Randy Newman

Randall Stuart Newman born November 28 1943 is an American singersongwriter arranger composer and pianist known for his Southernaccented singing style early Americanainfluenced soul songs often with mordant or satirical lyrics and various film scores His bestknown songs as a recording artist are Short People 1977 I Love LA 1983 and Youve Got a Friend in Me 1995 while other artists have enjoyed more success with cover versions of his Mama Told Me Not to Come 1966 I Think Its Going to Rain Today 1968 and You Can Leave Your Hat On 1972 Description above from the Wikipedia article Randy Newman licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia