What was your first Buffett album?

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » June 26, 2006 9:17 am

Got SYKBH free through a record club.
Once I started liking it, I got a copy of BBBB through a friend.
First one I purchased was FF.

parrotpartygod · Post by **parrotpartygod** » June 26, 2006 9:35 am

Welcome aboard the Parrot Ship Mate!
BEERied Treasure, Pleasure Coasts & Mermaids in the Night

await you!

My phirst Buffett album was "You Had To Be There" & "A1A", after hearing it at a phellow Parrothead Party. Well, it's been a "FEEDING FRENZY" ever since. I was hooked like a "Son Of A Son Of A Sailor" out on the sea for adventure, takin' care to look for sharks!

FINZ UP!!!
& Many More Margaritas!

Bubbaphan · Post by **Bubbaphan** » June 26, 2006 9:38 am

A1A....still my favorite

silverbetty · Post by **silverbetty** » June 26, 2006 9:45 am

My first was "Banana Wind", I saw Jimmy on Letterman. He played
"School Boy Heart". The next day I went to the store and bought the CD. My girlfriend at the time bought me tickets to the show at Nissan that year. I've been living my life like a song since.

MojosMama · Post by **MojosMama** » June 26, 2006 9:45 am

Living & Dying in 3/4 time

fins2theleft · Post by **fins2theleft** » June 26, 2006 9:46 am

first one i heard was(bought by hubby) "Live Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays" and also "Fruitcakes"
but the first one that I bought was SYKBH

Rum_Runner · Post by **Rum_Runner** » June 26, 2006 10:11 am

First one I personally owned was Don't stop the carnival. Then I bought SYKBH and then started to get more into his music so I bought BBBB and some live albums (feeding frenzy, Tues/Thurs/Sat, etc). I had listened to music from SYKBH because it was the only buffett CD in the bar juke boxes, so I knew some of his music before I actually purchased any albums.

PIA · Post by **PIA** » June 26, 2006 10:15 am

my dad bought me Floridays on tape...but the first cd i bought myself was Off To See the Lizard...

Prthd119 · Post by **Prthd119** » June 26, 2006 10:24 am

silverbetty wrote:My first was "Banana Wind", I saw Jimmy on Letterman. He played
"School Boy Heart". The next day I went to the store and bought the CD. My girlfriend at the time bought me tickets to the show at Nissan that year. I've been living my life like a song since.

I remember that interview......

Dave just looked over at Jimmy and said...

"Man..you've got the LIFE, don't you?"

Jimmy just smiled...that slow smile ...and said....."Yep"

Loved that interview!

Oh..and "White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean" was the first I owned..on vinyl....then had to switch to cassete....now CD's..

and I still have them all...

Including a 45 rpm that was made for a jukebox..."Margaritaville" on one side..."CILCIA" on the other...

Friend of mine here , Jake...was friends with Jimmy down in Key West way back..He gave it to me....still in the MCA paper cover...

jbirdbuc · Post by **jbirdbuc** » June 26, 2006 10:28 am

My first was the box set, then Before the beach and Fruitcakes when it first came out. My collection then was A1A and Havana Daydreamin. I just completed my collection last year by adding 5-6 more CDs that I did not have. I now have all the released albums on CD. I am on my second Box Set and burned most of the discs to preserve the "originals", but somehow have managed to lose beaches original again. Oh well.

pbans · Post by **pbans** » June 26, 2006 10:36 am

Coconut Telegraph on vinyl! I'd had a mix tape made with "It's My Job" on it.....had to have MORE!
CocoTel is still my favorite....

Lightning Bolt · Post by **Lightning Bolt** » June 26, 2006 10:38 am

Havana Daydreamin'

I created a cassette from the album, so I could listen to it over and over
as we would go trekking thru Baja back in the '70's

Just wore out "This Hotel Room"....

Clintster7 · Post by **Clintster7** » June 26, 2006 10:42 am

Dual cassette A-1A and Volcano

ccmatt · Post by **ccmatt** » June 26, 2006 10:42 am

First album was You Had to Be There, which is still my favorite. Although I eventually got all the albums, I didn't get my next one until Volcano as I was away playing baseball the next few years and didn't even own a record player for a while.

Crazy Navy Flyer · Post by **Crazy Navy Flyer** » June 26, 2006 11:00 am

I bought Sport Coat and Livin' and Dyin' at the same time on vinyl at SEARS in Key West around '73 or '74.

Tequila Revenge · Post by **Tequila Revenge** » June 26, 2006 11:06 am

A guy I worked with loaned me a copy of SYKBY after a conversation about the movie, "The Doctor" (William Hurt is the surgeon that closes to WDWGDAS) First pruchase was BBBB and I think my last one was Hot Water

JerryEng · Post by **JerryEng** » June 26, 2006 12:47 pm

Man, I'm floored by the response this generated. I'm at work so I haven't read them all but I will read them all tonight. Can't wait!!

PHINS UP!!!!

Cubbie Bear · Post by **Cubbie Bear** » June 26, 2006 1:00 pm

In the summer of '78 I was being "punished" for bad grades in college by having my Dad get me a factory job. It was a little place with 9 others working an assembly line making one use charcoal grills. Since I could speak english and could count, I was at the end of the line. Three rows of fifteen to a box, staple, tape and place on a pallet. 20 boxes to a pallet.

One day I came to work and INS had been by and all of my co-workers were gone. So I would work the conveyor switch and move it a little at a time and do all the stations myself, with the radio blasting away WLUP, The Loop in Chicago.

One day over lunch time, they had a "new release hour" they played Son of a Son, Livingston Saturday Night and Manana from SOASOAS. I bought it that night. By my next paycheck I had all the rest of the previously released albums and have never looked back. Shows started the next summer

SharkOnLand · Post by **SharkOnLand** » June 26, 2006 1:37 pm

I think it was Volcano, or Somewhere Over China....

Then I bought SYKBH a while later, and then the boxed set, then I went on to buy all the cd's, I think I might be missing one or two of the studio ones, and most of the live stuff I don't have...

Dr.Corona · Post by **Dr.Corona** » June 26, 2006 2:28 pm

First purchase was "Feeding Frenzy"! Had heard some SYKBH on my friends cd player which spawned some interest but after returning from a Carribean cruise I started searching for more of that Island sound. I heard the music on the live recording of F.F and I was HOOKED!

My collection also includes B.B.B.&B., Tu.Th.& Sa., Far Side of The World and License to Chill but whenever I need to get the motor running F.F. is the one I put on!