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No more Peenee Coladas
Think it's kind of interesting that the Goose travel people have fixed their terrible initial radio ad where the announcer says pee nee colada.
The ad has been redone with an announcer who has a smooth deep voice as opposed to the initial lighter voice, and the stupid mispronounced classic cocktail drink.
Also the new ad features a produced jingle.
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newsguy1 wrote:
Think it's kind of interesting that the Goose travel people have fixed their terrible initial radio ad where the announcer says pee nee colada.
The ad has been redone with an announcer who has a smooth deep voice as opposed to the initial lighter voice, and the stupid mispronounced classic cocktail drink.
Also the new ad features a produced jingle.
I noticed this fix as well, but the damage is done, I still think Peenee Coladas!
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Think it's kind of interesting that the Goose travel people have fixed their terrible initial radio ad where the announcer says pee nee colada.
The ad has been redone with an announcer who has a smooth deep voice as opposed to the initial lighter voice, and the stupid mispronounced classic cocktail drink.
Also the new ad features a produced jingle.
I noticed this fix as well, but the damage is done, I still think Peenee Coladas!
I wondered if I was the only person who thought it was awful. What's interesting is I heard it multiple times and I didn't even remember who/what the ad was for until I read the above...all I could 'hear' was the stupid pronunciation...
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I figured Rupert Holmes had died 
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
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I figured Rupert Holmes had died
Actually he is very much alive. He will turn 78 in February 2025. His music career? Not so much. Of the 18 singles he released from 1974-80, only two made the Hot 100 Top 10. Escape [#1] and Him [#6] He does have the distinction of having the last Number One song of the 1970's.
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What's worse?
Peenee Colada song, or getting Rick Rolled? 🤔
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I figured Rupert Holmes had died
Actually he is very much alive. He will turn 78 in February 2025. His music career? Not so much. Of the 18 singles he released from 1974-80, only two made the Hot 100 Top 10. Escape [#1] and Him [#6] He does have the distinction of having the last Number One song of the 1970's.
Let's not forget his all time greatest composition - "Timothy" by the Buoys, an upbeat, bouncy, singalong tune that just happened to be about cannibalism.
When parents finally caught on, the group tried to claim the "food' the trapped miners had eaten was a donkey named Timothy. Nobody bought that explanation, and it's believed to be the only song on that subject to ever make it into the Top 20. (It peaked at #17 on Billboard in 1970.)
What a great tune and still one of my all time favourites. That's Holmes playing piano on the song.
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And before "Timothy", Holmes hit the top 40 as lead singer of the studio group Street People with "Jennifer Tomkins", which reached #36 on Billboard and #12 on CHUM.
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And before "Timothy", Holmes hit the top 40 as lead singer of the studio group Street People with "Jennifer Tomkins", which reached #36 on Billboard and #12 on CHUM.
Another great song and one I have in my collection.
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I believe Timothy was a hit in 1971, It reached #17 on Billboard in April '71 and number #2 on CHUM April 24 and May 1st. I remember once during the controversy of the song, a CHUM jock extroing at the fade of Timothy saying "Is it soup yet..?" I laughed since there was a popular TV commercial at the time for Lipton cup-a-soup where a little kid asks his mom if it was soup yet after she poured hot water in the cup.
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"Timothy" was indeed a hit on Billboard and CHUM in 1971, but it came out in February 1970 and charted in many places that year as well. From one of the comments at 45cat.com:
The chart life in the US of Timothy is one that certainly is out of the ordinary. There are #1 Billboard records whose chart life on the Billboard Hot 100 was 10 weeks or LESS. Timothy spent 17 total weeks on the official Hot #100 not including the gaps where it fell off the chart. It ended 1971 as the #87 song of the year.
Timothy was issued by Scepter in February of 1970 with little or no fanfare and promotion. It immediately was a hit in their hometown of Wilkes-Barre, PA. Every month from then until the end of 1970, it charted in different parts of the US. February and March in PA, April in PA and GA, May in PA, June, July August, and September NY, October UT and CO, November and December in CT and UT (and those are only the locales listed on ARSA chart website). All of this activity without ever entering the Billboard Hot 100.
Finally, on January 2, 1971, it generated enough activity to debut on the Hot 100 at #93. 11 months after it was released. The very next week it fell off the Hot 100....for 4 weeks it did not chart and resurfaced on the 2/6/71 Hot 100 at #100. For only one week. It fell off the chart again for two weeks. It resurfaced again on 2/27/71 at #99. It then started its climb as word of mouth spread about this unconventional disc.
The climb was faster at that point: 99-95-73-67-64-42-41-32-26-17-17-19-19-30-32, losing and gaining its "bullet" many times. Definitely the most talked about record in 1971...
The disc was never "resissued." it was simple matter of different parts of the country started playing the disc which generated the sales. This will always be one of my favorite 70s records.