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"Margaritaville"
Margaritaville-West German7"SingleCover.jpg
Cover of the West German 7 " single [1]
Single by Jimmy Buffett
from the album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
B-side "Miss You So Badly"
ReleasedFebruary 14, 1977
RecordedNovember 1976
Studio
Genre
Length4:09 (album)
3:20 (single)
Label ABC
Songwriter(s) Jimmy Buffett
Producer(s) Norbert Putnam
Jimmy Buffett singles chronology
"Woman Goin' Crazy on Caroline Street"
(1976)
"Margaritaville"
(1977)
"Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes"
(1977)
Alternative cover
Italian Margaritaville.jpg
1977 Italian single picture sleeve

Other versions

Single edit

When "Margaritaville" was released to radio stations in 1977, the single edit ran for 3:20, cutting out the instrumental break, and the section during the third chorus and final refrain. So the song structure changed to "riff-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-riff", and the track itself was sped up at half-step. The original recording in the key of D would be E-flat.

Cover versions

"Margaritaville"
Song by Alan Jackson with Jimmy Buffett
from the album Under the Influence
ReleasedOctober 26, 1999
Genre Country
Length4:15
Label Arista Nashville
Songwriter(s) Jimmy Buffett
Producer(s) Keith Stegall

In 1999, American country singer Alan Jackson covered the song on his album Under the Influence . The cover featured Buffett singing along on the third and final verse; it also peaked at No. 63 after receiving play as an album cut.

American singer Toby Keith covered it as a duet with Sammy Hagar in 2013 for his album Drinks After Work . It appeared only on the deluxe edition of the LP. This version was also included on the Sammy Hagar & Friends album, also from 2013.

Jimmy Buffett also re-recorded this song as well as "Cheeseburger in Paradise" and "Volcano" specifically for Rock Band as downloadable content.

Parodies

In 1991, comedian Mark Eddie wrote a parody of the song titled "Marijuanaville". The song appeared on the album "Rock n' Roll Comedy Cuts Part II" (1998). In 2006, Kenan Thompson did a parody of the song during the Weekend Update segment on Saturday Night Live , where he plays a soldier who found out he was going to the U.S.-Mexico border, rather than Baghdad. When Amy Poehler asks him what his reaction was when he discovered he was going to the border, in the next shot, he has a Corona banner above him, a sombrero on his head. He is swaying a Corona beer bottle and singing, "Wasting away again not in Iraq."

In 2013, a parody has aired on the John Boy & Billy Big Show titled "Martinsville", referencing Martinsville Speedway. [34]

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