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Re: Love Songs You Love
As a not-so-closeted Rupert Holmes fan, I'm glad to see the clarifications of the earlier songlist errors, and may I recommend that folks pick up a copy of his first album, "Widescreen," which has been reissued on CD a couple of times with bonus material. The man created some brilliant "little movies in song form," and this album has several of his best, written years before he decided to shift to shorter pop hits. His skills as an arranger also shine on this disc, which is what led Barbra Streisand to hire him as arranger/producer on a couple of her albums.
Then there are his two humorous murder-mystery novels, "Where the Truth Lies" (made into a film by Atom Egoyan) and "Swing" (note to Scrivener & 1stwahine: much of it takes place on Treasure Island); his Broadway musical based on an unfinished Dickens novel (where the audience gets to decide whodunnit - and the show has six different endings to accomodate the vote), "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"; as well as a one-man show about George Burns, "Say Goodnight, Gracie"; and several other plays. Oh, and the TV series "Remember WENN," about a pre-WWII radio station, a show that ran on AMC for four seasons. Plus about a dozen albums, some music for TV shows, and so on.
He's been a busy man - and he's a charming guy, too.
As a not-so-closeted Rupert Holmes fan, I'm glad to see the clarifications of the earlier songlist errors, and may I recommend that folks pick up a copy of his first album, "Widescreen," which has been reissued on CD a couple of times with bonus material. The man created some brilliant "little movies in song form," and this album has several of his best, written years before he decided to shift to shorter pop hits. His skills as an arranger also shine on this disc, which is what led Barbra Streisand to hire him as arranger/producer on a couple of her albums.
Then there are his two humorous murder-mystery novels, "Where the Truth Lies" (made into a film by Atom Egoyan) and "Swing" (note to Scrivener & 1stwahine: much of it takes place on Treasure Island); his Broadway musical based on an unfinished Dickens novel (where the audience gets to decide whodunnit - and the show has six different endings to accomodate the vote), "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"; as well as a one-man show about George Burns, "Say Goodnight, Gracie"; and several other plays. Oh, and the TV series "Remember WENN," about a pre-WWII radio station, a show that ran on AMC for four seasons. Plus about a dozen albums, some music for TV shows, and so on.
He's been a busy man - and he's a charming guy, too.
and it could have been done without the sarcastic smiley you added.
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