Randy Newman - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 3-6-1974

A couple of weeks ago (writing this in early November 2025), I posted a Randy Newman BBC album from 1978, and called it "BBC Sessions, Volume 1." I had heard of another BBC concert he did in 1974, but I looked high and low and couldn't find it anywhere. I'm happy to say it now has been found, and here it is. So that 1978 album has now been retitled "Volume 2."

The reason this has been found is due to a helper nicknamed Progsprog. This person has sent me a lot of very rare BBC material I plan on posting in the weeks to come. In this case, I had looked all over for this concert for a long time, so it was for all practical purposes out of public circulation. So an extra big thanks to him.

In 1974, Newman released the album "Good Old Boys," which was his critique of life in the Deep South region of the U.S. However, that album wasn't released until September 1974, and this concert took place in March. Still, he performed three songs from it, "Birmingham," "Marie," and "A Wedding in Cherokee County." 

The music here is unreleased (and very hard to find, up until now!). The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 32 minutes long. 

01 talk by Alan Black (Randy Newman)
02 Lover's Prayer (Randy Newman)
03 talk (Randy Newman)
04 You Can Leave Your Hat On (Randy Newman)
05 Marie (Randy Newman)
06 Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear (Randy Newman)
07 talk (Randy Newman)
08 I'll Be Home (Randy Newman)
09 talk (Randy Newman)
10 Birmingham (Randy Newman)
11 talk (Randy Newman)
12 A Wedding in Cherokee County (Randy Newman)
13 talk (Randy Newman)
14 Old Kentucky Home (Randy Newman)
15 talk (Randy Newman)
16 Political Science (Randy Newman)
17 Dayton, Ohio - 1903 (Randy Newman)
18 talk (Randy Newman)
19 I Think It's Gonna Rain Today (Randy Newman) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/MJCtF4iA 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/9k4Ezv70Jdo8jVW/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from an appearance on German TV in 1974.