Rupert Holmes. That's what I thought back in the late 70's. Oh, initially I had heard the tune "Let's Get Crazy Tonight" - and thought it might be Barry. No, but I liked it anyway. (Did think he was a Barry wannabe, though.) Then one day when reading credit notes on Barry's Live Album realized that it was that very Rupert Holmes that wrote "Studio Musician"! BARRY was singing one of HOLMES' songs! I kinda always hoped they would have collaborated more. Still do.
If you ever do listen to some of Rupert Holmes' lyrics, however, his cast of characters do have an edge to them. He did go on to theater and t.v. - which does make sense. Still, I'd absolutely love to pair up Manilow and Holmes to write something or put something out there.
Anyway - for time being there is a rare video of Rupert on YouTube. ONE of him. (There's this horrible stick figure video made to the tune of "Escape" there as well.) I didn't upload this particular video, know all about the copyright issues, etc. - but golly, having never known this even existed cut, copied, and pasted the embed code to share.
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Thank you for sharing this gem. You made me a little smarter tonight!!!
Thanks Cherrie! If you can, try to seek out and give some of Rupert's tunes a listen. After listening, I can see how his characters in a song are storywriting, etc. Some of them aren't always doing the right thing (as in "Terminal"), "Timothy" was about - well, maybe you need to check out that one and figure that one out on your own. (Even Dave Barry at one time wrote about Holmes' "Timothy" song.)
I actually learned a bit more regarding ol' Rupert after discovering the YouTube video. Went to that web site and was please to read about the books and fully intend on purchasing a book and seeing what it is like.
Here's a case where YouTube resparked some memories and interest and ca-ching, a sale.
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