minneapolisgenius said:

It was first recorded by Duke Ellington in 1933, as far as I know. Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman covered it in the mid-30's. Interestingly enough, the Sinatra-sung Chicago is from the Come Fly With Me LP, which was released in 1957. That album was such a huge hit that it revived the song. Count Basie covered it in 1958. So did Tony Bennett. Then Judy covered it live in '61 and most people remember that one.

There's even been an electronica version of it!

The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia..

cracker: "dixie babylon"
cracker: "big dipper"
cracker: "miss santa cruz county"
sex pistols: "new york"
sex pistols: "anarchy in the uk"
jimmy buffett: "havana daydreamin'"
jimmy buffett: "on a slow boat to china"
jimmy buffett: "biloxi"
jimmy buffett: "christmas in the carribean"
jimmy buffett: "tampico trauma"
jimmy buffett: "cuban crime of passion"
jimmy buffett: "california promises"
jimmy buffett: "coast of marseilles"
jimmy buffett: "he went to paris"
jimmy buffett: "stars fell on alabama"
jimmy buffett: "woman going crazy on caroline street"
jimmy buffett: beach house on the moon"
jimmy buffett: "west nashville grand ballroom gown"
jimmy buffett: "banana republics"
jimmy buffett: "somewhere over china"
jimmy buffett: "last mango in paris"
jimmy buffett: "meet me in memphis"
jimmy buffett: "floridays"
jimmy buffett: "everybody's got a cousin in miami"
jimmy buffett: "coast of carolina"
steve earle: “guitar town”
steve earle: “hillbilly highway”
steve earle: “nowhere road”
steve earle: “copperhead road”
steve earle: “esmeralda’s Hollywood”
steve earle: “justice in Ontario”
steve earle: “west Nashville boogie”
steve earle: “rivers of Babylon”
steve earle: “Tecumseh valley”
steve earle: “south Nashville blues”
steve earle: “Christmas in Washington”
steve earle: “Taneytown”
steve earle: “telephone road”
steve earle: “NYC”
steve earle: “fort worth blues”
steve earle: “the galway girl”
steve earle: “Dominick st.”
steve earle: “shadowland”
steve earle: “Jerusalem”
steve earle: “home to Houston”

I could go on and on.


I don't have a cousin in Miami edit.
[Edited 2/16/05 18:06pm]

Sugar Walls--Sheena Easton

Strawberry Fields Forever
Chocalate City
I Love L.A.
You're A Native New Yorker
Born In The U.S.A.
Born In East L.A.
California Girls
Devil Went Down To Georgia
Georgia
Midnight Train To Georgia
America - Ray Charles
America - Prince
Uptown
Funkytown
Back to the U.S.S.R
Sweet Home Chicago
Train To Clarksdale
Sunset People
Downtown
San Francisco
Arizona
By The Time I Get To Phoenix

And my favorite:
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh

Sugar Walls--Sheena Easton

JACKAL said:

And I was JUST about to ask you if you had a cousin in Miami!!!

Do you?

Jimmy Buffett popped into my head yesterday, and I thought of you. You must have been posting in this thread, and that's why.

I have to add (of course) to this list:

Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
and
Highway to Hell - ACDC
[Edited 2/17/05 6:35am]

jimmy buffett: "havana daydreamin'"
jimmy buffett: "on a slow boat to china"
jimmy buffett: "biloxi"
jimmy buffett: "christmas in the carribean"
jimmy buffett: "tampico trauma"
jimmy buffett: "cuban crime of passion"
jimmy buffett: "california promises"
jimmy buffett: "coast of marseilles"
jimmy buffett: "he went to paris"
jimmy buffett: "stars fell on alabama"
jimmy buffett: "woman going crazy on caroline street"
jimmy buffett: beach house on the moon"
jimmy buffett: "west nashville grand ballroom gown"
jimmy buffett: "banana republics"
jimmy buffett: "somewhere over china"
jimmy buffett: "last mango in paris"
jimmy buffett: "meet me in memphis"
jimmy buffett: "floridays"
jimmy buffett: "everybody's got a cousin in miami"
jimmy buffett: "coast of carolina"



I don't have a cousin in Miami edit.
[Edited 2/16/05 18:06pm]

JACKAL said:

he's playin' at the arena not too far from where I'm at as I type this... unfortunately.

AnckSuNamun said:

It's ok. I'm actually boycotting the current tour and the newest album, "License to Chill." Buffett recording with the current country-pop crop just isn't how I want my Jimmy Buffett. It would be like if Prince were to record a duet album with Jaheim, Nelly, Justin Timberlake, Fantasia, and the current pop-urban crowd. At least with "Rave" he went with established or left-of-the-dial artists.

JACKAL said:

I think you're not going because you can't decide which Hawaiian shirt you're going to wear out of your collection of Jimmy Buffett Signature Line shirts.

minneapolisgenius said:

No, that's not true. There wouldn't even be much of a decision. I only have one Hawaiian shirt, so, I guess that would be the one.

The hard part would be deciding which Jimmy Buffett t-shirt to wear under it. The ParrotHead Conga Line shirt, the Fins shirt, the USS ParrotHead shirt, or the "Pirate, 200 hundred years too late" shirt. Decisions, decisions.

JACKAL said:

Oh God.

minneapolisgenius said:

I've got a picture of me in the Hawaiian shirt. I think.

JACKAL said:

Is that a good or bad thing?
[Edited 2/19/05 7:04am]