Floridays


Floridays is the fifteenth album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was released in June 1986 as MCA 5730 and was produced by Coral Reefer Band member Michael Utley and recorded and mixed by Jay Rifkin. The title of the album is taken from the 1941 poetry collection of the same name by Don Blanding. The album marks the end of Buffett's shift toward a more country sound that characterized his previous two releases and a return to a sound closer to that of his late 1970s and early 1980s output. The album features a wider variety of musical instruments than was typical for Buffett's previous works, notably several songs with strings and horns. His daughter Savannah Jane Buffett is credited for playing mini-conga on the album.
It was also his last studio album to feature Jimmy Buffett's trademark mustache, before he shaved it off for the next album Hot Water in 1988.

Songs

All of the album's songs were written or co-written by Buffett except for "If It All Falls Down" written by Coral Reefer Band member Matt Betton. "I Love The Now" was co-written with actress and author Carrie Fisher.
The songs "First Look" and "When the Coast is Clear" later appeared on the box set Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads, and "Creola" appeared on. Buffett rearranged the song "Floridays" for the 2006 film Hoot, in which he co-starred.

Chart performance

Floridays reached #67 on the Billboard 200 album chart and #32 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. Neither of the album's two singles charted.
Chart Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums32
U.S. Billboard 20067
Canadian RPM Top Albums91

Track listing

  1. "I Love the Now" – 5:01
  2. "Creola" – 5:39, 7:03
  3. "First Look" – 3:59
  4. "Meet Me in Memphis" – 4:46
  5. "Nobody Speaks to the Captain No More" – 5:07
  6. "Floridays" – 4:52
  7. "If It All Falls Down" – 4:45
  8. "No Plane on Sunday" – 4:16
  9. "When the Coast Is Clear" – 2:56
  10. "You'll Never Work in Dis Bidness Again" – 3:10

    Personnel

The Coral Reefer Band:
1986 brought yet another summer tour, this time to promote the Floridays album, with all the usual stops.

1986 Coral Reefer Band

The only set list from the tour that's been confirmed is that of the Convention Center Arena in Dallas, TX. While the structure of Buffett's set lists generally remain the same in a given tour, the song selection varies from night to night; so it's more than likely that there were many changes to the set list as the tour progressed.
Convention Center Arena
Tuesday, August 12, 1986
  1. "Coconut Telegraph"
  2. "Ragtop Day"
  3. "Grapefruit—Juicy Fruit"
  4. "Boat Drinks"
  5. "Meet Me in Memphis"
  6. "Volcano"
  7. "Havana Daydreamin'"
  8. "If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me"
  9. "Why Don't We Get Drunk"
  10. "Cheeseburger in Paradise"
  11. "Creola"
  12. "Fins"
  13. "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes"
    Intermission
  14. "African Friend"
  15. "If It All Falls Down"
  16. "Pencil Thin Mustache"
  17. "Son of a Son of a Sailor"
  18. "Nobody Speaks to the Captain No More"
  19. "Gypsies in the Palace"
  20. "Come Monday"
  21. "One Particular Harbour"
  22. "A Pirate Looks at Forty"
    Encore:
  23. "Margaritaville"
  24. "I Love the Now"
    Encore 2:
  25. "He Went to Paris"