European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Randy Newman Newman on his hit in still waiting for it to make me by Peter Bover associated press Randy Newman has Long been a pop music buzzing our ears with satires on the cruel and usual ways of singing Gruff voiced novel songs that Lampoon prejudice and ignorance and other bad the outs Ted characters Newman nukes Are usually such Complete buffoons that we have to laugh at in much the same Way that Norman Lear would have us laugh at Archie Newman needled fascists with his sail away in which a callous slave trader asks africans to come to America where they can drink wine and sing about Jesus and yellow a bigots raving about the inferiority of he ridiculed Yankee hypocrites with his in which Southern Blacks were invited to come up North where they be free to be put in a Cage in to be put in a Cage in Roxbury in to be put in a Cage in East it All worked and Newman became one of pops few major figures who could repeatedly get away with message rare in this Day of Shaun each new album was eagerly awaited by the relatively Small but hardcore group of Newman it that until one of Newman Craty tales became Short people is Randy newmans first real Success in the am and its left folks both amused and confused with lyrics such As these they got Little baby Tegi and they hand to you not to Picoc pm up dial to toy they got utter cart that go beep they Gottli tilt Vaices going they Gat entity Uttke and dirty Little there Gonna get you every a ridiculous Little but How folks Gal two stations in Boston refused to play the song be cause of a flood of Calls and letters nun listeners who thought it was the moot7 station manager of both stations explained thai children might begin to see themselves As Creepy after Reading that his song had been banned in Newman who 5 foot by the Way laughed and 1 dont understand this is really surprising to it seems so obvious thai the songs so overdrawn and the fact thai they could think anybody com really think like that a its As a theres some big Peoples Guild and there out to gel Little its then there Are those fans understanding their favorite artists have interpreted the song As being a satire on shortsighted people spiritual you might again Newman television How with a Guy who kept wanting me to say the song was about the of people toward inert what narrow mindedness there int any prejudice against abort if newmans Short people seems a self comes up Short a message song so absurd it makes you want to laugh at message the tune is a and its the first time Newman has seen of his songs in the pop its a big and that surprises but in still Wall ing for it to make me who first became known for writing the three dog night mama told me not to says Hes bothered by the scrutiny Short people has been subjected to and you get the feeling he almost misses the relative anonymity he enjoyed when the Only people heard his music were folks who knew what to some of those other songs i did worried me i thought i might have some problems with can you imagine what would have happened if one of those had gotten As Tat As this one id have gotten killed i guess Yon could Cay i was Calkin it it led Wmk hmm time uhf but giving the tone then thai Seri Ooi an import u giving u Justice u do Cut 1 did a motherhood a Haney her my probes the Mother daughter relationship and finds among other a woman relationship with her Mother forms the Bond from which women identities take shape and their sexual selves Are another finding Mother love in t always As perfect As its cracked up to commenting on the confused Chicago Friday said what she Felt was pure we All feel it in cer Tain because were afraid of losing our Moth 1 Friday its her real who at 40 is As slim and maa was recently in apartment she shares with her William a fellow or he a such in answer to a question that a lot Eole have been asking Ber Shete or that mothers and daughters Friday probing the n by Judy Klemesrud new York when Nancy Friday was in Chicago recently met a distraught a spearow woman who said she was considering calling off her engagement because her isotherm didst like the Young Man she deeply loved and planned to you Friday has become something of an expert on Mother daughter relationships few Yelbra to More than 300 across the centry experts in psychiatry and sociology one of the biggest mistakes mothers she said is trying to Orect a in rom Rutlt is trying to act a of perfect Mother love binds daughter to their she we go Home to visit and etes la told Datton Page 12 the stars and stripes to Friday a hated this kind of Mother Daugh tottered Friday talk she got the idea Lor her Book la Jam
