last one tomorrow. What could it be? Could we stick with the Christmas movie motif and go with a new classic like Elf? Or maybe this will be like that Christmas when we got our first bikes and we’ll get to unwrap a supersized version to encompass the entire Star Wars saga?
Ooooooo, I’m all a-twitter with anticipation. I’ll never be able to get to sleep. Better leave Milk and Cookies out for Paul and Storm!
I seriously hope the big finale will be Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog.
Sorry to spoil your Xmas wish, Roman; but no, it’s not.
It’s not Dr. Horrible, and it’s not Star Wars. It *is* already recorded, so last-minute requests will be to no avail. Beyond that, we will say no more.
The sooner you get to sleep, the sooner Santa will visit…
P&S.
It’s probably The Sound of Music, since that always seems to get played on Christmas Day.
@Paul and Storm It’s ok, I’m Jewish. No Xmas wish in the first place, thus nothing spoiled
Inspired by Colleenky, I’ve made a Randy Newman theme for Paul and Storm.
Gaaaah, need #25!!! I’ve been refreshing that damn page for a few hours now, hoping you would have put it up early like all the other ones. No such luck. : (
I’m making a CD with all of the tracks and giving it to Neil as part of his Christmas present from me, so that’s why I’m desperately hoping it’ll appear soon. That, and I’m impatient, and need some more PaulAndStormInspiredLaughs®™.
Besides… it’s TECHNICALLY Christmas here on the East Coast… you guys are such a tease!
…er, as soon I posted that comment I went back and checked the page one last time before going to bed, and there it was! That sure was fast!
Thanks guys!
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