Margaritaville
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Cover of the West German 7 " single
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| Single by Jimmy Buffett | |||||||||
| from the album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes | |||||||||
| B-side | "Miss You So Badly" | ||||||||
| Released | February 14, 1977 | ||||||||
| Format | 7" | ||||||||
| Recorded | November 1976 at Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida and Quadrafonic Sound Studios in Nashville, Tennessee | ||||||||
| Genre | Gulf and Western, country rock | ||||||||
| Length | 4:09 (album) 3:20 (single) |
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ABC ABC-12254 (U.S., 7") ABC-17781AT (West Germany, 7") ABC-22039 (Italy, 7") ABC-021254/2 (Spain, 7") |
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| Writer(s) | Jimmy Buffett | ||||||||
| Producer(s) | Norbert Putnam | ||||||||
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| Song by Alan Jackson with Jimmy Buffett from the album Under the Influence | ||||
| Released | October 26, 1999 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 4:15 | |||
| Label | Arista Nashville | |||
| Writer(s) | Jimmy Buffett | |||
| Producer(s) | Keith Stegall | |||
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"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 States "Margaritaville" reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and went to number one on the Easy Listening chart, also peaking at #13 on the Hot Country Songs chart.Billboard ranked it number 14 on its 1977 Pop Singles year-end chart. It remains[update] Buffett's highest charting solo single.
Named for the cocktail margarita, with lyrics reflecting a laid-back lifestyle in a tropical climate, "Margaritaville" has come to define Buffett's music and career. The relative importance of 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 Meet Me In Margaritaville: The Ultimate Collection and is also the name of several commercial products licensed by Buffett (see below). Popular culture references, throughout the years and remakes attest to the song's continuing popularity. The song was mentioned in Blake Shelton's 2004 single "Some Beach".
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