Jimmy Buffet

Michele Dikkers

Guttenberg, IA

I have always been obsessed with music from all genres. There are just so many memories they all fall together.

S A T U R D A Y comes to mind first. That was Bay City Rollers.

We listened to music of all kinds at home all through the 70s and that included Elvis and Patsy Cline, even old time country.

I have to be honest at how important listening to The Everly Brothers and Leslie Gore was a child. I would sit next to my mom’s record player (the kind that folded up) with my ear against the speaker and listen to Crying in the Rain, Wake up Little Susie, It’s My Party and I’ll Cry if I Want To, Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows for hours. Those songs still take me back to that room right off our kitchen, mom baking cookies and my siblings playing in the living room.

Probably, as time went on, Jimmy Buffet has been the major favorite. He was just a philosopher at heart. I saw him in concert five times. The first was at Alpine Valley with my cousins. Even the album that came out after his death is incredible.

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