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"Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" is a song written and performed by British-American singer-songwriter Rupert Holmes taken from his fifth studio album Partners in Crime (1979). As the lead single for the album, the pop song was recommended by Billboard for radio broadcasters on September 29, 1979, [ 4 ] then added to prominent US radio ...
Rupert Holmes (born David Goldstein; February 24, 1947) is a British-American composer, singer-songwriter, dramatist and author. He is widely known for the hit singles " Escape (The Piña Colada Song) " (1979) and " Him " (1980).
Partners in Crime is the fifth studio album by British-American singer-songwriter and musician Rupert Holmes, released on August 5, 1979.The album was Holmes's most commercially successful record and includes all three of Holmes's solo top 40 hits: "Him", "Answering Machine", and "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)".
Award-winning composer and writer Rupert Holmes outside his home in Cold Spring, New York, in 2023. "All Things Equal," on its second national tour, visits the Count Basie Center for the Arts in ...
Rupert Holmes has written hit songs, a Broadway smash, a TV show and mystery novels including 'Murder Your Employer.' His work is still about 'escape.' If you like piña coladas, you might enjoy ...
Holmes had always expected "Him" to be the lead-off single to Partners in Crime, but after record executives heard the album, they concluded that "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)", a song Holmes composed mainly as album filler and never expected to be a single, would be a major hit. After "Escape" proved to be a major hit, "Him" was released as ...
Holmes, a singer-songwriter who recorded the Billboard No. 1 Hit, "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" and wrote songs for the Platters, the Drifters, Wayne Newton, Dolly Parton, Barry Manilow, and Barbra Streisand, first became interested in writing a musical in 1983.
The cocktail gained worldwide fame after Rupert Holmes' 1979 song, "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)", became an international hit. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Piña coladas are referred to in the 2023 Eurovision entry " Cha Cha Cha " by Finnish rapper Käärijä , in which he describes drinking piña coladas after an exhausting week, before letting himself go ...