Pete Yorn Rains on Farrellys

Los Angeles singer-songwriter Pete Yorn will cover the Albert Hammond hit "It Never Rains in Southern California" for the upcoming Farrelly brothers comedy Stuck on You.

Yorn is currently touring behind his second album, Day I Forgot, and plans to record the song on the road. "The guys in my band brought all this recording equipment, like old four-tracks and stuff," Yorn says. "We might just do it in a hotel room."

"Rains" was a Top Ten hit for Hammond, father of Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr., in 1972, and the following year he made it the title track of his debut solo record.

The film, starring Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear, is Yorn's second project with the Farrellys. Before his 2001 debut Musicforthemorningafter, Yorn got a break when the brothers used two of his songs in their 2000 movie, Me, Myself and Irene, starring Jim Carrey as a man with a split personality.

Damon and Kinnear have a different kind of problem in Stuck on You, expected in theaters by the end of the year. "It opens and you just see their heads," Yorn says. "They're walking down the street, 'Yo, what did you do last night, man?' 'Yo, I hooked up the hottest chick.' 'Cool, Did you get lucky?' And the camera starts panning down . . . and you realize they're Siamese twins."

KAREN BLISS
(May 12, 2003)