Rupert Holmes - Cast of Characters: The Rupert Holmes Songbook [5CD Limited Edition Box Set] (2005)

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Artist: Rupert Holmes
Title: Cast of Characters: The Rupert Holmes Songbook
Year Of Release: 2005
Label: Hip-O Select
Genre: Soft Rock, Pop Rock, AOR
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 6:37:53
Total Size: 914 mb / 2.55 gb
WebSite: Album Preview

Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Loudon Wainwright III and Rupert Holmes all share the distinction of having a song grow to such epic proportions that it casts a career-wide shadow. But even before liking piña coladas and getting caught in the rain became a national pastime, Rupert Holmes had a successful career as producer, performer and songwriter. In fact, the New York Times called Holmes "one of the world's greatest storytellers in song." Over the course of seven years, Holmes released seven albums on five different labels. All of them are included on this box, as well as a Japanese-only album called Scenario from 1994. As if that weren't special enough, we've also compiled a disc of rarities to go along with the album reissues. Add to that extensive liner notes, rare photographs, a flotilla of song lyrics, and notes from the artist himself, and you have a truly dazzling package. All of the discs have been painstakingly remastered in 2005, and approved by Rupert. In fact, he went back into the studio and cut four songs especially for this release, including his version of the only charting song that had cannibalism as its subject: "Timothy." He also performs a version of a hit he wrote for the Partridge Family, "Echo Valley 2-6809." After four successful Broadway shows and multiple Tony Awards, and creating and writing 56 episodes of the critically-acclaimed television series Remember WENN, Holmes is currently promoting his latest novel, Swing, published in March by Random House. [The New York Times called it "smart and impressively elaborate."] His first novel, Where The Truth Lies (recently released in paperback), has been made into a film starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Atom Egoyan. After its recent Cannes debut, the film was lauded as “terrific” by Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times and “a big, slick and sexy mystery” by Ray Bennett of the Hollywood Reporter.

:: TRACKLIST ::

Chapter One - Disc 1

Widescreen (1974 Album)
1 Widescreen
2 Terminal
3 Second Saxophone
4 Phantom Of The Opera
5 Talk
6 Bagdad
7 Our National Pastime
8 Letters That Cross In The Mail
9 Soap Opera
10 Psycho Drama

Rupert Holmes (1975 Album)
11 Too Scared To Sing
12 Brass Knuckles
13 You Burned Yourself Out
14 Deco Lady
15 I Don't Want To Hold Your Hand
16 Rifles And Rum
17 Studio Musician
18 Everything Gets Better When You're Drunk
19 The Man Behind The Woman
20 The Place Where Failure Goes

Chapter Two - Disc 2

Singles (1976 Album)
2-1 Who What When Where Why
2-2 Weekend Lover
2-3 I Don't Want To Get Over You
2-4 You Make Me Real
2-5 Aw Shucks
2-6 The Last Of The Romantics
2-7 For Beginners Only
2-8 Touch And Go
2-9 Annabella
2-10 Singles

Pursuit Of Happiness (1978 Album)
2-11 Less Is More
2-12 Show Me Where It Says
2-13 Speechless
2-14 Cradle Me
2-15 So Beautiful It Hurts
2-16 Let's Get Crazy Tonight
2-17 Bedside Companions
2-18 Guitars
2-19 The Long Way Home
2-20 Town Square
2-21 The Old School

Chapter Three - Disc 3

Partners In Crime (1979 Album)
3-1 Escape (The Colada Song)
3-2 Partners In Crime
3-3 Nearsighted
3-4 Lunch Hour
3-5 Drop It
3-6 Him
3-7 Answering Machine
3-8 The People That You Never Get To Love
3-9 Get Outta Yourself
3-10 In You I Trust

Adventure (1980 Album)
3-11 Adventure
3-12 The Mask
3-13 Blackjack
3-14 The O'Brien Girl
3-15 Crowd Pleaser
3-16 You'll Love Me Again
3-17 Cold
3-18 Morning Man
3-19 I Don't Need You
3-20 Special Thanks

Chapter Four - Disc 4

Full Circle (1981 Album)
4-1 The End
4-2 Loved By The One You Love
4-3 Perfect
4-4 You Remind Me Of You
4-5 The One Of Us
4-6 Full Circle
4-7 How Do You Do
4-8 Love At Second Sight
4-9 My Lover's Keeper
4-10 One Born Every Minute

Scenario (1994 Album)
4-11 Business As Usual
4-12 The Eighties Never Happened
4-13 Info Superhighway
4-14 The Big Ride
4-15 Straight To The Brain
4-16 Limo
4-17 The Hurting Part
4-18 So Far So Good
4-19 You Don't Get It
4-20 If Love Made Sense

Appendix - Disc 5
5-1 Remember When
5-2 Timothy
5-3 Jennifer Tomkins
5-4 Echo Valley - 26809
5-5 You Make It Christmas
5-6 Queen Bee
5-7 Everything
5-8 Love Out Of Time
5-9 The One Of Us
5-10 Song Of A Simple Man
5-11 No One Ever Dies
5-12 Lullaby For Myself
5-13 I Knew You When
5-14 Philly
5-15 Magic Trick
5-16 Walkaway
5-17 The Law Of The Jungle
5-18 No Small Affair
5-19 Perfect Strangers (Love Theme From The Mystery Of Edwin Drood) [Featuring – Rita Coolidge]
5-20 Touch And Go [Featuring – Rita Coolidge]
5-21 I’ll Believe It When I See It
5-22 Am I Crazy Or What?
5-23 You Got It All (Over Him)
5-24 Hi Honey, I'm Home!
5-25 My Son

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