“It’s fine to enjoy ‘You’ve Got a Friend in Me,’ but the greatness of Randy Newman, his real legacy, are all the brilliant songs he’s written about the shortcomings of the American ...

A biography of the singer behind “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” and “Short People” considers a complicated man with a satirical edge.

In the video, Batiste and Newman are sitting at a piano singing “You’ve Got a Friend in Me”, Newman’s hit song from the movie Toy Story. In the tease’s caption, Batiste told his ...