Jimmy Buffett

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Born on December 25, 1946, Pascagoula, Mississippi, and later raised in Mobile, Alabama Jimmy Buffett would be a star. By: Shelly Hitesman Jimmy Buffett

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Born on December 25, 1946,

Pascagoula, Mississippi, and

later raised in Mobile, Alabama

Jimmy Buffett would be a star.

By: Shelly Hitesman

Jimmy Buffett

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Biography•Born Christmas Day 1948 in Pascagoula, Mississippi.•Worked as a Nashville correspondent for Billboard Magazine.•1970 debut album, Down to Earth. That didn’t do well.•Not being able to find ligament work, he became a pirate of sorts and smuggled to earn a living.•He transformed into a beach bum and developed a tropical folk-rock style of music. He changed his smuggling ways when he was offered a simple $25,000 dollars to record an album for ABC Records.

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Biography• In 1973, he recorded, “A White Sport Coat

And A Pink Crustacean”, for $10,000. Which included “Why Don’t We Get Drunk”.

• In 1974 he released Living and Dying in ¾ Time which included, “Come Monday”, which hit the U.S. Top 30 Hits.

• Later that year Jimmy released A1A affectingly named after the access road that he used to get to the beach down in Florida.

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1977 the Parrotheads Emerge

Jimmy gained a set of loyal followers. This unusual group of fans formed a cult like existence around the music that defined them. With Hawaiian shirts, parrot caps, and shorts, that proved they had a laid-back attitude. With costume competitions, Margaritas in hand, and a

business day job, the "Parrotheads," were born.

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•In 1978 he released his first live album, You Had To Be There.

•1979 Volcano •1981 Coconut Telegraph •1983 Somewhere Over China•1984 One Particular Harbor•1985 Riddles in the Sand, and Last Mango in Paris• 1986 Floridays• 1988 Hot Waters

•Hot Waters, featured guest appearances by Rita Coolidge, the Neville Brothers, James Taylor and even Steve Winwood *none of these albums made it on the charts. The tracks were long and lacked the availability to be played on radio or video play.

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BiographyAlso in the late 80’s Jimmy took up pen and paper

and started writing again. He released several books and still holds the record for having a New York Times

Bestselling book and a four time platinum album.

He currently has three number one best sellers: Tales From Margaritaville Where Is Joe Merchant?

A Pirate Looks At Fifty

Jimmy is one of six authors in history to have books on both New York Times Bestseller list in both fiction

and non-fiction, the list includes such names as Dr. Seuss, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William

Styron and Irving Wallace. Jimmy Continues to write today.

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Biography•1989 Jimmy released, Off To See The Lizard•1990 Feeding frenzy

Which went gold.• 1992 release his box set, Boats Beaches Bars & Ballads.

One of the best selling box sets of all times. •1994 Fruitcakes

Which became one of his fastest-selling records. •1995 Barometer Soup •1996 Banana Wind •1997 Jimmy started working on a musical adaption of Herman Wouk’s novel, Don't Stop the Carnival, with Wouk’s himself. Not having a Broadway producer express interest in the production, it ran in Miami for six weeks. Not wanting to give up on it, Jimmy released the collection of songs from the production.

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Biography•In 1999 Jimmy released the much anticipated, Beach House on the Moon.•Late 1999 he released Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday. •2000 Jimmy launched the Mailboat label. •2002 Far Side of the World, •2004 License to Chill. •2005 he went on tour and recorded and released live albums for Hawaii and Boston. •2006 Jimmy released, Take the Weather with You and two more live albums. •2007 he continued to release, Live in Anguilla. Feeding Frenzy. •Late 2009 Jimmy released a new studio album, Buffett Hotel.

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BiographyJimmy Buffett is a character that not

only writes about his life stories but has made a living at it. He gets to do what he loves and gets paid to do it. He has achieved (4x)multi- platinum, multiple gold albums, status but never received

any award or recognition for his achievements until he teamed up with Alan Jackson to write and record, It’s Five O’clock Somewhere, which won

vocal event of the year at the 2003 CMA Awards.

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Jolly Mon Sing “Dolphins gliding along beneath the bow of a ship, effortlessly crossing the wake and doing flips, set off a big wave of human jealousy. If we are supposed to be such a smart people, why can’t we do that? It just goes to show talking isn’t everything. I wrote the picture book version with my daughter, and we wanted to make it clear that humans can learn from animals and the natural world has room for all of our needs-not just man’s. “

~Jimmy Buffett

Listening Guide

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Jolly Mon Sing •0:00-0:15 Introduction•0:15-0:26 Verse One•0:26-0:40 Chorus •0:40-0:54 Verse Two•0:54-1:06 Chorus•1:06-1:18 Verse Three•1:18-1:33 Chorus•1:33-1:45 Verse Four•1:45-1:56 Chorus•1:56-2:08 Bridge•2:08-2:21 Verse Five •2:21-2:35 Chorus •2:35-2:47 Chorus •2:47-2:58 Chorus add •2:58- 3:16 Vocals end and we have a repeat fading of the same melody we hear in a chorus.

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Son of a Son of a Sailor“I saw a picture of my grandfather after he came back from a trip to Nova Scotia. He was born there but left when he was a young man and didn’t return tell he was 84. He was standing on a dock staring at an old

sailing schooner, and the look on his face told me the story of where he had come from and where he had

been. I have always been very proud of my heritage as a sailor and wrote this for the men who taught me the

skills.”~Jimmy Buffett

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Son of a Son of a Sailor•0:00-0:15 Introduction• 0:15-0:31 Verse One•0:31-0:47 Verse two•0:47 -1:03 Chorus •1:03-1:18 Verse three•1:18-1:34 Verse four•1:34-1:48 Verse Five•1:48-2:04 Bridge•2:04-2:20 Verse six•2:20-2:34 Chorus •2:34-3:25 Coda

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Listening GuideCheese Burger in Paradise

“The myth of the Cheeseburger in paradise goes back to a long trip on my first boat, the Euphoria. We had run into some very rough weather crossing the Mona Passage between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico and broke our bow sprit. The ice in our box had melted, and we were doing canned-food-and-peanut-butter diet. The vision of a piping hot cheeseburger kept popping into my mind…”

~Jimmy Buffett

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Listening GuideCheese Burger in Paradise0:00-0:06 Introduction0:06-0:20 Verse One0:20-0:34 Verse Two0:34 -0:51 Chorus0:51-1:05 Verse Three1:05-1:20 Verse Four1:20-1:33 Chorus1:33-1:46 Bridge1:46 -2:01 Verse Five2:01-2:27 Chorus add on2:27-2:50 Coda

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Listening Guide“This was the first hit record I

ever had. I was working in London, far away from the brown L.A. haze, when I heard it on the radio and called the states and got the good news. I guess that was when I realized I might be able to keep my phoney baloney job awhile.”

~Jimmy Buffett

Come Monday

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Listening GuideCome Monday 0:00-0:09Introduction0:09-0:25Verse One0:25-0:54 Chorus 0:54-1:19Verse two1:19-1:40 Chorus 1:40-2:07 Bridge2:07-2:32 Verse Three2:32-3:09 Chorus add on

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