And the Hi this is Gilbert Godford's amazing colossal podcast with my co-host Frank Santo

Padre and we're once again recording at Nutmeg with our engineer Frankfurterosa.

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 Curtains

Accomplished Say Good Night, Gracey, a time-to-kill and a mystery of Edwin

Drew. He's a two-time winner of the British Stidges Edgar Award for Best Mystery

Writing and his 2003 novel Where the Truth Lies was adopted into a major motion picture starring Colin

Firsts and Kevin Bacon. You want more? Okay. He also created Rhodes

scored the most loved and critically acclaimed by artists such as Betty Buckley, Blake Shelton, Dolly Pardon, Judy Collins,

Dion Warwick, Brittany Spears, Barry Manilow, Barbara Strisean, he also arranged and conducted songs for Strisean'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 probably still best known

as the singer-songwriter of several Billboard top 10 singles including him and the number one

platinum hit 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 people listening and saying wow this is going to be

amazing I wonder who it is I wonder who it is and now you say Rupert Holmes

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