Fruitcakes (album)

This article is about the 1994 Jimmy Buffett album. For other recordings, see Fruitcake (disambiguation).

Fruitcakes is the 18th studio album by singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was released on May 24, 1994, and was Buffett's first album since creating Margaritaville Records in 1990. Originally slated to be called "Quietly Making Noise," the album was recorded during a hiatus when Buffett was focusing on his writing career. During that time, he published the books "Tales from Margaritaville" (1989) and "Where Is Joe Merchant?" (1992).

Fruitcakes
Studio album by Jimmy Buffett
Released	May 24, 1994
Genre	Country rock Gulf and Western
Label	Margaritaville Records/MCA/ MCAD-11043 (US, CD)
Producer	Russell Kunkel Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Buffett chronology
Off to See the Lizard (1989) Fruitcakes (1994) Barometer Soup (1995)

Chart performance

Fruitcakes reached #5 on the Billboard 200 album chart making it Buffett's first top five album. The album was also certified "Platinum" by the RIAA on December 19, 2004.

The first single from the album, "Fruitcakes," charted at No. 29 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. The second single, "Frenchman for the Night," did not chart.

Songs

Several of the songs on this album are covers of other recording artists. The first of these is Grateful Dead's "Uncle John's Band". "Sunny Afternoon" is a song by The Kinks. "She's Got You" is a famous Country/Pop song written by Hank Cochran and first recorded and released as a single by Patsy Cline.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Everybody's Got a Cousin in Miami"	Jimmy Buffett Michael Tschudin	7:19
2.	"Fruitcakes"	Buffett Amy Lee	7:40
3.	"Lone Palm"	Buffett	4:28
4.	"Six String Music"	Buffett G.E. Smith	3:25
5.	"Uncle John's Band"	Jerry Garcia Robert Hunter	4:30
6.	"Love in the Library"	Buffett Mac McAnally	4:40
7.	"Quietly Making Noise"	Buffett Tschudin	5:51
8.	"Frenchman for the Night"	Buffett Roger Guth	4:30
9.	"Sunny Afternoon"	Ray Davies	4:12
10.	"Vampires, Mummies and the Holy Ghost"	Buffett Guth, Peter Mayer Jim Mayer	4:53
11.	"She's Got You"	Hank Cochran	2:46
12.	"Delaney Talks to Statues"	Buffett McAnally Lee	3:41
13.	"Apocalypso"	Matt Betton	3:56

Personnel

The Coral Reefer Band:

• Jimmy Buffett – guitar, vocals
• Michael Utley – keyboards
• Greg "Fingers" Taylor – harmonica
• Robert Greenidge – steel drums, percussion
• Roger Guth – drums
• Peter Mayer – guitars, vocals
• Jim Mayer – bass, vocals
• Amy Lee – saxophone
• Johnny Padilla – saxophone
• John Lovell – trumpet
• Angel Quinones – congas, percussion
• Michael Tschudin – keyboards, mallet kat
• Nicky Yarling – violin, vocals
• Mac McAnally – guitar, vocals
• G.E. Smith – guitar
• Claudia Cummings, Mary Harris, Nicolette Larson – background singers