Time After Island Time is proud to announce our first radio special in tribute to Jimmy Buffett. Tropical Folk Rock artist Jimmy Buffett is one of a handful of living legends in music. He requires no introduction, but we’ll just tell you that he deserves a lot of credit for not following trends, but setting them.

Giving Mr. Buffett birthday wishes and recalling their fondest Jimmy Buffett memories is a good number of special guests including: Walter Cronkite, Tina Gullickson, T. C. Mitchell, Jesse Winchester, Jim “Moose” Brown, Keith Sykes, Marshall Chapman, Matt Betton, Will Kimbrough, Todd Snider, Peter Mayer, Robert Greenidge, Will Jennings, and more!!!

This is the story of a boy from Mississippi who followed all of his dreams, made them come true…and has made them come true for many others. Listen in for a full hour of talk, and music (including 2 songs specially recorded just for this special presentation, and 1 never before heard song). First airing is DECEMBER 25th, Jimmy Buffett’s Sixtieth Birthday. Listen in from anywhere in the world on Radio JimmyDreamz at http://www.radio.jimmydreamz.com.

Broadcast times and dates…
Monday 1pm – DECEMBER 25, 2006
Wednesday 9am – DECEMBER 27, 2006
Thursday 4pm – DECEMBER 28, 2006
Saturday 8pm – DECEMBER 30, 2006
**All broadcast times are Eastern**

Oh yeah, Happy Birthday Mr. Buffett! Hope you like the show, dood!

60 Minutes remembered Ed Bradley tonight, including a special piece on his friends by Steve Kroft that included an interview with close friend Jimmy Buffett.

“I’m just glad I got here, my wife called me and said – I was in Hawaii – and said, ‘You need to get back here and see Ed.’ And I’m glad I made it,” Buffett said in the special as he fought back tears.

Read the transcript of the special here.

Watch the full video of the special here.

Family and friends are gathering at Riverside Church Tuesday morning for a memorial service as legendary journalist Ed Bradley is laid to rest.

NY1 will carry the funeral service live starting at 10:30 a.m

Read the entire article here.

Jimmy lost a close friend today. Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes.

Bradley is survived by his wife, Patricia Blanchet, of New York. He married
Blanchet, an artist, in 2004 at their Aspen, Colorado, home with Jimmy Buffett providing the wedding music, according to a column in the Rocky Mountain News.

He introduced Jimmy onstage at the Big Apple to the Big Easy concert at Madison Square Garden.

As a jazz afficionado and lover of musical improv, he appeared on stage at the Margaritaville Cafe in New Orleans in May ’06 during Jazz Fest week. With Little Feat tackling the song on the spot, he took the mic for a sponanious rendition of his unofficial theme song…the R&B classic by the Dominoes “Sixty Minute Man” with his friend Jimmy standing nearby, beaming a grin.

Bradley, dies of Lukemia at age 65. Nov 9, 2006.

Update – From the NY Times: Buffett was with Bradley in his hospital room when he died:

Though Mr. Bradley had largely concealed his illness, he and his wife, Patricia Blanchet, had reached out in recent days to some of his closest friends — including Charlayne Hunter-Gault of National Public Radio (who traveled to his bedside from her home in South Africa) and the singer Jimmy Buffett (who rushed to New York to be with him following a concert in Hawaii).

Jimmy made Entertainment Weekly’s Hit List this week with a mention of his “drug bust” in France. It can be found on page 16. A non-review of the album appears on page 82.