| Havaña Daydreamin' | ||||
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| Studio album by Jimmy Buffett | ||||
| Released | January 1976 | |||
| Recorded | 1975 | |||
| Genre | Rock/Gulf and western | |||
| Length | 33:08 | |||
| Label | ABC Dunhill ABCD-914 (U.S., 12") |
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| Producer | Don Gant | |||
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Havaña Daydreamin'[1] is the seventh album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and his fourth regular major label album. It was produced by Don Gant and was initially released in January 1976 as ABC Dunhill ABCD-914 and later rereleased on ABC Dunhill's successor label MCA.
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The album's name was originally to have been Kick It in Second Wind and was to have included the songs "Please Take Your Drunken 15 Year Old Girlfriend Home," "Train to Dixieland," and "Wonder Why We Ever Go Home" as well as a different version of "Kick It in Second Wind." Instead, these songs were replaced with "Woman Goin' Crazy on Caroline Street", "Havaña Daydreamin'", and "Cliches."[2] "Wonder Why We Ever Go Home" would appear on next album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes.
Several rare versions of this album exist or are rumored to. These have altered song ordering and contain one or more of the songs "Please Take Your Drunken 15 Year Old Girlfriend Home," "Train to Dixieland," and "We've Been Taken to the Cleaners (and I Already Had my Shirts Done)."[3]
Most of the songs on the album were written or co-written by Buffett, two with his future wife, Jane Slagsvol. Other songs include "Big Rig" written by Coral Reefer Greg "Fingers" Taylor and "This Hotel Room" by Steve Goodman (who also co-wrote "Woman Goin' Crazy on Caroline Street" with Buffett). The album also contains a remake of Jesse Winchester's "Defying Gravity," the first of several Winchester songs Buffett would record over his career. (The song would also be remade by Emmylou Harris.) None of the songs on the album have been played regularly at Buffett's live concerts since the 1970s.
A different version of "The Captain and the Kid" was originally released in 1970 on Down to Earth and yet another on 2002's Meet Me in Margaritaville: The Ultimate Collection making it (with "In the Shelter") one of only two Buffett songs with three different studio versions.
For pacing purposes, the second verse of "Woman Going Crazy on Caroline Street" was cut on the single release.
Havaña Daydreamin' was Buffett's most successful album to date reaching #65 on the Billboard 200 album chart and #21 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. However, none of the three singles from the album charted.
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | [4] |
| Robert Christgau | (B) [5] |
The album earned Buffett increased critical attention with his "best overall collection of songs" according to reviewer William Ruhlmann of Allmusic.[6]
Side A:
Side B:
The Coral Reefer Band:
Friends and Honorary Coral Reefers: