Coconut Telegraph
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Studio album by Jimmy Buffett | ||||
Released | February 1981 | |||
Recorded | September 1980 | |||
Studio | Muscle Shoals (Sheffield), Quadrafonic Sound (Nashville), Bennett House, (Franklin, Tennessee), A&R, (New York City) | |||
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Length | 32:46 | |||
Label | MCA MCA-5169 (US, 12") | |||
Producer | Norbert Putnam | |||
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Coconut Telegraph[3] is the tenth studio album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was released in February 1981 as MCA 5169 and was produced by Norbert Putnam.
Songs
In addition to songs written or co-written by Buffett (including one with J.D. Souther), the album includes the 1934 jazz standard "Stars Fell on Alabama" penned by Mitchell Parish and Frank Perkins and "It's My Job" written by Mac McAnally, the beginning of a long-term collaboration that would lead to McAnally becoming a member of Buffett's Coral Reefer Band.
Chart performance
Coconut Telegraph reached No. 30 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The song "It's My Job" hit No. 57 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles and would be Buffett's last appearance on that chart for over 20 years until his 2003 duet with Alan Jackson, "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere."
Track listing
Side 1:
- "Coconut Telegraph" (Jimmy Buffett) – 2:57
- "Incommunicado" (Jimmy Buffett, Deborah McColl, M.L. Benoit) – 3:39
- "It's My Job" (Mac McAnally) – 3:10
- "Growing Older But Not Up" (Jimmy Buffett) – 3:23
- "The Good Fight" (Jimmy Buffett, J.D. Souther) – 3:25
Side 2:
- "The Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful" (Jimmy Buffett) – 4:06
- "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Mitchell Parish, Frank Perkins) – 4:12
- "Island" (Jimmy Buffett, David Loggins) – 3:54
- "Little Miss Magic" (Jimmy Buffett) – 4:00
Personnel
The Coral Reefer Band:
- Jimmy Buffett – vocals, acoustic guitar
- Barry Chance – electric guitar
- Josh Leo – electric guitar
- Andy McMahon – organ, Fender Rhodes
- Harry Dailey – bass, background vocals
- Matt Betton – drums
- M.L. Benoit – congas and percussion, background vocals
- Greg "Fingers" Taylor – harmonica
- Michael Utley – organ
- David Briggs – piano
- Mac McAnally – background vocals on "It's My Job"
- J.D. Souther – co-lead vocals on "The Good Fight", background vocals on "It's My Job"
- Dr. Kino Bachellier – Shakers and French
- Freddie Buffett[4] – background vocals
- Norbert Putnam – upright bass
- Dominic Cortese – accordion
- Deborah McColl – background vocals
Singles
- "It's My Job" b/w "Little Miss Magic" (Released on MCA 51061 in January 1981; his only Hot 100 single of the 80s, peaking at #57)
- "Stars Fell on Alabama" b/w "Growing Older But Not Up" (Released on MCA 51105 in April 1981)
Notes
- ^ Sylvan Barnet; Marcia Stubbs (1995). Barnet & Stubbs's Practical Guide to Writing With Readings. Harper Collins College. p. 431. ISBN 978-0-673-52329-7.
- ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r2928
- ^ In Live by the Bay, Buffett describes "coconut telegraph" as the Caribbean version of the grapevine.
- ^ A pseudonym of Jimmy Buffett.[citation needed]
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