They Don't Make Hits Like They Used To

Just this morning, Doughboy AKA Inez Delafrossange was quoting lines from the classic Escape the Pina Colada Song. When you have a mind as deranged as mine , certain innocent things trigger obscure unpredictable thoughts. Before I go any further I realize most of my multiply mates can not remember a time without Internet, Ipods and even CDs. In the old days when I began my lifelong addiction to music, I learned a lot of my music trivia from listening to Casey Kasem on American Top 40. We had so little back then in the late seventies that stuff I heard I probably cherished more than I should have. There was no transcript , no Google maybe a cassette recording at best. When Kasem preambled before playing Escape the Pina Colada Song, he talked about Rupert Holmes previous claim to fame. He was hired to write a song for the Buoys that would generate controversy therefore publicity. Well it worked since that was the Buoys only hit.

In 28 years I never heard the song nor remembered the title nor the artist. Just the songwriter Rupert Holmes and the controversial subject matter. BINGO! Google and Youtube and BINGO! I finally scratched a 29 year old itch this afternoon.

If you actually read the lyrics, listen to the song you will agree on one thing. I have a pretty warped mind to remember this for 29 years.

Ed

Timothy

Trapped in a mine that had caved in

And everyone knows the only ones left

Were Joe and me and Tim

When they broke through to pull us free

The only ones left to tell the tale

Were Joe and me

Timothy, Timothy, where on earth did you go?

Timothy, Timothy, God why don't I know?

Hungry as hell no food to eat

And Joe said that he would sell his soul

For just a piece of meat

Water enough to drink for two

And Joe said to me, "I'll have a swig

And then there's some for you."

Timothy, Timothy, Joe was looking at you

Timothy, Timothy, God what did we do?

I must have blacked out just around then

'Cause the very next thing that I could see

Was the light of the day again

My stomach was full as it could be

And nobody ever got around

To finding Timothy

Timothy...

http://www.songfacts.com/m/detail.mobile.php?id=2005&detail_page=3

http://www.tommcmahon.net/2006/02/timothy_by_the_.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Buoys