Christmas Island

Guest · Post by **Guest** » February 23, 2000 12:10 pm

Posted By Parrothead Jim
Submit your review of the album!!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » March 23, 2000 1:23 am

Posted By JR
This album is very much overlooked! There is some great Buffett on this. So what that it is supposed to be a Christmas album. Excluding the second and last song, this could and should be played any time of the year.

The title track, "A Sailor's Christmas", "Mele Kalikimaka", and "Ho...and a Bottle of Rum" all have great Caribbean melodies. "Up on the House Top" rocks, and sounds like Jimmy impersonating a drunk Tom Petty.

Buy this puppy. It belongs in Parrothead collections much more so than "Last Mango..", "Riddles..." etc.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » March 28, 2000 3:50 pm

Posted By Son of a beach
Excellent X-MAS cd.Stick it in the cd changer with all the classic X-MAS discs, between the Chipmunks and Boys To Men

Guest · Post by **Guest** » March 31, 2000 10:54 am

Posted By fhutch
I play this CD all year long, just like the rest of em.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » June 10, 2000 2:04 am

Posted By Awkdg
As a Kindergarten teacher, I used Mele Kalikimaka and Christmas Island in our annual Christmas program . The kids wore grass skirts, tee-shirts, sandals, sunglasses, visors, leis-the whole works. We had palm trees on the side and the children did some sort of hula! Our parents and other classes just loved it. I was tired of the same old Christmas stuff and thought these two songs would add some spice to the program and they sure did.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » June 10, 2000 3:12 am

Posted By Pam Miller
Awkdq--

Fantastic idea for a Christmas program with an Island twist...I may borrow your idea for next year's concert! I teach fourth grade, and my class is set into an Island theme. Reading center is a carpet "island" complete with palm tree, parrots, sea shells, etc...along with a heap of books including The Jolly Mon and Trouble Dolls. A parent even sent to a friend in South America to get me some of the tiny trouble dolls. I keep them on my desk, and when someone is having a particularly hard day, they can come and get them and put them on their desk. This way we KNOW to be more generous with them that day!!

Enjoy your summer, and I hope it includes a JB concert!

The Volcano Lady

Guest · Post by **Guest** » June 10, 2000 7:18 pm

Posted By fred
Christmas Island is played all year long; especially loud on a hot July/August afternoon, it cools us down in summer and warms us up in winter;)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » January 18, 2001 4:40 pm

Posted By nicki_ord
Ok, so my daughter, who is 5, sings the wonderful Christmas song...."Ho, ho , ho, and a bottle of Rum" at the top of her lungs in the grocery store and people stare. Who cares, I sing right along with her.

We love this CD. It is our favorite Christmas CD. And, hell yes, it play during our holiday meal. Why not!!

Bamafan · Post by **Bamafan** » November 15, 2002 11:30 pm

A good christmas album. I like the whole CD a lot. I really like Merry Christmas alabama.

sailingagain · Post by **sailingagain** » November 16, 2002 12:37 am

I love this album. I'm gonna have to break it out soon.

"A sailor spends his Christmas in the harbour having fun."

MICHIPHIN · Post by **MICHIPHIN** » November 18, 2002 9:08 am

Just bought this CD for Wifey this weekend....Merry Christmas Alabama is still playing throughout the house........ A must Christmas CD for all Parrotheads....

Merry Christmas Everyone....

Harbour Shark · Post by **Harbour Shark** » December 2, 2002 6:23 pm

Awesome Christmas album ..... even my mother-in-law loves it! I just wonder why "Christmas in the Caribbean" didn't show up on it.

PHat Matt · Post by **PHat Matt** » December 16, 2002 8:41 pm

Great CD!!!! ~^~~~~^~~~^^~~~^ I dont understand what my freinds/family dont like about it! Its a GREAT CD!!!

phjrsaunt · Post by **phjrsaunt** » December 16, 2002 9:24 pm

I've always loved this one...it always gives me the warm and fuzzies

mcgillespie · Post by **mcgillespie** » December 4, 2003 7:00 pm

It's getting to be around that time folks!

Ceol na Mara · Post by **Ceol na Mara** » December 7, 2003 12:39 am

wAunties - it makes me feel good!

And don't forget to hang around a minute or so for the "hidden" track, Jimmy's recitation of "The Night Before Christmas". When my sister's little keet heard it, she got all excited! "We have that book!"

At our church's annual Christmas concert, each choir does a few songs, usually hymns or carols. One year, on the altar steps, our choir sang "Run, Run Rudolph" with some really great guitar! Last year, also on the altar steps, we did "Ho, Ho, Ho and a Bottle of Rhum"! Guess who inserted these songs in the mix!

I'm trying to figure out how we can do "Christmas in the Caribbean" this year. It has some lines that non-PH's wouldn't understand. (E.g., "Mr. Buffett's birthday".)

Gnocco · Post by **Gnocco** » May 26, 2024 6:19 pm

This album means more to me than any other one of Jimmy’s albums. Not because of the music, but because it puts me in a time and place. I just wrote about my experience with ‘Beach House on the Moon’ so I figured I’d share this story as well. Christmas 1998, I was 22 years old. My parents always had a huge Christmas party at their house with more or less my entire, gigantic extended family in attendance. I had this beautiful, weird, artsy girlfriend at the time, whom I had been with for almost two years at that point. Sadly, a few days before Christmas her best friend had died of suicide, so neither of us were in much of a festive mood. She had this beautiful long, dark, Italian girl hair which she had shaved off prior to arriving at my parents’ house because she thought it “would be cathartic.” I remember us having to listen to all of my aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. say “sorry about your friend.” We spent the majority of the night laying on the sofa upstairs while my family partied in the basement. What the heck does this have to do with Christmas Island? Earlier in the day I had loaded up the CD changer with various X-Mas albums, Christmas Island being one of them. Anyhow, at one point while we were laying on the sofa talking, “Merry Christmas War is Over” (The original is one of my favorite songs ever) was playing downstairs. For some reason that song stuck out more than any other song we heard that night, maybe because I love the Lennon song so much. I just remember laying there staring at her with her pseudo Sinead O’Connor haircut (her album ‘I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got’ is terrific by the way) thinking how she was the most beautiful thing in the world. All the feelings of anger, fear, disappointment and sadness that we were feeling all went away for a brief moment, and I knew that at some point we were going to be OK. I can honestly say, other than many years later when my kids were born I have never felt so much love for someone as I felt for her in that particular moment. It’s definitely one of those rare moments in life that I almost felt human, and even though it was just by chance, Jimmy’s music was part of it.

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