Jimmy Buffet and His First Charity work
[ No Comments ] Posted on 11.28.07 under Artist, Charity work
Jimmy Buffett has been involved in many charity efforts. It all started in 1981, when Buffett together with former Florida governor Bob Graham founded the Save the Manatee Club. The Club is the world’s leading manatee preservation effort. Eight years later, legislation was passed in Florida that introduced the “Save the Manatee” license plate, and earmarked funding for the Club.
Jimmy Buffet in Film and Television
[ No Comments ] Posted on 11.22.07 under Artist, Background, Music, Songs
Jimmy Buffett wrote the sound-track for and acted in the 2006 movie entitled Hoot. The film was directed by Wil Shriner and based on Carl Hiassen’s book that focuses on issues important to him, like conservation. The movie became a critical and commercial blunder. Jimmy also wrote and performed the theme song to the popular 1993 CBS television series Johnny Bago. Jimmy Buffett has made several cameo appearances, including in Repo Man, Congo, Cobb, Hook, and From the Earth to the Moon.
Jimmy Buffett - Businessman
[ No Comments ] Posted on 11.16.07 under Artist
Jimmy Buffett is also a prosperous businessman. His brands are well-known all over the country. He is a proprietor of famous restaurant chains “Margaritaville” and “Cheeseburger in Paradise” (Buffett is its licensor), which got the names after his most popular songs with the same name. Buffett has capitalised on his name – he also licenses such brands as Margaritaville Tequila, Margaritaville Shrimp and Margaritaville Footwear. Buffett is a co-proprietor of two baseball teams the Fort Myers Miracle and the Madison Black Wolf and runs and is planning to run some other business ventures. Last year the Rolling Stone claimed Buffett the 7th richest rock star in history.
Jimmy Buffet and His Great Songs
[ No Comments ] Posted on 11.12.07 under Album, Artist, Music, Songs, Uncategorized
Before 2003, Buffet used to perform at each and every of his shows 8 standard songs, which were then called the Big 8. Thanks to the success of Jimmy’s duet with Alan Jackson when they performed the song “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere“, the list of songs played at every show have been extended, and now it counts 9 songs instead of 8 - as you have guessed adding the very song “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere”. The original “Big 8″, though unspecified, include the following:
- “Margaritaville”
- “Come Monday”
- “Fins”
- “Volcano”
- “A Pirate Looks at Forty”
- “Cheeseburger in Paradise”
- “Why Don’t We Get Drunk”
- “Changes in Latitudes”
Of course, when we are talking about the Big 8, we use this “term” figuratively, cause it was not always that these songs have been played at every show. For example, “A Pirate Looks at Forty” was not played during the George, Washington ‘92 show, and “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” was omitted from opening of the Irvine show in 2006. However, it is absolutely clear that these songs, no matter 8 or 9, are the greatest and most loved in the creative work of Jimmy Buffet.
Who is Jimmy Buffett?
[ No Comments ] Posted on 11.08.07 under Artist, Background, Music
If you visit this blog, you most probably know who Jimmy Buffet is! Really, Jimmy or as he also calls himself – Bubba, JB, Marvin Gardens and Freddy, is a great singer, songwriter, author, businessman and even a film producer. The music genres that he is involved in are countless: country, pop, soft rock, Gulf and western, beach music, rock – all this he can do. It’s amazing.
Jimmy prefers the so-called “island escapism” lifestyle with no one around; he is married and has two daughters, Savannah Jane and Sarah Delaney, and a son, Cameron Marley.
As for Jimmy’s background, he was born on December 25, 1946 in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and grew up along the eastern shore of Mobile Bay. Guitar came into his life during his college years at Auburn University and at the University of Southern Mississippi where he got a bachelor’s degree in history. After graduation day, Buffet was a correspondent for Billboard magazine in Nashville. And it is in Nashville where his musical career began in the late 1960s. He started as a country artist and already, in 1970, he released his debut album – folk rock – Down to Earth.
If we were to speak about some bright facts of Jimmy’s biography, we would certainly remember his and the Corals’ remarkable performance for President Bill Clinton on the White house lawn in August 2000.
In the period of time from 1976, when he became known and well-received to 2007, Jimmy Buffet has made 30 (!) Tours around the world, released a series of albums with the most popular License to Chill and Christmas Island, and partnered in a partial duet with Alan Jackson for the song “It’s Five O’clock Somewhere”, a number one hit on the country charts in 2003.
This blog is created to inform you about Jimmy’s great albums and songs, and interesting facts of his rich-on-events biography.