"Hernando's Hideaway" is a tango show tune, largely in long metre, from the musical The Pajama Game, written by Jerry Ross and Richard Adler and published in 1954.
In the few years after the song's release, a number of artists had hit recordings of it, including Archie Bleyer, Johnnie Ray, The Johnston Brothers, and Ella Fitzgerald.
According to author Dave Hoekstra, "Hernando's Hideaway" was based on Hilltop, an establishment in East Dubuque, Illinois, that had been a speakeasy in the 1920s (where Al Capone once hid out from the Chicago police) before turning into a supper club.
The 2000 hit song "Dance With Me" by R&B singer Debelah Morgan used the melody of "Hernando's Hideaway" in its chorus, with different lyrics.
[7] A number of places around the world today are named Hernando's Hideaway, evidently based on the popularity of the song.