The view of the river is what helped to sell Holmes on the house. We chat in the cozy seating area of his downstairs music studio, complete with a baby grand piano and a piano bench from the late Marvin Hamlisch, his collaborator on the show The Nutty Professor. Holmes and his wife had moved there for a fresh start after the sudden death of their daughter Wendy at age 10 in A short while after our interview, Holmes moved again, to his house here in Cold Spring, so that his severely autistic son Timothy, now 30, could qualify for an adult residence program in a nearby center for individuals with autism.
Holmes and his wife, Liza, a White Plains attorney, also have a year-old filmmaker son, Nicholas, who lives in Brooklyn. Other tropical drinks were considered for the famous line, including the daiquiri and Mai Tai.
Taco Bell used the song — with changed lyrics — in an advertising campaign. The last decade has been an exceptionally busy one for the prolific musician; indeed, five years ago, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers awarded him its prestigious George M.
Cohan Awar d for the diversity and depth of his career. So does Holmes get paid every time the song airs? Does that bother Holmes? What Men Want. Like Father. Deadpool 2. The Nice Guys. Guardians of the Galaxy. The song shot up through the charts, becoming the last number-one Billboard Hot hit of the s.
Although some sources list this song as the first number-one hit of the s, this is not true; the first chart of that decade, dated on January 5, , was topped by " Please Don't Go " by KC and the Sunshine Band. This version, "The Law of The Jungle", was released as part of his Cast of Characters box set, and were inspired by a want-ad he read while idly scanning the personals one day.
As Holmes put it, "I thought, what would happen to me if I answered this ad? I'd go and see if it was my own wife who was bored with me. The chorus originally started with "if you like Humphrey Bogart ", which Holmes changed at the last minute, replacing the actor with the name of the first exotic cocktail he could think of. When Rupert recorded the vocal, he did it just once as a scratch track for his lead guitarist, Dean Bailin.
He also ad-libbed a harmony track a third above himself on the chorus, then left the song and came back the next day to record the proper vocal. When he came back to do the perfect vocal, he could not get the energy, excitement and enthusiasm he had singing it that one time straight through.
Holmes regards the song with a mixture of pride and chagrin: while it has made him wealthy and famous, as one of his friends described it, it is "the success that ruined his career", [ citation needed ] drawing too much attention from his more serious musical works.
Ultimate Pop Culture Wiki Explore. To be able to read a personal ad in a newspaper, you need to be a reader of that newspaper. Personal ads make more sense in a local newspaper than a national one; who wants to travel miles to bond over a common hatred of yoga?
So I needed to know how many local newspapers were sold when the song came out — a figure which, usefully, is collected and published online by the World Advertising Research Centre.
The internet might be killing journalism, but it does come in handy sometimes. About 2. Newspaper advertising research tends to assume about 2. Given the UK population at the time was Hang on a minute, you may say. How the hell do we know which ones liked pina coladas?
Let alone getting caught in the rain, and the feel of the ocean? Miraculously, I was able to persuade the polling company YouGov to put these questions to the public in a way that would generate serious answers. This means we ask the correct number of old, young, middle class, working class [people].
These are low figures for an iconic cocktail: the sweet pineapple, rum and coconut drink is also the signature cocktail of Puerto Rico, with its own national day. Our poll had to be split into five different questions, reworded from the original personal ad, with answers presented in random orders — mainly to make sure people gave a genuine response to each, rather than piecing together the lyrics of the song. Some things needed a tweak. After that, we just had to see how many men in our sample matched each aspect of the song.
This gave us the answer to how many men living in Northwich and reading the paper would see the ad and be interested: I knew the actual chances. What about that improbable happy ending? Instead of being shocked and hurt by their mutual attempts at infidelity, the pair simply laugh about it.
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