How to build a list of JB's Originals?

[catsway]

About sharing a playlist on itunes: You can make an imix and have it published at itunes, but it has to be available in the itunes store. I think all of Jimmy's songs are available. So, it sounds like this could be done.

You can share your playlists with others by publishing them to the iTunes Store. Published playlists are called "iMixes."

iMixes include 30-second previews of songs available in the iTunes Store. Songs that aren't available in the iTunes Store don't appear in iMixes.

To publish your iMix:
Select the playlist you want to publish as an iMix and choose File > Create an iMix.

Enter the requested information about your playlist and click Publish.

To update a published iMix, click the arrow next to the playlist. (Changes you make to a published iMix aren't updated updated automatically on the iTunes Store.)

We want to share the JB original play list. I tried to follow Conched's Imix instructions but according to ITunes, mixes are limited to 100 songs. I can't figure out how to copy and paste the list from my ITunes library to this thread. If anyone wants the list, go to BMI.com and search "Buffett Jimmy" under "songwriter/composer". Have phun!

[Frank4]

this thread has inspired me to make a list like this for the ipod

[looking4OPH]

If someone does manage to get the list into an iPod playlist, it is pretty easy to get that list out of iTunes. Right-click on the playlist in the left-hand navigation area and choose Export... It defaults to a text file (that is tab delimited). Using Excel (or likely your favorite spreadsheet program), open the file. It should import it into columns of all of the song information, with a row for each song. Either the original exported text file or something massaged and simplified a bit in Excel could easily be shared with other BNers.

[conched]

Buffett Written Songs recorded and commercially available:
262 songs if I counted right.
(To the best of my knowledge...and I'm very open to corrections)
Edit to Original Post in red: 1:33 08-30-09

A Mile High In Denver
A Pirate Looks At Forty
A Sailor’s Christmas
A Salty Piece Of Land
A Thousand Steps To Nowhere
Ace
African Friend
Ain’t He A Genius
Altered Boy
Autour Du Rocher
Baby’s Gone Shopping
Ballad of Skip Wiley
Banana Wind
Bank of Bad Habits
Barefoot Children In The Rain
Barometer Soup
Beach House On The Moon
Bend A Little
Beyond The End
Blue Heaven Rendezvous
Boat Drinks
Bob Robert’s Society Band
Boomerang Love
Brahma Fear
Brand New Country Star
Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On
Bring Back The Magic
Burn That Bridge
Calaloo
Can’t Remember When I Slept Last
Captain America
Carnival World
Cattle Truckin’
Champagne Si, Agua No
Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
Changing Channels
Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants
Cheeseburger In Paradise
Christmas In The Caribbean
Cliches
Coast of Carolina
Coastal Confessions
Coconut Telegraph
Come Monday
Come On In
Come To The Moon
Conky Tonkin’
Countin’ The Cows Every Day
Cowboy In The Jungle
Creola
Cuban Crime Of Passion
Cultural Infidel
Death Of An Unpopular Poet
Death Valley Lives
Delaney Talks To Statues
Desdemona’s Building A Rocket Ship
Desperation Samba (Halloween in Tijuana)
Diamond As Big As The Ritz
Distantly In Love
Domicile
Domino College
Don’t Bug Me
Don’t Chu-Know
Door Number Three
Dreamsicle
Ellis Dee
England
Everlasting Moon
Everybody’s Got A Cousin In Miami
Everybody’s On The Phone
Everybody’s On The Run
False Echoes
Far Side Of The World
Fat Person Man
Fifteen Gears
Fins
First Look
Flesh and Bone
Floridays
Fool Button
Frank and Lola
Frenchman For The Night
Fruitcakes
Funeral Dance
Getting The Picture
God Don’t Own A Car
Grapefruit Juicy Fruit
Gravity Storm
Green Flash At Sunset
Growing Older But Not Up
Gypsies In The Palace
Happily Ever After (Now and Then)
Happiness Alone
Havana Daydreamin’
He Went To Paris
Henny’s Song: The Key To My Man
Here We Are
High Cumberland Dilemma
High Cumberland Jubilee/Comin’ Down Slow
Hippolyte’s Habit (Qui Mon Qui)
Ho Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum
Holiday
Homemade Music
Honey Do
Hula Girl At Heart
I Can’t Be Your Hero Today
I Don’t Know And I Don’t Care
I Don't Know (Spicoli's Theme)
I Feel Like Goin’ Surfing In A Hurricane
I Have Found Me A Home
I Heard I Was In Town
I Love The Now
I Used To Have Money One Time
I Will Play For Gumbo
I Wish Lunch Could Last Forever
If I Could Just Get It On Paper
If I’m Gonna Eat Somebody (It Might As Well Be You)
If The Phone Doesn’t Ring, It’s Me
In The Shelter
Incommunicado
Into-The Legend Of Norman Paperman/Kinja
Island
Island Fever
It’s All About The Water
It’s Midnight And I’m Not Famous Yet
Jamaica Mistaica
Jimmy Dreams
Jolly Mon Sing
Just An Old Truth Teller
Kick It In Second Wind
King of Somewhere Hot
Kinja
Kinja Rules
Knees of My Heart
La Vie Dansante
Lady I Can’t Explain
Lage Nom Ai
Landfall
Last Man Standing
Last Mango In Paris
Left Me With A Nail To Drive
License To Chill
Life Is Just A Tire Swing
Lip Service
Little Miss Magic
Livin’ It Up
Livingston Saturday Night
Livingston’s Gone To Texas
Lone Palm
Love and Luck
Love In Decline
Love In The Library
Manana
Margaritaville
Math Suks
Meet Me In Margaritaville
Meet Me In Memphis
Mental Floss
Merry Christmas, Alabama (Never Far From Home)
Middle of the Night
Migration
Miss You So Badly
Money Back Guarantee
Morris’s Nightmare
My Barracuda
My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink and I Don’t Love Jesus
My Lovely Lady
Nautical Wheelers
No Plane On Monday
Nobody Speaks To The Captain No More
Off To See The Lizard
One Particular Harbour
Only Time Will Tell
Overkill
Oysters and Pearls
Party At The End Of The World
Pascagoula Run
Peanut Butter Conspiracy
Pencil Thin Mustache
Permanent Reminder Of A Temporary Feeling
Perrier Blues
Please Bypass This Heart
Presents To Send You
Pre-You
Prince Of Tides
Public Relations
Quietly Making Noise
Ragtop Day
Railroad Lady
Rancho Deluxe (End Title)
Rancho Deluxe (Instrumental)
Rancho Deluxe (Main Title)
Remittance Man
Richard Frost
Ridin’ In Style
Ringling, Ringling
Rockefeller Square
Saxophones
School Boy Heart
Sending The Old Man Home
Sheila Says
Simply Complicated
Six String Music
Smart Woman (In A Real Short Skirt)
Some Day I Will
Some Gothic Ranch Action
Some White People Can Dance
Something So Feminine About A Mandolin
Somewhere Over China
Son Of A Son Of A Sailor
South American
Spending Money
Stranded On A Sandbar
Strange Bird
Sugar Trade
SummerZcool
Survive
Take Another Road
Take It Back
Tampico Trauma
That’s My Story And I’m Stickin’ To It
That’s What Living Is To Me
The Captain And The Kid
The Christian
The Good Fight
The Great Filling Station Holdup
The Handiest Frenchman In The Caribbean
The Hangout Gang
The Missionary
The Night I Painted The Sky
The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful
The Wino And I Know
The Wrangler
There’s Nothin’ Soft About Hard Times
They Don’t Dance Like Carmen No More
Time To Go Home
Tin Cup Chalice
Today’s Message
Tonight I Just Need My Guitar
Travelin’ Clean
Treat Her Like A Lady
Trouble On The Horizon
Truckstop Salvation
Trying To Reason With Hurricane Season
Turnabout
Twelve Volt Man
Up On The Hill
Vampires, Mummies And The Holy Ghost
Volcano
Waiting For The Next Explosion
We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About
West Nashville Grand Ballroom Gown
What If The Hokey Pokey Is All It Really Is About
When Salome Plays The Drum
When The Coast Is Clear
When The Wild Life Betrays Me
Where’s The Party
Who Are We Trying To Fool?
Who’s The Blonde Stranger
Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Screw
Why The Things We Do
Woman Goin’ Crazy On Caroline Street
Wonder Why We Ever Go Home
You’ll Never Work In Dis Bidness Again

[conched]

If someone does manage to get the list into an iPod playlist, it is pretty easy to get that list out of iTunes. Right-click on the playlist in the left-hand navigation area and choose Export... It defaults to a text file (that is tab delimited). Using Excel (or likely your favorite spreadsheet program), open the file. It should import it into columns of all of the song information, with a row for each song. Either the original exported text file or something massaged and simplified a bit in Excel could easily be shared with other BNers.

Thanks for the suggestion. I created the list using a table with Office Document.

I'll see what happens.

Still working on gettting all those songs into a Buffett Written playlist. I think I have them all in my itunes.

[conched]

I haven't yet got one of those ipod thingies; heck, I never even had a walkman.
I did have a hand-sized transistor radio, back in 1961....and fitted it with stereo earplugs.... so much for innovation.

Snowparrot, it's nice just using itunes on your computer if you have enough space to import your Buffett cds into itunes. It's really easy and it puts all the songs you might want to find all in one place...and you don't even need an ipod to do that.

You can make all kinds of playlists, and shuffle songs, and search by artist, album, etc.

All good fun!!!

I rarely use my ipods anymore since I have bad ears and need to pay attention while walking, etc. I take my ipods with me and use them in my car instead of storing all my songs on the harddrive in my Jeep.

[catsway]

Great job Conched! You found 20+ songs that the BMI list missed. I have managed to organize 230 of the songs onto our IPod. Plus they are on our ITunes software that plays through our house stereo. Now Cat and I won't be confused about what's original or a cover again. Glad to get this challenge completed.

[HurricaneSeason]

How about three lists?

Songs by Jimmy Buffett.

Songs by Jimmy Buffett and other songwriters.

Songs Jimmy Buffett covered (regardless of whether or not they were ever previously released or released after he released his version - songs he did not write).

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Conched,

Quick question which version of "In the Shelter" are you placing on your list, the original from 1970 the second version from 1977 or third version from 2003?

[conched]

Conched,

Quick question which version of "In the Shelter" are you placing on your list, the original from 1970 the second version from 1977 or third version from 2003?

I used ITS from CILCIA, although there was no reason to. I also used The Captain and the Kid from Havana Daydreamin' instead of Down to Earth.

For most of the other songs, I used the original album they came out on.

This was a time consuming project. It took me a long time. I had to go through the list I made and then had to sort by Artist/Buffett and then had to right click and save to my playlist. Is there an easier way to generate an itunes playlist?

The only song I don't have that Jimmy wrote is the song that Tone Loc did on Fern Gully!

[conched]

Great job Conched! You found 20+ songs that the BMI list missed. I have managed to organize 230 of the songs onto our IPod. Plus they are on our ITunes software that plays through our house stereo. Now Cat and I won't be confused about what's original or a cover again. Glad to get this challenge completed.

Did you keep a list of those that were not at BMI? Something tells me those might be mistakes then.

[catsway]

Great job Conched! You found 20+ songs that the BMI list missed. I have managed to organize 230 of the songs onto our IPod. Plus they are on our ITunes software that plays through our house stereo. Now Cat and I won't be confused about what's original or a cover again. Glad to get this challenge completed.

Did you keep a list of those that were not at BMI? Something tells me those might be mistakes then.

After printing out your list, I compared it with the BMI list. I noted the songs from your list that weren't on the BMI list and then went to the BN song resourses area to check to see who the composer was. They were all composed/co-written by Jimmy. I can't say I checked them all but the ones I did were accurate. Thank you again for putting the list together.

[conched]

I found an error...I left one song off the final list.

I Don't Know (Spicoli's Theme)