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Good Old Boys is the fourth studio album by American musician Randy Newman, released on September 10, 1974, on Reprise Records, catalogue number 2193. It was Newman's first album to obtain major commercial success, peaking at number 36 on the Billboard 200 and number 58 in Canada . [ 1 ]
The Good Old Boys is a 1995 American Western television film directed by Tommy Lee Jones and written by Jones and J.T. Allen, based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Elmer Kelton. [1] Jones stars alongside Terry Kinney , Frances McDormand , Sam Shepard , Sissy Spacek , Wilford Brimley , and Matt Damon .
The Good Old Boys, a 1995 TV movie directed by Tommy Lee Jones; Good Old Boys (Randy Newman album), 1974; Good Old Boys (John Hartford album), 1999 "Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys)", 1980 single by Waylon Jennings; Good Ol' Boys, a 1994 album from The Bob & Tom Show; The Good Ol' Boys, a fictional band featured in The Blues Brothers
Newman has called "Rednecks" one of his favorite compositions. He said he wrote the song after watching Maddox's appearance with Cavett and "seeing him be treated rudely... they had just elected him governor, in a state of 6 million or whatever, and if I were a Georgian, I would have been offended, irrespective of the fact that he was a bigot and a fool."
The song is written in the style of a lament, and is performed at a slow tempo. Newman's original version on the album "Good Old Boys" starts out with strings playing the introduction melody, followed by vocals and piano by Newman with the band. Strings are heard throughout the song.
In November 1980, "Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys)" became Jennings' twelfth #1 country hit overall (tenth as a solo recording act). The song spent seventeen weeks on the Billboard country singles charts and became his biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100 , peaking at #21. [ 2 ]
For all the violence in “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” (and there’s plenty), the fourth entry in a near-30-year-old franchise, the movie feels like a safe space for Will Smith, a strategic retreat ...
In a 1995 New York Times piece, Newman said that he was first inspired to create a work based on Goethe's Faust in the 1970s, after a first reading of the play. [1] However, during a 2014 staging of the show at the New York City Center, Newman said onstage that "[Goethe's] Faust, of course, is a masterpiece: I read the classic comic book, and I concur.” [2]