Jimmy Buffet - Come Monday

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https://music.

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I think Tom Rush wrote and sang this, but Jimmy made it a hit.

[ILikePie92]

1. Great one!

Love this song and whole feel of that album

[chicoescuela]

2. In my top 3 Jimmy tunes. Great album but not as great as A1A in

my opinion. Miss Jimmy

[highplainsdem]

3. No, it was written by Jimmy. See this article:

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/jimmy-buffett-come-monday-song/

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The difference, in 1974, was a single that could be his flagship as Buffett set sail towards more profitable waters. “Come Monday,” written like most of Living and Dying In 3/4 Time by Buffett himself and produced by Don Gant, was released in April, as he continued a rigorous touring schedule that was taking him ever further around the States.

Buffett had just completed a residency at Nashville’s Exit/In, and was all set for a return to the Troubadour in Los Angeles, when the song began its persuasive seduction of AC, pop and (to a minor extent) country formats. Largely autobiographical, the lyric described the singer travelling to California “for the Labor Day Weekend show.” He did indeed open there for Country Joe McDonald, over three nights at the Lion’s Share club in San Anselmo, some 35 miles north over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco.

His first marriage having already ended in divorce, Buffett had met Jane Slagsvol, a South Carolina native who had relocated to Key West, Florida, and quickly became the romantic focus of the writer’s new songs. They included “Come Monday,” in which the homesick narrator yearned to return to his new love and future wife after his live engagements, boldly confessing that “California has worn me quite thin.”

He completed the song in the budget hotel in which he was staying, “deathly depressed,” as he reflected on Late Night With David Letterman in 1983, when he described “Come Monday” as “the song that kept me from killing myself in the Howard Johnson in Marin County.” Soon after returning from the road, at Woodland Studios in Nashville on October 23, he recorded it.

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5. Fascinating. Tom Rush made this famous in New England.

But I am corrected on the provenance of this song.

[highplainsdem]

4. Promo video done for the song, as the article.mentioned above explained

in a paragraph I didn't quote there. This was part of an 18-minute promo film made by ABC on location around his home in Key West:

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6. Thanks for posting! Totally awesome.

My best friend, who passed in 92 would have appreciated this song.

[highplainsdem]

7. Lots more info on the promo film the 1974 video was a part of, and another song from that film

Facebook post about the making of the film:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/BuffettNews/posts/10162832710523385/

Another song from it:

I haven't been able to find the complete film yet.

[SamKnause]

8. My favorite Jimmy Buffett song.

[highplainsdem]

9. Here's that 1983 Letterman appearance mentioned in reply 3 because he'd explained how

writing the song kept him from killing himself. That explanation is about 7-1/2 minutes in, but you'll want to hear all of this: