Rupert Holmes : Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
2 DON’T STOP ‘TIL YOU GET ENOUGH –•– Michael Jackson
3 POP MUZIK –•– M
4 SAIL ON –•– The Commodores
5 I’LL NEVER LOVE THIS WAY AGAIN –•– Dionne Warwick
6 DIM ALL THE LIGHTS –•– Donna Summer
7 SAD EYES –•– Robert John
8 MY SHARONA –•– The Knack
9 HEARTACHE TONIGHT –•– Eagles
10 STILL –•– The Commodores
On October 20, 1979 Casey Kasem announced a new song had knocked Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" from the top of the charts. The new #1, across the land, was Herb Alpert's "Rise". I can hear the collective moans...but it doesn't get much better my friends. Because that very same week, a new song broke in at #85, one that would be the last to top the charts in the 1970's : "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" by Rupert Holmes.
Listen to the lyrics and you'll learn it's a song about a guy so bored of his girlfriend he answers a personal ad and discovers the women he's meeting on the sly is ....his girlfriend.
Rupert Holmes:
"The guy's so vain it never occurs to him that the girl is also bored so when he meets her it's kind of a comeuppance. She's the strong one because she instigated the thing. Hopefully, they see each other in a new light."
Out of curiosity, I listened to some more of the songs on the same album, Partners in Crime. "Him" was the other hit but "Lunch Hour", Holmes' update of "Afternoon Delight" is far more interesting.
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