{"id":807188,"date":"2020-05-07T05:47:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T11:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=995232"},"modified":"2020-05-07T05:47:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T11:47:33","slug":"randy-newman-performs-greatest-song-ever-written-stay-away-on-the-late-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/randy-newman-performs-greatest-song-ever-written-stay-away-on-the-late-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy Newman Performs \u2018Greatest Song Ever Written\u2019 \u2018Stay Away\u2019 on \u2018The Late Show\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-7.45.45-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>America\u2019s own troubadour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/randy-newman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_randy-newman\" data-tag=\"randy-newman\">Randy Newman<\/a> stopped by <em>The Late Show with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/stephen-colbert\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stephen-colbert\" data-tag=\"stephen-colbert\">Stephen Colbert<\/a><\/em> Wednesday night to perform his new quarantine tune, \u201cStay Away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are saying it\u2019s the greatest song ever written or that they\u2019ve heard,\u201d he says by way of introduction. \u201cA lot of people are saying it. I\u2019m not \u2014 it\u2019s they who are saying it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newman originally dropped the tune at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/randy-newman-covid-19-song-stay-away-980576\/\">beginning of April<\/a>, a simple song featuring his signature piano and croon. \u201cVenus in sweatpants\/That\u2019s who you are,\u201d he sings. \u201cAnd when this mess is over\/I\u2019ll buy you a car. \u2026 Stay away from me\/baby, keep your distance, please\/stay away from me\/words of love in times like these.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps best known for his sweetest hits \u2014 like \u201cYou\u2019re Got a Friend in Me\u201d from 1995\u2019s <em>Toy Story<\/em> and 2019\u2019s \u201cI Can\u2019t Let You Throw Yourself Away\u201d from <em>Toy Story 4<\/em> \u2014 Newman is no stranger to social commentary. In 1972 he dropped a tongue-in-cheek nuclear war anthem, \u201cPolitical Science,\u201d and the revamped 2017 version of \u201cIt\u2019s a Jungle Out There\u201d deals with Big Brother-esque surveillance. And that\u2019s only a small sampling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody stay safe,\u201d he says after his late-night performance. \u201cIt sounds simple and it is. Stay away, wash your hands, don\u2019t touch your face. Don\u2019t touch mine, either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We second that. Protect Randy Newman at all costs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/randy-newman-stay-away-colbert-995232\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s own troubadour Randy Newman stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Wednesday night to perform his new quarantine tune, \u201cStay Away.\u201d \u201cPeople are saying it\u2019s the greatest song ever written or that they\u2019ve heard,\u201d he says by way of introduction. \u201cA lot of people are saying it. I\u2019m not \u2014 it\u2019s they who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 21:32:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}