Marc Jordan - Margarita

2nd track from A Hole In The Wall (1983). She may be the eponymous Mexican cutie of Jimmy Buffett’s highest charting solo single, who knows? But turn up the volume and lick the salt because this is absolutely the smoothest, prettiest, most delicious Yacht Rockin’ song you’ve heard in a long time. Especially when it comes to the chorus. No, that’s not Michael McDonald singing backup (Richard Page perhaps? Let me know if you have info). But whoever he is, he’s so smooth the diamond needle keeps melting right into the record groove. And talk about pitch perfect. And then there’s the legendary Ernie Watts on saxophone mixing in the sassy key lime. Mmmm, truly an intoxicating cocktail! IF ONLY this had been released a little earlier, say in ’79 or ’80, I like to think it would’ve been a top forty pop hit. But by 1983 westcoast smooth was—sniff—starting to sail off into the golden sunset. So with a profound twinge of regret for what might have been, I hereby off