Rupert Holmes – “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)”

“Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” by Rupert Holmes (from his “Partners in Crime” album) was the very last Hot 100 No. 1 of the Seventies, hitting Number One in late December of 1979.

After dropping to No. 2 in the first week of January, 1980, it went back to No. 1 the next week.

This apparently made Rupert Holmes the only artist to have the Number One spot with the same song in different decades.

My memory of the Piña Colada song is the band in the Viking Bar at the Fitzherbert Motor Inn in Palmerston North, New Zealand, playing it when I was working next door in the quieter Armada Bar.

Which I guess was fitting since it features a cocktail drink…

I picked it today because I just heard it on a video of “Bewitched” (Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell) that my daughter picked up on the weekend at a car boot sale at her school to raise funds for a trip to France she is going on tomorrow.

So here it is, “Escape (The Piña Colada Song) from 1979:

And here’s a little background on the Piña Colada itself

Cheers!

Paul

Tags: Bewitched, Escape (The Piña Colada Song), Music of the Seventies, Nicole Kidman, Partners in Crime, Rupert Holmes, Will Ferrell

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