Jimmy Buffett - Love in the Library - Directed by Delaney

[@laurieharris1247]

Delaney, you really captured your father’s love of life and music- thank you - these intimate acoustic moments make is all feel like we are right there in the room with you; I’m 65, saw your dad from a boat at the Miami Marina way back in 1985 when I was 27 years old - I’m praying for you all tonight I know how hard it is to lose your dad- mine was 78 when he died yet his memories to this day 16 years later stay always with me in my heart 😞🙏❤️

[@RobertMcEntee]

Well said and I can totally relate! So wonderful these stories, memories of JB were captured as we fondly recall other family and friends which have too soon passed...

[@RubrisLibra]

Thank you, Delaney. Such a gift are these intimate videos of your dad. Jimmy taught me to trust my intuition with Cowboy in the Jungle way back when. His music is now the musical theme of my life, having grown up and grown old with his tunes in the background. ❤ Again, thank you. ❤

[@Stover1928]

I fell in love with this song the first time I heard it on the Fruit Cakes cd. To hear the storys behind it makes it all the more special to me. I am sorry for your loss Delaney and your family. Thank you for sharing your dad with the world! He is missed!

[@matthewsmith4359]

I used to sit in a rocking chair with my infant daughter and sing her this song as a lullaby. It’s a beautiful song.

[@valeriehendry6723]

What must it be like to be Jimmy Buffetts daughter🤔💥I can only imagine the tales and the magic!❤

[@dg11324]

If I had to guess, to her he’s Dad and he’s a writer, and people, like us love him for what he’s given us through the years. I’m as heartbroken as the next person but to his family, he’s just Dad.

[@jona.874]

This entire series needs to be released on DVD.

[@DestinBeachImages]

The historian at the Key West library told me he sent the library a letter and check to help keep the lights and AC humming. It's Jimmy's last 5'o'clock cheers to the Margaritaville.

[@krejados1]

Talking with lifelong friends, me in Poland and them in Texas. Mourning this genius, we recalled our fav Jimmy Buffett songs - they'd never heard of Love in the Library. This is my absolute favorite of all his vast catalogue. You've sailed on but we're still here, and still enraptured.

[@MaryMcCulleyseadreams]

I just discovered this song yesterday when I started playing the album, Songs You Don't Know by Heart. There are some definite gems on this album and this one is my favorite. Good job Delaney, getting this story out of your dad and this special recording. Your father made so many people happy. So sorry for your loss.

[@elizabethmencia6027]

Being an Elizabeth, of course I love this song🐬💙🧡Discovered it years ago when it first came out.🥰🥰🥰

[@marycoyle3276]

I'm a children's librarian. Thank you thank you thank you - I loved it all.

[@christhacker9450]

So glad Delaney made these videos with her dad. They are gifts to all his fans.

[@susanpannkuk6576]

Thank you soooo much for sharing your Dad. I love to hear all the music, stories, your voice, your Dad's voice. Even the birds singing in the background is music to my ears. All this makes me cry so I can't imagine all feelings and thoughts that are in your mind. Now & always. My 31yo husband died in 1984 with melanoma. I'm remarried, 2 grown chilren and I still miss him and think of him everyday! We sailed and sang lots of your Dad's music. A group of friends playing guitars, singing, sailing or whatever. Life was so good. Thank you for sharing so much of your Dad. I believe that he and JJW and John Prine and many others that have gone b4 r whoopin it up in Heaven!

[@jakethebeersnob]

An underrated singer/songwriter…we all love the fun classic hits but it’s songs like these that really show the poetry in his writing and musical talents. Gonna miss this guy but legends never die. ✌️❤️🎸🎶🦜

[@wretchedrue7859]

Thank you, Delaney, for this, and our family sends our gratitude and love to yours. He will be greatly missed.

[@MusicMom123]

Now, I cry again. 💜💜💜 Thank you Delaney, thank you Jimmy. I missed this clip when it came out. Yes, one of my favorite songs as well. These are such beautiful Treasures. 💚🙏💚 So sweet and precious.☮️✈️

[@mikecampbell3247]

Thank you, Delaney. These songs are treasures and I think you managed to bring out the very best of your Dad.

[@nllleonard]

I think this is my new favorite of all from Jimmy! Thank you very much for sharing this precious memory and beautiful song, Delaney! I saw him at the Great Southeast Music Hall (Atlanta) in 1973 and 1974 and still remember how much fun he was and how impressed I was with his songwriting and his sweet, contagious energy. He brought the party from the beginning!

[@davidculver5446]

What John Lennon imagined with this song was not hope. But a retreat from reality in all matters human.

[@delanee5]

Thank you for sharing your special times with your Dad. The fans appreciate these times as much as you do

[@stevenmichaels9497]

My favorite song by Jimmy Buffett. Such beautiful imagery. An intelligent musician.

[@georgescully9586]

This is the ringtone I have for my wife when she calls. I met her in a bookstore... once upon a time.

[@1coopjsn]

This is just incredible. This whole series is so down to earth, honest and un-pretentious. Delaney -- well done. This is a man who touched more people than almost any other person I can think of. Rest well...

[@ChrisstineLynnn]

My number 2 song of Jimmy's ever. Underrated beyond belief.

[@jeffmullins1475]

What's number 1?

[@ChrisstineLynnn]

Hi Jeff, that would be La Vie Dansante. How about yours? @@jeffmullins1475

[@HurrikanEagle]

This is not only one of my favorite Jimmy Songs, it's also one of my favorite Love Songs period

[@avlisk]

9/16/23 I "discovered" this series. Thank you so much, Delaney. This is a treasure I didn't even know I was hunting, but feel blessed that I found it. RIP Jimmy Buffett.

[@mydoggie1103]

Oh my heart! I am a retired librarian and Parrothead! RIP Jimmy. Love you forever.

[@GinaMercier]

One of my all time fave songs of yours. Missed this installment originally, but what a cool find in my feed this evening. ❤️ Thank you, Jimmy.

[@jamesmiddleton5304]

One of my favorites too. Just an awesome song that takes your mind right there with the story.

[@nealskrenes2612]

I too met my wife working in the library. *We had a parrot head wedding, tropical shirts no ties allowed.* This was the song that we chose to walk in on. Our wedding cake was shaped like a volcanic Island, had mini cheeseburgers and jerk chicken along with margaritas served by an Aussie bartender dressed in boots and shorts.

[@dianeovercash6739]

Wow! Flannery O'Connor. Mine, too. A Good Man is Hard to Find. Yes.This is the first time I have heard this song. It is beautiful.

[@5Ring]

Parrott Head for over twenty years and I'd never heard this song. What a gift. New Jimmy Buffett (to me).

[@southpawgraphics2458]

Delaney, Jimmy, you are gold! I love hearing the stories behind all these songs.

[@Dr.TinoGarcia]

I wish Delaney could have done more of these. It brings JB closer to us, to his music. Us fans, especially those of us, from decades of love for JB from our Keys days. Desire to keep the connection going. To keep the party going....🎉 🥳 Love to JB and Delaney Buffett. I don't miss Jimmy because he is alive and well in my heart n soul.

[@kellylozano6933]

I know how much we all love our fathers, and I i know how hard it is when we lose our own dad. I thank you for sharing this with us all. I cant imagine what it must be like to have a dad that you know is someone who sparks endless fond memeories for them by hearing his music. We all know what it's like to hear a song from years, decades ago, and be fransported immediately in time and space. To know that your father has done and will ALWAYS continue to do that every time his voice is heard, must be an astounding thing. Im so sorry for your loss. This is a void that can never be filled again. Yet, I hope that the memories of your father that exist within you and the rest of the world will keep his spitit alive for you and your family for the rest of your lives.

[@NancySlider]

Well said❤

[@JamesVandevanter]

😂 I give it 100% good melody and ya can dance to it.🔆👍🎸

[@janisjones7905]

Also love Flannery O’Conner. Shows how great a writer and student he has been! 😢❤️💔

[@rogwheel]

The “Fruitcakes” CD brought me back to Jimmy. I still believe it is one of his best albums! This song was co-written with Mac McAnally and really showcases both of their songwriting talents.

[@roryschweinfurter4111]

You know what would be great. To have a hologram of Jimmy playing all these acoustic songs that we could play them at home on our stereos

[@CrossTimbersSon]

I appreciated this today, I can see why so many of his songs told such great stories. I love Mark Twain’s Roughing it, all of Shelby Foote’s works on the civil war. I’ll have to read Flannery O'Connor. I will miss this greatest of story tellers!!

[@samwill226]

I love "Fruitcakes" so much. For me it's the best Buffett album top to bottom.

[@ortfanartny9024]

This song was the first song played at our wedding as the wedding party was introduced. Will always will have a place in my heart and bring a tear to my eyes . And by the way, the only reason I got married is because my wife was pregnant, and guess what we named our first daughter? Thanks Delaney, for these videos.

[@SombraPiloto]

One of my most favorite Jimmy songs from my favorite Jimmy record. So evocative for me personally because I remember listening to it as I walked around Mobile while on a work overnight in 2009 and I know before I even watch the video that it will most certainly make me tear up. RIP to a legend.

[@TalesoftheBoojum]

Thank you so much for this. I have always imagined my late wife when I hear this song. Thank you again, Jimmy. Rest in peace.

[@imfattcracker6511]

"I fell in love in the Library... Once upon a Time"... has to be one of the Greatest Hooks ever... Just Damn

[@kimmariefischer]

Love this song. I've always loved libraries, too, so I sing it "I fell in love with the library once upon a time." Visited the library in Mobile about 25 years ago. It's on Government but Bay does not intersect there. Small beautiful library.

[@timtibbitts1017]

This is one of the songs that made this album such a classic treasure. And at the moment I forget which album this was on. Fruitcakes? Barometer Soup? It doesn’t matter. Thanks Jimmy for putting mischief, fun, humor, and flippancy into popular music. And this song had almost none of that.

[@ssteffeyrn]

I think Fruitcakes

[@RichArtLove]

So Sweet & Frozen In Time. A Gem To Spark A Simple Vision In My Heart & Mind. Merci!

[@karenkayusa8293]

I loved that library in downtown Mobile on Government St. It was beautiful and it had a revolving door! Spent many hours there as a kid and YES it had air conditioning! Everything a kid could ask for in the hot as hell Mobile summer! Thanks Jim for the memories 🥰

[@parotappot317]

This song predicts the future. 2023. Florida.

[@TheSMPStudios]

RIP, Jimmy. Have a Margarita and enjoy the afterlife. My second favorite writer is John Steinbeck!!

[@mabrrm]

This is one of the most important songs to my wife Karry and I. Well, ex wife now, but are there really ex's? Thank you Delaney. Just to note, we named our daughter after you and your sister. Savanna Delaney. This is how special your Pops is to us.

[@SrFelouniusMonk]

This is like being invited to look in your Dad's big-steamer trunk full of mementos and photos from his life. Thank you!

[@jenniferbarber467]

Im a librarian. I love this song!

[@deniselowe6331]

This and Breathe in, Breathe out, move on our my two of my favorites. So wonderful to watch this. Thank you!

[@RippedPigeon]

Same! Both of these are soothing and genuinely wholesome.

[@nashvillehillbilly4297]

Thru the years you have changed so much, Jimmy but one thing that has not changed is how your songs touch my heart. I grew up on an Island and fell in love in a library when I was a boy and I still enjoy sailing. But I will always enjoy your songs, Jimmy. Thank You Pirate-Poet.

[@mikedemasi5137]

"Write your own endings and hope they come true"

[@plchacker]

I fell in love with this song the first time I heard it. I was homesick for Mobile. That particular library is still one of my favorites, though the revolving doors have been replaced and the floors have carpet now. This song, and Little Ms. Magic are two of my all time favorites. Through all the shows I saw, mostly in Charlotte, I always wondered why such an amazing song didn't make it into the lineup. The one time I saw Jimmy in close quarters I was embarrassed to actually speak to him. I had just got off work covered in mill grease and stopped to get gas. I saw a red Mercedes Convertible, which was way out of place in Grove Hill, Alabama. I nodded at the owner, he nodded back and we both went on our way. That is the only instant in my life I would change if given the chance. Fair well Mr. Buffett.

[@BarbaraatQueensAvenueTarot]

Thank you JB & thank you Delaney. All of these songs, I knew. We will always miss him.

[@kentexican5844]

I found this project a year ago (maybe) but didn't get to watch/hear it all. 'Thought it was great then and as I am listening to more of it now, its just so endearing ... so glad Father and Daughter put this together!

[@herrhaller6769]

Sail on , yall : "RAISE THE COLORS" !!!

[@AlanMcKinney-rq9im]

Thank you..Delaney.

[@elusiva9389]

Delaney, Love, Love, Love!!! This is a brilliant idea!!!...This is the FAVORITE song of one nerd girl parrot head who has secretly crushed on the studying young man from behind her glasses and books ! 🤓😉... Please let him know he inspired me to read Flaubert📚💕 I have so wished for more more more from the archives at his performances. Can't wait to watch all of these!!! The stories are as special as the songs, adding so much meaning to the ones that struck a chord in our hearts the first time we heard them. Bravo!

[@emilyparavicini2065]

I've been to 4 Jimmy Buffett concerts, and that's my only criticism is that it's a lot of the same songs, and I love so many of them that don't get played. I've love to see some of these goodies get some play time on the stage. Einstein Was A Surfer is one of my favorite recent songs, and I'd love to see it done live. I also love Trip Around the Sun, and I've never seen it live either. Dust off the unsung heroes and bring 'em out, we wanna see them too!

[@educationalramblings6826]

He would have had to play for days to play all the songs we love. LOVE YOU JIMMY ❤

[@neilcrowesongs9768]

Ive discovered and missed your dad all at once. What have i bewn doing with my life?! Thank you for sharing these orecious times with him. Love and healing to you and your family. He's already making a difference in my life and songwriting efforts in a few days. What a guy, what an artist.

[@janeclary616]

Beautiful. He was such a poet.

[@songnotes]

When my kids were a bit younger they'd let me sing them to sleep... 4-5 songs per night. The always-changing setlist had many mainstays, and this song was perhaps #1 among them! Love it so much, and so grateful for this whole series of videos.

[@jeffreyrichard2575]

Jimmy is among other Southern treasures: Twain Faulkner O'Connor Pat Conroy.... He will be loved and enjoyed forever

[@LindaByrnes-n6s]

One of his absolute best songs

[@jblcva]

Been sailing with Jimmy since 1874 love that record. So many memories left untouched until a word, a song rekindle them.

[@bonnyemanning9030]

Loved it in 1996 and still love. Unappreciated song, for sure. Thanks for your words, Jimmy.

[@steve-o5600]

Faulkner's "Light in August" is a wonderful book and an easy read compared to much of his stuff. One of my favorites. You'd love it Jimmy, and anyone. Cute librarians rule, including Shirley Jones' Marian from the movie version of The Music Man LOL.

[@DebraHawkins-c9l]

Delaney, How blessed you and your family are to have these wonderful videos where you interview your dad about his music (and songs we may have never heard). Always loved his music and would sing along with him (what I didn't have in talent, I made up for in loudness). May you all find peace and comfort in your wonderful memories. He lives on in his music, thank you for sharing.

[@michellemorrowallen8505]

As a Mobile resident, I can confirm the heat still exists, LOL!

[@GH-jb6bq]

Would love to see Jimmy in a show similar to the 'VH-1 Unplugged' format. He could share with the audience the history of his music and his life much the way Billy Joel and Clapton and others were able to do.

[@melissamerritt8249]

Jimmy please play Love in the Library when you Come to Riverbend in Cincinnati on July 21 2022. I love it my dad and I are civil war and library lovers My daughter graduated from Spring Hill college. Didn’t know we had more than the beach in common. Can’t wait to see you in person in July.

[@Alyssa27110]

I love this song, hadnt heard it in forever. And I went to Spring Hill College in 1989. The library there is ancient, spooky and good.

[@kevindouglas2060]

About Mark Twain I was trying to learn how to edit a book. I wrote a book then started the endless task of fixing the many writing flaws without changing the basic components of the book. I also started reviewing other books to expand that learning. I tried it on a Mark Twain book. I couldn't find any way to improve it. I guess it was because as Samuel Clements he had experience working as an editor. I think similarly Jimmy Buffet songs convey realistic emotion because of his life experiences.

[@TonyWhite22351]

Everyone should read Life on the Mississippi !

[@educationalramblings6826]

Thank-you jimmy for being a journalist of my life. LOVE YOU ❤

[@katiereininger-lingg5315]

Life long Parrot Head thanks to my Dad while growing up in Daytona Beach. Hence its no wonder that I named my youngest twin Daughter "Delaney". Now you know 🤗🤫🤭. Love this song. Great love song. ❤

[@dylanappenfeldt2442]

Government definitely takes me back to Mobile brick roads! Thank You Delaney and Jimmy I played everything from this today thank You 🙏 Florida girl love ❤️

[@casellapapa3585]

This is One of My Favorites!!!Thanks Delaney for doing this with your Dad. And Thank You Jimmy for All those Songs...from Priest I was to be and the CPO I am! We are the people our parents warned us about😂 HooYah!!!!

[@RBrooksC]

Fruitcakes was the first studio album I bought that was not a compilation. So, while this may a deep cut, I know this song by heart as I would listen to the CD all the time. I can't believe he didn't play this except for only once.

[@lisabates6389]

Thank you Delaney, these are amazing and your captured your dad wonderfully! 💜

[@MrJcjet]

This is probably my favorite JB song. I'm so glad to hear it on here. It captures a human experience that everyone has probably had at some point in life.

[@MichaelGunvordahl]

You won’t remember, but you and you dad and Dan Mobley used to sail with me a lot on the, Poco Loco back in the early 70’s. Mike the Pilot.

[@kennysears4005]

Thank you so much for your talent and songs my heart ♥ goes out to your family for the loss of their Daddy. Thank you Delaney for putting these together you are sooooo wonderful God Bless you all kennyboy

[@savagecub]

I just can’t accept that he’s gone. Looking forward to that Albatross check out when I get up there.

[@neilcrowesongs9768]

I love these away from the party persona. Beautiful

[@patriciarowan4104]

Thank you, Delaney. This is one of my favorites.❤️💔❤️

[@StanManningManning]

I’ve never seen this interview before! (2/15/22). Love it! And I love the song “Love in the Library.” A beautiful song painting.

[@mstaples2989]

One of my all time favorites! It’s brilliant.

[@NetCerpher]

ST! But … I was shocked that Shelby Foote was not your favorite writer behind Twain 3:30 . Back in the 90s I sent you a postcard that was my introduction to you regarding Shelby Foote. because of the Civil War volumes and Gulf Coast novels he wrote. My bad for not listening to the original airing of this. 😢

[@RevWillTheThrill1974]

I've always loved this song. One of my favourites from "Fruitcakes." One of my favourites of yours from the '90s.

[@addyandlilly7812]

Love these, what a gift to have these with your dad and to share him with us. Thank you ❤️‍🩹

[@knowingyourmind]

The sweetest love song. :-) :-)

[@suncoastandy5263]

Thank you Ms Delaney! What a story!!!

[@ColeMather]

It's been a lovely Cruise

[@jeffreyhirshenson8060]

He was much more than Margaritaville.

[@lorrainemorano6260]

My favorite Buffet song

[@gloriamarano9518]

One of my favorites!

[@jimnmandy11]

Thank you for this. Love in the Library is my absolute!!!! favorite Jimmy song.

[@gardensalot]

Fell in love with this song! I’m thrilled to find this story! Thank you.