Jimmy Buffett "Songs You Know By Heart" (1985): Track by Track!

<v Speaker 1>Hey, Shirley fans, it's Bomber back again to introduce my
<v Speaker 1>friends and hosts of the Shirley You Can't Be Serious Podcast,
<v Speaker 1>Jason Colvin and James D.
<v Speaker 2>Graves.
<v Speaker 1>Grab your flipflops, pour yourself something with a tiny umbrella,
<v Speaker 1>and prepare your taste buds for cheeseburgers in paradise, because
<v Speaker 1>today we're diving into the sun soaked, salt rimmed world
<v Speaker 1>of the one and only Jimmy Buffett Take us away
<v Speaker 1>to Margueritaville.
<v Speaker 2>Boys, Welcome back.
<v Speaker 3>To the Shirley You Can Be Serious Podcast, everybody. I
<v Speaker 3>don't know if you've noticed how festive we are at
<v Speaker 3>the moment, but we are here to talk about a
<v Speaker 3>freaking lifestyle, right End's up? Baby, Yeah, there are so
<v Speaker 3>many quotable moments throughout this guy's life and songs and
<v Speaker 3>you just can't beat it. And special game for you today. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>we're going to do the Lost Shaker of Salt game
<v Speaker 3>at some point during the podcast. I can't tell you
<v Speaker 3>when Salt Shaker shall appear. It probably won't be around
<v Speaker 3>for very long, but pay close attention if you are,
<v Speaker 3>oh one of the first three people in the comments
<v Speaker 3>who can tell me the time signature of when the
<v Speaker 3>Salt Shaker showed up. I'll send you free T shirt. Free.
<v Speaker 3>Surely you can't be serious T shirt. Let's go yes
<v Speaker 3>from our new Merche store. Well, so we're going to
<v Speaker 3>sort of yes. I go one. I fixed one problem
<v Speaker 3>and I've got to fixed the other problem, but the
<v Speaker 3>two can't communicate together for some reason. I haven't fixed
<v Speaker 3>that problem yet, but I can still order you a
<v Speaker 3>T shirt on my own send it to you, no problem.
<v Speaker 3>Just pay attention for the Salt Shaker. All right, All right,
<v Speaker 3>Chirley listeners, if this is your first time here, we
<v Speaker 3>compare two monumental albums. The first one that we talked
<v Speaker 3>about in our last episode was the album Eagle's Greatest
<v Speaker 3>Hits Volume one. That's right, an incredible album, arguably the
<v Speaker 3>best selling album of all time. We're pairing it up,
<v Speaker 3>matching it up, if you will, with Jimmy Buffett's Greatest Hits,
<v Speaker 3>which I think there's been a lot of cool swings
<v Speaker 3>at making a creative Greatest Hits album title. This wins
<v Speaker 3>the game far and away. Calling it songs you Know
<v Speaker 3>by heart is just pure freaking genius. Yeah, that's great.
<v Speaker 3>It's great. So tell me how did you get familiar
<v Speaker 3>with this album?
<v Speaker 4>Well, my my buddy Bomber in high school was a
<v Speaker 4>big Jimmy Buffett guy. He's the one that kind of
<v Speaker 4>turned me onto it. To me, Jimmy Buffett was this
<v Speaker 4>kind of unknown person because he wasn't on MTV.
<v Speaker 3>Right.
<v Speaker 4>I do want to bring up the fact that this
<v Speaker 4>album has two different covers.
<v Speaker 3>Did you notice that. Yeah, there's one with him laying
<v Speaker 3>back on like a hammock with the guitar in his hand. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>And the one I had was just the plain yellow
<v Speaker 3>Jimmy Buffett on the cover. Fir Well, I grew up
<v Speaker 3>with the yellow one, so that's classic one. Yeah, I
<v Speaker 3>mean it's certainly. The other one seems to capture the
<v Speaker 3>mood for sure. But which ones you have?
<v Speaker 4>Well, I like the one with the parrot and the hammock. So,
<v Speaker 4>but that's one thing. We're gonna be talking about a
<v Speaker 4>bunch of different things. We're gona talk about Jimmyuffet, We're
<v Speaker 4>goingna talk about the Eagles, We're gonna talk about these songs.
<v Speaker 4>Give us your opinion on the album cover. Which album
<v Speaker 4>is the classic album cover for you?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? So this album was literally the album that introduced
<v Speaker 3>me to Jimmy Buffett. My brother was in college, and
<v Speaker 3>when you're in college, he basically said, these are songs
<v Speaker 3>that you have to know every word to. Yeah. As
<v Speaker 3>a matter of fact, the name of the Greatest Hits
<v Speaker 3>album is Songs you Know by Heart. And we went
<v Speaker 3>to Hastings and he bought me the tape the cassette,
<v Speaker 3>So I had Songs you Know by Heart nice as
<v Speaker 3>my first exposure to Jimmy Buffett. You know where I
<v Speaker 3>got mine?
<v Speaker 4>You know those monthly CD clubs. I think it was
<v Speaker 4>mine was BMI, and so I got my Jimmy Buffett
<v Speaker 4>c D through the BMI CD club. I don't think
<v Speaker 4>I paid for it. I don't think I pay for
<v Speaker 4>any of that stuff.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>I got my ten for a penny or whatever, got
<v Speaker 4>enrolled in the thing and never got the album of
<v Speaker 4>the month or whatever, and just kept sending them back.
<v Speaker 4>All right, Well, let me give you an overview of
<v Speaker 4>this album before we dive into the songs. Just to
<v Speaker 4>refresh everybody, we are comparing Jimmy Buvett's Greatest Hits Songs
<v Speaker 4>you Know by Heart to the Eagles their Greatest Hits
<v Speaker 4>nineteen seventy one and nineteen seventy five. You enjoy your
<v Speaker 4>Cheezburger and Paradise over there?
<v Speaker 3>Good okay.
<v Speaker 4>So this album has sold over five million copies in
<v Speaker 4>the United States. When Jimmy died in September of twenty
<v Speaker 4>twenty three, this album peaked at number four on the
<v Speaker 4>Billboard two hundred and according to Jimmy himself, he's just
<v Speaker 4>a Catholic ultar boy who wanted to play bass and
<v Speaker 4>meat chicks.
<v Speaker 3>Speaking of passing away, I think is important to note,
<v Speaker 3>as we're talking beach music, right, we are recording this
<v Speaker 3>on the day of the passing of one of the
<v Speaker 3>biggest icons in music history. Little moment of silence for
<v Speaker 3>Brian Wilson, the founding and pivotal member of the Beach Boys.
<v Speaker 3>God rest his soul. I think he's in a better
<v Speaker 3>spot now. Yep. Time to jump into the first song,
<v Speaker 3>which speaking of pines fifty seven, Cheezburger and.
<v Speaker 5>Paradise tried doing Carnivers Abbott.
<v Speaker 6>Seven eight.
<v Speaker 4>All right d So This song was released as the
<v Speaker 4>first single off The Son of a Son of a Sailor,
<v Speaker 4>as his eighth album, released in nineteen seventy seven. This
<v Speaker 4>song reached number thirty two on the Hot one hundred
<v Speaker 4>June seventeenth of nineteen seventy eight, pretty close to the
<v Speaker 4>anniversary to that. We're June tenth today, so the Hot
<v Speaker 4>one hundred that week June seventeenth, nineteen seventy.
<v Speaker 3>Eight June eleventh. Just in case people think we had
<v Speaker 3>a premonition about the death of Brian Wilson.
<v Speaker 4>So here's your top seven from June seventeenth, nineteen seventy eight.
<v Speaker 4>Number seven feels so good Chuck MANGIONI. I love that song.
<v Speaker 4>That was almost on my Best of seventy eight. Number
<v Speaker 4>six Take a Chance on Me by Abba. Number five
<v Speaker 4>Too Much, Too Little, Too Late by Johnny Mathis and
<v Speaker 4>Denise Williams. Okay, do you remember the last time we
<v Speaker 4>talked about Johnny Mathis and Denise Williams singing a song together?
<v Speaker 3>Believe it was the TV theme songs TV theme songs.
<v Speaker 4>They sang the Groin Pains theme together.
<v Speaker 3>That's right.
<v Speaker 4>Number four, It's a Heartache by Bonnie Tyler. Number three
<v Speaker 4>Baker Street by Jerry Rafferty.
<v Speaker 3>Hello.
<v Speaker 4>Number two You're the One that I Want by John
<v Speaker 4>Travolta and Olivia Newton. John and number one Shadow Dancing
<v Speaker 4>by Andy Gibb.
<v Speaker 3>Most of those are absolute bangers that stood the test
<v Speaker 3>of time.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, all right, I've got the description of this burger,
<v Speaker 4>but before I give that to you, tell me the
<v Speaker 4>story on how he came to have this cheeseburger in Paradise.
<v Speaker 3>Before I get into that, I just have to say
<v Speaker 3>the line at the beginning. It doesn't sound like this story, right.
<v Speaker 3>It sounds like he's he was on a diet. Right,
<v Speaker 3>He's losing weight without speed eating sunflower seeds. And when
<v Speaker 3>I first got this album and I was listening to
<v Speaker 3>those words and trying to learn them all by heart,
<v Speaker 3>I was like, how do you speed eat sunflower seeds?
<v Speaker 3>It's like speed walking? What is that? Right? Yes? No,
<v Speaker 3>losing weight without speed period beat the drug. Yes, that's
<v Speaker 3>what he was talking about that I was a little
<v Speaker 3>too young to understand all of that. So he is
<v Speaker 3>not speed eating. He is losing weight without speed eating
<v Speaker 3>sunsiulet with flower seeds. So this story comes from kind
<v Speaker 3>of accident that he had on his boat that he bought,
<v Speaker 3>the Euphoria, And this boat is kind of a I mean,
<v Speaker 3>it's an iconic moment in his life. He got. He
<v Speaker 3>got this at a point that he had finally made
<v Speaker 3>enough money to buy a boat, and so he bought
<v Speaker 3>a boat, and his you know, his accountant was just like,
<v Speaker 3>this is please, don't do this, and he's thinking of
<v Speaker 3>Aerol Flynn's accountant, who literally tried to do everything he could.
<v Speaker 3>Speaking of Errol Flynn will come up a little bit
<v Speaker 3>later in the same swave Aerol Flynn and the Chikh
<v Speaker 3>of Arab Anyway, apparently Aero Flynn's accountant on his deathbed
<v Speaker 3>said tell tell Errol, I'm sorry, and that was his
<v Speaker 3>last words that he dropped dead. So his account knew
<v Speaker 3>this the story, and he was like, this is not you.
<v Speaker 3>You shouldn't do this, but this was this was his
<v Speaker 3>purchase of freedom, right. He wanted a place that was
<v Speaker 3>completely his own, that a bank couldn't take away from him,
<v Speaker 3>and that he could use to go anywhere in the
<v Speaker 3>world he wanted to go. Unfortunately, going anywhere you want
<v Speaker 3>to go sometimes put you in places that you may
<v Speaker 3>not want to be. And so he got stuck on
<v Speaker 3>this ship for a long period of time trying to
<v Speaker 3>get out of the problem, and all he had was
<v Speaker 3>basically like canned food and some peanut butter, and so
<v Speaker 3>he eventually gets the ship back in order. They make
<v Speaker 3>it to a place called Cabbage Key. It's down obviously
<v Speaker 3>in the Caribbean around the Keys, and Cabbage Key had
<v Speaker 3>a little in called the Cabbage Key In. And at
<v Speaker 3>the Cabbage Key In there was a restaurant that served
<v Speaker 3>burgers with lettuce and tomato. Heinz fifty seven French fried potatoes,
<v Speaker 3>big kosher pickle, and a cold glass beer.
<v Speaker 4>You know, I heard him talk about this. He said
<v Speaker 4>that the bun was burned and the burger was charred black,
<v Speaker 4>but it tasted like manna from heaven, just having access
<v Speaker 4>to an American cheeseburger after living on canned food in
<v Speaker 4>the open ocean.
<v Speaker 3>So the Cabbage Key In it's still open and it's
<v Speaker 3>still operating really and you can go there, but you
<v Speaker 3>can't drive there. Okay. It is on an island called
<v Speaker 3>Pine Island Sound. It's one hundred acre island. It's near
<v Speaker 3>Fort Myers, Florida. But you can only get there by boat,
<v Speaker 3>helicopter or seaplane. That's it. Can you swim? I couldn't.
<v Speaker 3>It was. It was built in the forties by the
<v Speaker 3>family of Mary Roberts. Ryan Hart. It is historic obviously
<v Speaker 3>for this song. Still there covered in dollar dollar bills
<v Speaker 3>from people who would visit. And you know, I've been
<v Speaker 3>to those places too. There's a place in Destined that
<v Speaker 3>I go to that has that kind of feel to it.
<v Speaker 3>I would love to go there. Yeah, and get a
<v Speaker 3>cheeseburger in Paradise. Yep, no TVs, phones in the rooms,
<v Speaker 3>just basic, who cares? Yeah? Love it? Yeah, awesome, really
<v Speaker 3>getting away? Yeah, I would love to that. I am
<v Speaker 3>sure that a lot of parrotheads have visited that local
<v Speaker 3>quite sure.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, Okay, So I wanted to tell you I think
<v Speaker 4>I tell you this today. There is a big misheard
<v Speaker 4>lyric in this song.
<v Speaker 3>You blew my mind with this same okay? Did I
<v Speaker 3>have no idea about that? All right?
<v Speaker 4>So when he's describing the burger, here's the description that
<v Speaker 4>you get.
<v Speaker 3>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>So it's a huge burger on a warm bun with
<v Speaker 4>an onion slice, lettuce, tomato, HEINZ fifty seven sauce, with
<v Speaker 4>French fries, and a big kosher pickle. Of course, a
<v Speaker 4>cold draft beer. But he mentions that it has munster,
<v Speaker 4>not mustard. Most people think it says mustard. Hmm, apparently
<v Speaker 4>this was a misheard lyric number one, but also a
<v Speaker 4>typo in the print of the lyrics to this song.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I can see why they made the typo because
<v Speaker 3>it sounds like mustard.
<v Speaker 4>It sounds like mustard number one, and it also makes
<v Speaker 4>a lot of sense.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, because mustard you put on a cheeseburger. Not many
<v Speaker 3>people using munster cheese. Munster cheese is what he wants
<v Speaker 3>on his cheeseburger. It's kind of a bland cheese. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>it's not would I would, I'd pick cheddar.
<v Speaker 4>I did you don't need mustard when you got heines
<v Speaker 4>fifty seven?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, song number two, beautiful song. He went to Paris.
<v Speaker 7>He went to Paris looking for answers to questions.
<v Speaker 2>And bothered and so.
<v Speaker 8>He was impressive, young, an aggressive.
<v Speaker 5>Saving the world on his own.
<v Speaker 9>Warm summer Breeze is French wines and cheeses, but his ambition.
<v Speaker 4>This is off the album A White sport Coat and
<v Speaker 4>a pink crustacean.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So before we dive into the song, that album
<v Speaker 3>name is an interesting one, right. It is based upon
<v Speaker 3>the country song A White sport Coat and a pink carnation.
<v Speaker 3>He had a little bit of trouble with fitting in
<v Speaker 3>with the country music scene, which is way why he
<v Speaker 3>basically developed his own complete genre of music all by himself.
<v Speaker 3>But that was a little satire of the white sport
<v Speaker 3>coat and a pink carnation.
<v Speaker 4>Marty Robbins is the guy who wrote that yeah, which
<v Speaker 4>is a great song.
<v Speaker 2>It is.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>I heard him talk about how he spent five terrible
<v Speaker 4>years in Nashville before he discovered Key West.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I mean it's really funny because that had to be
<v Speaker 3>such a pivotal time in his life. He was working
<v Speaker 3>for Billboard magazine at that time, right, doing reports on
<v Speaker 3>songs instead of being a full time musician. But I mean,
<v Speaker 3>hey is paying bills, and he was meeting all kinds
<v Speaker 3>of people who could help him out in his quest
<v Speaker 3>to become a musician, right. And so he ended up
<v Speaker 3>going a few different places, traveling around of course, and
<v Speaker 3>living in a few places at that time as well.
<v Speaker 3>But one of the places he traveled to was a
<v Speaker 3>place called Chicago. Don't know why I said place called, Like,
<v Speaker 3>people don't know where Chicago is. This place you may
<v Speaker 3>not have heard of it. It's a little town. It's
<v Speaker 3>up in Illinois. It's called Chicago. Okay, So anyway, he
<v Speaker 3>runs into a guy who's this kind of local hero,
<v Speaker 3>so to speak, in Chicago, guy named Eddie Bolchowski. Now
<v Speaker 3>Eddie Bolchowski is a guy who was going to be
<v Speaker 3>a concert pianist. And he was a pianist when he
<v Speaker 3>at whenever he met Jimmy Buffett, but he had moved
<v Speaker 3>out of he and his family moved out of Europe.
<v Speaker 3>He was Jewish and had had faced a lot of
<v Speaker 3>stereotypes and racism because of that, and so they moved
<v Speaker 3>to Illinois. And then as he got older, he became
<v Speaker 3>very good at piano, was going to probably become a
<v Speaker 3>concert pianist. But then news came out of the Spanish
<v Speaker 3>Civil War over in Spain, right, and so it was
<v Speaker 3>this big you know, the fascists against the Republicans, and
<v Speaker 3>he felt this kinship with the Republicans and their fight,
<v Speaker 3>and so he went over there and enlisted, you know,
<v Speaker 3>basically in the American side of the international military over
<v Speaker 3>there called the Lincoln's and he helped the Republicans fight
<v Speaker 3>against the fascists. And at some point during that time,
<v Speaker 3>a sniper shot him through his wrist and he had
<v Speaker 3>to have basically his hand and most of his forearm amputated,
<v Speaker 3>which obviously effectively ends your chances of becoming a concert pianist.
<v Speaker 3>But then he goes back to the United States. Ultimately,
<v Speaker 3>later on, you know, when he's closer to the end
<v Speaker 3>of his life, he says, you know, he's talking about
<v Speaker 3>his lost arm. He said, I gained more by going
<v Speaker 3>and fighting that fight than I lost. I learned more,
<v Speaker 3>became more. But when he got back he would have
<v Speaker 3>phantom pain in his missing arm. Got involved with drugs,
<v Speaker 3>and got addicted to drugs, and then got involved with
<v Speaker 3>the bohemian lifestyles of the day, and ultimately ended up
<v Speaker 3>in prison. Really yeah, served a couple of years in
<v Speaker 3>prison on a drug charge. But while he's there, he
<v Speaker 3>meets this guy named last name's Crump. I can't remember
<v Speaker 3>his first name, but he's this guy on death row,
<v Speaker 3>and he's just amazed at how intelligent this guy is.
<v Speaker 3>He was a guy who was you know, from Chicago,
<v Speaker 3>who had killed a security guard at a messed up
<v Speaker 3>robbery attempt, right, Okay, So he persuades them to give
<v Speaker 3>this guy a typewriter so that he can write down
<v Speaker 3>his story. And this guy types up a biography of
<v Speaker 3>his life, and it gets published the name of its Burn,
<v Speaker 3>Killer Burn, and it's his life of growing up in
<v Speaker 3>these hard times and how he led him to a
<v Speaker 3>life of crime and all this stuff. And ultimately, because
<v Speaker 3>of all of that, because of Eddie Bolzowski's helping him
<v Speaker 3>out and him writing this book, he ultimately gets pardoned
<v Speaker 3>and gets released from prison in the early nineties. Wow.
<v Speaker 3>So back to Eddie Bolczowski because he had become such
<v Speaker 3>a kind of eccentric character. You know, once he's out
<v Speaker 3>of prison, he's had not only multiple stories written about him,
<v Speaker 3>he's had multiple songs. This is just one of very
<v Speaker 3>many songs that he had written about him. But it was,
<v Speaker 3>you know, his journey to Paris to find out what
<v Speaker 3>life is really about.
<v Speaker 4>Do you remember the last time we talked about a
<v Speaker 4>one armed pianist.
<v Speaker 3>No, but I feel like the punchline was it takes
<v Speaker 3>some two minutes to play the one Jaws the revenge.
<v Speaker 4>All right, So I've got some tidbits for you on
<v Speaker 4>this song.
<v Speaker 3>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>Jimmy Buffett says this is one of his favorite songs
<v Speaker 4>that he ever wrote. Waylon Jennings covered this song in
<v Speaker 4>nineteen eighty Now, Jimmy Buffett at the time rarely played
<v Speaker 4>this live until he heard that Bob Dylan was playing
<v Speaker 4>a cover of it at his concerts.
<v Speaker 3>Oh wow. And he was just.
<v Speaker 4>Astounded that Bob Dylan even knew who he was, never one,
<v Speaker 4>and that he liked his song, right okay yea. And
<v Speaker 4>he said, this is before the internet, so he couldn't
<v Speaker 4>It's not like he could go on YouTube and look
<v Speaker 4>at the video of him doing it. And so he
<v Speaker 4>was just taken aback that Bob Dylan would do this.
<v Speaker 4>So later on he meets up with Bob Dylan in
<v Speaker 4>Saint Bart's.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, yeah, nice.
<v Speaker 4>So they spend the day together on their boat okay,
<v Speaker 4>and they go fishing and they sing and they get
<v Speaker 4>stoned all day long and they have this.
<v Speaker 3>Great day together.
<v Speaker 4>And so Jimmy feels like he and Bob are like, hey,
<v Speaker 4>we're buddies, you know. We spent the day together, Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>hanging out, partying, having a great time. And so a
<v Speaker 4>few years later, Tom Petty is playing in Paris, and
<v Speaker 4>so went to Paris. So Jimmy goes to Paris to
<v Speaker 4>see Tom Petty play. Well, he finds out that Bob
<v Speaker 4>Dylan is backstage and they have a co friend who's
<v Speaker 4>in charge of security, and he sends word to Jimmy.
<v Speaker 4>He's like, hey, Bob's going to be backstage once you
<v Speaker 4>come back and hang out.
<v Speaker 3>And Jimmy's like, well, heck, yeah, Bob's my buddy. Height
<v Speaker 3>We hung out, we fished, we sang, we did drugs together.
<v Speaker 3>It was great. And when he goes back there, he's like, hey, Bob,
<v Speaker 3>how you doing, man, he said. Bob goes, eh, so
<v Speaker 3>just a grunt, okay. He said, well, what's going on, Bob,
<v Speaker 3>haven't seen you a long time. You're doing okay? And
<v Speaker 3>that's it. That was their in direction.
<v Speaker 4>Weird, just just Bob Dylan being Bob Dylan.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Well, too much drugging and losing, I think.
<v Speaker 4>So this song came at a time when Jimmy Buffett
<v Speaker 4>was transitioning from that Nashville country style to the Key
<v Speaker 4>West tropical thing. In two thousand and three, Jimmy called
<v Speaker 4>this a tribute to a guy who knows a lot
<v Speaker 4>about living all right. Next song on the album, the
<v Speaker 4>song is called.
<v Speaker 3>Finns Fins to the left, Fins to the right, and
<v Speaker 3>You're the only bait in town. So the woman from
<v Speaker 3>Cincinnati has not been officially identified yet, although there have
<v Speaker 3>been flames. What's interesting that relates back to something that
<v Speaker 3>we've talked about before, the inspiration from the songs. A
<v Speaker 3>lot of times, you know, it's just people in the audience.
<v Speaker 3>As you're watching people get stoned and drink too much,
<v Speaker 3>all of a sudden, the sharks get a little hungry,
<v Speaker 3>if you know what I mean, right, And so there's that.
<v Speaker 3>But he said he also would see people on the
<v Speaker 3>beach and specifically referred to Montserrat.
<v Speaker 4>This song was from the album Volcano, which was recorded
<v Speaker 4>which was recorded at Montserrat, and of course the title
<v Speaker 4>Volcano is in reference to the giant volcano at Monterret.
<v Speaker 3>Obviously, we'll talk about that at the very last song
<v Speaker 3>of the album, but we talked about that one before
<v Speaker 3>a couple of times. We talked about it when we
<v Speaker 3>talked about the.
<v Speaker 4>Police, the police recorded Goes to the Machine and Synchronicity
<v Speaker 4>in Montserrat.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, go go check out Synchronousy episode in season one,
<v Speaker 3>I think. But we just got finished talking about it
<v Speaker 3>when we talked about Dire Straits, Brothers and Arms. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>we are still waiting from that.
<v Speaker 4>Patreon member to come through with a couple of plane
<v Speaker 4>tickets to Monsterrat.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, And speaking of that, we had somebody after
<v Speaker 3>our Dire Straits episode who would I would describe as
<v Speaker 3>a Dire Straits super fan tell us how much you
<v Speaker 3>liked the show. But his name is Tom Marvin, and
<v Speaker 3>he let us know that actually they got the Neve
<v Speaker 3>soundboard out of the recording studio, so we can't that's
<v Speaker 3>that mystery is solved. But I'd still go down there
<v Speaker 3>to check it out with if somebody bought his plane ticket.
<v Speaker 4>Absolutely, it's cool that they save the knee board though,
<v Speaker 4>And thanks Tom for sending that to us.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, do you really appreciate you, Tom, Thank you very much.
<v Speaker 4>All Right, So I want to tell you this song
<v Speaker 4>is a part of the Big Eight. Every band has
<v Speaker 4>its staple songs, right, You're never gonna go to an
<v Speaker 4>Aerosmith song and they not play dream On or.
<v Speaker 3>Sweet Emotion, right, Okay, Yeah, So.
<v Speaker 4>Jimmy Buffett has these eight songs that he's always going
<v Speaker 4>to be playing. So the Big Eight are Marguerite de Ville,
<v Speaker 4>which we'll talk about here in a second. Come Monday,
<v Speaker 4>which we'll talk about here in a second, Finns volcano,
<v Speaker 4>a pirate looks at forty cheese burger in Paradise, Why
<v Speaker 4>don't we get drunk? And changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes.
<v Speaker 3>I don't think you should be allowed to say the
<v Speaker 3>song title why don't We Get Drunk without saying the
<v Speaker 3>four don't we get drunk? And screw.
<v Speaker 4>I don't know if you've ever seen any concert footage,
<v Speaker 4>but they the fans have a dance, like a choreographed
<v Speaker 4>dance song.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and it's a it's a.
<v Speaker 4>They all do the fins to the right, their fence
<v Speaker 4>to the left, fence to the right, and it's all
<v Speaker 4>this kind.
<v Speaker 3>Of I am glad to say I did get to
<v Speaker 3>go to one Jimmy Buffett concert. Yeah, I did. It
<v Speaker 3>was It's probably been eight years ago. I guess that
<v Speaker 3>really down in Frisco, Texas. Oh Mans show down in Frisco, Texas.
<v Speaker 3>I was there. Hit me up by the way.
<v Speaker 4>This reached number thirty five in November of nineteen seventy nine.
<v Speaker 3>This is his last.
<v Speaker 4>Solo song to hit the top forty. So the week
<v Speaker 4>that this song hit number thirty five in nineteen seventy nine,
<v Speaker 4>I got to rattle these off to you because there's
<v Speaker 4>some interesting names on this list.
<v Speaker 3>Is seventy nine. Last one was seventy eight. This is
<v Speaker 3>seventy seve this is November of seventy nine. Okay, yeah.
<v Speaker 4>So number eleven is Please Don't Go by Caseying the
<v Speaker 4>Sunshine Band. Do you remember when we last talked about
<v Speaker 4>that song?
<v Speaker 3>No Okay?
<v Speaker 4>On a Phil Collins episode, I asked you trivia question,
<v Speaker 4>what was the first number one song in the nineteen eighties?
<v Speaker 3>Right? And it was Yes, I got you, Please Don't Go? Okay.
<v Speaker 4>Number ten was No More Tears not Ozzy Osbourne, right,
<v Speaker 4>Barbara streisand.
<v Speaker 3>Barbara streisand No More Tiers? Okay? Yeah. Nine You Decorated
<v Speaker 3>My Life by Kenny Rodgers. Okay.
<v Speaker 4>Number eight Tusk by fleetwood Man.
<v Speaker 3>That's a banger.
<v Speaker 4>Number seven Babe by Styx.
<v Speaker 3>Nice. You talked about that one. Number six Don't Stop
<v Speaker 3>Till You Get Enough Michael Jackson. That's the best song
<v Speaker 3>on the album.
<v Speaker 4>Number five Still by the Commodoores.
<v Speaker 3>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>Number four Rise by Herb Albert. Okay, Number three Dim
<v Speaker 4>All the Lights by Donna Summer.
<v Speaker 3>I don't remember that one.
<v Speaker 4>Number two Heartache Tonight.
<v Speaker 3>By the Eagles. Ah, there you go.
<v Speaker 4>And number one talk about pop music.
<v Speaker 3>Oh my gosh, what a terrible song. How is that
<v Speaker 3>a number one song? I had no idea. It's awful,
<v Speaker 3>all right. Next song on the album this is son
<v Speaker 3>of a Son of a sailor. So I love this
<v Speaker 3>just because it's so true to his life. So his grandfather,
<v Speaker 3>James D.
<v Speaker 4>I believe Delaney. Yeah, James Delaney Buffett.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I just love that. He's James D. Like me.
<v Speaker 3>So he was a sailor. He was a guy who
<v Speaker 3>he could not sit still. Born in the late eighteen hundreds.
<v Speaker 3>But he, like he said, I got to get out
<v Speaker 3>of this place. Carled out of his room at like
<v Speaker 3>sixteen years old or something and went and got on
<v Speaker 3>a ship and started sailing. Very very call me Ishmael
<v Speaker 3>Moby Dick.
<v Speaker 4>He was born in Canada and he moved to Mobile, Alabama.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and so he'd lived in all kinds of places,
<v Speaker 3>had all kinds of adventures on the sea, and he
<v Speaker 3>would share this with his young grandson, Jimmy. Jimmy even
<v Speaker 3>points out in his book he was closer with his
<v Speaker 3>grandfather than he was with his dad. His dad wanted
<v Speaker 3>him to go to the military. His dad was more
<v Speaker 3>straightly laced. But he loved the stories that he would
<v Speaker 3>hear from his grandfather. And there was this big pivotal
<v Speaker 3>moment in his life where his grandfather takes him out
<v Speaker 3>to a peer I think near Mobile where he grew up.
<v Speaker 3>He shows him a map and just his pointing to
<v Speaker 3>all of these different amazing places that he's been and
<v Speaker 3>that are you know, incredible places to go, and he
<v Speaker 3>says and points, sit here we are, and it basically
<v Speaker 3>shows you the route you can go from this spot
<v Speaker 3>to get to all of those places. And that was
<v Speaker 3>such an eye opening experience for him. It and molded
<v Speaker 3>his whole life. It's fantastic. Yeah, love it. So here's
<v Speaker 3>his quote on this song.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I've always been proud of my heritage as a sailor,
<v Speaker 4>and I wrote this for the man that.
<v Speaker 3>Taught me those skills.
<v Speaker 4>Also, the song The Captain and the Kid was written
<v Speaker 4>about his grandfather as well. This was the lead single
<v Speaker 4>off of the album Son of a Son of a
<v Speaker 4>Sailor from nineteen seventy eight. But what I've been dying
<v Speaker 4>to get off my chest. I sent you this nugget
<v Speaker 4>this week. Do you remember where Jimmy Buffett got married?
<v Speaker 4>To his second wife, Jane.
<v Speaker 3>You sent this to me. You know, we text each other,
<v Speaker 3>that's what we do. And he couldn't he could not
<v Speaker 3>wait for this. He deliterally could not wait. He had
<v Speaker 3>to tell me. I was kind of blowing you up, right.
<v Speaker 3>You were like, do you know where Jimmy got married?
<v Speaker 3>And I was like, I don't know, Denver. I was
<v Speaker 3>just guessing because I know the story with Jane and
<v Speaker 3>that whole deal. So I was like, Denver, and it
<v Speaker 3>wasn't far off. You were pretty close. Yeah, it was Aspen.
<v Speaker 3>It was Aspen. But there's more to the story.
<v Speaker 4>He got married in Aspen at Glenn Fry's house.
<v Speaker 3>Glenn Fry, who was a member of the Eagles, whose
<v Speaker 3>album we were comparing to. This album absolutely Glenn Fry
<v Speaker 3>one of the main singers of the Eagles, and we
<v Speaker 3>did not know this before we started this matchup. So
<v Speaker 3>it's just it's awesome when we find these little connections,
<v Speaker 3>just like you did with Timothy B. Schmid and the
<v Speaker 3>Parrot Heads, right, it's love it. I love it. I
<v Speaker 3>love it.
<v Speaker 4>So he and Glenn Fry were good friends. They had
<v Speaker 4>the wedding at his house. I told you Hunter s
<v Speaker 4>Thompson and his wife were there.
<v Speaker 3>Hunter S.
<v Speaker 4>Thompson and Jimmy Buffett were good friends. When Hunter S
<v Speaker 4>Thompson and his wife were splitting up and it was
<v Speaker 4>a bad deal and he was kind of a mess, Jimmy,
<v Speaker 4>in true blue friend fashion, said hey, come down, hang
<v Speaker 4>out with me and Key West. We'll fish, we'll hang
<v Speaker 4>out and just come in and recover.
<v Speaker 3>And so.
<v Speaker 4>It was really a friend helping a friend who is
<v Speaker 4>kind of desperate at the moment.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Now, then I did have another story where Jimmy let
<v Speaker 4>another person kind of crash at his pada, except he
<v Speaker 4>wasn't in town, so it was a house sitting situation.
<v Speaker 4>And then this person proceeded to have a party and
<v Speaker 4>then had unwanted guests and then they got out of
<v Speaker 4>control and they trashed his place. When Jimmy returned and
<v Speaker 4>saw what had happened to his apartment, he wrote a
<v Speaker 4>song called Gypsy's at the Palace. I love that song,
<v Speaker 4>and he and Glenn Fry wrote that song together.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's awesome, all right.
<v Speaker 4>Next song on the album Let's Do It A Pirate
<v Speaker 4>looks at forty.
<v Speaker 7>Mother Mother ros.
<v Speaker 10>I've heard you call, wanted to say upon you since
<v Speaker 10>I was three feet tone.
<v Speaker 9>You seen it, you seen it all.
<v Speaker 5>Watch the man who wrote you.
<v Speaker 7>Switchman, seeste.
<v Speaker 9>In You, Belly you, the treasures he hev seen most
<v Speaker 9>of the dreams, most of.
<v Speaker 3>Dream Okay, this one I think might tie for second
<v Speaker 3>place for me for favorite songs on the album. Interesting. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>here's my concern about this song written in nineteen seventy four, right,
<v Speaker 3>that would make Jimmy Buffett less than thirty. How is
<v Speaker 3>how is he a pirate looking at forty if he's
<v Speaker 3>less than thirty?
<v Speaker 4>Well, because this song was written about a friend of
<v Speaker 4>his named Phil Clark.
<v Speaker 3>Rusty rusty Yeah what they called him, Phil Rusty Clark. Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>Okay, so this guy was a card player, gambler, scoundrel.
<v Speaker 3>You'd like him? Yeah, I think nice. I think this
<v Speaker 3>guy probably was less of a friend and more a
<v Speaker 3>guy he met in a bar one night. He was
<v Speaker 3>the guy who was who was staring down the barrel
<v Speaker 3>of forty or maybe a little over forty. His history
<v Speaker 3>is a little murky because well, he was smuggling his
<v Speaker 3>share of grass. This was nineteen seventies. This was the
<v Speaker 3>cocaine cowboy era where like all kinds of drugs come in,
<v Speaker 3>especially into Key West. Basically, Buffet, Jimmy Buffett got offered,
<v Speaker 3>you know, hey, one run and you're gonna make more
<v Speaker 3>money than you do all years singing songs. And I
<v Speaker 3>think he did accept that. I think he denies that
<v Speaker 3>he accepted that. I think he said he didn't actually
<v Speaker 3>run any drugs, okay, but no square flounders for him. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>The guy that he was talking to was just he
<v Speaker 3>literally said, you know, had I been born one hundred
<v Speaker 3>years earlier, I would have been a pirate. I missed
<v Speaker 3>my I missed my era, and I've been drunk for
<v Speaker 3>over two weeks. Now, how about that? Here you go.
<v Speaker 4>So they met at the chart Room, which is a
<v Speaker 4>bar and Key West, which I think there's kind of
<v Speaker 4>a come thread throughout a lot of these songs. Jimmy
<v Speaker 4>was a great storyteller and he would gather these stories
<v Speaker 4>by talking to people at the bars in Key West.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. I didn't know this at the time.
<v Speaker 4>Almost a year ago today, I was in Key West
<v Speaker 4>and I had a wonderful time there.
<v Speaker 3>It was really cool.
<v Speaker 4>And Jimmy Buffett's presence in Key West, it's felt he
<v Speaker 4>has got a studio right there that is right by
<v Speaker 4>the restaurants.
<v Speaker 3>I stood right outside of it.
<v Speaker 4>But Phil Clark's some of Phil Clark's ashes are kept
<v Speaker 4>behind the cash register at the chart room still in
<v Speaker 4>Key West.
<v Speaker 3>Really. Oh, that's fascinating. That's good one. Pretty cool. Once again,
<v Speaker 3>this song is one of the Big eight. Ah, yes,
<v Speaker 3>of course, yeah, I mean god, this is such such
<v Speaker 3>a good song. It's a great song, great story. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed
<v Speaker 3>it away so fast. Is an interesting idea because this
<v Speaker 3>was written in the seventies when Jimmy Buffett was just
<v Speaker 3>barely emerging. But something happens and by the time he
<v Speaker 3>passes away, he has enough money to buy Miami. It's
<v Speaker 3>worth over a billion dollars. Yeah, at the time of
<v Speaker 3>his death. Yeah, hovering right there, around a billion. That's
<v Speaker 3>a lot. But how did he get there? Right? Was
<v Speaker 3>it all just from these amazing songs? It was not
<v Speaker 3>from recordize for sure. Well, I guess our next song
<v Speaker 3>may answer the question for us. Next song on the
<v Speaker 3>album You've been waiting for it. This is a big one.
<v Speaker 6>Marguerite Deville Sponge Gig.
<v Speaker 3>You can't deny the vibe, Boys and girls.
<v Speaker 4>This is a perfect Jimmy Buffetts song.
<v Speaker 3>It truly is, and it defines him. It literally defines him.
<v Speaker 3>Or yeah, and here's a great thing. So this song
<v Speaker 3>comes from a real moment in his life. He was
<v Speaker 3>having lunch at or dinner or maybe both at Lungs
<v Speaker 3>Cosina del cur right down in Austin, Texas, and he
<v Speaker 3>actually like lost one of his flip flops. Where's the salt?
<v Speaker 3>And so he is notorious and I'll tell more stories later,
<v Speaker 3>but he is notorious for losing things. It used to
<v Speaker 3>be that like whenever he would come in to see
<v Speaker 3>his agent, the agent told his secretary, your job when
<v Speaker 3>Jimmy comes in is to make sure you get his keys,
<v Speaker 3>because if you didn't get him from him, he'd get
<v Speaker 3>up and he would have lost them. Every single time.
<v Speaker 3>He just always was losing his keys, or his salt shaker,
<v Speaker 3>or his flip flop. And so he had had been
<v Speaker 3>drinking heavily. He lost his flip flop. He's trying to
<v Speaker 3>walk home and he literally cuts his heel on a
<v Speaker 3>pop top, remember those pop tops, wheel Those suckers were
<v Speaker 3>pretty sharp cut piece of metal. Right there is what
<v Speaker 3>you got. So I don't remember whether this was producer
<v Speaker 3>or his manager who was. But he calls him and
<v Speaker 3>he's like, hey, Jimmy, you know what you doing? And
<v Speaker 3>he's like, well, I was having lunch, had few too
<v Speaker 3>many Margarita has lost my flip flop, cut my heel
<v Speaker 3>on pop top. I'm actually, you know, I got stuck
<v Speaker 3>in traffic. I started writing a song about it, and
<v Speaker 3>he and whoever it was he was talking to, he
<v Speaker 3>literally said, that's a terrible idea for a song. You
<v Speaker 3>should skip that and move on to something else. Can
<v Speaker 3>you imagine had he listened, right, had he listened, the
<v Speaker 3>events that would unfold that would lead to his billionaire
<v Speaker 3>status would not might not have happened.
<v Speaker 5>Wistin away again and of.
<v Speaker 3>It searching for.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, So I told you on the way over here,
<v Speaker 4>I heard a story that it's kind of widely regarded
<v Speaker 4>as the most.
<v Speaker 3>Profitable song of all time.
<v Speaker 4>Used to be White Cristmas by Big Crosby, But it
<v Speaker 4>is now basically understood that Margaritaville is the most profitable
<v Speaker 4>song of all time.
<v Speaker 3>There's no way that White Christmas is worth a billion
<v Speaker 3>dollars right.
<v Speaker 4>This song launched Casinos Hotels, flip Flop company, restaurants.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, we started with restaurants. Restaurants were first, and
<v Speaker 3>then it would just blossom into you know, all kinds
<v Speaker 3>of retirement homes. It became a retirement community, like all
<v Speaker 3>of the parrot Heeads want to retire into into the
<v Speaker 3>Margaritaville retirement village where they can go have their four
<v Speaker 3>o'clock lunch to dinner at cheeseburgers and paradise. It's fantastic.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, who doesn't love I mean, if you don't like
<v Speaker 4>Jimmy Buffett, if you're like, hey.
<v Speaker 3>The Eagles are way better.
<v Speaker 4>Whatever, you don't like beat strips, you don't like hanging
<v Speaker 4>out and having done well.
<v Speaker 3>It's and we'll talk about more when we're given our
<v Speaker 3>final judgment, but we're talking about the difference between great
<v Speaker 3>music and music that gives you a lifestyle, like gives
<v Speaker 3>you a glimpse of something you want. Yes, and that's
<v Speaker 3>why this Margaritaville was brand was so incredibly profitable. Right.
<v Speaker 3>Everybody wants that flavor, They want that lifestyle that Jimmy
<v Speaker 3>Buffett had and told the stories about and wrote songs
<v Speaker 3>about and wrote books about. And yah, I mean, in
<v Speaker 3>doing this research, I'm just like man, I just want
<v Speaker 3>to go sit on the patio at Louis and just
<v Speaker 3>have a margarita. Just you know, I'll read a pirate
<v Speaker 3>looks at fifty and just enjoy my day. This song
<v Speaker 3>was covered by Sammy Hagar and Toby Keith. Yeah Native Norman,
<v Speaker 3>Oklahoma and Toby Keith. God rest his soul, by the way,
<v Speaker 3>I used to play softball against him. Nice.
<v Speaker 4>So this song hit number eight on the Hot one hundred,
<v Speaker 4>so it's his biggest hit.
<v Speaker 3>Uh Huhkay.
<v Speaker 4>Now I'm like, why didn't this song reach higher? I
<v Speaker 4>still think it should have been higher, And then I
<v Speaker 4>look at what's in front of it.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and I'm certain that it should have been higher.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, So this is the the Hot one hundred from
<v Speaker 4>July twenty third, nineteen seventy seven. Number seven Undercover Angel
<v Speaker 4>by Alan O'Day No idea? What number six Angel in
<v Speaker 4>Your Arms by Hot Number five My Heart Belongs to Me,
<v Speaker 4>Barbar streisand number four I'm in You Peter Frampton.
<v Speaker 3>Peter may not know if Sweet Sweet Connie is to
<v Speaker 3>be believed. Number three The Do Run Run by.
<v Speaker 4>Sean Cassidy Gosh, okay, and now I'm recognizing some of
<v Speaker 4>these names, but don't tell me these songs are better
<v Speaker 4>than Margeritaville. Number two, I just want to be here
<v Speaker 4>Everything by Andy Gibb and number one looks like we
<v Speaker 4>made it.
<v Speaker 3>By Barry Manilow. Wow, Wow, Margeriteville. That should have been
<v Speaker 3>a number one hit. Yeah, it's incredible.
<v Speaker 4>I saw Jimmy Buffett on Johnny Carson, I think it
<v Speaker 4>was Johnny Carson. It was one of those late night
<v Speaker 4>talk shows, and he said, there's a third verse that
<v Speaker 4>we cut out to make the single, you know, a
<v Speaker 4>little bit shorter, and he played it for him.
<v Speaker 3>You want to hear the lyrics to this? Yeah, okay,
<v Speaker 3>here you go. This is kind of fun.
<v Speaker 4>It says old men and tank tops cruising the gift shops,
<v Speaker 4>checking out chakdahs down by the shore. They dream about
<v Speaker 4>weight loss, wish they could be their own boss. Those
<v Speaker 4>three day vacations can be such a bore.
<v Speaker 3>Oh man, that's kind of even rubbing it in a
<v Speaker 3>little bit, like this is my life and this is
<v Speaker 3>three days out of your year.
<v Speaker 4>You wish you should have this right, wonderful song, incredible hit.
<v Speaker 4>Stop on your tape player, kick it out, flip it over.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Side two, here we go. We start off with start.
<v Speaker 3>I'm spiking the football on this one. This is the
<v Speaker 3>best song on the album.
<v Speaker 4>Song Come Monday to.
<v Speaker 7>San Prancisco, Father, lay of It Weekend.
<v Speaker 3>This is such a great song. It's a love song.
<v Speaker 3>And you know, most most of Jimmy Buffett's songs, you're
<v Speaker 3>gonna say like this is this three chords in the
<v Speaker 3>truth right, Like I mean, it's just this is just
<v Speaker 3>very simple, simple stuff. But this song really brings it out,
<v Speaker 3>Like the music behind the lyrics on this is really
<v Speaker 3>truly impressive. And then he absolutely makes you feel all
<v Speaker 3>the pain that he felt as a guy who was
<v Speaker 3>young and in love and forced to be away from
<v Speaker 3>his beautiful, beautiful girlfriend. Who would he would later not
<v Speaker 3>not too much later. Mary in Aspen, Colorado and Glenn
<v Speaker 3>Fries that's her house.
<v Speaker 4>So we talked about the chart room. In Key West
<v Speaker 4>in nineteen seventy two, he met a girl who was
<v Speaker 4>on spring break. She attended the University of South Carolina. Yep,
<v Speaker 4>it was down in Key West. Just for a good time,
<v Speaker 4>and was like, I want to talk to that girl.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, her name was Jane. They were married until his death.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, they went through a little rocky patch maybe in
<v Speaker 4>the eighties, but it's true.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean, his his addictions got a little bad
<v Speaker 3>and it got a little rough, but they worked it out.
<v Speaker 3>But he had been married once before he met her,
<v Speaker 3>and that ended in divorce. But yeah, she was I mean,
<v Speaker 3>obviously she's in college. She's i think still maybe even
<v Speaker 3>a teenager at the time that they met, and he's
<v Speaker 3>early twenties. Not you know, it's not inappropriate, but he
<v Speaker 3>is struck by her beauty model, tan, southern charm, you know,
<v Speaker 3>South Carolina girl. Yeah, and she is. She's known to
<v Speaker 3>be the one that grounded him in his kind of
<v Speaker 3>crazy lifestyle of Okay, Jimmy, we can't do that's just
<v Speaker 3>that's just a little too crazy to explain, and and
<v Speaker 3>it sad.
<v Speaker 2>Look, so.
<v Speaker 5>Last reason, I just let you go.
<v Speaker 9>Come London.
<v Speaker 7>It'll be.
<v Speaker 9>God Monday, I'll be holding You're tired.
<v Speaker 2>I spent four lonely days.
<v Speaker 11>In a brown la and I just want you.
<v Speaker 3>Back by my side, so he mentions in the song.
<v Speaker 4>Headed out to San Francisco for a Labor Day weekend show.
<v Speaker 4>That's an actual show. You're going to circle it on
<v Speaker 4>the calendar. That was a real event that happened. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>he was appearing for Country Joe McDonald and the Lions
<v Speaker 4>Share Club in San Anselmo, okay. And the song was
<v Speaker 4>written at a Howard Johnson's.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, he had been in LA. He was headed up
<v Speaker 3>to San Francisco, but it was just a miserable experience
<v Speaker 3>for him. He was just unhappy because it wasn't really
<v Speaker 3>a place he wanted to be, and even more unhappy
<v Speaker 3>because he was missing the place so badly that he
<v Speaker 3>did want to be. And they did have plans to
<v Speaker 3>go hiking. And as a matter of fact, I got
<v Speaker 3>my Hush Puppies on. I guess I never was meant
<v Speaker 3>for glitter rock and roll. I've got boat shoes on
<v Speaker 3>right now you look. And when this song was released
<v Speaker 3>in the UK, they wouldn't let them play it on
<v Speaker 3>the radio because I guess the BBC or whoever it
<v Speaker 3>was that governed those kind of things said, well, Hushpuppies
<v Speaker 3>are a named brand and so that means this is
<v Speaker 3>an advertisement, not a song. And so he very quickly
<v Speaker 3>recorded a line for the British audience, I've got my
<v Speaker 3>hiking shoes on instead of my Hush Puppies on. Weird. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>so there's somewhere out there. There is a a UK
<v Speaker 3>radio version of this song where he says, I've got
<v Speaker 3>my hiking shoes on. Have you seen the video for this? No?
<v Speaker 4>Okay, so real low budget, like they were broke, they
<v Speaker 4>had no money.
<v Speaker 3>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>So Jane's in it, she's a model, she's in it.
<v Speaker 3>For free because she's his girlfriend.
<v Speaker 4>Right, Okay, he's driving his truck around, you know, just
<v Speaker 4>they're just kind of dinking around.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, it's just a basic music video. Yeah, but
<v Speaker 3>as he was.
<v Speaker 4>Commenting on the he said, hey, there's my old truck.
<v Speaker 4>That thing got impounded and crushed.
<v Speaker 3>It's like an old.
<v Speaker 4>Friend that had died, you don't. Yeah, So beautiful song.
<v Speaker 3>I love it. It's great. It's one of the Big Eight.
<v Speaker 3>Of course. Of course, of course.
<v Speaker 4>Next song the album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes.
<v Speaker 3>This comes from the Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
<v Speaker 3>album of nineteen seventy seven, right, But it's probably about
<v Speaker 3>in the early seventies when he was struggling in Nashville
<v Speaker 3>where they were trying to make him a country singer,
<v Speaker 3>and he was trying to figure out how to do
<v Speaker 3>it and didn't like that they wanted this polished sound,
<v Speaker 3>and he wanted to be more real, more raw. So
<v Speaker 3>eventually he changed his latitude. I think he traveled up
<v Speaker 3>to New York for a time, but then ultimately ended
<v Speaker 3>up down in Key West, where he was fascinated by
<v Speaker 3>the lifestyle, the pirate history, and the yeah, the neat
<v Speaker 3>games that they would have done there. So there I
<v Speaker 3>was reading about one particular game that they had where
<v Speaker 3>it was him. It was him and I think two
<v Speaker 3>or three other guys, you know, it was him and
<v Speaker 3>one other guy and two girls. And it was a
<v Speaker 3>race that involved a boat. But it started at the
<v Speaker 3>bar where you took a shot, and then you had
<v Speaker 3>to run down to the boat where you took a shot,
<v Speaker 3>and then you get the boat in the water, and
<v Speaker 3>then you took a shot, and then you took the
<v Speaker 3>boat out to some booie marker out there, right and
<v Speaker 3>took a shot, and then came back, and the first
<v Speaker 3>one back took a shot and then won the race. Right.
<v Speaker 3>And so by the time they get out on the water,
<v Speaker 3>they're pretty well hammered, right, And so they the guy
<v Speaker 3>that they rented it from was this guy who was
<v Speaker 3>just known to be this total con man that they
<v Speaker 3>rented the boat from. It's Catmarana. Believe he knew these
<v Speaker 3>boats were pieces of crap. He had a little like
<v Speaker 3>little language in his little contract that said, if you
<v Speaker 3>become stranded out on the water, I will come, because
<v Speaker 3>he would rent the boats for like ten bucks or something. Right, right,
<v Speaker 3>he goes, I will, I will come and rescue you
<v Speaker 3>for thirty five dollars, thirty five dollars, right, like, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>thirty five dollars to come and rescue you from the
<v Speaker 3>piece of crap boat that I gave you. So they
<v Speaker 3>get out there on this boat in the middle of
<v Speaker 3>the ocean, and it starts to fall apart on them,
<v Speaker 3>and they're getting it like the current is strong and
<v Speaker 3>they're getting pulled out to see like they don't know
<v Speaker 3>what to do. They're hammered, drunk, the boat's falling apart,
<v Speaker 3>the tide is pulling them out, and they're struggling for
<v Speaker 3>a long time like they are swimming around trying to
<v Speaker 3>figure out can't get it figured out. And then this
<v Speaker 3>ghost ship shows up helps them basically get it back together,
<v Speaker 3>get back on board the boat, and get the boat
<v Speaker 3>going back towards land again. And then just disappears as
<v Speaker 3>though it had never been there before. Wow, yeah, that
<v Speaker 3>sounds cool. Yeah, game, I want to try maybe right right?
<v Speaker 3>You know, I did some in my research.
<v Speaker 4>I read through Billboard. He met Jerry Jeff Walker. Oh yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>Jerry Jeff Walker was the guy responsible for the song
<v Speaker 4>mister bo Jangles love that song?
<v Speaker 3>Right, yeah, yep.
<v Speaker 4>So they become friends. Jimmy struggling, uh huh. And Murphy,
<v Speaker 4>who is Jerry Jeff Walker's girlfriend, says hey, let's take
<v Speaker 4>Jimmy down to Key West for the weekend. That changes
<v Speaker 4>his life, his direction, his career, everything.
<v Speaker 3>In all likelihood, Jerry Jeff Walker and Murphy were probably
<v Speaker 3>two of the people involved in this little race. Right
<v Speaker 3>by the way.
<v Speaker 4>The first thing he did when he got to Key
<v Speaker 4>West he went to Mallory Square. Okay, this happens every
<v Speaker 4>night in Key West, every night every night. Okay, people
<v Speaker 4>go there and they watch the sunset.
<v Speaker 3>Oh it's beautiful. Right. I have been to Key West
<v Speaker 3>once and that was the most memorable thing of the
<v Speaker 3>whole trip was the was the setting sign. Yes, incredible.
<v Speaker 4>He's looking at the sun set and think this is
<v Speaker 4>my home.
<v Speaker 3>And he literally struggled for years just a guy playing
<v Speaker 3>a guitar in a bar. When he offered to play,
<v Speaker 3>they're like, nah, I'm good, and he's like, come on,
<v Speaker 3>I will play for tips and drinks and that'd be fine.
<v Speaker 3>And then he played for a couple of months and
<v Speaker 3>they're like, it'll be cheaper to pay you than to
<v Speaker 3>give you all the drinks that you drink every night.
<v Speaker 4>Right, all right, next time, let's do it. Why don't
<v Speaker 4>we get drunk and screw.
<v Speaker 2>I really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 7>Back you sitting here.
<v Speaker 3>This is the most country of country that you're gonna
<v Speaker 3>get from Jimmy Buffett because he was making fun of them.
<v Speaker 3>Oh that that steel guitar and the violin and that
<v Speaker 3>blinkly honky tonk piano. That is all tongue in cheek
<v Speaker 3>because in Nashville he would see these guys and women
<v Speaker 3>getting absolutely inebriated, hitting on each other, and he's like,
<v Speaker 3>why don't you just say it, Let's just get drunk
<v Speaker 3>and screw. And so he and his friend Buzz Cason
<v Speaker 3>wrote this song together. Right, I got something I think
<v Speaker 3>is about to I'm about to blow your mind here,
<v Speaker 3>right all right, So you know they're making fun of
<v Speaker 3>the country music scene, right. But Buzz Cason was a
<v Speaker 3>guy that was a good friend of Jimmy's and he
<v Speaker 3>was a writer, and they wrote this song together hanging
<v Speaker 3>out like good friends do. But Buzz Cason has also
<v Speaker 3>written several books and even a kid's book called Hoot
<v Speaker 3>that they made a movie out of. I think one
<v Speaker 3>like one of those Newberry Awards or something like that.
<v Speaker 2>Interesting.
<v Speaker 3>But his most famous work is a book about a
<v Speaker 3>a girl who goes and starts a life as a stripper,
<v Speaker 3>that they made a movie of, starring Burt Reynolds and
<v Speaker 3>Demmy Moore. Strip tease, you got it. The guy who
<v Speaker 3>wrote strip teas wrote why don't we get drunk? And screw.
<v Speaker 2>Don't we get drunk again?
<v Speaker 3>Just Wow, you're blowing my socks off. I thought I
<v Speaker 3>might low your socks off with that particular piece of information.
<v Speaker 4>I don't want to tease this up too early, but
<v Speaker 4>maybe next season we do show girls versus strip Tease.
<v Speaker 3>We have been talking about it. It's been suggested, and
<v Speaker 3>we are both on board. Just do it. If we gotta,
<v Speaker 3>we gotta do it, we gotta do it. I'll watch it,
<v Speaker 3>you know, I'll watch it again. Although vowing I would
<v Speaker 3>never watch it.
<v Speaker 4>All right, So the interesting thing to me about this song,
<v Speaker 4>I mean it's kind of like, uh, do you remember
<v Speaker 4>Great White? When we talked about Great White, we talked
<v Speaker 4>about Wasted rock Ranger, just kind of just that kind
<v Speaker 4>of throwaway song.
<v Speaker 3>But it didn't even make it on the album, right,
<v Speaker 3>that was like a B side. It did not.
<v Speaker 4>This was on the b side to a song that
<v Speaker 4>wasn't a hit, But when jukebox owners had it on
<v Speaker 4>their juke box, it became a played song so much
<v Speaker 4>so the juke box owners would buy this record a lot. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>so it became a juke box hit.
<v Speaker 3>Essentially. I can see being at the bar playing this
<v Speaker 3>song once you've been talking to a girl for a
<v Speaker 3>minute and coming back and see how she reacts to
<v Speaker 3>the music.
<v Speaker 4>It's on the honey, I'm gonna go play this song.
<v Speaker 3>Fun song. I love it.
<v Speaker 4>I kind of want to spike the football in this one. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>although I'm gonna stick with Margaritaville. This is a lot
<v Speaker 4>of fun.
<v Speaker 3>It is a lot of fun. It's it's it's the
<v Speaker 3>most memorable I would say, just because of incredibly tasteless
<v Speaker 3>but wonderful title.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, my buddy Bomber would sing this all the time
<v Speaker 4>in the locker room.
<v Speaker 3>All right.
<v Speaker 4>Next song on the album is a song called Pizzel
<v Speaker 4>Thin Mustache.
<v Speaker 11>Now they're making movies and all black and white the
<v Speaker 11>happy end and went overbody in the final So if
<v Speaker 11>you find yourself and then studs a great how did
<v Speaker 11>you jump right of and show you ee?
<v Speaker 3>Did you ever have a not a graph picture of
<v Speaker 3>any divine No? I did not, Okay. So number one
<v Speaker 3>first thing I say is I love the song. It's
<v Speaker 3>one of my favorites. I've loved it since the first
<v Speaker 3>time I heard The first time I heard it on
<v Speaker 3>the tape, I was just like I had to rewind
<v Speaker 3>it kind of vaudeville it. Well, I'm gonna play something
<v Speaker 3>for you. You tell me if it sounds it sounds familiar.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, Okay, So that's Alice's Restaurant.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, So that's I mean, it's to me basically spot
<v Speaker 3>on exactly the chord progression and picking pattern very high.
<v Speaker 3>Alice's Restaurant, which is came out in sixty seven. Arlogethrie
<v Speaker 3>released that in sixty seven, so well before Jimmy wrote
<v Speaker 3>a pencil than Mustache.
<v Speaker 11>That's flat top dirt it bot convent.
<v Speaker 10>On the living room, job to come and trying to
<v Speaker 10>gain a little time.
<v Speaker 5>It's all you want to do is learn how to score.
<v Speaker 11>You Now, I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, I don't.
<v Speaker 3>Go to church.
<v Speaker 4>And he obviously made it his own, right, Yeah, so
<v Speaker 4>I found it interesting. I wrote down sort of the
<v Speaker 4>references he makes in this song. Okay, yeah, these are
<v Speaker 4>all about like his childhood in the fifties.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah he is. He starts off the song basically saying,
<v Speaker 3>if you're unhappy with the way movies are, right now,
<v Speaker 3>jump on board for the nostalgia train, which is our motto.
<v Speaker 3>Goodness gracious, Yeah, there we go. What we do, pick's
<v Speaker 3>what we do? Yeah, all right.
<v Speaker 4>So he mentions Boston Blackie, which is a fictional crook,
<v Speaker 4>a pirate from an old TV show Ricky Ricardo, which hey,
<v Speaker 4>Lucy had got something, yeah from Ilo, Lucy uh Andy Devine,
<v Speaker 4>which you talked about.
<v Speaker 3>I was always kind of partial to Roy Rogers. Actually, right.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, Sky's niece Penny. Okay, that's from a TV show
<v Speaker 4>called Sky King.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, I don't remember that one.
<v Speaker 4>The niece was played by Gloria Winters. Okay, he mentions Bandstand,
<v Speaker 4>which of course is American bandstand, right, Disneyland, Romar of
<v Speaker 4>the Jungle, which is a fifties TV show, Errol Flynn
<v Speaker 4>you talked about we were going to talk about him.
<v Speaker 3>The suave of Errol Flynn and the chikh of a
<v Speaker 3>rabbi and Arabi.
<v Speaker 4>And then Real Cream, which is a hairstyle product.
<v Speaker 3>A little dabble, do you how about that? Yep? Okay?
<v Speaker 4>D So this is the third single from his fourth album,
<v Speaker 4>Living and Dying in three Quarters Time.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So I got a story about the album. So
<v Speaker 3>they just goten finished recording God's Own Drunk. They're very
<v Speaker 3>happy that this. You know that the album is almost
<v Speaker 3>done right right, And so he and Sammy Criesen and
<v Speaker 3>Chuck Nice, who are both musicians, uh, decide, hey, let's
<v Speaker 3>go get a bottle of Cuervo gold and three straws,
<v Speaker 3>and they both just they all just down, which is
<v Speaker 3>never a good idea, no matter how experienced you are
<v Speaker 3>as a drinker. And so Jimmy says, within fifteen minutes
<v Speaker 3>we were knee crawling drunk. And so what they decided
<v Speaker 3>to do, because of their musicians, is they went to
<v Speaker 3>the flashiest place in town, which was the King of
<v Speaker 3>the Road Hotel, and there's a place set up for
<v Speaker 3>the music of the night. And so they got up
<v Speaker 3>on stage themselves and Sammy pounded out three quarter time
<v Speaker 3>music on the drums, and Jimmy was so drunk that
<v Speaker 3>he couldn't even hit the chords on the guitar. So
<v Speaker 3>then they got what he described as the scream and munchies.
<v Speaker 3>They decided to go get something to eat. When they
<v Speaker 3>go outside, he can't find his rental car. I told
<v Speaker 3>you can't find stuff he loses, including cars all the time.
<v Speaker 3>He's lost his car, and so he and Sammy are
<v Speaker 3>trying to find it, and he's walking around in these
<v Speaker 3>golf shoes. Jimmy's in these golf shoes raw ras, but
<v Speaker 3>he doesn't have the spikes in them, but they still
<v Speaker 3>got those hard things, you know. He sounds like tap
<v Speaker 3>dancer walking around, right, But he's looking for his car
<v Speaker 3>with all these big ol' honkin good old boy trucks around,
<v Speaker 3>and so he decides, I'll just climb up on top
<v Speaker 3>of this Cadillac and see if I can see it
<v Speaker 3>from above, you know. So he's on the hood of
<v Speaker 3>the Cadillac with these golf shoes and he he hears
<v Speaker 3>his voice behind him say get down, boy, you're under arrest,
<v Speaker 3>and he says, you know I ain't. And he runs
<v Speaker 3>and finds Sammy, who's found the Grimlin, and Sammy's in
<v Speaker 3>the driver's seat and he gets in and Jimmy's window
<v Speaker 3>is closed, but Sammy's window is open, and this big
<v Speaker 3>old boy voice comes and he's like, you better get
<v Speaker 3>out of that car, and Jimmy's que I'll kick your ass.
<v Speaker 3>And so this is nineteen seventy four. We are at
<v Speaker 3>the top of technology. This Grimlin would not start unless
<v Speaker 3>you had the seat belts buckled. And they're so drunk
<v Speaker 3>that they can't find the seat belts and get them buckled.
<v Speaker 3>And this guy's in there trying to get them, and
<v Speaker 3>so he's like, he's like you, I'll kick your ass.
<v Speaker 3>And the guy reaches in and grabs the back of
<v Speaker 3>his his head with by the hair and yanks it
<v Speaker 3>out like he looked like he looked like a monk
<v Speaker 3>pulled out a bunch of blonde hair. And so Sammy
<v Speaker 3>as he's grabbing his hair, Sammy's doing anything he can.
<v Speaker 3>He grabs a ballpoint.
<v Speaker 2>Pin and he starts stabbing.
<v Speaker 3>I've in this guy's arm and so finally he gets
<v Speaker 3>the car started. They get out of there and they're thinking, okay,
<v Speaker 3>well we made it out of that mess. Well, at
<v Speaker 3>the time that they're out there doing this stuff, there
<v Speaker 3>was some prosecutor's convention going on and this guy was
<v Speaker 3>actually a legit law enforcement And after they've been gone
<v Speaker 3>a bit, they're like, this dude's probably still looking for us,
<v Speaker 3>and we got to go back and get our stuff.
<v Speaker 3>So they go to the hotel room they managed to
<v Speaker 3>make it through. They think, okay, before we go in,
<v Speaker 3>we got to get something to protect ourselves because this
<v Speaker 3>guy might be hiding in the bushes or swimming in
<v Speaker 3>the pool. We're just ready to grab us. So they
<v Speaker 3>grab a tire iron out of the back of the Grimlin.
<v Speaker 3>So they walk through amongst all of these law enforcement
<v Speaker 3>guys who are there for this convention, and they get
<v Speaker 3>up to their room and he's lost the keys. So
<v Speaker 3>Sammy says, you got us in this, you're gonna have
<v Speaker 3>to get us out, and so he's like okay, So
<v Speaker 3>he takes the tire iron, puts it in his back pocket,
<v Speaker 3>goes back down, goes to the desk clerk and he's like,
<v Speaker 3>I need the keys to you know, eight twelve or
<v Speaker 3>whatever his room number is. And all of a sudden,
<v Speaker 3>this old boy pulls the tire iron out of his
<v Speaker 3>back pocket and he whips around and he's like, hey,
<v Speaker 3>I was bringing that for you for my protection.
<v Speaker 2>You can't give me that back.
<v Speaker 3>And the guy and the old boy's like, no, I
<v Speaker 3>ain't gonna do. He's like, fuck you, I'll still kick
<v Speaker 3>your ass. And all of a sudden, these two detectives
<v Speaker 3>grab him and pull him and they pull him into
<v Speaker 3>the elevator and the two detections are like, normally we
<v Speaker 3>be arresting you right now, but right now we figure
<v Speaker 3>you're just lucky to be alive. Do you know who
<v Speaker 3>that was? And he's like no, and they said that
<v Speaker 3>was Beauford Pusser and he goes eighth floor. Please, So
<v Speaker 3>if you don't know who Buford Pusser is, he was
<v Speaker 3>one of the at the time the youngest elected chair
<v Speaker 3>former professional wrestler who became one of the youngest elected
<v Speaker 3>sheriffs who then like set out to end the Dixieland
<v Speaker 3>Mafia and the State Line mob and like they put
<v Speaker 3>hits out of him. He literally killed his wife as
<v Speaker 3>he was driving along with her, shot at him, killed her,
<v Speaker 3>like hit his jaw. He had to have multiple shirt
<v Speaker 3>surgeries to get it corrected. He killed a few folks.
<v Speaker 3>And if if you think that, I'm just you know,
<v Speaker 3>like this is no big deal. They made a movie
<v Speaker 3>about him called Walking Tall, Walking Tall. Yeah, how about that? Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>so that was the That's the guy, the Walking Tall guy.
<v Speaker 3>Buford Pusser was the guy that ripped jim As Jimmy
<v Speaker 3>was having his airpolt. He's like, Sammy, I don't want
<v Speaker 3>to die in a grimlin.
<v Speaker 4>I love the eighth floor pave.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, fantastic, Yeah, what a great story that was, all right.
<v Speaker 3>Next song on the album Let's do It. Next song Grapefruit,
<v Speaker 3>Juicy Fruit.
<v Speaker 7>Grapefruit the bandsuit je a little juicy freud.
<v Speaker 3>Okay. So this song was written in Key West.
<v Speaker 4>During the days, he would play at this place called
<v Speaker 4>Howie's Lounge Bar, and at night.
<v Speaker 3>He would work a fishing boat.
<v Speaker 4>But he would meet these girls on the Conk tour train,
<v Speaker 4>which is a prominent way of seeing Key West. And
<v Speaker 4>so he'd meet these girls and he would they would
<v Speaker 4>give them purple passion that was mixed in a jug,
<v Speaker 4>and these girls would.
<v Speaker 3>Be like, oh, this is great. You can't even taste
<v Speaker 3>the alcohol.
<v Speaker 4>And he's like, we know, but he would take him
<v Speaker 4>to the Islander Drive in uh huh. And this particular
<v Speaker 4>song was written on a night that he saw the
<v Speaker 4>movie Payday starring Ripped Torn. Okay, at the Islander Drive
<v Speaker 4>in theater, at the.
<v Speaker 3>Girl corn from beast Master, Yes, men in black.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, the girl was from Saint Petersburg and she was
<v Speaker 4>running away from a bad boyfriend. And the popcorn was
<v Speaker 4>salty and the.
<v Speaker 3>Beer was cold. Sounds like a great time.
<v Speaker 4>Grapefruit, juice fruit, taking advantage of these tourist girls.
<v Speaker 3>You're not taking advantage of them. There's a reason they're
<v Speaker 3>down there, all right. Next song on the album, yep,
<v Speaker 3>this one. I love this This boat drinks.
<v Speaker 8>Drinks in a band boat drink business.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, Jimmy stuck somewhere. He don't want to be Boston
<v Speaker 3>in February. So yeah, so this is It's tough. It's
<v Speaker 3>tough call on this one because in seventy eight and
<v Speaker 3>seventy nine, which is around this time the time this
<v Speaker 3>was written, Boston had one of the worst snowstorms of
<v Speaker 3>all time, like a Lizard of seventy eight, which I
<v Speaker 3>think they're like twenty one inches of snow. And then
<v Speaker 3>in seventy nine they had like the coldest temperatures ever
<v Speaker 3>recorded in history there, and I think Jimmy got stuck
<v Speaker 3>up there and had to watch hockey, which nobody cares.
<v Speaker 4>Stuck in Boston, all you can do is watch hockey
<v Speaker 4>and think about home.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Right, he was just dying to get home. He was
<v Speaker 4>freezing his butt off.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, he said.
<v Speaker 4>He came out and he's been at a bar. Derek
<v Speaker 4>Sanderson used to play for the Boston Bruins. He was
<v Speaker 4>at his his bar, came outside, couldn't find a cab.
<v Speaker 4>The only cab around was this one right here that's
<v Speaker 4>got the keys in it and is running, but there's
<v Speaker 4>nobody in it.
<v Speaker 3>Uh huh.
<v Speaker 4>And so he's like, huh, well, it's better to ask
<v Speaker 4>forgiveness than best permission.
<v Speaker 3>Jumped in that cab, drove it to his hotel.
<v Speaker 4>He said, I may have did a bad thing, but
<v Speaker 4>I did leave the fair in the seat right.
<v Speaker 3>I did see where he played this.
<v Speaker 4>He had an album live at Fenway Park, and he said,
<v Speaker 4>I cannot come to Boston and not play this song.
<v Speaker 3>The song was written in Boston.
<v Speaker 4>It's written about Boston and a friend of the show,
<v Speaker 4>Doug Huggin.
<v Speaker 3>He my old college roommate.
<v Speaker 4>He's from the Boston area, and he took me to
<v Speaker 4>Boston in February a couple of years ago, and.
<v Speaker 3>It was cold twenty degrees. It was freaking freezing. You
<v Speaker 3>see some holes in your freezer.
<v Speaker 4>It made me think about broad drinks, that's for sure. Yeah, okay,
<v Speaker 4>last song on the album. This song is called Volcano.
<v Speaker 10>Now a don't no, don't don't, I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna go in the vom Let me say, okay,
<v Speaker 3>I love this one. This is definitively He has a
<v Speaker 3>quote at the beginning of his book, and I can't
<v Speaker 3>remember precisely what it is, but it's basically, it's like,
<v Speaker 3>you can't have fun unless you take some risks. And
<v Speaker 3>so here they are. They're in Manserrat and they're recording
<v Speaker 3>an album. They're in this beautiful Caribbean island, beautiful women,
<v Speaker 3>beautiful beaches, beautiful water. Everything's awesome. But over your shoulder
<v Speaker 3>there's a volcano just waiting to erupt. You know.
<v Speaker 4>We talked about this in our Dire Straits episode. So
<v Speaker 4>this is at the ai R Studios owned by George Martin,
<v Speaker 4>the guy who was the producer for the Beatles. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>and you had all these wonderful albums that were made there,
<v Speaker 4>include Volcano by Jimmy Buffett, Brothers in Arms, Synchronicity, Ghost
<v Speaker 4>in the Machine, Steel Wheels by the Rolling Stones was
<v Speaker 4>made there. Elton John recorded an album there. It was
<v Speaker 4>quite the place until one day when the volcano did blow.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, of course that was it blew And was it
<v Speaker 3>ninety five, ninety four, ninety five, Yeah, something like that.
<v Speaker 4>And so but that was after the Hurricane Hugo I
<v Speaker 4>think just wiped out the.
<v Speaker 3>Air, right. Yeah, it sealed the deal for him, right yep.
<v Speaker 3>And so because you said after the hurricane, maybe it
<v Speaker 3>was George Martin said that there were eleven or the
<v Speaker 3>twelve thousand people on the island and after that her hurricane,
<v Speaker 3>eleven thousand of them are homeless, lost their homes. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>but then the volcano came around after that. But this
<v Speaker 3>was this was written in seventy nine, so this is
<v Speaker 3>fifteen years before that happened. Sixteen years before that happened.
<v Speaker 3>So prophetic It is happy little song about something that
<v Speaker 3>actually eventually came to freeuition.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, the song is about what's going to happen
<v Speaker 4>to me when the volcano blows?
<v Speaker 3>Where will I land? Right?
<v Speaker 4>Talked about landing at three Mile Island. I don't want
<v Speaker 4>to land there because I don't want my skin to glow.
<v Speaker 4>Very nineteen seventy nine, Three Mile Island.
<v Speaker 1>Sure.
<v Speaker 4>It also talked about the Atola Very nineteen seventy nine. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>But overall the song is just super fun.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, the beat, the Caribbean feel to the whole thing.
<v Speaker 3>It's very calypso very you know, steel drums, Yeah, like
<v Speaker 3>a Harry Belafonte style of music. And it just which
<v Speaker 3>is great because you're talking about your ultimate imminent doom
<v Speaker 3>in a happy way, which is the way they did
<v Speaker 3>it down there. I still love it.
<v Speaker 4>I'm going to tell this story again because I think
<v Speaker 4>it's such a great story. But Elton John was down
<v Speaker 4>there recording and the only thing to really do down
<v Speaker 4>there was windsurf and drink, you know, and it screw.
<v Speaker 3>Sure.
<v Speaker 4>But he said, like one day he went into the
<v Speaker 4>studio and like half of his band was hungover and
<v Speaker 4>could come in and the studio, musicians were sick and
<v Speaker 4>everybody had been partying way too much, and Elton John's like,
<v Speaker 4>what the heck, We're here to make an album.
<v Speaker 3>Nobody's here. What the heck?
<v Speaker 4>And one guy like the third bassist is over here,
<v Speaker 4>and he goes, I'm still standing and that became the
<v Speaker 4>beginning of the Elton John hit I'm still standing, all right?
<v Speaker 4>So that does it for songs you know by heart?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? Okay, So before we jump into what Jason and
<v Speaker 3>I have to say, we have a friend who had
<v Speaker 3>a podcast. It's still out there, but he has moved
<v Speaker 3>strictly to YouTube now. His name's Anthony Renfro and it's
<v Speaker 3>called song Lines and tan Lines. I got that right,
<v Speaker 3>that it is called tan Lines and song Lines. You
<v Speaker 3>put in whichever one's right, okay. But it is a
<v Speaker 3>podcast now YouTube channel dedicated to the music of Jimmy Buffett,
<v Speaker 3>and so I reached out to him, hoped that he
<v Speaker 3>was going to be able to come guest hosts with us,
<v Speaker 3>but we just couldn't make our schedules work. But that
<v Speaker 3>is okay, that's what happens with schedules. But he is
<v Speaker 3>giving us his opinion on which of these two albums
<v Speaker 3>he thinks is the best album, so we'll take a
<v Speaker 3>listen to that now. It's hard to argue against either
<v Speaker 3>one of them. Both would be a great intro to
<v Speaker 3>either artist, and the songs in them have filled many
<v Speaker 3>stereos throughout the years, and picking between the two is
<v Speaker 3>tough because of the songs found on either compilation career
<v Speaker 3>defining songs. Margueriteville even built an empire most and I
<v Speaker 3>understand why would pick the Eagles, But when Buffett is
<v Speaker 3>in the conversation, I always lean towards him and I
<v Speaker 3>will here too. Songs You Know by Heart was one
<v Speaker 3>of the cornerstones of me becoming a parrotead in the
<v Speaker 3>early nineties. Without it, I wouldn't be the fan I
<v Speaker 3>am today. Come Monday was his first hit. Margueritaville will
<v Speaker 3>be played as long as there is music on this earth.
<v Speaker 3>A Pirate looks at forty always takes me to the
<v Speaker 3>beach mentally, no matter where I am, and changes in
<v Speaker 3>latitude will always remind me of the great places I
<v Speaker 3>have been, and on and on it goes. That's my pick,
<v Speaker 3>of course. Thanks for asking me to do this. Finds
<v Speaker 3>up Anthony, Well, not too surprising, not too surprising.
<v Speaker 4>Thank you Anthony for doing that and getting this to us.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, it's not surprising that a parent head chose
<v Speaker 4>Jimmy Buffett, but still great to hear from him.
<v Speaker 3>Exactly. Thanks Anthony, Appreciate you man. You guys go check
<v Speaker 3>out that song lines and tan Lines. He's exclusively on
<v Speaker 3>YouTube now, but he's got a whole i think library
<v Speaker 3>of podcasts to listen to, so go check him out.
<v Speaker 3>All right, well, okay, that means it's now time for
<v Speaker 3>me and you. Thank you, Anthony, appreciate you. You want
<v Speaker 3>me to go first, you want to go first, I'll
<v Speaker 3>let you go first this time. Okay. Now, I've mentioned
<v Speaker 3>this matchup to a few people, some of them are
<v Speaker 3>our diehard fans, and everybody says the same thing, and
<v Speaker 3>this is true. The Eagles have the better album. That's
<v Speaker 3>just it's unquestionable that the music on the greatest hits,
<v Speaker 3>I mean number one. We're talking about greatest hits here, right,
<v Speaker 3>So the music of one of the best in history,
<v Speaker 3>literally number six on best selling bands in history, They've
<v Speaker 3>got a better album. It just do That's simple. It's
<v Speaker 3>that easy. That's the end of the story. They have
<v Speaker 3>better music, except it's not always about the music. Sometimes
<v Speaker 3>it's about something more. And so, yeah, are Jimmy Buffett's
<v Speaker 3>songs musically complex? No? No, Is there you know, some deep,
<v Speaker 3>incredible songwriting going on here? Yes? Is there also some silly, crazy, goofy,
<v Speaker 3>messed up stuff going on here?
<v Speaker 2>Yes?
<v Speaker 3>And that's why you love this music, because this music
<v Speaker 3>isn't necessarily about the music. It's certainly about the lyrics,
<v Speaker 3>but it's really about the lifestyle. Right. And so if
<v Speaker 3>I'm sitting alone at my house and I want to
<v Speaker 3>listen to music for music's value, I will put on
<v Speaker 3>the Eagle's greatest hits, no question about it. But at
<v Speaker 3>the end of the day, the question that we ask
<v Speaker 3>ourselves if we're running out the door, which album are
<v Speaker 3>we going to grab? I can't deny the feeling that
<v Speaker 3>I get when I listen to songs you know by heart,
<v Speaker 3>and it changes me in a way that the Eagles
<v Speaker 3>don't change me. I can say that the music is
<v Speaker 3>better by the Eagles, but this lifestyle that he created
<v Speaker 3>and publicized and demonstrated is more impactful to me. And
<v Speaker 3>so that is why I am picking Jimmy Buffett songs.
<v Speaker 3>You know by Heart, how.
<v Speaker 4>About that fantastic? Okay, Well, I literally was with you
<v Speaker 4>every step of the way. So I do think it
<v Speaker 4>is kind of a no brainer that the Eagles songs
<v Speaker 4>are better. I mean, Desperado still gives me chills. I've
<v Speaker 4>heard it a thousand times one of these nights. Lion
<v Speaker 4>Eyes take it easy. I mean, such great songs, take it.
<v Speaker 3>To the limit, Are you kidding me? Incredible?
<v Speaker 4>The songs are amazing off that album, and the musician's
<v Speaker 4>ship is off the chart. Don Henley's voice is unmatched,
<v Speaker 4>absolutely awesome. But it is a lifestyle vibe that I
<v Speaker 4>get from Jimmy Buffett's album, and so it pushes that
<v Speaker 4>pleasure button in my brain and I have so much
<v Speaker 4>fun that I listen to it.
<v Speaker 3>And I mean, I.
<v Speaker 4>Love Key West, and I love the idea of just
<v Speaker 4>hanging out and fishing all day long and just kicking
<v Speaker 4>back with your flip flops and just enjoying life. I mean,
<v Speaker 4>that is super appealing to me. But it can't overcome
<v Speaker 4>the amazing songs that the Eagles put together on those
<v Speaker 4>first four albums. So if I'm walking out the door,
<v Speaker 4>I'm absolutely grabbing the Eagle's greatest hits.
<v Speaker 3>But if you're invite me to Key West and go fishing,
<v Speaker 3>I will not turn you down right, And I love
<v Speaker 3>Jimmy Buffett' songs, So for me, it's Eagles greatest hits.
<v Speaker 3>For you, it's Jimmy Buffett. That's fantastic.
<v Speaker 4>We want to hear from you, guys. What do you pick?
<v Speaker 4>Are we crazy? Is it Eagles?
<v Speaker 3>Is it Jimmy Buffett? Should we move to Key West tomorrow? Well?
<v Speaker 3>Thank you guys so much. I hope you enjoyed this
<v Speaker 3>little tropical adventure that we had. I mean, what other
<v Speaker 3>artists do we actually put on costumes for other than
<v Speaker 3>Sylvester Stallone? I guess I don't know. Yeah, that was funny.
<v Speaker 3>What do we got coming up next? Man?
<v Speaker 4>Okay, next week, we are breaking down a trifecta of
<v Speaker 4>nineteen eighty five movies from one actor who was killing
<v Speaker 4>it in nineteen eighty five, and we're talking about Chevy Chase.
<v Speaker 3>So we got to be talking about European Vacation, Yes,
<v Speaker 3>fletch Yes, spies like US, Spies like US, ah nice.
<v Speaker 4>All three came out in the same calendar year, nineteen
<v Speaker 4>eighty five. We'll be breaking down those into giving you our.
<v Speaker 3>Opinion of us. Yeah, fantastic. Can't wait see you then
<v Speaker 3>see you guys back.
<v Speaker 7>I want you to murder me.
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<v Speaker 3>French fried potatoes. Yes, right here, Yes, HEINZ fifty seven
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<v Speaker 3>of that. Okay, all right, we got our Margerita glasses,
<v Speaker 3>little goal blender here, a little one of these deals.
<v Speaker 3>Oh jeez, Live TV people. Alright, I'm taking a lid
<v Speaker 3>off for this. Oh I'm gonna be nice and chilly
<v Speaker 3>down on the Old Family Jewels for this episode.
<v Speaker 2>Sir, alrighty, here we go.
<v Speaker 3>Alright, alright, alrighty, alright