Rupert Holmes’ 1979 hit single “Escape,” better known as “The Piña Colada Song,” may have affected ... to National Piña Colada Day on July 10, 2024, as the drink’s 70th birthday.

Had Rupert Holmes’s career ended in the early ’80s, he would be most widely remembered for “(Escape) The Piña Colada Song,” a lovably hokey pop single that was his biggest hit as a singer/songwriter.