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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 ...
He wrote "Drood" in Tenafly, "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" in Fort Lee, and his three children were born in Englewood. His deep roots in North Jersey continue with a partnership with the Bergen ...
"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 ...
Shrek Forever After: Music from the Motion Picture, the soundtrack for the film Shrek Forever After was released on May 18, 2010, on DGC and Interscope. A wide range of artists are featured in this soundtrack, including Scissor Sisters , Antonio Banderas , The Carpenters , Mike Simpson , Light FM , Lloyd Hemmings, Landon Pigg , Lucy Schwartz ...
1.3 Music. 1.3.1 Albums. 1.3.2 Songs. 1.4 Radio. ... "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)", by Rupert Holmes, 1979 "Escape", a song by Alice Cooper from Welcome to My ...
"You Got It All" is a song recorded by American band the Jets. It was released in 1986 as the fourth single from their debut studio album The Jets (1985). It was written by Rupert Holmes, most famous for the 1979 hit "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)", and produced by Don Powell (not to be confused with Slade's drummer) and David Rivkin.