A well-known name as a hit songwriter and soundtrack composer, think Paul Williams, Andy Pratt and Gilbert O`Sullivan. Starting in the business as an arranger at legendary R&B label King Records, Randy Edelman went on to be a staff writer for April/Blackwood music, and to hone his skills in musical theatre in Broadway pit orchestras of many a great production of the early 1970`s...subsequently, Randy started recording his own albums, touring them, working with artists as diverse as Mark Wirtz, The Carpenters, and Frank Zappa. Meanwhile, as a writer his songs were being recorded by The 5th Dimension, Olivia Newton-John, Patti LaBelle, The Carpenters, Jackie DeShannon, Blood Sweat and Tears, and Bing Crosby! Not to mention Barry Manilow, whose cover of "Weekend In New England" brought Randy to mainstream pop attention in the UK and Europe! But what we have here is the man and his pianowhat it says on the tin, a selection of his own favourites, hits and non-hits, performed in intimate, stripped down style...one would be tempted to use the 1980`s cliche "Unplugged"...but how does one unplug a piano? Randy Edelman then, a classic songwriter re-presented, a classic songwriter. This CD takes the songs back to the writer, with Edelman just playing the songs as they had originally been written by him......just a man and his piano.
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