American

United States

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 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Jimmy Buffett

Jimmy Buffett

James William "Jimmy" Buffett is a singer-songwriter, author, entrepreneur, and film producer. He is best known for his music, which often portrays an "island escapism" lifestyle. Together with his Coral Reefer Band, Buffett's musical hits include "Margaritaville" , and "Come Monday"...

has issued a number of greatest hits

Greatest hits

A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...

 compilation

Compilation album

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album

Album

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s over the course of his music career and they are listed chronologically by date of release below. These collections have focused less on whether particular songs have been issued as single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

s or have been chart hits but instead have all tended to include a core of fan favorite songs that are popular at Buffett's live concerts. Buffett has also had collections featuring only the work of his first two albums from the Barnaby Records

Barnaby Records

Barnaby Records was an American record company founded by singer Andy Williams in 1963 with his purchase of soon-to-be-liquidated Cadence Records....

 label which has been licensed for numerous releases. For these, see Down to Earth and High Cumberland Jubilee compilations

Down to Earth and High Cumberland Jubilee compilations

American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett's first two albums, Down to Earth and High Cumberland Jubilee, have been re-released numerous times in their entirety and in part in compilations. These two albums were initially released on the now defunct Barnaby Records label which Buffett left prior to...

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Songs You Know by Heart

Songs You Know by Heart: Jimmy Buffett's Greatest Hit(s) is Buffett's first greatest hits compilation and was released in 1985. However, it only features songs from 1973 to 1979 including all of "The Big 8" songs that Buffett has played at almost all of his concerts.

Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads

Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads is a four-compact disc box set of Buffett's greatest hits plus rarities and previously unreleased songs released in 1992. The songs are grouped thematically on four discs, one named for each of the four words in the title.

A Pirate's Treasure

A Pirate's Treasure: 20 Jimmy Buffett Gems was released in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 on MCA International

MCA Records

MCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part. MCA Records was absorbed by Geffen Records in 2003...

 MCAD 31213 in November 1993.

Track listing

1. "Son of a Son of a Sailor"
2. "Margaritaville"
3. "Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit"
4. "A Pirate Looks at Forty"
5. "Come Monday"
6. "Pencil Thin Mustache"
7. "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes"
8. "Nautical Wheelers"
9. "Coast of Marseilles"
10. "Jolly Mon Sing"
11. "He Went to Paris"
12. "Manana"
13. "Little Miss Magic"
14. "African Friend"
15. "Volcano"
16. "On a Slow Boat to China"
17. "Stars Fell on Alabama"
18. "Livingston Saturday Night
19. "One Particular Harbour
20. "Why Don't We Get Drunk

All the Great Hits

All the Great Hits was released in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 on Prism Platinum PLATCD 4903 in 1993 or 1994.

Track listing

1. "Margaritaville"
2. "Fins"
3. "Come Monday"
4. "Volcano"
5. "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes"
6. "Cheeseburger in Paradise"
7. "Son of a Son of a Sailor"
8. "Stars Fell on Alabama"
9. "Miss You So Badly"
10. "Why Don't We Get Drunk"
11. "A Pirate Looks at Forty"
12. "He Went to Paris"
13. "Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit"
14. "Pencil Thin Mustache"
15. "Boat Drinks"
16. "Chanson pour les Petits Enfants"
17. "Banana Republics"
18. "Last Mango in Paris"

The Great Jimmy Buffett

The Great Jimmy Buffett is a compilation of songs from A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean

A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean

A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean is the third album by American popular music singer–songwriter Jimmy Buffett and the first major-label album in Buffett's Don Gant-produced "Key West phase"...

and Living and Dying in 3/4 Time released in Portugal

Portugal

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 on Goldies (Intermusic) GLD 63166 in 1994.

Track listing

1. "The Great Filling Station Holdup"
2. "Railroad Lady"
3. "He Went to Paris"
4. "Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit"
5. "Cuban Crime of Passion"
6. "Why Don't We Get Drunk"
7. "Peanut Butter Conspiracy"
8. "They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More"
9. "I Have Found me a Home"
10. "My Lovely Lady"
11. "Death of An Unpopular Poet"
12. "Ringling, Ringling"
13. "Brand New Country Star"
14. "God's Own Drunk"

Great American Summer Fun with Jimmy Buffett

Great American Summer Fun with Jimmy Buffett is a compilation EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 that was released on MCA Special Products

MCA Records

MCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part. MCA Records was absorbed by Geffen Records in 2003...

 MSD-36031 in the summer of 1996 for sale only at the US Target Corporation

Target Corporation

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 stores.

Track listing

1. "Come Monday"
2. "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes"
3. "Cheeseburger in Paradise"
4. "One Particular Harbour"
5. "Bank of Bad Habits"
6. "Fruitcakes"
7. "Brown Eyed Girl"

Biloxi

Biloxi was originally released in Australia

Australia

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 on Castle Communications

Castle Communications

Castle Communications was a British independent record label founded in 1983 by Terry Shand, Cliff Dane and Jon Beecher. The company was acquired by the American music distributor Alliance Entertainment in 1994 and in 2000 it was absorbed into Sanctuary Records Group...

 Australia PCD10169 in June 1995. Unlike most other Buffett greatest hits compilations, the songs on this collection are digitally remastered

Remaster

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Track listing

1. "Margaritaville"
2. "Cheeseburger in Paradise"
3. "Son of a Son of a Sailor"
4. "Livingston Saturday Night"
5. "Biloxi"
6. "Manana"
7. "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes"
8. "The Great Filling station Holdup"
9. "Brand New Country Star"
10. "Coconut Telegraph"
11. "Fins"
12. "A Pirate Looks at Forty"
13. "Havana Daydreamin'"
14. "Volcano"
15. "Last Mango in Paris"
16. "Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit"
17. "California Promises"

Calaloo

Calaloo is a compilation EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 released by Margaritaville Records in the summer of 1999 for sale only at the US Best Buy

Best Buy

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 stores. In addition to the Buffett classics "Cheeseburger in Paradise" and "Come Monday," the album includes four other rarer tracks. Both "Kinja" and "Island Fever" are from the Buffett musical

Musical theatre

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 Don't Stop the Carnival

Don't Stop the Carnival (Jimmy Buffett album)

Don't Stop the Carnival is the 23rd studio album by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and was released in April 1998. It is based on the 1965 novel of the same name written by Herman Wouk. Wouk also worked with Buffett to produce the Don't Stop the Carnival stage play that lasted only a...

but "Kinja" is a live concert version recorded in Orlando, Florida

Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...

 on 4 March 1999. "Stories From My Favorite Books" is a spoken-word track taken from a recording that originally aired on Radio Margaritaville

Radio Margaritaville

Radio Margaritaville is a worldwide Internet radio station owned by Jimmy Buffett. It features 24-hour music and live webcasts of most Jimmy Buffett concerts ....

 of Buffett reading an excerpt of Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...

's travelogue, Following the Equator

Following the Equator

Following the Equator or More Tramps Abroad is a non-fiction travelogue published by American author Mark Twain in 1897....

. "Cairo" is a live duet of Buffett and Nadirah Shakoor

Nadirah Shakoor

Nadirah Shakoor is an American vocalist, best known for her work in Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band, which she joined in 1995, and is still touring with it as the featured female vocalist. "Nod to the Storyteller" is Nadirah's tribute to Jimmy Buffett, who for the last 13 years has featured her...

 from Margaritaville Cafe: Late Night Live credited to Club Trini.

Track listing

1. "Kinja"
2. "Cheeseburger in Paradise"
3. Stories from my favorite books
4. "Island Fever"
5. "Cairo"
6. "Come Monday"

Meet Me in Margaritaville: The Ultimate Collection

Meet Me in Margaritaville: The Ultimate Collection is a two-compact disc greatest hits compilation released in 2003. It has 36 previously recorded songs, including all of the songs from Songs You Know by Heart except "Boat Drinks," plus two new cover songs. However, ten of the songs in the collection are remakes or live versions of the original songs (including three from Songs You Know by Heart). Unlike most other Buffett greatest hits compilations, the songs on Meet Me in Margaritaville are digitally remastered

Remaster

Remaster is a word marketed mostly in the digital audio age, although the remastering process has existed since recording began...

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See also

• Jimmy Buffett discography
  Jimmy Buffett discography
  The discography of American singer Jimmy Buffett consists of twenty-six studio albums, eleven live albums and sixty-seven singles.-1970s albums:-1980s albums:-1990s albums:-2000s albums:-Live albums:-Compilation and specialty albums:...
  
  
• Jimmy Buffett sound board live albums
  Jimmy Buffett sound board live albums
  Jimmy Buffett sound board live albums are a series of live albums by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett recorded directly from the sound board without further editing thus resembling bootleg recordings...