Good morning, NTSIBbers, and welcome to the first installment of Name That Face. It’s a new thing I’m doing, inspired by some of the epic and sometimes (often) ridiculous mistakes I’ve made over the years in confusing one artist with another for a wide variety of reasons. If you’ve got any suggestions (or puzzles you’d like solved), drop me an an email.
Up today: Randy Travis and Randy Newman.
This is Randy Travis. He started out playing country music in the early ’80s and apparently switched to gospel in the late ’90s but then swung back around to secular tunes again in 2008. Here I give you my two favorite songs: Diggin’ up Bones , from Storms of Life (1986) and Forever and Ever, Amen, from Always & Forever(1987).
http://youtu.be/VXjYB9tt7yQ
http://youtu.be/BLxhbxh6kMY
And this is Randy Newman, who has been specializing in pop music and movie scores since the early ’70s, and who I have repeatedly confused with Randy Travis for reasons inexplicable even to me.
The best I can do is it’s possible I decided that Randy Travis looked kind of like the cowboy in Toy Story and also absorbed the idea that someone named Randy had done the theme song for the film, and thus began conflating the two, even though they neither look nor sound anything alike.
In any case, here is Mr. Newman with You’ve Got a Friend in Me, from Toy Story, and I Love L.A., from Trouble in Paradise.
http://youtu.be/LXARdPb4YBs
http://youtu.be/BBOQiMxwk1o
