Rupert Holmes on WATNb

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Rupert Holmes, the creator/writer of Remember WENN was featured on VH-1's "One Hit Wonders" episode of Where Are They Now? In 1979, he burst upon the scene with his massive hit, "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)." The segment featured an interview with Rupert, clips of him performing "Escape," as well as his other top ten hit, "Him," (No, Virginia, he really wasn't a one hit wonder), as well as a scene from Remember WENN ("And If I Die Before I Sleep") where the cast's yawning is punctuated by Rupert's comments that he made "coffee for the cast."

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1979, Performing "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)"

(The Tonight Show?)

1981, Performing "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)"

(Solid Gold)

1981, Performing "Him"

(Solid Gold?)

1970s With Barbra Streisand

Playbill Mock-ups and Scary Writer

Goosebumps on Stage

1999, Rupert Walks the Streets of Broadway

(where there's always "Magic" in the air)

The Many Smiles of Rupert

"Hey, Waitress..."

Rupert's Hit Singles

Date	Highest Position	Title
2 Sep, 1978	72	Let's Get Crazy Tonight
20 Oct, 1979	1 for 3 weeks	Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
12 Jan, 1980 [UK]	23 [UK]	Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
19 Jan, 1980	6	Him
22 Mar, 1980 [UK]	31 [UK]	Him
3 Mar, 1980	32	Answering Machine
8 Nov, 1980	68	Morning Man
14 Apr, 1981	103	Blackjack
4 Apr, 1981	56	I Don't Need You
7 Nov, 1981	103	Loved by the One You Love
Additionally, Rupert was in the 2-man, 2-woman studio group Street People* who hit with:
3 Jan, 1970	36	Jennifer Tomkins
25 Apr, 1970	96	Thank You Girl

*A later disco group led by Ray Dahrouge took the name Street People and hit the R&B and Bubbling Under charts.

The American chart information is a product of Billboard Magazine which is nicely collected in themed volumes by Joel Whitburn's Record Research.

The British chart information was collected by Record Retailer in the late eighties, but is now collected by CIN and made available weekly at dotmusic. The UK chart books are put out by Guinness Publishing and can often be special ordered.