Cocktail Nation

Success is like trying to eat a hard-shell taco in a fancy white shirt. No matter how carefully you plan your strategy, how tightly you hold it together, or how sophisticated you try to look while doing it, something is guaranteed to fall out of the bottom and make a mess. Real success isn't eating the taco cleanly—it’s learning how to catch the falling cheese with your napkin and keeping a straight face while you chew.

 

Hollywood Playboys - Playboys To Play By

Bobby Darin - When Day Is Done

Cocktail Inn - The Lonely Man

Chet Baker - Limio Domani

Dean Martin - Pardon Perdoname

Esquivel - April In Portugal

Jackie Gleason - Hey There Lonely Girl

Les Baxter - The Poor People Of Paris Jeans Song

Lyn Stanley - Love Me Or Leave Me

Nat King Cole - The Very Thought Of You

Peggy Lee - Little Boar
Laszlo Gardony-New Song

Vanguard Jazz Orchestra  Skylark

Thelonious Monk - 'Round Midnight

Tony Bennett - The Gentle Rain

This week on the show we revisit the story of the Black Dahlia in Words with Wellsy, affairs have been in the news this week after a couple was busted and it went viral so a deep thought on affairs and we bring you a look at the World of Swank, Lounge Life Magazine and a bunch of new music

 

Stereophonic Space – Night Of The Jaguar

Messerchups – Agent Horrifica

Dave Holland Octet – Blue Jean

Sir Julien – Time On My Hands

Kolumbo – Spin The Bottle

DJ Bonebrake – Abstract

Voodoo5 – Desolation Center

Paul Anka-Jump

Freddy Canoe – Coral Reef

Adam Minkoff – Morricone Allo Specchio

Leith Stevens – Sugar Bush Cha Cha

Just where has it gone today?

Tony Bennett- The Song Is You

Allen Smith Quartet -The Folks That Live On The Hill

Bill Evens -Some Other Time

Bobby Darin- You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You

Chet Baker-There Will Never Be Another You

Dean Martin Let Me Love You Tonight

Heather ridge- I like My Coffee Black

Morris Stolloff Theme From Picnic

Thelonius Monk- Off Minor

Pink Martini-Sway

Mancini-Piano And Strings

Richard Hayman -Orchids In The Moonlight

Bruce Lash -Blister In The Sun

Tubby Hayes-The Toff

This week on Cocktail Nation, we slip into a world of tiki moonlight, sophisticated jazz and lounge music that makes you feel better dressed simply by listening to it.

We take a special look at legendary arranger and bandleader Billy May, wander from Yokohama to Rome, and uncover the curious story of how television learned to tell audiences when to laugh. Plus, Lounge Life Magazine brings us an update on Barbara Eden, while the story of tiki pioneer Donn Beach reminds us that sometimes a bar is really an invitation to enter another world.

There’s exotica, jazz, a little bachelor-pad philosophy and plenty more along the way.

So pour yourself something cold, turn the lights down low and settle in for another sophisticated trip through Cocktail Nation.

Playlist

Tiki Delights - Magic Is The Moonlight
Duke Ellington - Bonga
Pink Martini & Saori Yuki - Blue Light Yokohama
Tito Rodríguez - Theme From The Apartment
Cal Tjader - Moneypenny
Martini Kings - Dance Of The Virgins
Percussion For Playboys - 05 Land Of Desire
James Morrison - The Master Plan
Clouseaux - Destination - Oasis
Nat King Cole & George Shearing - A Beautiful Friendship
Vince Guaraldi - Mr Lucky
Dom Halpin - Mambo
Metropole Orchestra - Poinciana
Don Tiki - The Natives Are Restless Tonight
Buddy Greco - My Last Night In Rome

Never cross a crazy lady

 

Bill Irwin - Seduction

Rene Paulo Group - I Never Had A Chance

Los Tres Caballeros - The Continental

Sandy Smith Group- Wagon Wheels

Bill Evans -I Hear  a Rhapsody 

Peter Nero- Sunday In New York 

Percy Faith Autumn In New York

Mantovani -Te' para dos

Annunzio Paolo Mantovani 

Cannonball Adderly-Love For Sale

Thelonius Monk-Getting Sentimenal Over You

Daphna Levy-Day Dream

Jason Paul-Summer Star