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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.
Sep. 8—"And there's that one particular harbour Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within." — Jimmy Buffett I don't drink margaritas. I don ...
It includes every track from Songs You Know By Heart except for "Boat Drinks". This collection presents 12 new recordings. As this is a career retrospective and aimed at a more casual audience, the album met criticism due to a quarter of the material being new recordings rather than focus on the original incarnations of the songs. [citation needed]
"The Captain and the Kid" was re-recorded thrice by Buffett: Havaña Daydreamin', Meet Me in Margaritaville: The Ultimate Collection and Songs You Don't Know by Heart. The folk-rock style of music and lyrics on Down to Earth and High Cumberland Jubilee differ greatly from Buffett's subsequent output.