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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.
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]
"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 ...
You Had to Be There is a live double album by the American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was originally released in October 1978 [ 2 ] as ABC AK-1008/2 and later re-released on ABC's successor label MCA .
Buffett Live – Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays is a live album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was released on November 9, 1999. It was released on November 9, 1999. The album's material was culled from several concerts during the Don't Stop That Carnival Tour (1998) and Beach House on the Moon Tour (1999) .
Down to Earth is the debut studio album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was produced by Travis Turk and was released on August 11, 1970 on Andy Williams's Barnaby Records label as Z 30093. A compact disc was released by Varèse Sarabande in June 1998.
Take the Weather with You is the twenty-sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett.It was released on Mailboat Records on October 10, 2006. It peaked at #1 on Billboard's country charts, also reaching #4 on the Billboard 200. 10 of the 14 songs on the album are covers.