On Saturday 2 September 2023, Gene Watson remembered Jimmy Buffett (Wednesday 25 December 1946 – Friday 1 September 2023), who passed away on Friday 1 September 2023.
‘Sorry to hear that music legend, Jimmy Buffett, has passed at age 76.
His huge hit, ‘Margaritaville’ (written by Jimmy Buffett) was both a Billboard pop music and country music hit and, of course, he had a No.1 duet with Alan Jackson and Zac Brown Band on the country chart’
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• Gene Watson on Facebook
Jimmy Buffett (Wednesday 25 December 1946 – Friday 1 September 2023) recorded ‘Margaritaville’ (written by Jimmy Buffett) and included the track on ‘Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes’ (ABC Records, 1977); the track reached No.8 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop music singles chart in 1977, No.1 on the Billboard Easy Listening Chart in 1977, and No.13 on the Billboard country music singles chart in 1977.
Alan Jackson recorded ‘Margaritaville’, which was written by Jimmy Buffett (Wednesday 25 December 1946 – Friday 1 September 2023), and included the track on ‘Under The Influence’ (Arista Nashville Records, 1999); the track, which featured Jimmy Buffett singing along on the third and final verse, reached No.63 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks Chart in 1999 as a result of receiving airplay as an album track.
Alan Jackson recorded ‘It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere’ (written by Jim ‘Moose’ Brown and Don Rollins) and included the track on ‘Greatest Hits, Volume II’ (Arista Nashville Records, 2003); the track, which was a duet with Jimmy Buffett (Wednesday 25 December 1946 – Friday 1 September 2023), and was released in June 2003, was No.1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart for eight non-consecutive weeks in the summer of 2003, and No.17 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop music singles chart in September 2003.
On Wednesday 5 November 2003, Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett‘s recording of ‘It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere’ (written by Jim ‘Moose’ Brown and Don Rollins) won the Country Music Association (CMA) Award for ‘Vocal Event of The Year’; this was Jimmy Buffett’s first award in his 30-year career. The song became the No.3 country song of the decade on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs Chart.
On Tuesday 21 September 2010, Zac Brown Band saw the release of ‘You Get What You Give’ (Atlantic Nashville / Bigger Picture Group / Southern Ground, 2010), which was produced by Zac Brown and Keith Stegall; one of the included tracks was ‘Knee Deep’ (written by Zac Brown, Wyatt Durrette, Coy Bowles and Jeffrey Steele), which was No.1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart for one week in August 2011, and reached No.18 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop music singles chart in 2011, and featured guest duet vocals from Jimmy Buffett (Wednesday 25 December 1946 – Friday 1 September 2023)
