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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Famous quotes containing the word songs:
“Heaven has a Sea of Glass on which angels go sliding every afternoon. There are many golden streets, but the principal thoroughfares are Amen Street and Hallelujah Avenue, which intersect in front of the Throne. These streets play tunes when walked on, and all shoes have songs in them.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“And songs climb out of the flames of the near campfires,
Pale, pastel things exquisite in their frailness
With a note or two to indicate it isn’t lost,
On them at least. The songs decorate our notion of the world
And mark its limits, like a frieze of soap-bubbles.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)