No pics or video allowed, so let's just let "God's Song" crush us all over again.

Randy Newman
Town Hall
Saturday, March 6

Better Than: James Franco, Anne Hathaway, and the whole lot.

There was a seven-year-old boy at the Randy Newman concert. He sat in Row O, between his parents. It made sense, I thought. Randy Newman, official composer for the Pixar films and a heckuva nice guy, should appeal to kids. He writes deceptively simple songs and is the sort of avuncular character who's never better than when spinning a yarn. Uncle Randy, 67 and still cracking wise. Only, the Boy in Row O was not amused.