![]() After leaving Prudential in 1986, Lee decided to become more focused on health insurance and employee benefits. In 1982, he was promoted into management where he managed two field offices and as many as thirteen sales agents. He went into the private insurance business in 1977 with Prudential Insurance Company and within a short time had become one of the company’s top sales agents. Lee has been working with Medicare, Medicaid and private health insurance since he began working at the Erie County Welfare Department in January 1973 where a major part of his job was determining eligibility for Medicaid. Photo taken by me at his concert at Blossom Music Center May 27, 2018 As another one of his songs went “it’s been a lovely cruise.” The final line from that tribute to his grandfather went “he’s somewhere on the ocean now, a place he wants to be with one hand on the starboard rail, he’s waving back at me.”Īlso, it is a travesty that Jimmy Buffett has been ignored so long by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He would regale his grandson of the tales of being on the sea and of the places he had been. From there he made a career as a merchant seaman, eventually becoming a steamship captain. His grandfather jumped out of a second-floor window of his home in Halifax Nova Scotia and made his way to the dock. It was later recorded on one of his later albums. Now it is one of my favorite drinks and I know how to make the perfect margarita.Īnother song by Jimmy Buffett is a song about his grandfather that was recorded on his first album in Nashville that didn’t sell and is almost impossible to find. How many of haven’t felt like that in our careers or job?īefore Jimmy Buffett sang about Margaritaville, I never had a margarita. I made enough money to buy Miami, but I *bleep* it away too fast. My occupational hazard is that my occupation’s just not around. The cannons don’t thunder, there’s nothing to plunder. ![]() “Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late. It was about a man looking at mid life and not liking what he saw. Now, who here in northeastern Ohio hasn’t felt that way in the middle of winter?Īnother of my favorite Jimmy Buffett songs was titled “A Pirate Looks at Forty”. Then I’m heading south before my dream shrinks. Any old place, here on earth or in outer space, you pick the century and I’ll pick the spot. I want to go where the pace of life is slow, could you beam be somewhere Mister Scotty. This morning, I shot six holes in the freezer. “It’s 20 degrees and the hockey game’s on. Here are some lyrics from his song “Boat Drinks” from his 1979 album “Volcano.” Listening to his songs transported the listener to the tropics. But he wore flip flops, Hawaiian shirts and shorts instead of a suit and tie. Along the way, he took his only top ten hit “Margaritaville” and turned it into a business empire of restaurants, food, beverages, clubs, resorts and even retirement communities. His brand of tropical rock with tales of pirates, scoundrels and tales from the tropics provided some much-needed escapism for most of us tied down with making a living. His live concerts have become a day long beach party without the beach (unless he is playing at a beach). I lost count of how many Jimmy Buffett concerts I have attended. His first concert there was on July 25,1977, and his last concert there was on September 25, 2021. He has performed at Blossom Music Center 28 times, the most times by any popular music performer at Blossom. Some of the musicians in his band have been in that band since the beginning. Since 1974, he has toured just about every year and performed in numerous venues around the world. His band was a group of pick-up musicians that he called the Coral Reefer Band with a nod to the tropical setting and a wink to a term for marijuana. He began touring in 1974 as a means of selling more records and building a base of fans. ![]() ![]() Along with the many concert recordings and collections, he has become one of the most prolific recording artists of the past fifty years. ![]() Since his first album after leaving Nashville in 1972 after his first two albums didn’t sell, he has released 29 studio albums with most of the songs being new material with a new studio album scheduled for release in November. Ever since the mid-1970s when I first heard his song “Why Don’t We Get Drunk and *bleep*”, I was hooked on his music. If you try a tequila, try to write down a few tasting notes about it and post them here.I was surprised on the morning of September 2 when I heard of the death of Jimmy Buffett. Image posts must contain a 300 character comment explaining the significance or reason for the post.ĬOMMUNITY REVIEW Coming Soon Check the Announcements Youtube and Blog's : See self promotion in rule 4. No Self-promotion: This includes merchandising, self-promotion, blogspam, youtube spam, affiliate links, etc. ![]()
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