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He Went to Paris


"He Went to Paris" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was first released on his 1973 album "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean" and was his fourth and final single from that album. Although it never placed on the charts, it's become one of his most popular songs, having appeared on several of his greatest hits compilations. Buffett wrote the song about musician Eddie Balchowsky, a one-armed Spanish Civil War veteran he met while playing in Chicago
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Encores (Jimmy Buffett album)


encores is a live album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. The set list includes twenty two songs compiled from Buffett's intimate second encores, with which he ends his concerts. All songs are taken from the 2008/2009 tours. Unlike other live albums by Buffett, encores features few standards and "Songs You Know by Heart" tunes, making the album less mainstream among fans. The album was recorded during the 2008 "Year of Still Here Tour," with the exception of "He Went To Paris"
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Trouble", an animated version of Buffett (but not voiced by Buffett) was seen singing "AIDSburger in Paradise" and "CureBurger in Paradise". Jimmy has also appeared on the "Sesame Street" special, "Elmopalooza", singing "Caribbean Amphibian" with the popular Muppet, Kermit the Frog. Buffett appeared in an episode of "Hawaii Five-0" in November 2011. He played a helicopter pilot named Frank Bama, a character from his novel "Where Is Joe Merchant?". Another character mentioned that
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Tonsil Trouble


event is held for Cartman in which Elton John is expected to turn up and sing a song to him, however it is an extremely poor turnout and Elton John doesn't even come because, as a waitress notes, people nowadays care more about cancer than AIDS. Instead Jimmy Buffett sings to Cartman, who is absolutely furious about all this. The next day when Cartman asks why Stan, Kyle and Kenny did not turn up, Stan says they forgot and asks if Elton John sang for Cartman. He replies that Jimmy
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Tony Tarracino


one of his sons. Tarracino was portrayed by Stuart Whitman in "Cuba Crossing", a 1980 movie about adventurers who get caught up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro. Gulf and western singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, who managed one of his unsuccessful mayoral bids, wrote and sang "Last Mango in Paris" about the tales of Tarracino. The song begins with the lines "I went down to Captain Tony's / To get out of the heat / I heard a voice call out to me / 'Son
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Last Mango in Paris


Last Mango in Paris is the fourteenth studio album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was released in June 1985 as MCA 5600 and was produced by Buffett and noted country music producer Tony Brown. The album represented continuation of Buffett's shift toward a more country sound begun with 1984's "Riddles in the Sand". The title of the album is a play on the title of the 1972 movie "Last Tango in Paris". The album contains no song written solely by Buffett; he co-
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He Went to Paris


. On the live album "You Had to Be There", Buffett mentions this as a favorite song he wrote. The song appears on "Songs You Know By Heart", a greatest hits compilation that includes Buffett's concert favorites ranging from 1973 to 1979. However, "He Went to Paris" was the only song off that album that Buffett rarely played live, until he found out that Bob Dylan likes the song and decided to start playing it on a more frequent basis. Buffett included a live version,
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Parrothead


Parrot Head or Parrothead is a commonly used nickname for fans of Jimmy Buffett. "Parakeets" or "Keets" is the term used for younger fans of Buffett, or children of Parrotheads. The term "Parrot Head" was coined in 1985 at a Jimmy Buffett concert at the Timberwolf Amphitheater in Cincinnati, Ohio. Buffett has said numerous times that he attributes much of his fame to this area. At the show, Buffett commented about everyone wearing Hawaiian shirts and parrot hats and how they kept coming back to see his
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Captain Tony's Saloon


, a local charter boat captain, purchased the bar and named it Captain Tony's Saloon. As Captain Tony's, the bar is where Jimmy Buffett got his start in Key West. Buffett played Capt. Tony's in the early '70s, and was often paid in tequila. Buffett immortalized the bar, & Tarracino himself, in his song "Last Mango in Paris". On occasion, Jimmy will make surprise appearances at the bar, but only performs at his own place around the corner called Margaritaville Cafe.
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Mac McAnally


Road". He has also produced for Sawyer Brown and Restless Heart, written several singles for other artists, and is a member of Jimmy Buffett's backing band, The Coral Reefer Band. McAnally was born in Red Bay, AL. He began playing piano and singing in church at the Belmont First Baptist Church in Belmont, Mississippi as a child, and by age fifteen, he had composed his first song. From there, he went on to become a session musician in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. During a session
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Encores (Jimmy Buffett album)


5:28 10. "He Went To Paris" 4:27 11. "Last Mango in Paris" 4:18 1. "L'air De La Louisiane" 3:05 2. "Reggaebilly Hill" 3:56 3. "Coast Of Marseilles"4:45 4. "Lovely Cruise" 3:22 5. "Oyster and Pearls" 4:02 6. "Wildflowers" 4:05 7. "Defying Gravity" 3:14 8. "It's A Big Old Goofy World" 5:01 9. "Death of an Unpopular Poet" 3:14 10. "Blowin' in the Wind"
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Rocher hotel and restaurant. He spends part of the summer traveling about the East Coast on his sailboat. An avid pilot, Buffett owns a Dassault Falcon 900 that he often uses while on concert tour and traveling worldwide. He has also owned a Boeing Stearman, Lake Amphibian, and Grumman Albatross. His father died May 1, 2003, at the age of 83. His mother died a few months after her husband, on September 25, 2003. In 2015, Jimmy Buffett spoke at the University of Miami's graduation
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The Coon


recession stemmed from the sale of Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville blenders, and he would have to battle singer Jimmy Buffett and investor Warren Buffett, who would be portrayed as Jimmy's brother. Eventually, the idea was scrapped, and "The Coon" turned into an episode revolving entirely around a comic book film parody. Elements of the economic recession and the Margaritaville blenders were eventually incorporated into future episode "Margaritaville". The identity of Mysterion is never revealed in "The Coon". After the episode aired, the question "
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Margaritaville (South Park)


-related episode to involve Cartman dressing as a superhero named "The Coon" and fighting the recession. Eventually, Cartman would discover the recession stemmed from the sale of Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville blenders, and he would have to battle singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and investor Warren Buffett, who would be portrayed as Jimmy's brother. Eventually, the idea was scrapped, and the superhero elements were incorporated into the episode "The Coon", which aired just before "Margaritaville". The opening scene of "The Coon"
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Razor Girl (novel)


rats than you've probably ever read about. (Yes, they are real, and they are terrifying.)... In the hands of another author, Razor Girl could have turned out shambolic and confused. But Hiaasen is a gifted storyteller who knows that the key to keeping readers engaged is a mixture of suspense and humor... "Razor Girl" is vintage Hiaasen, in the very best way: darkly funny, unapologetically crazy, and more Florida than a flamingo eating a Cuban sandwich while singing a Jimmy Buffett song.
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William McKeen


Story" (Curtis, 1975). Writer Tom Wolfe called "Mile Marker Zero" "a tall but telescopic-sight-true tale of Hunter Thompson, Jimmy Buffett, Tom McGuane, and a large cavorting cast running around with sand in their shoes at 'ground zero for lust and greed and most of the other deadly sins,' Key West." Historian Douglas Brinkley said it was "a wonderful zinger of a book. Every page sings a story worth a Jimmy Buffett song." Wayne Curtis, writing
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Tim Krekel


most wonderful life!", Krekel was able to die at home under the loving care of his family and hospice on June 24, 2009. In 2012, Louisville based sonaBLAST! Records posthumously released Krekel's final work, "Sings Up The Sun." The songs he wrote or co-wrote were performed, among others, by: Krekel also played guitar on Jimmy Buffett's album, "Son of a Son of a Sailor". He also played guitar on Buffett's live album "You Had to Be
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Radio Margaritaville


Radio Margaritaville is a worldwide Internet radio station and SiriusXM Satellite Radio station (Ch. 24) owned by Jimmy Buffett. It features 24-hour music and live broadcasts of Jimmy Buffett's concerts. Buffett was inspired to create Radio Margaritaville after listening to radio stations in Australia, the Key West, and to WOYS in Apalachicola, Florida. He was attracted to the channels' wide range of programming, as opposed to the homogenized playlists he heard elsewhere. He contacted an old friend, Steve Huntington, who agreed to leave terrestrial radio
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Down to Earth (Jimmy Buffett album)


output. There is less of the country music feel and little of the gulf and western, Key-West-influenced sound and themes that have defined his musical career. Allmusic reviewer William Ruhlmann notes that "this is not the freewheeling Jimmy Buffett of 'Margaritaville,' but rather a thoughtful folk-rock singer/songwriter of the early '70s, earnestly strumming an acoustic guitar over a rhythm section and singing lyrics of social consciousness with sly references to drugs". The material on this album has been included on numerous
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Last Mango in Paris


version the song for his 2003 greatest hits collection "", along with the title song and concert staple "Jolly Mon Sing". The song "Last Mango in Paris" was written about Captain Tony Tarracino, a well-known Key West, Florida saloon keeper, and live versions of the song appear on "Live by the Bay" and "". Singer Glenn Frey makes a vocal cameo at the end of the song he co-wrote with Buffett, "Gypsies in the Palace". This song also
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30,000 Pounds of Bananas


between men and women with regard to singing skill. The second alternate ending has everyone sing "of Bananas!" in harmony, swelling to a climax and cutting off. A third alternate ending surfaced later, in which Chapin would often introduce with a monologue about Donny and Marie Osmond, and the technical definition of the word "". The third alternate ending is a parody of a Chiquita banana commercial, done in "Jimmy Buffett style," with the participation of the whole band. The ending is cut short by
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but declined to name the drug or the health problem for which he was being treated. Buffett released a statement that the "ecstasy" was in fact a B-vitamin supplement known as Foltx. Before 2003, songs almost always played at every Buffett show were known as the Big 8. With the success of the Alan Jackson duet "It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere", and the rising popularity of "One Particular Harbour", the list of songs played at every show went from 8 to 10. The "Big
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Clearance Giddens


Clearance Giddens is an African American Elvis impersonator from Melfa, Virginia, who has been billed as the "Black Elvis". He has appeared on "The Arsenio Hall Show" and the "Geraldo Show", and in the film "Honeymoon in Vegas". In the early 1990s, he also sang on stage in a duet with Jimmy Buffett singing "Jailhouse Rock". He is listed in the book "I Am Elvis: A Guide to Elvis Impersonators". Giddens is a house painter by trade and had
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Knicks for cursing. After the game, referee Joe Forte said that he ordered him moved during the fourth quarter because "there was a little boy sitting next to him and a lady sitting by him. He used some words he knows he shouldn't have used." Forte apparently did not know who Buffett was, and censured Heat coach Pat Riley because he thought Riley—who was trying to explain to him who Buffett was—was insulting him by asking if he had ever been a "Parrothead", the nickname
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Margaritaville


"Margaritaville" is a 1977 song by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett from the album "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes". This song was written about a drink Buffett discovered at Lung's Cocina del Sur restaurant on Anderson Lane in Austin, Texas, and the first huge surge of tourists who descended on Key West, Florida around that time. He wrote most of the song that night at a friend's house in Austin, and finished it while spending time in Key West. In the United
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A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean


the Monopoly game board. "He Went to Paris" is a perennial fan favorite ballad, appearing on most of Buffett's greatest hits collections. It was remade by Waylon Jennings in 1980 and by Buffett himself for his 2003 "". Both Buffett and Jerry Jeff Walker wrote "Railroad Lady". Walker recorded the song a year earlier than Buffett and it was later further popularized by Lefty Frizzell, Merle Haggard, and Willie Nelson. Although it was not very successful commercially at the time of its release, "A
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, GA - a place he credits for much of his rise to stardom over the years. On June 25, 2019, "The New York Times Magazine" listed Jimmy Buffett among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire. Buffett began calling his music "drunken Caribbean rock 'n' roll" as he says on his 1978 live album "You Had To Be There". Later, Buffett himself and others have used the term "Gulf and Western" to describe his musical style and
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short set lists such as guesting on television shows). On January 26, 2011 (Australia Day), Buffett was performing a concert in Australia at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion and fell off the stage after an encore. A concert-goer said, "He just went over to the edge of the stage, like he had numerous times through the night, just to wave, and people were throwing stuffed toys and things at him. And he just took one step too many and just disappeared in a flash. He
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Barefoot


, a trend that continues in the early 21st century. One of the first singers to become well known for singing barefoot on stage was Sandie Shaw, who became known as the "Barefoot Pop Princess of the 1960s." Jimmy Buffett is known for performing barefoot at concerts, promoting an island/beach bum lifestyle. Cesária Évora of Cape Verde was known as the "Barefoot Diva" for her habit of performing without shoes. Hiram Bullock was also known for performing barefoot. He is perhaps best-remembered as being part
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Tonsil Trouble


dose of "about $180,000 shot directly into the bloodstream" on the boys, which disintegrates the HIV – implying the solution to any problem is simply to throw money at it. Word spreads about the cure for AIDS and an event is held at which Jimmy Buffett sings "CUREburger in Paradise". Volunteers inform poverty-stricken Africa that the fight against AIDS is over because all those suffering from the AIDS epidemic have to do now is inject themselves with piles of cash - which of course they do not have. Kyle
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Last Mango in Paris


host of high points make it essential for anyone enamored of Buffett's live shows, or even the casual fan looking to expand beyond "Songs You Know by Heart"." Although none of the album's songs are part of "The Big 8" that Buffett has played at almost all of his concerts, "Last Mango in Paris," "Gypsies in the Palace," and "Jolly Mon Sing" were played at many concerts in the 1980s and 1990s and are featured on the "Live by the Bay
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Jimmy Buffett sound board live albums


Jimmy Buffett sound board live albums are a series of live albums by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett recorded directly from the sound board without further editing thus resembling bootleg recordings. The albums were recorded at various concerts throughout the United States and represent typical Buffett live shows of their era with most of the albums recorded during Buffett's 2003 Tiki Time Tour. They have been released on compact disc on Buffett's own Mailboat Records distributed by RCA. Live in Auburn, WA or Live in Auburn (Seattle), WA was recorded
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Savannah Buffett


also done photography work which was used in Jimmy Buffett album jackets. She is credited as appearing on mini congas in the Jimmy Buffett album "Floridays" and in the music video of Jimmy Buffett's cover of "Jamaica Farewell." She is also served as a backup vocalist from Maroon 5's "Overexposed". Buffett is currently the host of the travel show ExPats featured on YouTube's Reserve Channel. According to modern definition, EX-PATS are people temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that
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Club Dread


fatal wounds. On one of the disc's commentary tracks the filmmakers state that they screened the film for Jimmy Buffett, who was so amused that he requested permission to sing some of the film's songs on one of his live tours. "Club Dread" has received mixed reviews, scoring 45 on review aggregator site Metacritic based on 28 critics reviews, and 29% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 101 reviews. According to Rotten Tomatoes the consensus was "Comedy is too hit-or-miss in this slasher spoof"
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A Pirate Looks at Forty


"A Pirate Looks at Forty" is a song written and performed by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was first released on his 1974 album "A1A" and "Presents to Send You" is the B-side of the single. Buffett wrote the song about Phillip Clark, at the Chart Room where Buffett first performed after his move to Key West, Florida. The song contains the bittersweet confession of a modern-day, washed-up drug smuggler as he looks back on the first 40
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he would say that he was not allowed to play it because of the lawsuit and instead played a song he wrote called "The Lawyer and the Asshole" in which he accuses Buckley's son and lawyers of being greedy and tells them to "kiss his ass." In January 1996, Buffett's Grumman HU-16 airplane named "Hemisphere Dancer" was shot at by Jamaican police, who believed the craft to be smuggling marijuana. The aircraft sustained minimal damage. The plane had previously been carrying Buffett, as well as U2
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Jimmy Buffett greatest hits compilations


each of the four words in the title. A Pirate's Treasure: 20 Jimmy Buffett Gems was released in Australia on MCA International MCAD 31213 in November 1993. All the Great Hits was released in the United Kingdom on Prism Platinum PLATCD 4903 in 1993 or 1994. The Great Jimmy Buffett is a compilation of songs from "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean" and "Living and Dying in 3/4 Time" released in Portugal on Goldies (Intermusic) GLD 63166 in 1994. Great American Summer Fun with Jimmy Buffett
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High Cumberland Jubilee


"Down to Earth" and "High Cumberland Jubilee" differs greatly from Buffett's subsequent output. There is less of the country music feel and little of the gulf and western, Key-West-influenced sound and themes that have defined his musical career. Allmusic reviewer William Ruhlmann notes that "this is not the freewheeling Jimmy Buffett of 'Margaritaville,' but rather a thoughtful folk-rock singer/songwriter of the early '70s, earnestly strumming an acoustic guitar over a rhythm section and singing lyrics of social consciousness
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Volcano (Jimmy Buffett album)


but peaked at number 86 in the "Record Business" magazine chart in Christmas week and became an enduringly popular song on BBC Radio 2 in a country where Buffett has had very little success. Although the album generated two songs, "Fins" and "Volcano," that have become Buffett concert standards, part of 'The Big 8" that he has played at almost all of his concerts, critical reception was less positive. Allmusic reviewer Vik Iyengar posits that "this album marks a low point for Jimmy Buffett in
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Jim Mayer (musician)


hit, "Piece of Paradise." In 1988, P.M. producer and engineer Elliot Scheiner introduced Jimmy Buffett to the band. In 1989, after recording "Off To See The Lizard" for Buffett, with Scheiner producing, Mayer and his P.M. bandmates joined Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band. In 1994, he taught a course, "Music and the Senses," at Webster University on integrating music and movement. In 1997, he studied bass with Sitar master Usted Imrat Khan. The same year, he toured Europe
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Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville


Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville is the name of a United States-based hospitality company that manages and franchises a casual dining American restaurant chain, a chain of stores selling Jimmy Buffett-themed merchandise, and casinos with lodging facilities. It is owned by Buffett's Margaritaville Holdings LLC (a subsidiary of Cheeseburger Holding Company, LLC) and named after his hit song "Margaritaville". Some locations are franchise owned, such as the Caribbean, Australian, and Mexican locations. There are locations in the United States, Canada, and
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Margaritaville


and it cuts another minute off of that, which made the song more radio friendly: In 1999, American country singer Alan Jackson covered the song on his album "Under the Influence". The cover featured Buffett singing along on the third and final verse; it also peaked at #63 after receiving play as an album cut. Professional wrestlers Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock both covered the song on the November 12, 2001 episode of "RAW". Jimmy Buffett also re-recorded this song as well as
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Gypsies in the Palace


"Gypsies in the Palace" is a song written and performed by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was first released on his 1985 album "Last Mango in Paris" and was his first of three charting singles off that album. This song charted #56 on US Country. The song concerns an apparently professional entertainer who leaves his home in the care of the unnamed narrator and another man nicknamed "Snake" while he goes to perform elsewhere. Once the homeowner leaves, the two men notice all the
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Merriweather Post Pavilion


, Howard Research and Development manager Micheal Spear banned rock music after incidents, listing Alice Cooper, Grateful Dead, and Edgar Winter as artists that were unacceptable. In 1977, Jimmy Buffett performed at Merriweather for the first time. He has since played a total of 42 times, the most by any act. In 1978, and again in 1980 during his campaign against Ronald Reagan, President Jimmy Carter joined Willie Nelson on stage to sing a duet of "Georgia on My Mind". SFX bought the entertainment lease in 1999
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Cheeseburger in Paradise


"Cheeseburger in Paradise" is a song written and performed by American popular music singer Jimmy Buffett. It appeared on his 1978 album "Son of a Son of a Sailor" and was released as a single, reaching #32 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. "Cheeseburger in Paradise" has become one of Buffett's signature songs and was selected as the first track on his greatest hits album "Songs You Know by Heart". The song is about a man who "is trying to amend his carnivorous habits
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Feeding Frenzy: Jimmy Buffett Live!


Feeding Frenzy: Jimmy Buffett Live! is a live album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was initially released in October 1990 as MCA 10022. It is the second of Buffett's many live albums. The album's material was culled from several concerts at Lakewood Amphitheatre in Atlanta, Georgia and Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati, Ohio in August 1990 and was remixed by Elliot Scheiner at The Hit Factory Studios in New York City. "Feeding Frenzy" reached #68 on the "Billboard" 200 album
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Don't Stop the Carnival (Jimmy Buffett album)


Don't Stop the Carnival is the twenty-second studio album by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and was released on April 28, 1998. It is based on the 1965 novel of the same name written by Herman Wouk. Wouk also worked with Buffett to produce the Don't Stop the Carnival stage play that lasted only a short run in Miami. The album includes 20 original compositions by Jimmy that were recorded to promote the stage play. It reached #15 in the Billboard 200 albums chart. It was Buffett's
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Jamaica Mistaica


"Jamaica Mistaica" is a song written and performed by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It is the second track from his 1996 album "Banana Wind". Despite Buffett not releasing any singles from the album, "Jamaica Mistaica" remains one of Buffett's most notable numbers from his '90s repertoire, due to the well-publicized incident it was written about. On January 16, 1996, Buffett's Grumman HU-16 airplane named "Hemisphere Dancer" was shot at by Jamaican authorities, while taxiing in
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Volcano (Jimmy Buffett album)


.) Additional recording was done at Quadrafonic Studios in Nashville Tennessee and Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles, California in the United States. The album is dedicated to Buffett's wife and his daughter, Savannah Jane Buffett, who was born just before its release. All of the songs are written or co-written by Buffett. Buffett performed "Volcano" with Don Henley at a 1993 Walden Woods Project benefit concert that is available on Henley's 2002 "One of These Nights". "Volcano" reached number 14 on
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for Buffett fans. Buffett did not comment immediately after the incident, but discussed it on "The Today Show" three days later. On October 6, 2006, it was reported that Buffett had been detained by French custom officials in Saint Tropez for allegedly carrying over 100 pills of ecstasy. Buffett's luggage was searched after his Dassault Falcon 900 private jet landed at Toulon-Hyères International Airport. He paid a fine of $300 and was released. A spokesperson for Buffett stated the pills in question were prescription drugs,
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Jerry Jeff Walker


True also sells his autobiography, "Gypsy Songman". In 2004, Jerry Jeff released his first DVD of songs from his past as performed in an intimate setting in Austin. He has interpreted the songs of others like Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Paul Siebel, Bob Dylan, Todd Snider, Dave Roberts, and even a rodeo clown named Billy Jim Baker. Some have called Jerry Jeff the Jimmy Buffett of Texas. It was Jerry Jeff who first drove Jimmy Buffett to Key West (from Coconut
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Mailboat Records


Mailboat Records is an independent record label established in 1999 by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett after his vanity label Margaritaville Records was absorbed by Island Records when they were sold to Universal Music Group, owner of Buffett's previous label MCA Records. Mailboat's first release was Buffett's "". In addition to Buffett, the label's roster includes Dan Fogelberg, Bret Michaels, Boz Scaggs, Def Leppard (North America only), Walter Becker, Jim Mayer, and , a compilation CD featuring Jimmy Buffett as Huckleberry Finn
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A Salty Piece of Land


A Salty Piece of Land is a 2004 novel by bestselling author and songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It is about a fictional American westerner, Tully Mars, who goes to work repairing an island lighthouse. Buffett first introduced the character Tully Mars in his earlier work, "Tales from Margaritaville". The book includes a CD single with a song of the same title as the book. Tully Mars, a 40-something guide at the Lost Boys Fishing Lodge resort, takes trips around the Caribbean. Also put in charge of fixing an old
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he preferred "margaritas"; Buffett's character replied, "Can't argue with you there." He reprised the role with a brief cameo visiting McGarret on the March 30, 2018 episode "E Ho'oko Kuleana". Buffett made a cameo in the 2015 film "Jurassic World", where he is seen holding two margaritas while the dinosaurs are set loose in the park. In 2017, Buffett was the musical guest on the "" episode "Rogue Nation", playing the song "I Will Play for Gumbo
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Volcano (Jimmy Buffett song)


"Volcano" is a song performed by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was written by Jimmy Buffett, Keith Sykes, and Harry Dailey and released as a single (b/w "Stranded on a Sandbar") on MCA 41161 in November 1979. It was first released on his 1979 album "Volcano". It reached #66 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and #43 on the Easy Listening chart. This song was originally a minor hit. The song and album are named for
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degree in history in 1969. He is an initiate of Kappa Sigma fraternity at the University of Southern Mississippi. After graduating from college, Buffett worked as a correspondent for "Billboard" magazine in Nashville, breaking the news of the separation of Flatt and Scruggs. Buffett married Margie Washichek in 1969 and divorced in 1971. Buffett spent years working as the first mate on the yacht of industrialist Foster Talge on the "Petticoat III" in Key West while perfecting the "Caribbean Rock n' Roll" genre. Buffett and his
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The Great Filling Station Holdup


Station Holdup" and "Pencil Thin Mustache". The album also includes all songs from "Songs You Know By Heart", except "He Went to Paris". The song is about two robbers holding up a filling station and the aftermath of getting caught shortly after the robbery in a honky tonk, where both robbers are drunk on beer they bought with the cash they stole. Buffett got the idea to write the song after finding amusement in a newspaper article about recovered property from a holdup. Soon after the release
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, claiming that Buffett took parts of the monologue from Buckley's "A Tribute to Buckley" and claimed it as his own work in "God's Own Drunk". The suit also alleged that Buffett's "blasphemous" rendition presented to the public a distorted impression of Lord Buckley. A court injunction against Buffett prevented him from performing the song until the lawsuit was settled or resolved, so starting in 1983, Buffett would get to the part of his show where he would normally perform "God's Own Drunk",
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Banana Wind


Banana Wind is the twentieth studio album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. Released on June 4, 1996. "Jamaica Mistaica" is about an incident in Jamaica on January 16, 1996 in which local authorities mistook Buffett's seaplane, the Hemisphere Dancer, for a smuggling operation. The plane was shot; shortly before, Buffett, U2's Bono, and Island Records producer Chris Blackwell had been aboard. No one was injured, though there were several bullet holes in the plane. (The plane itself
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Volcano (Jimmy Buffett song)


the then-dormant Soufrière Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat in the British West Indies where Buffett recorded the album in May 1979 at AIR Studios. The studio was destroyed by Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and Soufrière Hills erupted again in 1995. The lyrics describe the narrator's anxiety about his possible whereabouts following the impending eruption of a volcano. The bridge before the final chorus mentions a number of placenames, some important largely in the context of 1979: "Volcano" is one of Buffett's more popular songs with fans,
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LPGA Boulevard and about a mile to the west from Interstate-95. Phase one of the community will have 400 homes with a potential of 6,900 homes, once the project is completed. As of March 2018, 250 lots have been sold, with home prices projected to range between the low $200,000's to the mid-$300,000 range. In 1994, Buffett began developing a musical based on Herman Wouk's 1965 novel, "Don't Stop the Carnival". Buffett wrote the music and lyrics and Wouk wrote the book for the show
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Tim Krekel


and was soon playing gigs there. He even did some recording for Jack Clements. It wasn't long before Tim got a road gig with Billy Swan (who had a huge hit with "I Can Help"). That band toured the States and Europe for a year. Billy went back to playing with Kris Kristofferson, and Tim resumed gigging around Nashville. One night, Tim performed in a showcase where Chet Atkins and a friend were in the audience. The friend turned out to be Jimmy Buffett's manager.
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Last Mango in Paris


wrote most of the songs with Will Jennings, Marshall Chapman, and/or Michael Utley. He recorded one song, "Frank and Lola," which he had written with Steve Goodman who died in 1984. Buffett dedicated the album to Goodman and this would be the last Goodman song Buffett would record . "Desperation Samba (Halloween in Tijuana)" features the sound of a whip cracking performed by actor Harrison Ford, a reminder of Ford's use of the whip in the "Indiana Jones" movies. Buffett recorded a live
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Christmas Island (Jimmy Buffett album)


Christmas Island is Jimmy Buffett's first Christmas album and is his twenty-first studio album overall. It features covers of popular Christmas songs in Buffett's musical stylings as well as two tracks which Buffett wrote for the album. "Twas the Night Before Christmas" is a hidden track. It was the last release with MCA Records. Reviews tend to be mixed for the album. In a positive review, a reviewer states that "["Christmas Island"] will have you on your feet all through the holidays.
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Jimmy Buffett greatest hits compilations


. For these, see "Down to Earth" and "High Cumberland Jubilee" compilations. "Songs You Know by Heart: Jimmy Buffett's Greatest Hit(s)" is Buffett's first greatest hits compilation and was released in 1985. However, it only features songs from 1973 to 1979. "Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads" is a four-compact disc box set of Buffett's greatest hits plus rarities and previously unreleased songs released in 1992. The songs are grouped thematically on four discs, one named for
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from his career in music, Buffett is also a best-selling writer and is involved in two restaurant chains named after two of his best-known songs; he owns the Margaritaville Cafe restaurant chain and co-developed the Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant chain. Buffett was born on December 25, 1946, in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and spent part of his childhood in Mobile, Alabama. He is the son of Mary Lorraine (née Peets) and James Delaney Buffett, Jr. During his grade school years, he attended St.
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Hoot (film)


its initial theatrical run, and received largely mixed to negative reviews from film critics and film-review websites. The film is about a group of children trying to save a burrowing owl habitat from destruction. Its habitat is located on the intended construction site of a pancake house. The developer of the project intends to proceed regardless of the environmental damage it would cause. "Hoot" features live burrowing owls and music by Jimmy Buffett. Buffett is also listed as a co-producer, and he played the role of Mr.
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sometimes called "Gulf and Western". Today, he is a regular visitor to the Caribbean island of Saint Barts and other islands where he gets inspiration for many of his songs and some of the characters in his books. With the untimely death of friend and mentor Jim Croce in September 1973, ABC/Dunhill Records tapped Buffett to fill his space. Earlier, Buffett had visited Croce's farm in Pennsylvania and met with Croce in Florida. Buffett's third album was the 1973 "A White Sport Coat and a Pink
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Nadirah Shakoor


Nadirah Shakoor is an American vocalist, best known for her work in Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band, which she joined in 1995, and is still touring with it as its featured female vocalist. "Nod to the Storyteller" is Shakoor's tribute to Jimmy Buffett, who for the last 22 years has featured her as part of his show. Prior to that, she was a female vocalist of the hip hop group Arrested Development, of which she was a member from 1993 until 1995. She was nominated for a
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everyone wants, or else we'll get killed", and then went on to play "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" on air. The set list for the event on May 3 at the Austin 360 Amphitheater, his first outdoor show in Austin in 17 years, did include the "ten". The show was one of the very few in Buffett's career that had ever been rescheduled on account of weather conditions (extreme wind in Austin forced the move to May 3 from the original date of May 2)
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Live in Auburn, WA


Live in Auburn is a live album by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and is one of number of Jimmy Buffett sound board live albums recorded directly from the mixing console without further editing thus resembling bootleg recordings. The album was recorded at White River Amphitheatre in Auburn, Washington on 16 September 2003, on Buffett's "Tiki Time Tour". It was released in November 2003 on two compact discs on Mailboat. It was produced by Michael Utley, a member of Buffett's Coral Reefer Band. The album includes all of
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Keith Sykes (musician)


humorous singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. Buffett would record two songs from Sykes' third album "The Way That I Feel" for his 1978 certified-platinum album "Son of a Son of a Sailor". In January 1979, Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge asked Sykes to attend an event for UNICEF in NYC. It was there that Jimmy Buffett asked Sykes to join his touring and recording band, The Coral Reefers. Sykes became the utility guitar player in The Coral Reefer Band for Buffett's 1979 tours, which included
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Hot Water (album)


Hot Water is the sixteenth studio album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was released in June 1988 as MCA 42093 and was produced by Coral Reefer Band members Michael Utley, Russell Kunkel, and Ralph MacDonald. The album was Jimmy's first album recorded at his new studio in Key West, FL called Shrimpboat Sound. The LP continues Buffett's use of a wide variety of musical instruments than was typical for Buffett's earlier works, notably horns and percussion. Buffett shaved off his trademark mustache for the
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Steve Free


folk trio in Philadelphia. There, they recorded and released songs on two small record labels. In 1990, Free signed with Fraternity Records, which is his current label. He shot to national attention in 1993 with his song about the Ohio Prison riot entitled "Siege at Lucasville", which was used by the television series "48 Hours" when they covered the story about the prison riot on their program. Free is a known recording artist who has been called the "Appalachian Jimmy Buffett." Additionally, Cashbox Records
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this time, Buffett could be frequently found busking for tourists in New Orleans. Country music singer Jerry Jeff Walker took him to Key West on a busking expedition in November 1971. Buffett then moved to Key West and began establishing the easy-going beach-bum persona for which he is known. He started out playing for drinks at the Chart Room Bar in the Pier House Motel. Following this move, Buffett combined country, rock, folk, and pop music with coastal as well as tropical lyrical themes for a sound
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Kiss of Death (1995 film)


district attorney approaches Jimmy again about snitching on the Browns. Still in Sing Sing, Jimmy negotiates for a pardon and a job that he would enjoy. He and Rosie get married, but he hides his informant duties from her. Det. Hart meets with Jimmy at a Chinese restaurant and informs him that his target is actually a drug dealer named Omar, who gets weapons and cars from Little Junior Brown. Jimmy dons a wire and returns to work for the Browns with an initial assignment of boosting cars. After their rounds
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August 2000, Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band played on the White House lawn for then-President Bill Clinton. In 2003, he partnered in a partial duet with Alan Jackson for the song "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere", a number-one hit on the country charts. This song won the 2003 Country Music Association Award for Vocal Event of the Year. This was Buffett's first award in his 30-year career. Buffett's album, "License to Chill", released on July 13, 2004, sold
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in Florida, Alabama and the Caribbean affected by the four major hurricanes that year. Buffett performed in Hong Kong on January 18, 2008, for a concert that raised US$63,000 for the Foreign Correspondents' Club Charity Fund. This was his first concert in Hong Kong and it sold out within weeks. Not only did Buffett perform for the groundlings for free, but he also paid for the concertgoers' tequila and beer. On July 11, 2010, Buffett, a Gulf Coast native, put on a free concert on
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Remittance man


uses the term to refer to a wealthy Englishman's good-for-nothing daughters who spend their days on the New York City party circuit. Jimmy Buffett wrote a song entitled "Remittance Man" for his album "Barometer Soup". Buffett took inspiration from Mark Twain's description of meeting two remittance men during his voyage in "Following the Equator". TV Tropes describes the remittance man: In Westerns, he's often connected somehow to the Cattle Baron; he may be the money-man or at least represent
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". He also made cameo appearances as himself in "Rancho Deluxe" (for which he also wrote the music) and in "FM". He made a guest appearance in the season two of "Hawaii Five-0" on CBS in 2011. Buffett reportedly was offered a cameo role in "", but declined the offer. In 1997, Buffett collaborated with novelist Herman Wouk on a musical production based on Wouk's 1965 novel "Don't Stop the Carnival". In the "South Park" episode "Tonsil
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Knee Deep


. The song is about laying back and having no worries (some of the lyrics are: "Only worry in the world is the tide gonna reach my chair.") Co-writer Wyatt Durrette told the website Taste of Country that he has been a longtime fan of Jimmy Buffett and that he wanted to write a beach-themed song. He based the first verse on a breakup. Durrette brought the song to Brown, who helped him complete the second verse and melody. After neither of them could come
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Floridays


musical instruments than was typical for Buffett's previous works, notably several songs with strings and horns. His daughter Savannah Jane Buffett is credited for playing mini-conga on the album. It was also his last studio album to feature Jimmy Buffett's trademark mustache, before he shaved it off for the next album Hot Water in 1988. All of the album's songs were written or co-written by Buffett except for "If It All Falls Down" written by Coral Reefer Band member Matt Betton. "I Love The
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238,600 copies in its first week of release according to Nielsen Soundscan. With this, Buffett topped the U.S. pop albums chart for the first time in his career. Buffett continues to tour throughout the year, although he has shifted recently to a more relaxed schedule of around 20–30 dates, with infrequent back-to-back nights, preferring to play only on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. This schedule provided the title of his . In the summer of 2005, Buffett teamed up with Sirius Satellite Radio and introduced Radio Margaritaville
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Nothing Sacred (David Allan Coe album)


at the time. Buffett had accused Coe of plagiarizing the melody of "Divers Do It Deeper" from Buffett's "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes", stating "I would have sued him, but I didn't want to give Coe the pleasure of having his name in the paper." Coe wrote the song "Jimmy Buffett" in response, with Coe suggesting that he and Buffett "just both get drunk and screw". The album was generally criticized as being profane and crude. Neil Strauss described
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David Allan Coe


spurring him to perform his own comedic songs for Silverstein, who encouraged Coe to record them, leading to the production of the independently released "Nothing Sacred". Jimmy Buffett accused Coe of plagiarizing the melody of "Divers Do It Deeper" from Buffett's "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes", stating, "I would have sued him, but I didn't want to give Coe the pleasure of having his name in the paper." In response to the success of Buffett's song, Coe wrote a
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Jimmy Buffett greatest hits compilations


American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett has issued a number of greatest hits compilation albums over the course of his music career and they are listed chronologically by date of release below. These collections have focused less on whether particular songs have been issued as singles or have been chart hits but instead have all tended to include a core of fan favorite songs that are popular at Buffett's live concerts. Buffett has also had collections featuring only the work of his first two albums from the Barnaby Records label which has been licensed for numerous releases
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's Bono, and Island Records producer Chris Blackwell, and co-pilot Bill Dindy, but they were not on board at the time. The Jamaican government acknowledged the mistake and apologized to Buffett, who penned the song "Jamaica Mistaica" for his "Banana Wind" album based on the experience. The plane from the incident is now at Orlando City Walk's Margaritaville. On February 4, 2001, he was ejected from the American Airlines Arena in Miami during a basketball game between the Miami Heat and the New York
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writing and merchandising. In 1985, Buffett opened a "Margaritaville" retail store in Key West, and in 1987, he opened the Margaritaville Cafe. In 1997, Buffett collaborated with novelist Herman Wouk to create a musical based on Wouk's novel, "Don't Stop the Carnival". Broadway showed little interest in the play (following the failure of Paul Simon's "The Capeman"), and it ran only for six weeks in Miami. He released an album of songs from the musical in 1998. In
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Anita Bryant


1979, he responded: "I wouldn't say I won't tour in America because I can't stand Anita Bryant". In his song "Mañana", Jimmy Buffett sings "I hope Anita Bryant never ever does one of my songs". In 1978, David Allan Coe recorded the song "Fuck Aneta Briant" on his album "Nothing's Sacred". Bryant was regularly lampooned on "Saturday Night Live", sometimes with her politics as the target, sometimes her reputation as a popular, traditional entertainer
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Down to Earth (Jimmy Buffett album)


") was often not considered part of the chronology of Buffett albums by fans or even Buffett himself. All of the songs on "Down to Earth" were written or co-written by Buffett. "The Captain and the Kid" was re-recorded twice by Buffett—first for 1976's "Havaña Daydreamin'", and then for the 2002 compilation "". The folk-rock style of music and lyrics on "Down to Earth" and "High Cumberland Jubilee" differ greatly from Buffett's subsequent
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Songs You Know by Heart


Songs You Know by Heart: Jimmy Buffett's Greatest Hit(s) is the 18th album and the first greatest hits compilation by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was released in January 2, 1985, on LP and October 17, 1990, on CD and cassette. The parenthetical "s" in the subtitle alludes to the status at the time of "Margaritaville" as Buffett's single large chart hit. Although the album charted at 100 on the "Billboard" 200, it is currently certified 7x Platinum
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country and pop single in 2011. Also in 2011, Buffett voiced Huckleberry Finn on "", which was released on Mailboat Records. The project is a benefit for the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum and includes Clint Eastwood as Mark Twain, Garrison Keillor as the narrator, and songs by Brad Paisley, Sheryl Crow, Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, and others. Of the over 30 albums Jimmy Buffett has released, as of October 2007, eight are Gold albums and nine are Platinum or Multiplatinum.
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Margaritaville


the song to Buffett's career is referred to obliquely in a parenthetical plural in the title of a Buffett greatest hits compilation album, "Songs You Know By Heart: Jimmy Buffett's Greatest Hit(s)". The name has been used in the title of other Buffett compilation albums such as "" and is also the name of several commercial products licensed by Buffett (see below). The song also lent its name to the 2017 musical "Escape to Margaritaville", in which it is featured alongside other Buffett songs.
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Jimmy Buffett


James William Buffett (born December 25, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, author, actor, and businessman. He is best known for his music, which often portrays an "island escapism" lifestyle. Together with his Coral Reefer Band, Buffett has recorded hit songs including "Margaritaville" (ranked 234th on the Recording Industry Association of America's list of "Songs of the Century") and "Come Monday". He has a devoted base of fans known as "Parrotheads". Aside
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Wayne Jobson


Stevens and Junior Reid. Wayne co-wrote with Jimmy Buffett, one of the songs on the Jimmy Buffett album “FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD” which entered the Billboard album charts at #5. Diving into the world of radio, Wayne was both producer and DJ at the #1 modern rock station in the world, KROQ 106.7 FM in Los Angeles, on which he had the #1 reggae show in America ,“REGGAE REVOLUTION” running for a seven year period. A longtime grammy member, Wayne has
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Lavrentis Machairitsas


after he started a fight with one of his teachers, he was expelled and excluded from all high schools. He went through countless jobs and served in the army for 14 months. When he left the army, he started singing with Panos Tzabelas in Syntrofia. At the age of 20 he (as Larry), Pavlos Kirkilis (Paul), Takis Bassalakis (Jimmy), and Antonis Mitzelos formed a band called P.L.J. They moved to Paris, hoping for a musical career outside Greece. In 1982, their first album
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God's Own Drunk


"God's Own Drunk" is a monologue by Lord Buckley that musicians have since adapted into different types of songs; most notably, Jimmy Buffett, who first recorded his rendition for "Living and Dying in ¾ Time" and has since released a single of a live performance in 2011. Buffett's version was a concert staple and even regarded as his theme before "Margaritaville"'s popularity, until he was forced to stop playing it after being sued by Buckley's son, Dick Buckley Jr., for copyright infringement.
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The Jolly Mon


The Jolly Mon is a children's picture book written by Jimmy Buffett and Savannah Jane Buffett and published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. The book was originally released in 1988. It was illustrated by Lambert Davis. From the cover flap, "A superb songwriter and storyteller, Jimmy Buffett has combined his knowledge of oceanic folklore with his own experiences while sailing with his daughter, Savannah Jane, from island to island throughout the Caribbean. The result is "The Jolly Mon" - an original tale where music and enchantment, pirates and
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Third World Child


1988 film "Rain Man". The song "Great Heart" was covered by Jimmy Buffett a year after its release for his album "Hot Water". The song has since become an opener for Buffett's concerts, being played nearly every performance during the 2000 and 2003 tours. The 2000 tour was compiled into a live album, "", but "Great Heart" was left on the cutting room floor. However, many performances from the 2003 tour was captured on five out of seven of the Jimmy Buffett
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Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville


to include its very own 15,000-square-foot Margaritaville-branded casino. The casino was scheduled to open October 1, 2011. On January 12, 2011, it was announced that Buffett's MVB Holdings company is working with Coast casino veteran Tom Brosig and other investors to build the casual three-story, 68,000-square-foot, $48 million " "Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville Casino and Restaurant"" resort on the back bay at the old East Harrison County Industrial Park on 5th Street in Biloxi, MS. The developers will
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