“Margaritaville” is a 1977 tune by American fashionable music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett from the album Adjustments in Latitudes, Adjustments in Attitudes. This tune was written a few drink Buffett found at Lung’s Cocina del Sur restaurant on Anderson Lane in Austin, Texas, and the primary large surge of vacationers who descended on Key West, Florida round that point.
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He wrote many of the tune that evening at a pal’s home in Austin, and completed it whereas spending time in Key West. In america “Margaritaville” reached quantity eight on the Billboard Sizzling 100 chart, and went to primary on the Straightforward Listening chart, additionally peaking at #13 on the Sizzling Nation Songs chart. Billboard ranked it quantity 14 on its 1977 Pop Singles year-end chart. It stays Buffett’s highest charting solo single.
A margarita cocktail: the inspiration
Named for the cocktail margarita, with lyrics reflecting a laid-back way of life in a tropical local weather, “Margaritaville” has come to outline Buffett’s music and profession. The relative significance of the tune to Buffett’s profession is referred to obliquely in a parenthetical plural within the title of a Buffett best hits compilation album,
Songs You Know By Coronary heart: Jimmy Buffett’s Best Hit(s). The identify has been used within the title of different Buffett compilation albums similar to Meet Me In Margaritaville: The Final Assortment and can also be the identify of a number of industrial merchandise licensed by Buffett (see beneath).
In style tradition references, all through the years and remakes attest to the tune’s persevering with reputation. The tune was talked about in Blake Shelton’s 2004 single “Some Seaside”. “Margaritaville” has been inducted into the 2016 Grammy Corridor of Fame for its cultural and historic significance.
