A little time travel back to 1946. According to what I just read, I don’t actually know because I wasn’t yet here to witness it, this tune charted in at #7 that December and remained in print for decades reaching over 1 million sales.
Andrews Sisters & Guy Lombardo – Christmas Island – 1946
Fearsome Beard 
Oh, that unmistakable Big Band sound!
Ain’t it great!
This is a new one for me; hey! I learned something !
I adore that tune. Jimmy Buffet actually did a great job with it, and I’m not necessarily a JB fan.