A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean

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A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean
A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean cover
Studio album by Jimmy Buffett
Released 1973
Genre Country
Length mm:ss
Label Dunhill
Jimmy Buffett chronology
High Cumberland Jubilee
(1971)
A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean
(1973)
Living & Dying in 3/4 Time
(1976)


A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean is Jimmy Buffett's third album, containing many of what would later become his most popular songs. The title is a parody of the country song "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation" by Marty Robbins.

[edit] Track List

  1. The Great Filling Station Holdup
  2. Railroad Lady
  3. He Went To Paris
  4. Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit
  5. Cuban Crime Of Passion
  6. Why Don't We Get Drunk (And Screw)
  7. Peanut Butter Conspiracy
  8. They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More
  9. I Have Found Me A Home
  10. My Lovely Lady
  11. Death Of An Unpopular Poet

[edit] Trivia

Singles from the album: The Great Filling Station Holdup, He Went to Paris, Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit and They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More

Although not released as an A-side, but rather a B-side to The Great Filling Station Holdup, Why Don't We Get Drunk (And Screw) would go on to be Buffett's most popular song off this album.

Both Buffett and Jerry Jeff Walker wrote Railroad Lady. Walker would record the song one year ealier than Buffett.

Buffett wrote Why Don't We Get Drunk (And Screw) under pseudonym Marvin Gardens.