Songs
The album included many of Buffett's concert favorites as well as three new songs that had not appeared on any previous Buffett album: "Perrier Blues", "Morris' Nightmare", and the instrumental "Dixie Diner" (a cover originally by Larry Raspberry & the Highsteppers).
The album was heavily edited between shows and the playlist is not in the same order as the actual shows. Songs known to have been played but deleted from the final cut are:
- "Banana Republics"
- "Cheeseburger in Paradise"
- "Coast of Marseilles"
- "The Last Line"
- "Livingston Saturday Night"
- "Mañana"
"Cheeseburger in Paradise" is the only popular song not included on the album, which is very strange because the song was at its peak in popularity at the time of the album's release yet alone the name of the tour. The reason the song was scrapped from the album is unknown, although one theory is that since it was a current charting single, producer Norbert Putnam did not want to have two competing versions of the same song in circulation at the same time.
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Or that a cup-shaped breast is nothing vile?”
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