Friday, May 24, 2002 12:17:01 PM
Rock 'n' Roll Artists A-Z...Re: Jimmy Buffett
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1946-1969
Dec 25 1946: James William Buffett was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi (Jackson County Memorial Hospital) son of James Delaney Buffett Jr and Mary Loriane (Peets)
1950's-1960's: Jimmy Buffett was raised in Mobile Alabama, his father worked in a shipyard. Jimmy attended catholic school (St Ignatius grade school and then McGill Institute an all-boys school)
Sept 1964 to May 1965: Jimmy attends Auburn University. He pledged with the Sigma Pi faternity, Alpha-Delta chapter. It was there that Jimmy learned how to play guitar from another Sigma Pi pledge. He hoped playing guitar would help him overcome his shyness and help to meet girls. Unfortunately, the guitar playing overtook studying and he only lasted a year at Auburn.
1965: Attends Pearl River Community College in Poplarville, Mississippi
1966: Transfers to the University of Southern Mississippi.
1967: Jimmy gets initiated into the Kappa Sigma fraternity, Epsilon-Nu Chapter. He formed a small band and played social occasions with members of the fraternity, including Rick Bennett and Doug Duncan.
1969: Earns a Bachelor of Science degree in history and journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi.
1969: Jimmy moves to the New Orleans French Quarter and plays clubs on Bourbon Street with the cover band Upstairs Alliance.
1969: Jimmy marries his first wife Margie Washichek
The 1970's
1970: JB sings with the Now Generation and appears on two albums, Come Together and Hits are our Business
1970: Jimmy moves to Nashville, Tennessee hoping to find success as a country singer.
1970: JB works as a journalist for Billboard magazine in Nashville
1970: Signs with Barnaby Records and releases his first album, Down to Earth
1971: JB went broke and seperated from his first wife Margie. The divorce was final within a year.
1971: Jimmy finishs recording his second album High Cumberland Jubilee. The album is not released because Barnaby Records misplaces the master tape.
Nov 1971: JB meets up with his friend Jerry Jeff Walker in Miami FL. They got in Walker's old Packard and drove to Key West.
1972?: Jimmy first meets Jane Slagsvol (future wife) at a phonebooth outside of the Chart Room bar in Key West
1973: JB signs with ABC - Dunhill Records which is later absorbed by MCA
1973: A White Sport Coat & A Pink Crustacean is releasesed. It contains the song Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw which was written by Jimmy using the alias Marvin Gardens. It's the first album that Greg "Fingers" Taylor and Micheal Utley appeared on.
1974: Living & Dying In 3/4 Time is released and the song Come Monday breaks the Top 30 pop charts.
1974: JB does the soundtrack for movie Rancho Deluxe and has a role in the film.
1975: A1A is released containing many refernces to Key West. It includes the song A Pirate.Looks at Forty that Jimmy wrote about his buddy Phillip Clark a bartender at the Chart Room
1975: The Coral Reefer Band hits the road with Jimmy for their first tour during the summer.
1976: JB and the CRB record their first album together, Havana Daydreamin'
1976: Jimmy buys a boat, The Euphoria, and sails away to the Carribean Islands with Jane
1976: High Cumberland Jubilee is finally released after the master tapes are found.
1976: Jimmy campaigns for Jimmy Carter.
1977: Jimmy's interview with High Times magazine
1977: Changes In Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes becomes Buffett's first platinum album. He also scored his only top ten single with Margaritaville
1977?: Jimmy buys a house in Aspen
1977: Jimmy buys a bigger boat, Euphoria II, and sails around the Carribean
Aug 27 1977: Jimmy marries Jane Slagsvol.
1977: JB and the CRB perform Livingston Saturday Light in the film FM.
1978: Son Of A Son Of A Sailor is released. The single Cheeseburger in Paradise breaks into the top 40.
1978: The double live album You Had To Be There is released.
1979: Jimmy is detained by authorites in St Barts for allegedly smuggling marijuana
1979: MCA purchases ABC Records
Jun 1, 1979: Jimmy and Jane Buffett's first daughter Savannah Jane is born
1979: Volcano is released under the MCA label. Fins is released as a single and makes the top 40 chart.
1979: Before the Salt is released containing both Down to Earth and High Cumberland Jubilee
1979: JB sings backing vocals on the song The Greeks Don't Want no Freeks on the Eagle's Long Run
1979: Jimmy sells his boat Euphoria II and buys another a smaller one Savannah Jane named after his daughter
The 1980's
1980: The song Hello Texas recorded by Jimmy Buffett appears on the Urban Cowboy soundtrack
1980: JB's song Survive is used in the movie Coast to Coast (staring Robert Blake and Dyan Cannon)
1980: Jimmy is appointed chairman of Florida's Save the Manatee Commission by Gov Robert Graham.
1986?: JB buys a hotel (Autour du Rocher ) on St Barts in the Caribbean that is later destroyed by a fire
1981: Coconut Telegraph is released
1981: JB co-writes the song Sugar Trade which appears on the James Taylor album Dad Loves His Work
1982: Jimmy appeared on the soap All My Children
1982: JB and the CRB record the song I Don't Know (Spicoli's Theme) for Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1982: Somewhere Over China is released
1983?: Jimmy and Jane are separted
1983: One Particular Harbour is released
1984: Riddles In The Sand is released
1985: JB open's the first Margaritaville store in Key West selling a line of Caribbean soul t-shirts.
1985: The Coconut Telegraph fan newsletter debuts
1985: Live by the Bay, with JB and the CRB is the first video released for sale
1985: Timothy B. Schmit comes up with the term "Parrot Heads" to describe fans of Buffett's music
1985: JB's song Ragtop Day is used in the movie The Slugger's Wife
1985: Last Mango In Paris is released
1985: JB's song Turning Around is used in the movie Summer Rental
1985: His greatest hits compilation Songs You Know By Heart is released and became and remains his best selling album.
1985: Jimmy has a cameo role in the movie Repo Man.
1986: Jimmy sings La Vie Dansante for the special Doctor Ducks Super Secret All Purpose Sauce
1986?: Jimmy buy's his first seaplane, Lady of the Waters, and flys all over the Caribbean.
1986: Floridays is released
1987: The first Margaritaville Cafe opens on Duval St in Key West
1987: The song Take it Back is released as a single - written by JB for the Americas Cup challenge in Australia.
1988: Releases the album Hot Water which includes guest appearances by favorites James Taylor, Steve Winwood, the Neville Brothers, and Rita Coolidge.
1988: The Jolly Mon written by Jimmy Buffett and his daughter Savannah Jane is released.
1988: Jimmy does the song Christmas in the Caribbean for Tennessee Christmas
1989: Jimmy's first novel: Tales from Margaritaville : Fictional Facts and Factual Fictions is released
1989: Jimmy and Bill Murray invest in the Ft Myers Miracles minor league baseball team
1989: JB appeared in Neville Brothers and Friends: Tell it Like it Is
1989: Off To See The Lizard is released
The 1990's
1990: A second live album Feeding Frenzy is released, recorded in Atlanta and Cincinatti.
1990: JB does the song Don't Bug Me for the Arachnophobia soundtrack
1990: Jimmy does backing vocals on Zachary Richard's Women in the Room
1991?: Jimmy and Jane reconcile and move back to Nashville
1991: A second childrens book by Jimmy Buffett and his daughter Savannah Jane called Trouble Dolls is published.
April 1, 1992: Jimmy and Jane Buffett's second daughter Sarah Delaney is born
1992: Jimmy's second novel Where Is Joe Merchant? is released and makes it to #1 on the NY Times fiction bestseller's list
1992: Boats Beaches Bars & Ballads is released and becomes one of the best selling box sets ever for MCA.
1992: Jimmy starts his own record label in Nashville with the help of his ex-wife's husband Bob Mercer
1992: JB does some vocals and produces Evangeline's self titled album under the Margaritaville Records label
1992: A Margaritaville Cafe and store opens in New Orleans on Decatur St.
Jan 20, 1993: Jimmy entertains at President Clinton's inauguration ball. Bill joins in and plays saxaphone.
1993: Jimmy and Jane move to Palm Beach, Florida.
1993: Before The Beach is released containing songs from Down to Earth and High Cumberland Jubilee
1993: Jimmy is the executive producer and does three songs for Margaritaville Cafe Late Night Menu including a cover of Another Saturday Night
1993: Jimmy does the song Stars Fell on Alabama for More Songs For Sleepless Nights
1993: JB's song Stars on the Water appears on the soundtrack for the movie The Firm
1993: Jimmy is the executive producer on The Iguana's self titled album
1993: Jimmy begins working with Herman Wouk on a musical adaption of the novel Don't Stop the Carnival.
1994: Jimmy does the song Mr Spaceman for the Muppett's collection of songs Kermit Unpigged.
1994: Jimmy does "Mac the Knife" with Frank Sinatra (mixed in) which appears on the album Duets II
1994: Jimmy has a cameo appearence in the movie Cobb.
1994: Jimmy and Jane Buffett adopt Cameron Marley
1994: Jimmy's father James Delaney Buffett is diagonised with Alzheimer's disease
1994: Fruitcakes is released
Aug 25,1994: Jimmy capsizes in his seaplane Our Lady of the Waters, a restored Grumman Widgeon in 4 ft of water after take off from Madaket Harbor at Nantucket
1995: Barometer Soup is released
1995: Jimmy has a cameo appearence as a pilot in the movie Congo.
1995: Margaritaville Cafe New Orleans is release with two songs by Jimmy, Goodnight Irene and the cover song Sea Cruise
1995: The Parakeet Album is released containing JB songs sung by kids form the W.O. Smith Music School
Nov 16, 1995: Jimmy buys a new plane: 1954 Grumman Albatross Seaplane HU-16 N928J, The Hemispher Dancer, 60ft long with an 80ft wingspan.
January 16, 1996: Jimmy's sea plane "the Flying Boat" is shot at by the Jamaica police who mistaked him for a drug smuggler. U2's Bono was in the plane with him at the time. Jimmy wrote a song about the incident, Jamaica Mistaica.that appears on the album Banana Wind that is released.
1996: Jimmy is the executive producer for the soundtrack to the movie Phenomenon
1996: Jimmy has a part as a cop in the audio play Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
1996: A Christmas Album titled Christmas Island is released by JB and the CRB.
April 1997: The musical Don't Stop the Carnival opens and has a sucessful six week run at the Coconut Grove playhouse in Miami
1997: Jimmy's mother suddenly has a stroke.
Aug 19, 1997: JB sings at President Clinton's 51st birthday party.
1997: Jimmy does the Purple People Eater song with Iko-Iko for the movie Contact
1997: Jimmy does the song Trouble on the Horizon for MOM II
Sept 1997: JB performs at the Montserrat benefit concert at Royal Albert Hall in England. He did a special version of Volcano and joined in with artists including Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Phil Collins, and Sting on the encore Hey Jude.
Oct 1997: Universal Pictures purchases the film rights for "Where is Joe Merchant?"
Jan 13, 1998: Re-release of Rancho Deluxe CD by MGM/Rycodisc
Feb 1998: Caribbean Amphibian is released on the Elmopalooza CD/video that JB did with Kermit.
1998: C. F. Martin & Co. honors Jimmy Buffett with a signature edition guitar. Only 424 were made originally going for $3650.00
1998: Jimmy goes to Cuba to cover the Papal visit for Rolling Stone Magazine
1998: JB has the role of a journalist in the HBO Mini-series From the Earth to the Moon
April 28, 1998: The soundtrack for Don't Stop the Carnival performed by JB and the CRB is released. It was certified gold by on Sept 2 1998.
1998: Jimmy co-writes the song South American on Brian Wilson's Imagination solo release.
June 9, 1998: Jimmy's book A Pirate Looks at Fifty is released. He becomes the sixth writer to reach the number one spot on both the NY Times fiction and non-fiction best seller's list
June 21, 1998: Jimmy sings "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh inning stretch at Wrigley Field to honor the late Harry Carrey
June 30, 1998: Re-release of Down to Earth and High Cumberland Jubilee
July 1998: A Margaritaville retail store opens in Charleston, SC
Sept 1998: Jimmy sells his home in Key West Florida
Oct 1998: JB covers John Glenn's return to space
Feb 2, 1999: American Storyteller is released
Feb 4, 1999: A new Margaritaville restaurant opens in Orlando
March 4, 1999: Radio Margaritaville debuts with a live show from the new Margaritaville in Orlando
March 18, 1999: Jimmy buys a new plane: 1998 Cessna 208 - N208JB
March 29, 1999: Jimmy performs at Music Bridges with various artists in Cuba
May 18, 1999: Beach House on the Moon is released
May 28, 1999: Jimmy appears on the Today Show
Aug 10, 1999: Calaloo CD is released exclusively at Best Buy stores
Aug 17, 1999: Jimmy performs at the House of Blues in Chicago
Nov 6, 1999: Jimmy performs at the Le Select 50th Anniversary in St Barts
Nov 9, 1999: Buffett Live: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays is released
Nov 20, 1999: Jimmy performs an acoustic show in Sag Harbor to benefit the Montessori school
Dec 31st, 1999: Jimmy Buffett's Millennium show is held at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles
The 2000s
January 2000: Margaritaville Tequila is released in California
April 13, 2000: Jimmy buys another plane, a 1982 Dassault-Breguet Falcon 50 N502JB
May 1, 2000: Jimmy signs an agreement to purchase two Krispy-Kreme doughnut shops that will be built in Palm Beach County Florida
May 5, 2000: Jimmy does a duet with Lyle Lovett on the song "If I Had a Boat" at the New Orleans Jazz Fest
May 5, 2000: Club Trini Late Night CD release party at the Margaritaville New Orleans
May 13, 2000: One of the original Coral Reefers Greg "Fingers" Taylor announces he quits the band
June 8, 2000: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays Tour kicks off with a show in Camden NJ
June / July 2000: Clint Black performs at several shows
June 13, 2000: Tales from Margaritavision Video collection is released
July 4, 2000: Jimmy spends the Fourth onboard the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (along with Bill Clinton and others) at the OpSail 2000 festivities in New York Harbor
July 31, 2000: Southampton College "All for the Sea" benefit show
August 25, 2000: Jimmy performs at Clinton's 54th Birthday party
Sept 14, 2000: Jimmy performs at Democratic Fundraiser for Presidential candidate Al Gore
Sept 25, 2000: Jimmy performs at a Fundrasiser for Presidential candidate Al Gore in Coral Gables, Florida (Miami)
October 6, 2000: Jimmy announces his plans not to tour during the Summer of 2001.
October 2000: Outback Steakhouse purchases the naming rights for a chain of Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurants from Jimmy for $1,000,000.
Nov 1-2, 2000: Jimmy campaigns and performs at various rallies for Senate candidate Bill Nelson and Presidental Candidate Al Gore in Florida.
Nov 4, 2000: East Hampton Benefit show for the Montessori School
Nov 15, 2000: Jimmy was a guest lecturer at Livingston Taylor's class at Berklee College of Music in Boston
Nov 18, 2000: Jimmy attends the wedding of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones
Feb 4, 2001: Jimmy was asked by a referee to move from his seat during a game between the Miami Heat and the NY Knicks because of shouting profanity
Feb 20, 2001: Jimmy pays tribute to Dale Earnhardt during a show in Charlotte NC. He dedicates the song "Take Another Road" to #3.
April 2001 to August 2001: Jimmy's musical "Don't Stop the Carnival" has a run at the Atlantis Hotel in the Bahamas (Paradise Island)
May 22nd to June 6th 2001: First leg of the "2001: A Beach Odyssey" tour. Jimmy takes the summer off and continues the second leg of the tour on August 27th.
July 20, 2001: Jimmy performs on The Today Show
Oct 13, 2001: East Hampton Benefit show for the Montessori School (3rd Annual Harvest Moon benefit show)
Nov 16, 2001: Benefit show at Madison Square Garden for the victims of Sept 11th
March 19, 2002: Jimmy's new studio album "Far Side of the World" is released. It was originally scheduled to come out on Oct 23, 2001, but was delay because of the art work selected for the cover.
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http://www.buffettnews.com/
http://www.bit-net.com/~hansons/buffett.htm
http://www.ifx.net/~mnichols/buffett.html
1946-1969
Dec 25 1946: James William Buffett was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi (Jackson County Memorial Hospital) son of James Delaney Buffett Jr and Mary Loriane (Peets)
1950's-1960's: Jimmy Buffett was raised in Mobile Alabama, his father worked in a shipyard. Jimmy attended catholic school (St Ignatius grade school and then McGill Institute an all-boys school)
Sept 1964 to May 1965: Jimmy attends Auburn University. He pledged with the Sigma Pi faternity, Alpha-Delta chapter. It was there that Jimmy learned how to play guitar from another Sigma Pi pledge. He hoped playing guitar would help him overcome his shyness and help to meet girls. Unfortunately, the guitar playing overtook studying and he only lasted a year at Auburn.
1965: Attends Pearl River Community College in Poplarville, Mississippi
1966: Transfers to the University of Southern Mississippi.
1967: Jimmy gets initiated into the Kappa Sigma fraternity, Epsilon-Nu Chapter. He formed a small band and played social occasions with members of the fraternity, including Rick Bennett and Doug Duncan.
1969: Earns a Bachelor of Science degree in history and journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi.
1969: Jimmy moves to the New Orleans French Quarter and plays clubs on Bourbon Street with the cover band Upstairs Alliance.
1969: Jimmy marries his first wife Margie Washichek
The 1970's
1970: JB sings with the Now Generation and appears on two albums, Come Together and Hits are our Business
1970: Jimmy moves to Nashville, Tennessee hoping to find success as a country singer.
1970: JB works as a journalist for Billboard magazine in Nashville
1970: Signs with Barnaby Records and releases his first album, Down to Earth
1971: JB went broke and seperated from his first wife Margie. The divorce was final within a year.
1971: Jimmy finishs recording his second album High Cumberland Jubilee. The album is not released because Barnaby Records misplaces the master tape.
Nov 1971: JB meets up with his friend Jerry Jeff Walker in Miami FL. They got in Walker's old Packard and drove to Key West.
1972?: Jimmy first meets Jane Slagsvol (future wife) at a phonebooth outside of the Chart Room bar in Key West
1973: JB signs with ABC - Dunhill Records which is later absorbed by MCA
1973: A White Sport Coat & A Pink Crustacean is releasesed. It contains the song Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw which was written by Jimmy using the alias Marvin Gardens. It's the first album that Greg "Fingers" Taylor and Micheal Utley appeared on.
1974: Living & Dying In 3/4 Time is released and the song Come Monday breaks the Top 30 pop charts.
1974: JB does the soundtrack for movie Rancho Deluxe and has a role in the film.
1975: A1A is released containing many refernces to Key West. It includes the song A Pirate.Looks at Forty that Jimmy wrote about his buddy Phillip Clark a bartender at the Chart Room
1975: The Coral Reefer Band hits the road with Jimmy for their first tour during the summer.
1976: JB and the CRB record their first album together, Havana Daydreamin'
1976: Jimmy buys a boat, The Euphoria, and sails away to the Carribean Islands with Jane
1976: High Cumberland Jubilee is finally released after the master tapes are found.
1976: Jimmy campaigns for Jimmy Carter.
1977: Jimmy's interview with High Times magazine
1977: Changes In Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes becomes Buffett's first platinum album. He also scored his only top ten single with Margaritaville
1977?: Jimmy buys a house in Aspen
1977: Jimmy buys a bigger boat, Euphoria II, and sails around the Carribean
Aug 27 1977: Jimmy marries Jane Slagsvol.
1977: JB and the CRB perform Livingston Saturday Light in the film FM.
1978: Son Of A Son Of A Sailor is released. The single Cheeseburger in Paradise breaks into the top 40.
1978: The double live album You Had To Be There is released.
1979: Jimmy is detained by authorites in St Barts for allegedly smuggling marijuana
1979: MCA purchases ABC Records
Jun 1, 1979: Jimmy and Jane Buffett's first daughter Savannah Jane is born
1979: Volcano is released under the MCA label. Fins is released as a single and makes the top 40 chart.
1979: Before the Salt is released containing both Down to Earth and High Cumberland Jubilee
1979: JB sings backing vocals on the song The Greeks Don't Want no Freeks on the Eagle's Long Run
1979: Jimmy sells his boat Euphoria II and buys another a smaller one Savannah Jane named after his daughter
The 1980's
1980: The song Hello Texas recorded by Jimmy Buffett appears on the Urban Cowboy soundtrack
1980: JB's song Survive is used in the movie Coast to Coast (staring Robert Blake and Dyan Cannon)
1980: Jimmy is appointed chairman of Florida's Save the Manatee Commission by Gov Robert Graham.
1986?: JB buys a hotel (Autour du Rocher ) on St Barts in the Caribbean that is later destroyed by a fire
1981: Coconut Telegraph is released
1981: JB co-writes the song Sugar Trade which appears on the James Taylor album Dad Loves His Work
1982: Jimmy appeared on the soap All My Children
1982: JB and the CRB record the song I Don't Know (Spicoli's Theme) for Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1982: Somewhere Over China is released
1983?: Jimmy and Jane are separted
1983: One Particular Harbour is released
1984: Riddles In The Sand is released
1985: JB open's the first Margaritaville store in Key West selling a line of Caribbean soul t-shirts.
1985: The Coconut Telegraph fan newsletter debuts
1985: Live by the Bay, with JB and the CRB is the first video released for sale
1985: Timothy B. Schmit comes up with the term "Parrot Heads" to describe fans of Buffett's music
1985: JB's song Ragtop Day is used in the movie The Slugger's Wife
1985: Last Mango In Paris is released
1985: JB's song Turning Around is used in the movie Summer Rental
1985: His greatest hits compilation Songs You Know By Heart is released and became and remains his best selling album.
1985: Jimmy has a cameo role in the movie Repo Man.
1986: Jimmy sings La Vie Dansante for the special Doctor Ducks Super Secret All Purpose Sauce
1986?: Jimmy buy's his first seaplane, Lady of the Waters, and flys all over the Caribbean.
1986: Floridays is released
1987: The first Margaritaville Cafe opens on Duval St in Key West
1987: The song Take it Back is released as a single - written by JB for the Americas Cup challenge in Australia.
1988: Releases the album Hot Water which includes guest appearances by favorites James Taylor, Steve Winwood, the Neville Brothers, and Rita Coolidge.
1988: The Jolly Mon written by Jimmy Buffett and his daughter Savannah Jane is released.
1988: Jimmy does the song Christmas in the Caribbean for Tennessee Christmas
1989: Jimmy's first novel: Tales from Margaritaville : Fictional Facts and Factual Fictions is released
1989: Jimmy and Bill Murray invest in the Ft Myers Miracles minor league baseball team
1989: JB appeared in Neville Brothers and Friends: Tell it Like it Is
1989: Off To See The Lizard is released
The 1990's
1990: A second live album Feeding Frenzy is released, recorded in Atlanta and Cincinatti.
1990: JB does the song Don't Bug Me for the Arachnophobia soundtrack
1990: Jimmy does backing vocals on Zachary Richard's Women in the Room
1991?: Jimmy and Jane reconcile and move back to Nashville
1991: A second childrens book by Jimmy Buffett and his daughter Savannah Jane called Trouble Dolls is published.
April 1, 1992: Jimmy and Jane Buffett's second daughter Sarah Delaney is born
1992: Jimmy's second novel Where Is Joe Merchant? is released and makes it to #1 on the NY Times fiction bestseller's list
1992: Boats Beaches Bars & Ballads is released and becomes one of the best selling box sets ever for MCA.
1992: Jimmy starts his own record label in Nashville with the help of his ex-wife's husband Bob Mercer
1992: JB does some vocals and produces Evangeline's self titled album under the Margaritaville Records label
1992: A Margaritaville Cafe and store opens in New Orleans on Decatur St.
Jan 20, 1993: Jimmy entertains at President Clinton's inauguration ball. Bill joins in and plays saxaphone.
1993: Jimmy and Jane move to Palm Beach, Florida.
1993: Before The Beach is released containing songs from Down to Earth and High Cumberland Jubilee
1993: Jimmy is the executive producer and does three songs for Margaritaville Cafe Late Night Menu including a cover of Another Saturday Night
1993: Jimmy does the song Stars Fell on Alabama for More Songs For Sleepless Nights
1993: JB's song Stars on the Water appears on the soundtrack for the movie The Firm
1993: Jimmy is the executive producer on The Iguana's self titled album
1993: Jimmy begins working with Herman Wouk on a musical adaption of the novel Don't Stop the Carnival.
1994: Jimmy does the song Mr Spaceman for the Muppett's collection of songs Kermit Unpigged.
1994: Jimmy does "Mac the Knife" with Frank Sinatra (mixed in) which appears on the album Duets II
1994: Jimmy has a cameo appearence in the movie Cobb.
1994: Jimmy and Jane Buffett adopt Cameron Marley
1994: Jimmy's father James Delaney Buffett is diagonised with Alzheimer's disease
1994: Fruitcakes is released
Aug 25,1994: Jimmy capsizes in his seaplane Our Lady of the Waters, a restored Grumman Widgeon in 4 ft of water after take off from Madaket Harbor at Nantucket
1995: Barometer Soup is released
1995: Jimmy has a cameo appearence as a pilot in the movie Congo.
1995: Margaritaville Cafe New Orleans is release with two songs by Jimmy, Goodnight Irene and the cover song Sea Cruise
1995: The Parakeet Album is released containing JB songs sung by kids form the W.O. Smith Music School
Nov 16, 1995: Jimmy buys a new plane: 1954 Grumman Albatross Seaplane HU-16 N928J, The Hemispher Dancer, 60ft long with an 80ft wingspan.
January 16, 1996: Jimmy's sea plane "the Flying Boat" is shot at by the Jamaica police who mistaked him for a drug smuggler. U2's Bono was in the plane with him at the time. Jimmy wrote a song about the incident, Jamaica Mistaica.that appears on the album Banana Wind that is released.
1996: Jimmy is the executive producer for the soundtrack to the movie Phenomenon
1996: Jimmy has a part as a cop in the audio play Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
1996: A Christmas Album titled Christmas Island is released by JB and the CRB.
April 1997: The musical Don't Stop the Carnival opens and has a sucessful six week run at the Coconut Grove playhouse in Miami
1997: Jimmy's mother suddenly has a stroke.
Aug 19, 1997: JB sings at President Clinton's 51st birthday party.
1997: Jimmy does the Purple People Eater song with Iko-Iko for the movie Contact
1997: Jimmy does the song Trouble on the Horizon for MOM II
Sept 1997: JB performs at the Montserrat benefit concert at Royal Albert Hall in England. He did a special version of Volcano and joined in with artists including Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Phil Collins, and Sting on the encore Hey Jude.
Oct 1997: Universal Pictures purchases the film rights for "Where is Joe Merchant?"
Jan 13, 1998: Re-release of Rancho Deluxe CD by MGM/Rycodisc
Feb 1998: Caribbean Amphibian is released on the Elmopalooza CD/video that JB did with Kermit.
1998: C. F. Martin & Co. honors Jimmy Buffett with a signature edition guitar. Only 424 were made originally going for $3650.00
1998: Jimmy goes to Cuba to cover the Papal visit for Rolling Stone Magazine
1998: JB has the role of a journalist in the HBO Mini-series From the Earth to the Moon
April 28, 1998: The soundtrack for Don't Stop the Carnival performed by JB and the CRB is released. It was certified gold by on Sept 2 1998.
1998: Jimmy co-writes the song South American on Brian Wilson's Imagination solo release.
June 9, 1998: Jimmy's book A Pirate Looks at Fifty is released. He becomes the sixth writer to reach the number one spot on both the NY Times fiction and non-fiction best seller's list
June 21, 1998: Jimmy sings "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh inning stretch at Wrigley Field to honor the late Harry Carrey
June 30, 1998: Re-release of Down to Earth and High Cumberland Jubilee
July 1998: A Margaritaville retail store opens in Charleston, SC
Sept 1998: Jimmy sells his home in Key West Florida
Oct 1998: JB covers John Glenn's return to space
Feb 2, 1999: American Storyteller is released
Feb 4, 1999: A new Margaritaville restaurant opens in Orlando
March 4, 1999: Radio Margaritaville debuts with a live show from the new Margaritaville in Orlando
March 18, 1999: Jimmy buys a new plane: 1998 Cessna 208 - N208JB
March 29, 1999: Jimmy performs at Music Bridges with various artists in Cuba
May 18, 1999: Beach House on the Moon is released
May 28, 1999: Jimmy appears on the Today Show
Aug 10, 1999: Calaloo CD is released exclusively at Best Buy stores
Aug 17, 1999: Jimmy performs at the House of Blues in Chicago
Nov 6, 1999: Jimmy performs at the Le Select 50th Anniversary in St Barts
Nov 9, 1999: Buffett Live: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays is released
Nov 20, 1999: Jimmy performs an acoustic show in Sag Harbor to benefit the Montessori school
Dec 31st, 1999: Jimmy Buffett's Millennium show is held at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles
The 2000s
January 2000: Margaritaville Tequila is released in California
April 13, 2000: Jimmy buys another plane, a 1982 Dassault-Breguet Falcon 50 N502JB
May 1, 2000: Jimmy signs an agreement to purchase two Krispy-Kreme doughnut shops that will be built in Palm Beach County Florida
May 5, 2000: Jimmy does a duet with Lyle Lovett on the song "If I Had a Boat" at the New Orleans Jazz Fest
May 5, 2000: Club Trini Late Night CD release party at the Margaritaville New Orleans
May 13, 2000: One of the original Coral Reefers Greg "Fingers" Taylor announces he quits the band
June 8, 2000: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays Tour kicks off with a show in Camden NJ
June / July 2000: Clint Black performs at several shows
June 13, 2000: Tales from Margaritavision Video collection is released
July 4, 2000: Jimmy spends the Fourth onboard the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (along with Bill Clinton and others) at the OpSail 2000 festivities in New York Harbor
July 31, 2000: Southampton College "All for the Sea" benefit show
August 25, 2000: Jimmy performs at Clinton's 54th Birthday party
Sept 14, 2000: Jimmy performs at Democratic Fundraiser for Presidential candidate Al Gore
Sept 25, 2000: Jimmy performs at a Fundrasiser for Presidential candidate Al Gore in Coral Gables, Florida (Miami)
October 6, 2000: Jimmy announces his plans not to tour during the Summer of 2001.
October 2000: Outback Steakhouse purchases the naming rights for a chain of Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurants from Jimmy for $1,000,000.
Nov 1-2, 2000: Jimmy campaigns and performs at various rallies for Senate candidate Bill Nelson and Presidental Candidate Al Gore in Florida.
Nov 4, 2000: East Hampton Benefit show for the Montessori School
Nov 15, 2000: Jimmy was a guest lecturer at Livingston Taylor's class at Berklee College of Music in Boston
Nov 18, 2000: Jimmy attends the wedding of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones
Feb 4, 2001: Jimmy was asked by a referee to move from his seat during a game between the Miami Heat and the NY Knicks because of shouting profanity
Feb 20, 2001: Jimmy pays tribute to Dale Earnhardt during a show in Charlotte NC. He dedicates the song "Take Another Road" to #3.
April 2001 to August 2001: Jimmy's musical "Don't Stop the Carnival" has a run at the Atlantis Hotel in the Bahamas (Paradise Island)
May 22nd to June 6th 2001: First leg of the "2001: A Beach Odyssey" tour. Jimmy takes the summer off and continues the second leg of the tour on August 27th.
July 20, 2001: Jimmy performs on The Today Show
Oct 13, 2001: East Hampton Benefit show for the Montessori School (3rd Annual Harvest Moon benefit show)
Nov 16, 2001: Benefit show at Madison Square Garden for the victims of Sept 11th
March 19, 2002: Jimmy's new studio album "Far Side of the World" is released. It was originally scheduled to come out on Oct 23, 2001, but was delay because of the art work selected for the cover.
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