Hi, this is Gilbert Godfrey. This is Gilbert Godfrey's amazing colossal podcast with my

co-hosts Frank Santopadre and we're once again recording at Nutmeg with our

engineer Frank Ferdarosa. We talk a lot about Renaissance men on this show but

our guest today truly fits the bill. He's a musician, songwriter, record producer,

pop singer, novelist, screenwriter and Tony winning dramatist and composer of

numerous Broadway productions including Curtain's Accomplist, Say Good Night Gracie,

a time to kill and a mystery of Edwin Drew. He's a two-time winner of the

Brecht Stigious Edgar Award for Best Mystery Writing and his 2003 novel Where the

Truth lies was adopted into a major motion picture starring Colin Firth and

Kevin Bacon. You want more? Okay. He also created Roadscore The Most Loved and

critically acclaimed AMC comedy drama series. Remember when his original songs

have been performed by and recorded by artists such as Betty Buckley, Blake

Shelton, Dolly Parton, Judy Collins, Dion Warwick, Britney Spears, Barry Manolo,

Barbara Streisand. He also arranged and conducted songs for Streisand's classic

1975 album Lazy Afternoon as well as five other albums and contributed songs

to the hit 1976 film A Star Is Born. Yet despite his many achievements, he's

proudly still best known as the singer-songwriter of several Billboard Top 10

singles including him and the number one platinum hip escape also known as the

Pina Colada song. Please welcome an artist the LA Times called an American

Treasure, the first person in theater history to win Tony Awards as an author

composer and lyricist and as far as we know the only man to ever write a hit

song about cannibalism. Rupert Holmes. After that intro, I just keep thinking of

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