Talk:Escape (The Piña Colada Song)

Lyrics

I've deleted the lyrics, suspecting that they have not been released under GFDL. If I'm wrong, please supply evidence that they are GFDL. -- Hoary 07:25, 2005 Mar 19 (UTC)

Contradiction

Either the song was covered by Jimmy Buffett, or it wasn't. We can't have two statements in this article stating, "Contrary to what many people may believe, this is not a Jimmy Buffett song, nor has he ever covered it on any of his albums," and "Performed by Jimmy Buffett in many live performances, never recorded," under the "Covers" section. -- {| class="wikitable" |- ! header 1 ! header 2 ! header 3 |- | row 1, cell 1 | row 1, cell 2 | row 1, cell 3 |- | row 2, cell 1 | row 2, cell 2 | row 2, cell 3 |} Buffett Cover Songs does not have an instance of Buffett ever playing this live, and most of the mentions on Buffett fan boards I've seen seems to indicate he's never done it live as well. -- --Chuckyg80s 16:47, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

No citation was included to support "Contrary to what many people may believe" for multiple reasons. One is that this is trivial. Second, it's not supported by the citation that was included. And finally, it uses weasel words: "what many people may believe" is so vague as to be meaningless. Rray (talk) 23:17, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

According to GraceNote, Jimmy Buffet covered this song on 3 separate Albums.

http://www.gracenote.com/music/search-adv.html?q=&xa=on&qartist=jimmy+buffett&qdisc=&qtrack=Escape&n=10&x=0&y=0

johnbriggs2000

^ broken link is broken — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8800:7D80:BCB:9EB7:DFF:FE4D:B6D7 (talk) 14:06, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

although the information was most likely user-submitted incorrectly, here is an archival link...

https://web.archive.org/web/20070926233442/http://www.gracenote.com/music/search-adv.html?q=&xa=on&qartist=jimmy+buffett&qdisc=&qtrack=Escape&n=10&x=0&y=0

76.180.139.90 (talk) 03:02, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Misquotes in Escape

Holmes stated in an interview that none of the quotes attributed to him are real, despite Wikipedia's references to them. Apparently, I can't cite the interview because YT has been "permanently blacklisted"???

To allow better editors than me to at least see the snippet, I have mangled the link (just remove the spaces to see it):

ht tps://youtu.<period>be/eqin8n7FPrI?t=785 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.201.92.173 (talk) 06:40, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

Shrek Reference

In Shrek, there's a moment where the talking mirror says "She likes Pina Coladas and likes getting caught in the rain". This sounds like a reference to this song if you ask me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AlexFili (talk • contribs) 10:31, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Requested move July 2014

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:54, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

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Escape (Rupert Holmes song) → Escape (The Piña Colada Song) – Per WP:COMMONNAME and WP:NATURALDIS. Calidum ^{Talk To Me} 21:07, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

• Support - Searched it in Bing News. I guess we should go for it. --George Ho (talk) 23:10, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

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If You Like Piña Coladas

The following 3 titles are in this recording:

• "Escape", the original title song before Rupert Holmes change the title song
• "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)"
• "If You Like Piña Coladas"

"Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" was covered by Jimmy Buffett under the name "If You Like Piña Coladas".

The following websites are addressed to the Jimmy Buffett version:

• Jimmy Buffett's "If You Like Piña Coladas" on Mp3skull
• Full lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

I like the Jimmy Buffett version because his version of the song is similar to the Rupert Holmes version. Currently, MetroLyrics placed the Jimmy Buffett version (as "If You Like Piña Coladas") at #26 on the Top 100 Rock Lyrics list. The #25 position on the list is Manfred Mann's "Blinded by the Light" (a cover version originally recorded by American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen) and the #27 position is Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger".

Can you created a section titled "Cover version" with a cover by Jimmy Buffett (as "If You Like Piña Coladas")? Thank you. Wisnu Aji (talk) 07:43, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

This was not a #1 song in two decades

1979 and 1980 are part of the same decade. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:802:8002:500:59DF:1ACE:D2ED:7242 (talk) 16:01, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

I thoroughly agree

Pure nonsense to suggest a decade ends on an nine not a zero. (count to ten people) - Even the article itself references a cite notes:

• If a decade is measured instead by the traditional definition of a ten-year period starting on 1 January in a year whose last digit is "1" and ending on 31 December in a year whose last digit is "0", then Chubby Checker's "The Twist" is the only pop song to ascend to #1 on the Billboard pop charts in two different decades, once on 19 September 1960 (inside the decade 1 January 1951 - 31 December 1960), and again on 13 January 1962 (inside the decade 1 January 1961 - 31 December 1970).

The text needs to be rewritten to reflect the song's billboard rise, fall and rise again in two adjacent years. Timelord2067 (talk) 05:17, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

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