This song was also covered by Jimmy Buffett and is commonly played at his concerts.

During the 1980s Buffett played at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

In August 2000 Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band played on the White House lawn for then President Bill Clinton.

Buffett wrote the soundtrack for, co-produced and played a role in the 2006 film Hoot, directed by Wil Shriner and based on the book by Carl Hiaasen, which focuses on issues important to Buffett, such as conservation.

Buffett also wrote new lyrics for the team to his 1979 song " Fins ", which is played during Dolphins home games.

A court injunction against Buffett prevented him from performing the song until the lawsuit was settled or resolved, so in 1986, when Buffett would get to the part of his show where he would normally perform " God's Own Drunk ," he would say that he still wasn't allowed to play it because of the lawsuit and instead played a song he wrote called " The Lawyer and the Asshole " in which he accuses Buckley's son and lawyers as being greedy and tells them to " kiss his ass.

Before 2003, songs played at every Buffett show were known as the Big 8.

Banx has released over ten albums and has played with such music legends such as Bob Dylan, Jimmy Cliff and Jimmy Buffett.

After the Tampa Bay Devil Rays ' 1998 home opener, they played the popular Jimmy Buffett song " Fins " after the 6th inning, rather than the 7th inning stretch.

* In September 2004, Jimmy Buffett included " Sweet Caroline " in a medley with " Why Don't We Get Drunk " during both of his Fenway Park shows ( September 10 / 12, 2004 ) stating, " Never again will those songs be played together in one medley at Fenway Park.

In 2006, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates played bridge together at Borsheims.

Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band have played at the Arena at least one time a year for the past 9 years.

Jimmy Buffett played at Alpine Valley, during its inaugural summer of 1977 and he has played every year since 1995, with the exception of 2005.

Buffett is one of several popular ' philosophers ' whose quotations appear on the road signs of Project HIMANK in the Ladakh region of Northern India.

In addition, Buffett has made several cameo appearances, including in Repo Man, Hook, Cobb, Hoot, Congo, and From the Earth to the Moon.

Buffett has taken advantage of his name and the fan following for his music to launch several business ventures, usually with a tropical theme.

Changes was very popular and critically well received and was a transitional album on several levels for Buffett.

This was also hinted several times in some conversations with Buffett.

Buffett claimed that had he invested that money directly in insurance businesses instead of buying out Berkshire Hathaway ( due to what he perceived as a slight by an individual ), those investments would have paid off several hundredfold.

The name has been used in the title of other Buffett compilation albums such as Meet Me In Margaritaville: The Ultimate Collection and is also the name of several commercial products licensed by Buffett ( see below ).

Burleigh Drummond drummed for roots CCM supergroup Lost Dogs for several albums and then started a group, Tin Drum, with his wife, Mary Harris, a singer / songwriter who has worked with Pink Floyd, XTC, Stanley Clarke and Jimmy Buffett.

The bank had been losing money for several years, and Ravitch formed an investment group that included Laurence Tisch, Lionel Pincus, and Warren Buffett to take over the bank as an alternative to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation liquidating it.

Over the past several years, he has given a blindfolded simultaneous exhibition for all-comers at the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska headed by CEO Warren Buffett and Vice-Chairman Charlie Munger.

The album also contains a remake of Jesse Winchester's " Defying Gravity ," the first of several Winchester songs Buffett would record over his career.

Buffett describes a sailor who goes through several hurricanes and typhoons in his Christmas Island song A Sailor's Christmas.

" Finally, several hurricanes affect the fictional Caribbean island of Kinja in the Jimmy Buffett song Don't Stop the Carnival.

* January 20 – Jimmy Buffett's Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes is released, featuring the biggest single of his career, " Margaritaville ", which helps establish Buffett as a popular artist, and earns him much of the rabid fanbase (" Parrotheads ") for which he eventually became known.

During the 1980s, Buffett made far more money from his tours than his albums and became known as a popular concert draw.

Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes is the breakthrough 1977 album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett.

A State Senate bill ( SB-458 ) was passed 32-1 in 2000 to move " Alabama " to the status of State Anthem, with " Stars Fell On Alabama ", a song written in 1933 whose most popular release was by Jimmy Buffett in 1972 becoming the new State Song, and " My Home's In Alabama " ( 1980 ) by the Country group Alabama would become the State Ballad, but the bill failed in the State House.

" Margaritaville " is a 1977 song by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett from the album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes.

In that election, Buffett was seen as " a Republican sacrificial lamb in Nebraska ’ s second district when FDR was a popular wartime leader.

Havana Daydreamin is the seventh album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and his fourth regular major label album.

Son of a Son of a Sailor is the ninth album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett.

Jimmy Buffett mentions Livingston in multiple songs.

Together with his Coral Reefer Band, Buffett has recorded hit songs including " Margaritaville " ( ranked 234th on the Recording Industry Association of America's list of " Songs of the Century ") and " Havaña Daydreamin '".

Aside from his career in music, Buffett is also a best-selling writer and is involved in two restaurant chains named after two of his best known songs, " Cheeseburger in Paradise " and " Margaritaville ".

Two of the more out-of-character albums were Christmas Island, a collection of Christmas songs, and Parakeets, a collection of Buffett songs sung by children and containing " cleaned-up " lyrics ( like " a cold root beer " instead of " a cold draft beer ").

Coe's albums Nothing Sacred and Underground Album contained profane, sexually explicit material, including songs making reference to an orgy in Nashville's Centennial Park, sex with pornographic film star Linda Lovelace and insults directed at Jimmy Buffett and Anita Bryant.

The songs on the album were written or co-written by Buffett except for two covers: Steve Goodman's " Banana Republics " and Jesse Winchester's " Biloxi.

Two of the songs on the album had also previously been recorded by Buffett himself.

A shorter version of " Wonder Why We Ever Go Home " appeared on the Rancho Deluxe soundtrack under the title " Wonder Why You Ever Go Home " and a different version of " In the Shelter " was originally released in 1970 on High Cumberland Jubilee and yet another on 2002's Meet Me in Margaritaville: The Ultimate Collection making it ( with " The Captain and the Kid ") one of only two Buffett songs with three different studio versions.

Jimmy Buffett references a run-in he had with Pusser in the lyrics of two of his songs: " Presents to Send You " (" But my last little bout / I had my hair pulled out / by a man who really wasn't my friend ") and " Semi-True Stories " (" A walkin ' tall sheriff / and a big Cadillac / and me in my golf shoes / on the hood makin ' tracks / this daring young singer / was under attack ").

Sharing the stage with such accomplished songwriters as Lucinda Williams, Roger Hodgson ( Supertramp ), Patti Griffin, and Ron Sexsmith he has represented Canada at songwriter events in Nashville, London, and Texas. Over 30 artists have recorded his songs internationally, including Jimmy Buffett.

His songs have also appeared in feature films including Canvas, which starred Marcia Gay Harden and Joe Pantoliano (“ Mademoiselle Voulez Vous Danser ”, recorded by Jimmy Buffett ), Conquest, which starred Lothaire Bluteau ( theme song ), Sigh and a Wish: Helen Creighton's Maritimes ( feature ), and The Bellinger ( sound track ).

At the same time, he enjoyed a revival in the United States, due in part to numerous artists who cut versions of Ramsey's songs, including Widespread Panic (" Geraldine & The Honey Bee "), Jerry Jeff Walker (" Northeast Texas Women "), Waylon Jennings, Shawn Colvin (" Satin Sheets "), Jimmy Buffett (" The Ballad of Spider John ," " Northeast Texas Women "), and Jimmie Dale Gilmore (" Goodbye to Old Missoula ").

On this album, Buffett has many duets with noted country music artists, on country songs including " Hey Good Lookin ’" by Hank Williams.

Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads is a four-compact disc ( or cassette ) compilation box set of Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band's greatest hits, rarities, and previously unreleased songs.

Of the 18 beach songs, notable songs are " Margaritaville ," also known as the Buffett national anthem, and " Cheeseburger In Paradise ".

" Previously unreleased songs include " Elvis Imitators ," an attempt at an Elvis Presley song, written by Steve Goodman and released by Buffett under the band name Freddie and the Fishsticks, and " Domino College.

The box set takes songs from every single album Buffett released up to that point, barring only “ Down to Earth ” ( 1970 ), “ High

Most of the songs on the album were written or co-written by Buffett, two with his future wife, Jane Slagsvol.

Other songs include " Big Rig " written by Coral Reefer Greg " Fingers " Taylor and " This Hotel Room " by Steve Goodman ( who also co-wrote " Woman Goin ' Crazy on Caroline Street " with Buffett ).