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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).
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)". "Escape" was the top Billboard hit of December 1979 and January 1980; it was the only single to hold the number-one position in both years and in different decades ...
List of Billboard Hot 100 top ten singles in 1979 which peaked in 1978 Top ten entry date Single Artist(s) Peak Peak date Weeks in top ten November 18 "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand 1 December 2 10 November 25 "Le Freak" Chic: 1 [1] December 9 15 "I Love the Nightlife" Alicia Bridges: 5 December 23 7 December 9
"Him" is a song written and recorded by American singer and songwriter Rupert Holmes. It was released in January 1980 as the second single from the album, Partners in Crime. The song peaked at number six on the US Billboard Hot 100 on March 29, 1980 and remained at that position for two weeks. It was Holmes' biggest Adult Contemporary hit ...
Gloria Gaynor scored a #1 hit with "I Will Survive" in 1979. Here are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits of 1979. That year, 10 acts earned their first number one song: Gloria Gaynor, Amii Stewart, Blondie, Peaches & Herb, Anita Ward, The Knack, Robert John, M, Styx, and Rupert Holmes; only Blondie would ever have another number one hit.
My Sharona" by The Knack (singer Doug Fieger pictured) was the number-one song of 1979. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1979. [1] [2] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 22, 1979.
The Who concert disaster was a crowd disaster that occurred on December 3, 1979, when English rock band the Who performed at Riverfront Coliseum (now known as Heritage Bank Center) in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, and a rush of concert-goers outside the Coliseum's entry doors resulted in the deaths of 11 people.