American singer-songwriter and pianist

Claude says:LA-born into a dynasty of Hollywood composers, Randy Newman made his name writing mordant, satirical songs sung in a drawling Southern accent by unreliable narrators — think "Short People" and "I Love L.A." — before pivoting hard into film scoring for Disney and Pixar in the '90s. For you, this is the Toy Story years: it clicked in early 2022 with a focused burst of plays from the first and fourth soundtracks, mostly "You've Got a Friend in Me" and its variations. Since then it's been a slow fade, just a stray play here and there across the past few years, but the Woody and Buzz chapter remains locked in.