I know some other guy sung it first, but I've also heard that Jimmy Buffett has song it. Is this true? I can't find an actual, hard-core answer! It's not listed under his list of lyrics, so I don't know. Please help!
2007-02-02 12:44:27 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
According to Wikipedia, Jimmy Buffet does perform the song in concert, but there are no commercially available recordings of him singing it. Jimmy's most famous song is also based on a tropical alcoholic beverage: Margaritaville.
Rupert Holmes wrote and performed
"Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" 1979
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFKVuUlxO0k
I was tired of my lady
We'd been together too long
Like a worn-out recording
Of a favorite song
So while she lay there sleeping
I read the paper in bed
And in the personal columns
There was this letter I read
"If you like Pina Coladas
And getting caught in the rain
If you're not into yoga
If you have half a brain
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes on the Cape
Then I'm the love that you've looked for
Write to me and escape."
I didn't think about my lady
I know that sounds kind of mean
But me and my old lady
Have fallen into the same old dull routine
So I wrote to the paper
Took out a personal ad
And though I'm nobody's poet
I thought it wasn't half bad
"Yes I like Pina Coladas
And getting caught in the rain
I'm not much into health food
I am into champagne
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon
And cut through all this red-tape
At a bar called O'Malley's
Where we'll plan our escape."
So I waited with high hopes
And she walked in the place
I knew her smile in an instant
I knew the curve of her face
It was my own lovely lady
And she said, "Oh it's you."
Then we laughed for a moment
And I said, "I never knew."
That you like Pina Coladas
Getting caught in the rain
And the feel of the ocean
And the taste of champagne
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes of the Cape
You're the lady I've looked for
Come with me and escape
2007-02-02 12:46:46 · answer #1 · answered by HearKat 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I know Rupert Holmes sang The Pina Colada Song but I never heard Jimmy Buffett sing it. Buffett sang Margaritaville.
2007-02-02 12:50:57 · answer #2 · answered by cs_mn 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes he did .
The Pina Colada Song
by Jimmy Buffett
album:
2007-02-02 13:49:21 · answer #3 · answered by Elaine814 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rupert Holmes did it originally.
Performed by Jimmy Buffett in many live performances, never recorded
2007-02-02 12:46:58 · answer #4 · answered by nermil 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Rupert Holmes
2007-02-02 12:48:56 · answer #5 · answered by Shayna 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Rupert Holmes did it originally.
Performed by Jimmy Buffett in many live performances, never recorded
2007-02-02 12:46:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's probably not under his list of lyrics because he didn't write it. Rupert Holmes did: "Escape(the Pina Colada Song)"
2007-02-02 12:47:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Rupert Holmes recorded it. Jimmy Buffett sings it in concert, but he never recorded it.
2007-02-02 12:46:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
RUPERT HOLMES sang the Pina colad song. Titled ESCAPE.
Jimmy Buffet never recorded or should be credited for it.
2007-02-02 12:47:28 · answer #9 · answered by FRANKFUSS 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jimmy was singing all his Christmas songs to me last night! And I went to Margartaville, too....maybe too many of them! LOL But there are no Rum Drinks for me today--I have to work tomorrow--I will save them for the weekend!!! ♥♥♥
2016-03-29 02:14:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋