Listen "Randy Kaplan (Orbits and Vanishing Points)"
Episode Synopsis
Some songs and their writers get to you by degrees. Some creep up on your consciousness, a verse here, a chorus there. Others land on your world in a song. That’s all it takes. It’s not a lot, and then it’s everything. In this episode, songwriter Randy Kaplan and I talk about the moment his song “Slow Eater” landed in my world, and then we unpack a lifetime of incredible moments, from Los Angeles and coming up with luminaries like Dan Bern and Andras Jones to a career on TV, including ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ scenes with Jennifer Aniston in ’Ferris Bueller,’ and more. And that’s just scratching the surface.Clips in this episode: Slow Eater (Randy Kaplan, ‘Boyish Hips’) - 1997 Tootsie Roll (Randy Kaplan, ‘Perfect Gentleman’) - 2004Crushed Berries (Randy Kaplan, ‘Miraculous Dissolving Cures’) - 2001Shampoo Me (Randy Kaplan, ‘Five Cent Piece’) - 2006Mosquito Song (Randy Kaplan, ‘Five Cent Piece’) - 2006 Candy Man Blues (Randy Kaplan, ‘Shake It and Break It’) - 2019Beauty and the Beast (‘Snow’ d. Gus Trikonis) - 1989Ferris Bueller (‘Without You I’m Nothing' d. Steve Dubin) - 1990I’m Not Hungry (Randy Kaplan, ‘Boyish Hips’) - 1997Live Tigers (Randy Kaplan, ‘Boyish Hips’) - 1997Angel Eyes (Frank Sinatra, ‘Sings for Only the Lonely’) - 1958Sad to Be Happy (Randy Kaplan, ‘Songs for Old Lovers’) - 2011Volunteers (Randy Kaplan, ‘Miraculous Dissolving Cures’) - 2001
More episodes of the podcast All Your Days
Lach Pt. 1 (Fortresses and Scenes)
14/11/2023
Sam Shaber - Pt. 2 (Devastations and Beauty)
31/10/2023
Tim Mason (Rooms and Riches)
18/07/2023
Rafat Ali (Left Turns and Right Turns)
11/07/2023
Gift Kiti (Journeys and Good Fortune)
04/07/2023
ZARZA We are Zarza, the prestigious firm behind major projects in information technology.