Day 79: March 20: Glory Train

"I see some hard times coming, fire and wind and rain."

In the 90's, Randy Newman wrote a musical version of Faust.  With his tongue planted firmly in his cheek, he cut an all-star album starring James as the voice of God, Don Henley as Faust, Linda Ronstadt as Faust's love interest, Randy himself as the devil, Bonnie Raitt as the devil's love interest, and Elton John as angel Rick.  It's highly sacrilegious if not blasphemous in places, but the shots at an American version of God are often on target- and the head to head battle between James and Randy is the perfect combination of sweet and salty.  This is James' big number.

Glory Train

Here's the prettiest song in the show.  It had already shown up on the soundtrack to the John Travolta film Michael- but Randy recycled it here.

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