Got it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tropical..was AT FIRST misleading...

Puerto Rican artist?!?

Cuban Artist?!?

Latin (in general) artist?

who who who had crossed over onto USA charts THAT much?

Not Ricki Martin, not Desi Arnaz, (not enough hits) --not even Julio Iglesias, who would never have sung something so perkily Calypso or Sub-tropical/Tropical...


SO I reigned it in and asked myself...what about Miami? Or Fla. in general, and then Jimmy Buffett came to mind.

So I Google searched "Jimmy Buffett writer/wrote for Billboard magazine", and BINGO!

Then it was simply searching his Billboard discography for a peak at #66 on the USA chart.

And I knew the song, but it had totally escaped memory. I would never have guessed it without the extra clues.

"Volcano" by Jimmy Buffett

which seems like a second cousin to Belafonte's "Matilda" if you think about it. THAT's why I was thinking Belafonte.

Great clue, total earworm material, so dangerous with obsessive types like me. Cue up end credit, Outer Limits music...

"We now return control of Mike's brain to Mike..."

Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 08/10/23 01:13 AM.

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from the song "Songs of Love"
from the album "Casanova" (1996)