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I'm sorry I gotta make this thread, but I've been searchin for an answer for the past 2 days now & I need some help, I'm completely new to Jimmy Buffets music

last weekend, I must have heard the Pina Colada song about 100 times, and I can't get enough of it. the mp3 on my computer is labelled, "Jimmy Buffet - Pina Colada"

I searched through all his discographies & stuff, but I can't find this song on any of his albums.

then I found out Rupert Holmes has a song by the same name, downloaded it, exact same song.


so my question is, does Jimmy Buffet actually have a Pina Colada song, or are there just mislabled lyrics/mp3's all over the net?

It's a Rupert Holmes song.

Not sure if Jimmy might have covered it at some point, but I don't *think* he recorded it.....

Now I have that song in my head!!!!

I was really hopin Jimmy Buffet did it... I know this song is cheesy but Rupert Holmes sucks, Jimmy Buffet seems cool though

how can so many people get mixed up though? do a Google search for "Jimmy Buffet Pina Colada" and tons of results come up.

ah well. thanks for the info

That song was on Napster in it's heyday... It's not Jimmy, it's Rupert Holmes. Seems it got downloaded a lot because we have had this question before

I think the key is the spelling "Jimmy Buffet"... people who know better spell it correctly... "Buffett"

Although this song isn't in his reportoire, he is cool, and you should look into more of his stuff... the truth is out there!

I D/L'ed the "Jimmy Buffett" version of Escape (the Pina Coloda Song) from Napster way back when. It was, in fact the original version by Mr. Holmes. I have never heard or heard of a version by JB.

On Napster, It really only takes one guy to initially screw it up when it was entered. The song then got shared - along with the erroneous info - over and over and over, and so forth.

If you go into any file sharing site, and do a search on Buffett, you'll find tons of stuff that was inaccurately attributed to Bubba. Same with David Allan Coe, and I'm sure a ton of other artists.

I will say that a Buffett search on Audio Galaxy a few years back turned me on to Sunny Jim and Jim Morris - songs by those artists that were attributed to Buffett.

Apex wrote:I was really hopin Jimmy Buffet did it... I know this song is cheesy but Rupert Holmes sucks, Jimmy Buffet seems cool though

how can so many people get mixed up though? do a Google search for "Jimmy Buffet Pina Colada" and tons of results come up.

ah well. thanks for the info

Rupert only did one album in the early 80's I like some of the songs on it
Answering machine is over 20 years old and still very revelant today
acually more so and the other "Hit" was Him and I love that song
sorry you feel RH "sucks" but The Escape song was on that album
I would be intrested on where else you know Mr Holmes from??
PS you do know that RH wrote some songs for Barbra don't you???

Apex wrote:I was really hopin Jimmy Buffet did it... I know this song is cheesy but Rupert Holmes sucks, Jimmy Buffet seems cool though

how can so many people get mixed up though? do a Google search for "Jimmy Buffet Pina Colada" and tons of results come up.

ah well. thanks for the info

Rupert only did one album in the early 80's I like some of the songs on it
Answering machine is over 20 years old and still very revelant today
acually more so and the other "Hit" was Him and I love that song
sorry you feel RH "sucks" but The Escape song was on that album
I would be intrested on where else you know Mr Holmes from??
PS you do know that RH wrote some songs for Barbra don't you???

PA PAR8 HED wrote:I will say that a Buffett search on Audio Galaxy a few years back turned me on to Sunny Jim and Jim Morris - songs by those artists that were attributed to Buffett.

I've never downloaded a song online (not a moral thing, just that I'm still on dial up; don't laugh ) but it's my understanding that Aerosmith's "Dream On" has been falsely credited to Led Zeppelin. Perhaps one of the more notorious cases of mislabeling was the Gourds' version of Snoop Doggy Dogg's "Gin n' Juice", which was falsely identified as a Phish song. To further add to the confusion, Phish later started playing the song themselves.

For a cool article on the Gourds/Phish mix up, click here:
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/d ... ncing.html

I get an email each week with a report of what people search for on my site using the Search tool. Every single week it never fails that someone searches for "Escape" or "The Pina Colada Song" or "If You Like Pina Coladas".

So I made a page that comes up as the first result when someone searches for any of those terms in hopes that it will straighten out the confusion

I don't like pina colada's.........................I love em

aquaholic wrote:I don't like pina colada's.........................I love em

WAS

Air M'Ville Cap'n wrote:I get an email each week with a report of what people search for on my site using the Search tool. Every single week it never fails that someone searches for "Escape" or "The Pina Colada Song" or "If You Like Pina Coladas".

So I made a page that comes up as the first result when someone searches for any of those terms in hopes that it will straighten out the confusion

Good job!!!
btw... Do you have one set up for the "I-95 Song" (Were You Born An _ _ _ hole") too? I think that is the second most commonly mis-labeled-as-Buffett song out there.

I'd like a pina colada

Caribbean Soul wrote:btw... Do you have one set up for the "I-95 Song" (Were You Born An _ _ _ hole") too? I think that is the second most commonly mis-labeled-as-Buffett song out there.

Not to add fuel to the fire, but there is a local bar here that has a jukebox that plays 45s. One Buffett selection on there: A Side: Margaritaville. B Side: The I-95 Song.

Caribbean Soul wrote:

Air M'Ville Cap'n wrote:I get an email each week with a report of what people search for on my site using the Search tool. Every single week it never fails that someone searches for "Escape" or "The Pina Colada Song" or "If You Like Pina Coladas".

So I made a page that comes up as the first result when someone searches for any of those terms in hopes that it will straighten out the confusion

Good job!!!
btw... Do you have one set up for the "I-95 Song" (Were You Born An _ _ _ hole") too? I think that is the second most commonly mis-labeled-as-Buffett song out there.

Nope, but I don't really get any search querys for that one. If I do I will make one though

Please let this die, the song keeps getting caught in my head. Its an ok song but just not one I want in my head.

I too was mislead by the a**hole song, sounds alot like Jimmy especially on Rancho Deluxe soundtrack.

freddyfishstick wrote:Please let this die, the song keeps getting caught in my head. Its an ok song but just not one I want in my head.

Chew on cinnamon sticks, or so an article about removing "earworms" recently said...