Top Ten boating songs as voted by Discover Boating fans

Posted on August 11, 2011 by mikep

Discover Boating, the U.S. recreational boating industry’s non-profit awareness program, asked its 195,000 Facebook fans what music best captures time spent on a boat. Jimmy Buffett’s “A Pirate Looks At 40″ took the top spot and notice how many other songs in the top ten that Jimmy has either covered or sang on.

Here are the top ten songs with links to YouTube videos where you can hear the songs.

1. “A Pirate Looks At 40″ – Jimmy Buffett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNmULx6sMo4

2. “Come Sail Away” – Styx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5MAg_yWsq8

3. “Redneck Yacht Club” – Craig Morgan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI7Ghu1FpnQ

4. “Southern Cross” – Crosby, Stills & Nash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kopNfhvCkHU

5. “5 O’Clock Somewhere” – Alan Jackson featuring Jimmy Buffett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPCjC543llU

6. “Knee Deep” – Zac Brown Band featuring Jimmy Buffett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n5G0qFBsHM

7. “Boats” – Kenny Chesney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iewD-3VB7Ik

8. “Sloop John B” – The Beach Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSAoEf1Ib58

9. “If I Had A Boat” – Lyle Lovett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNkc1UdHYFg

10. “Rock The Boat” – Hues Corporation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dndAXxqJbc0

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Happy Hour August 20 2011

Posted on August 11, 2011 by mikep

This month’s club social event will be a Backyard Phlocking at Debra’s house in Old Hickory, TN on Saturday Aug 20 from 6pm-10pm. The club will provide the catered dinner and soft drinks. Music will be Radio Margaritaville or tunes from Debra’s iPod. Please BYOB and your favorite snack or dessert to share. We’d like to have some phun lawn games and extra lawn chairs too if you have’em.

This month please help us “Party with a Purpose” by bringing your spare change and aluminum can pull-tabs to donate to Pennies for Patients. This is a charity that helps the Nashville Ronald McDonald House, a “home away from home” for families of critically ill children receiving inpatient or outpatient medical care at Nashville area hospitals.

Please email our VP & Special Events Director Kat katinhat22@gmail.com to get directions to Debra’s house and help us estimate attendance so we can order food.

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Happy Hour July 15 2011 at Barefoot Charlie’s

Posted on July 12, 2011 by mikep

Our July Happy Hour is this Friday July 15th from 6pm til whenever on the Barefoot Charlie’s patio overlooking Old Hickory Lake in Hendersonville, TN. (Click for map.) Although our club Happy Hour doesn’t begin until 6pm BFC’s has Happy Hour specials from 4-7pm.

We will be collecting gently worn shoes (of any kind) to donate to Soles for Souls. So dig into those closets and bring those shoes you never wear any more with your for a great cause!

BFC’s has live entertainment from 5:30-7:30pm. (no cover) Enjoy the acoustical stylings of Sammy D during our “end of week, time to get your attitude right” Happy Hour.

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Peter and Uncle Jim Mayer at song-writer’s round July 5

Posted on July 5, 2011 by mikep

Uncle Jim Mayer & Peter Mayer (brothers, 22 years playing bass and guitar in Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefers Band and also fine song writers) will be performing at a song-writer’s round on Tuesday, July 5th at the Hotel Indigo in Nashville on West End from 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at “Tuesday Nights Live” for Voyage-Air Guitar.

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Knee Deep video from Zac Brown Band and Jimmy Buffett

Posted on July 1, 2011 by mikep

There’s trouble in paradise for the “Boatwood” clan (Flody, Brody and Jody). Go to the beach with the Zac Brown band and Jimmy Buffett to see what happens.

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Pirates on Percy Priest Party pictures

Posted on June 20, 2011 by mikep

The weather cleared in time for our June 18, 2011 Pirates On Percy Priest Happy Hour event to continue as planned and it was a perfect evening to hang out with friends on the lake and listen to some good tunes by the 12 Volt Band. Thanks to Jamie, Steve and others for these pics. More pics can be found on our Facebook page.

MCPHiNs mascot Cuervo perched on top of the flag pole.

12 Volt Band setting up on the boat.

12 Volt Band – Paul Roush (vocals, guitar), Jerry Turnbow (vocals, guitar, keyboard steel drum), Lance “Flipper” Steen (percussion, conga, bongo, ukulele) did a fine job playing great Buffett/trop-rock/classic rock music for us while standing on the deck of a boat being rocked by waves and people getting on and off the boat.

Some of the pirate crew and chow tables.

Prez Steve and wenches.

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Jimmy Buffett and Zac Brown Band Win CMT Performance of the Year

Posted on June 8, 2011 by mikep

Zac Brown Band and Jimmy Buffett performance of “Margaritaville” from the CMT Crossroads TV show win CMT Performance of the Year.

“Thanks to all our fans. Thanks so much to Jimmy Buffett and all the folks and all the Parrotheads at Margaritaville.” — Zac Brown

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Jimmy Buffett Concert and Tailgate/Street Party May 28 2011

Posted on May 5, 2011 by mikep


Pre-concert tailgate party with live music, food, frozen concoctions and prizes begins at 11AM on Broadway between 3rd and 4th Aves and is open to the public. Concert begins at 8PM at the Bridgestone Arena Nashville, TN.

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Vote for trop-rockers John Patti and John Reno in the Folger’s Coffee Jingle Contest

Posted on March 31, 2011 by mikep

patti-reno-folgers-coffee-jingle-contestTrop-rockers John Patti and John Reno have been selected as semi-finalists in the national Folgers’ Coffee Jingle Contest! Out of 1,000+ entries, theirs (John P., North Port, FL) was picked as one of the top 10. Go to the Folger’s Jingle Contest site and help them get into the top 5 by voting for their video! You can vote once every day from March 31 thru April 25 and you could win one of five $100 grocery store gift card daily prizes or the Grand Prize of $10,000 just for voting. You can also sign up for daily text reminders on your cell phone. Text folgersjingle to 67463 to receive daily voting reminders via text message. (Service provider fees may apply.)

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