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Coconut Telegraph

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Release Date: February 1981
Label: MCA Records





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Track Listing:

1. Coconut Telegraph — 2:57
        Jimmy Buffett
2. Incommunicado — 3:39
        Jimmy Buffett, M.L. Benoit, Deborah McColl
3. It’s My Job — 3:10
        Mac McAnally
4. Growing Older But Not Up — 3:23
        Jimmy Buffett
5. The Good Fight — 3:25
        Jimmy Buffett, J.D. Souther
6. The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful — 4:06
        Jimmy Buffett
7. Stars Fell on Alabama — 4:12
        Mitchell Parish, Frank Perkins
8. Island — 3:54
        Jimmy Buffett, Dave Loggins
9. Little Miss Magic — 4:00
        Jimmy Buffett



Buffett’s twelfth studio album was called “Coconut Telegraph.”

Notes on the album:
-“Coconut Telegraph” was the first album that had Mac McAnally’s influence. It also contained the first Mac song Jimmy ever recorded, “It’s My Job”.
-2 singles were released, “It’s My Job” - #32 Billboard Adult Contemporary Charts, and #57 Billboard Pop Charts and “Stars Fell on Alabama” which has no chart info avaiable.
-The album sold decent, charting at #30 on the Billboard Pop Charts.


Liner Notes –

Produced by Norbert Putnam for MCA Records

The Coral Reefer Band -

Jimmy Buffett - Vocal and Acoustic Guitar
Barry Chance - Electric Guitar
Josh Leo - Electric Guitar
Andy McMahon - Organ, Fender Rhodes
Harry Dailey - Bass, Background Vocals
Matt Betton - Drums
M.L. Benoit - Congas and Percussion, Background Vocals
Greg "Fingers" Taylor - Harmonica
Michael Utley - Organ
David Briggs - Piano
Mac McAnally - Background Vocals on "It’s my Job"
J.D. Souther - Background Vocals on "It’s my Job"
Dr. Kino Bachellier - Shakers and French
Freddie Buffett - Background Vocals
Norbert Putnam - Upright Bass
Dominic Cortese - Accordian
Deborah McColl - Background Vocals Engineered by Gene Eichelberger
Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama, September 1980
Additional Recording: Quadrafonic Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, Bennett House, Franklin, Tennessee
Strings Recorded at A & R Studios, New York City
Strings Arranged by David Briggs, Engineered by Elliott Scheiner
Concert Master - David Nadien
Assistants: Steve Melton, Mary Beth McLemore - Muscle Shoals; Jimmy Stroud, Steve Gostree - Quadrafonic
Mixed by Gene Eichelberger and Norbert Putnam at Bennett House, Franklin, Tennessee
Special Thanks to: Bobby Liberman, Rick Holcomb, Nina Avramides, Steve Humphrey, Charlie Allen, David Hood, Jimmy Johnson
Additional Thanks To: Ann Keener, Joe Gayden, Howard Kaufman, Michelle Slagter, Wayne Philippo, Johnny D., Tim Mooney, Freddie Buffett
Direction: Irving Azoff, Front Line Management, 8380 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90069
Art Direction: Jimmy Buffett & George Osaki
Cover Design and Concept: Jimmy Buffett and Walter Hunt
Artwork: Walter Hunt for Top of The World Graphics, Ltd.
Calligraphy: Mary "Stick" Troutman
Photography: Tom Corcoran

This Album is dedicated to "All my Reefers." You Know who you are. And Especially to Max Crabtree.