Rupert Holmes – Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
In 1979 Rupert Holmes recorded perhaps the only song that he wished he never did. Even though he wrote songs before this as well as afterward, it is this song that he is best known.
It’s a story song about a man who due to changing feelings towards his mate decides to answer a personal ad he finds in the paper. After communicating with the lady he decides to meet her only to find it’s the same lady he thought he was getting tired of.
The song was the last number 1 of the ’70′s. First reaching Number 1 on December 22, 1979.
The phrase The Pina Colada Song was added to the title after its release, since that what many people was calling it, not realizing that the title was Escape.