Additional Album Artwork: Chart Peak: #72 – Billboard Pop Chart #29 – Billboard Country Chart

You Had To Be There Jimmy Buffett Live In Concert Release Date: October 1978 Label: ABC Dunhill Records Track List 1. Son Of A Son Of A Sailor 4:21 2. Pencil Thin Mustache 4:37 3. Wonder Why We Ever Go Home 4:13 4. Landfall 3:32 5. Miss You So Badly 4:19 6. Havana Daydreamin’ 6:34 7. Margaritaville 5:30 8. Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes 3:28 9. Come Monday 3:41 10. Perrier Blues 3:52 11. Grapefruit Juicy Fruit 8:06 12. God’s Own Drunk 12:40 13. He Went To Paris 3:38 14. The Captain And The Kid 4:15 15. Why Don’t We Get Drunk 6:23 16. He Went To Paris 5:47 17. Tampico Trauma 5:47 18. Morris’ Nightmare 5:47 19. Dixie Diner (Instrumental) 6:22

Jimmy’s Note

This album is dedicated to anyone in the United States and Canada who has paid good money to see this show. Thanks for helping me live my life like a song.

There’s nothing to this show bidness gig. After twelve years and ten albums I enjoy remembering some of the moments in the history of Coral Reefer madness that still make it fun:

The morning in San Francisco when I found a chandelier in Fingers’ bathroom sink and drug him out of bed to help me rehang the goddamn thing; the night at Kiawah Island when Harry discovered the new religion of Naked Hall Meditation; when Jay Spell introduced Martin Mull to braille centerfolds; when Buttrey polished off a magnum of champagne during a Central Park concert and finished the evening by attempting to drop-kick his snare drum into the monitor board; the night Deborah and Fingers did their impression of Ike and Tina Turner in a Holiday Inn near Billings, Montana; the time Barry decided to redecorate the interior of a Chrysler Cordoba in Sacramento; the afternoon I decided to take the bus for a spin near Wrightsville Beach to find some beer; or just yesterday in London, when they gave all our suites to Gladys Knight and the Pips.

I could go on for hours telling stories but I guess… you had to be there.

– Jimmy Buffett wasting away in London. August 30, 1978

Note: To all avid lyric fanatics: you may or may not notice that some verses and phrases on there records are not the same as the original version. I can only blame that mishap on an over-indulgence in Mount Gay rum and an over-abuse of poetic license. Hope you enjoy the new versions. – J.B.