Just for fun, here’s a great little clip of Randy Newman from 1978.

Probably the happiest memories of my college years were waiting for the summer classes to clear out of Fordham, and then trying to teach myself Randy Newman classics on a spare Yamaha upright. A whole empty building, sweltering in the Bronx, and me banging around and yelping through “Short People,” “Old Man,” and “You Can Leave Your Hat On.” A crappy Mercury Sable waiting to take me home later that night.