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"Grapefruit—Juicy Fruit" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was first released on his 1973 album A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean and was his third single from that album. The single reached No. 23 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart in September 1973. [1]
All of the songs on A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean were written or co-written by Buffett.. The most well-known song of the album, the novelty "Why Don't We Get Drunk (and Screw)", was originally released as a B-side, backing the single "The Great Filling Station Holdup", and inspired some controversy at the time due to its lyrics.
"Grapefruit — Juicy Fruit" (1973) "Grapefruit—Juicy Fruit" isn't precisely a song about whiling away the hours on a beach but the mellow groove certainly feels like it was designed to ...
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1. Grape minds think alike. 2. Wanna hear my best pickup lime? 3. I cherry-ish you. 4. All in due lime. 5. If you were a fruit, you'd be a fine-apple.
The original vinyl print album included a fold-out poster showing many photos taken during the 1978 Cheeseburger in Paradise Tour. The album's material was taken from several concerts in August 1978 at Fox Theatre in Atlanta , Georgia, and Maurice Gusman Cultural Center in Miami, Florida, and was mixed by Elliot Scheiner at AIR Studios in London.
The song is about two robbers holding up a filling station and the aftermath of getting caught shortly after the robbery in a honky tonk, where both robbers are drunk on beer they bought with the cash they stole. [2] Buffett got the idea to write the song after finding amusement in a newspaper article about recovered property from a holdup. [3]
The song appears on Songs You Know By Heart, a greatest hits compilation that includes Buffett's concert favorites ranging from 1973 to 1979. However, "He Went to Paris" was the only song off that album that Buffett rarely played live, [ 6 ] until he found out that Bob Dylan likes the song [ 7 ] and decided to start playing it on a more ...