The last cut on the CD Beach Bar Serenade, is the song "Goodbye, Captain Tony"...we lost a legend back in November of 2008, Captain Tony Tarracino. Here is Don's farewell song.

"Goodbye Captain Tony"
By Don Middlebrook and featuring Greg "Fingers" Taylor

A bad boy, not that coy
Caught with his hands in the cookie jar
If he keeps screwing up, God knows what
He might one day, own a bar

Fleeing New Jersey, in a hurry
Indians hot on his trail
Honey, drive this sucker to the end of the road
And if that’s not far enough, lets see if this car can sail

CHORUS
And he needed something to believe in
Something he could hold
And he prayed it was somewhere at the end of the road

Tennessee Williams and Hemingway
Fishing, smuggling, Cuban getaways
It was the Wild Wild West and they called it Key West
And the baddest cowboy of the South
Never took the last flight out

He found something to believe in
Something he could hold
And he knew it was so special
He called it his home

And he gave us all something to believe in
Something we could hold
Under his watchful eye
Key West came alive
At the end of the Road

Buffett gave him a song or maybe the other way around
Sorry I got that wrong, Captain Tony
Cuz the Captain was a song
Long before Jimmy came along
And there’s still so much to be done

And when he sailed away
We were all on the island
Shocked and dismayed
What would happen to the Wild West without Captain Tony

But he gave us something to believe in
Something we could hold
Others call it Key West
But we call it our home

He gave us something to believe in
Something we could hold
Thank God for Captain Tony
And that island town, at the end of the road

A bad boy, not that coy
Caught with his hands in the cookie jar
If he keeps screwing up, God know what
He might even end up owning a bar

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