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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 (where High 5 is located today) at 2700 W. Anderson Lane in Austin, Texas,[5][6] and the first huge surge of tourists who descended on Key West, Florida, around that time. He wrote most of the song one 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,[7] also peaking at No. 13 on the Hot Country Songs chart.[8] Billboard ranked it number 14 on its 1977 Pop Singles year-end chart.[9] It remains Buffett's highest charting solo single.

For other uses, see Margaritaville (disambiguation).

"Margaritaville"
Cover of the West German 7 " single[1]
Single by Jimmy Buffett
from the album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
B-side"Miss You So Badly"
ReleasedFebruary 14, 1977
RecordedNovember 1976
Studio
  • Criteria (Miami)
  • Quadrafonic Sound (Nashville)[2]
Genre
Length4:09 (album)
3:20 (single)
LabelABC
Songwriter(s)Jimmy Buffett
Producer(s)Norbert Putnam
Jimmy Buffett singles chronology
"Woman Goin' Crazy on Caroline Street"
(1976)		 "Margaritaville"
(1977)		 "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes"
(1977)
Alternative cover
1977 Italian single picture sleeve
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A margarita cocktail: the inspiration for Margaritaville
A margarita cocktail: the inspiration for "Margaritaville"

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). The song also lent its name to the 2017 musical Escape to Margaritaville, in which it is featured alongside other Buffett songs. Continued popular culture references to and covers of it throughout the years attest to the song's continuing popularity. The song was mentioned in Blake Shelton's 2004 single "Some Beach".

"Margaritaville" has been inducted into the 2016 Grammy Hall of Fame for its cultural and historic significance.[10] Buffett maintains a resort chain by the same name.[11]


Content


The song is about a man spending an entire season at a beach resort community. The three verses describe his day-to-day activities. In the first verse, he passes his time playing guitar on his front porch and watching tourists sunbathe, all the while eating sponge cake and waiting for a pot of shrimp to boil. In the second verse, he has nothing to show for his time except a tattoo of a woman that he cannot remember getting. In the third and final verse, he blew out his flip-flop, stepped on a pop-top, cuts his heel, and cruises on back home to ease his pain with a fresh batch of margaritas. When the song was used during live performances, it was changed to "I broke my leg twice, I had to limp on back home".

The three choruses reveal that the narrator is drowning his sorrows over a failed romance, and his friends are telling him that his former girlfriend is at fault. The last line of each shows his shifting attitude toward the situation: first "it's nobody's fault," then "hell, it could be my fault," and finally "it's my own damn fault."

Buffett revealed during the recording of an episode of CMT's Crossroads with the Zac Brown Band that "Margaritaville" was actually supposed to be recorded by Elvis Presley, but Presley died before the song could be recorded.[12]


Lost verse


There is a "lost verse" to this song, as described by Buffett, which he often adds when performing in concert, which was reputedly edited out before recording the song in order to make the song more radio-friendly. The song was shortened even further for the single edit.

Old men in tank tops,
Cruisin' the gift shops,
Checkin' out chiquitas, down by the shore
They dream about weight loss,
Wish they could be their own boss
Those three-day vacations can be (or "become") such a bore

Lyric confusion


There is some confusion as to whether Buffett sings "Wasted away"[13] or "Wastin’ away" in the chorus of the song. The original unedited lyrics, that appear on the record sleeve to the Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes LP, read "Waistin'" [sic].[14] Also, most guitar tablature and sheet music read "Wastin'." Buffett has never made a statement on the issue. However, he has also been known to use "wasted" in some performances, as well as in the video game re-recording for Rock Band.


Charts



Other versions



Single edit


When "Margaritaville" was released to radio stations in 1977, the single edit ran for 3:20, cutting out the instrumental break, and the section during the third chorus and final refrain. So the song structure changed to "riff-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-riff", and the track itself was sped up at half-step. The original recording in the key of D would be E-flat.


Cover versions


"Margaritaville"
Song by Alan Jackson with Jimmy Buffett
from the album Under the Influence
ReleasedOctober 26, 1999
GenreCountry
Length4:15
LabelArista Nashville
Songwriter(s)Jimmy Buffett
Producer(s)Keith Stegall

In 1999, American country singer Alan Jackson covered the song on his album Under the Influence. The cover featured Buffett singing along on the third and final verse; it also peaked at No. 63 after receiving play as an album cut.

Jimmy Buffett also re-recorded this song as well as "Cheeseburger in Paradise" and "Volcano" specifically for Rock Band as downloadable content.


Parodies


In 1991, comedian Mark Eddie wrote a parody of the song titled "Marijuanaville". The song appeared on the album "Rock n' Roll Comedy Cuts Part II" (1998). In 2006, Kenan Thompson did a parody of the song during the Weekend Update segment on Saturday Night Live, where he plays a soldier who found out he was going to the U.S.-Mexico border, rather than Baghdad. When Amy Poehler asks him what his reaction was when he discovered he was going to the border, in the next shot, he has a Corona banner above him, a sombrero on his head. He is swaying a Corona beer bottle and singing, "Wasting away again not in Iraq." This was likely a parody on Mortaritaville, which was recorded around 2 years prior.[19]

In 2013, a parody has aired on the John Boy & Billy Big Show titled "Martinsville", referencing Martinsville Speedway.[20]


Merchandising


As Buffett's signature song, "Margaritaville" has been used in a number of commercial ventures and product licensing tie-ins including:


See also



References


  1. The U.S. single did not have a picture cover but was issued with a standard ABC Records cover.
  2. "Index of /2012.03.10 - San Diego, CA". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
  3. Freeman, Doug (July 21, 2017). "How Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville" Became the Most Valuable Song of All Time". Austin Chronicle. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  4. Joseph Murrells (1984). Million Selling Records from the 1900s to the 1980s: An Illustrated Directory. B.T. Batsford. p. 433. ISBN 978-0-7134-3843-7.
  5. "Deep Dish Pizza, "Margaritaville," Dabney Coleman, Teddy Wilson: They Came From Austin". MichaelCorcoran.net. October 2, 2011. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
  6. Masley, Ed (September 13, 2021). "'You've got to have some fun': Why Jimmy Buffett fans will love 'Escape to Margaritaville'". azcentral.com. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
  7. Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–2001. Record Research. p. 42.
  8. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944–2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 61.
  9. "Pop Singles" Billboard December 24, 1977: TIA-64
  10. "THE RECORDING ACADEMY ANNOUNCES 2016 GRAMMY HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES". GRAMMY.org. November 18, 2015. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
  11. "Margaritaville Resort's Façade Nears Completion at 560 Seventh Avenue in Times Square". New York YIMBY. May 29, 2020. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  12. Becca (December 10, 2009). "Zac Brown and Jimmy Buffett Meet at the Crossroads". The Country Vibe News. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
  13. The Parrot Head Handbook
  14. "Photographic image of sleeve and lyrics therein" (JPG). Buffettworld.comn. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
  15. "Cash Box Top 100 Singles, July 9, 1977". Archived from the original on March 21, 2016. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  16. "Top 200 Singles of '77 – Volume 28, No. 14, December 31 1977". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  17. Musicoutfitters.com
  18. "Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 31, 1977". Archived from the original on October 20, 2018. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  19. "Retired Reservist: Mortaritaville – song from Iraq". Retiredreservist.blogspot.com. July 2, 2007. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
  20. "Pics 'n Such". The Big Show. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved October 12, 2016.




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