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Fruitcakes
Fruitcakes
Studio album by Jimmy Buffett
Released	May 24, 1994
Genre	Country rock; Gulf and Western;
Length	61:51
Label	Margaritaville Records/MCA/; MCAD-11043 (US, CD)
Producer	Russell Kunkel; Jimmy Buffett;
Jimmy Buffett chronology

Fruitcakes is the eighteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. Initially to be called Quietly Making Noise, the album was released in May 1994. It was Buffett's first studio recording since Off to See the Lizard (1989), with its five-year gap being the longest between two albums in his career. Buffett had used the hiatus to focus on writing books such as Tales from Margaritaville (1989) and Where Is Joe Merchant? (1992).

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