All of the clips I’ve featured so far this week have been sung by somebody other than Randy Newman. And each of them should have been, in order to work best in the context of those films.
I can’t imagine ‘When She Loved Me’ working better in the Jesse montage than it does with Sarah McLachlan’s haunting soprano. ‘Our Town’ is perfect in the honey tones of James Taylor. ‘Almost There’ obviously had to be sung by the lead actress of The Princess and the Frog, and the Monsters Inc. duet was written expressly for Billy Crystal and John Goodman.
Meet Me In Montauk 