{"id":105,"date":"2018-12-23T00:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottowensshow.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2018-12-23T00:00:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T05:00:55","slug":"rupert-holmes-only-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Holmes&#8217; Only #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most underrated talents of the 70s was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rupert_Holmes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Rupert Holmes<\/strong><\/a>. He first came to my attention when I got a hold of his 1974 album &#8220;Widescreen&#8221;, a collection of musical stories that had great lyrics and even better music. That one never got traction and it wasn&#8217;t until this week in 1979 that he had his only number one with &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Escape_(The_Pi%C3%B1a_Colada_Song)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Escape &#8211; The Pina Colada Song<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>What is less known is that he was the driving force behind the band <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Buoys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bouys<\/a><\/strong>. Holmes convinced Scepter Records to give them a one-single contract. The label refused to promote the band, so Holmes tried to think of an angle that would get them some viral publicity. He landed on writing a tune that would get The Bouys &#8220;banned&#8221; from airplay, thus generating major buzz. He wrote a tune that hinted at cannibalism and that did the trick, ultimately getting The Bouys&#8217; one hit, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timothy_(song)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Timothy<\/a>&#8221; on the charts. It peaked at #17 in February of 1970.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/ii1FGESbxO8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most underrated talents of the 70s was Rupert Holmes. He first came to my attention when I got a hold of his 1974 album &#8220;Widescreen&#8221;, a collection of musical stories that had great lyrics and even better music. That one never got traction and it wasn&#8217;t until this week in 1979 that he had his only number one with &#8220;Escape &#8211; The Pina Colada Song&#8220;. What is less known is that he was the driving force behind the band The Bouys. Holmes convinced Scepter Records to give them a one-single contract. The label refused to promote the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}