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Cocktail Nation 272 Jimmy Borges Keeper Of The Flame Part 2

Part two of our interview with living legend on the show this week in that of the Keeper Of The Flame, the great Jimmy Borges. A Hawaiian legend of stage screen and TV. News on a cool car car that Jay Lenos been spotted driving around in Beverly Hills that is the epitome of the Jet Age plus I have news about a book out shortly about Ava Gardner and of course the best lounge and exotica hand picked from across the globe


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The Lucky Duckies The Way You Look Tonight
Vince Guaralidi Mr Lucky
Jimmy Borges Most Beautiful Girl In the World
Jimmy Borges All Or Nothing At All
Peggy Lee The Days Of Wine And Roses
David Carbonara Giovannis Muse
Ixtahuele Gardens Of Mu
Laura Ainsworth Midnight Sun
Arthur Lyman Coffee Bean And Calabash Annie
Skip Heller Hurricane Apartment
Spy Fi Secret Agent Man
Darren Long Twist Of Lyman
The Out Islanders Honourable Hong Kong Rock
Mark Copeland Too Darn Hot

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Cocktail Nation 273 Perfect Vision The Esquivel Sound

I have a brand new album to bring you out of Holland, the Metropole Orchestra have put together a marvellous album of Esquivel tracks called Perfect Vision The Esquivel Sound and joining us to talk about the album and Esquivel is Irwin Chusid, the man who first brought us Esquivel on cd in the 90's
There's news about a James Bond car for auction an interesting article about some of the biggest stars of the mid twentieth century as we ask "Where are they now" plus the World of swank gig guide

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Clouseaux Search For A Vulcan
Martini Heaven Tanganova
Metropole Orchestra La Paloma
Metropole Orchestra My Blue Heaven
Vince Guaraldi Dor Que Faz Duer
Tiki Joes Ocean Stoic Moai
Spy Fi Man From Uncle
Sally Street New Blow top blues
Oscar Peterson Band Call
Nutty She Said, See Said
Octobop Short Stop
Linda Lawson Meaning Of The Blues
Jackie Gleason Mystery Street
Frank Sinatra Strangers In The Night

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Cocktail Nation 274 Playtime

This week on the show my Neighbour Kramer stops by to chat Lounging bachelor pad movies and this week it's is Jacques Tati and Playtime

I have lots of Tiki Oasis News for you and a critique of the characters of Mad Men along with the World of swank gig guide

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Nutty Back In Black
Octobop Playboy Theme
Francis Lemarque Playtime
Metropole Orchestra Solamente Una Vez
Robert Hicks Carioca
Oscar Peterson Things Aint What They Used To Be
Mel Torme Moonlight Cocktails
Mambo Zombies Mambo Inn
Kenny Sasaki Erotica Exotica
Jackie Gleason The Best Is Yet To Come
Janet Seidel A Man And A Woman
Cy Coleman Parisian Women
SG Sound Palm Springs Overdrive

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Cocktail Nation 275 Louis Prima Jr

This week on the show the son of the great Louis Prima…Louis Prima jr joins me, I've got a funny story from Don Rickles who recently appeared on Letterman talking about Sinatra plus a great article about the sad demise of World Port and of course the best lounge and exotica from around the world and the world of swank gig guide.

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Ixtahuele Stone Gods Of Bimini
David Carbonara Nearing The End
Louis Prima Jr Jump Jive And Whale
Frank Sinatra That's Life
George Shearing If I Should Lose You
Hans Karl Blue Scooter
Janet Seidel Moon Of Manakoora
Julie London Must Be Catchin
Laura Ainsworth I'd Give a Dollar For A Dime
Marty Paich The Cat
Nutty Black Mutt
Gerry Mulligan Night Lights
John Barry 7 007 Theme
Shirley Scott Dreamsville
Skip Heller-Alice Through A Twilight Zone

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Cocktail Nation 276 Louis Prima Jr Part 2

This week on the show the son of the great Louis Prima…Louis Prima jr joins me for part two of our interview, we talk to a man who is fighting to prevent the destruction of the former Pan Am terminal in that of WorldPort plus news on the Martini Kings new release and ofcourse the only lounge and exotica gig guide.

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Clouseaux Kiss Of Ku

Tiki Joes Ocean Honolulu

Louis Prima Jr Oh Babe

Spy Fi Two Miles

David Carbonara Giovanis Muse

Chaino Voodoo

Chaquito Big Band The Spy's Wife

Martini Kings Zou Biscou Biscou

Leonard Nimoy Music To Watch Girls By

Billy May Invitation

Mr Ho's Orchestorica Frenesi

Lalo Schifrin Barney Does It all

Laurindo Almeida The Look Of Love

Robert Drasin Jardin De La Noche

Si Zentner Walk On The Wild Side

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Cocktail Nation 277 Laura Ainsworth Necessary Evil

The very talented lounge singer Laura Ainsworth is on the show this weekend talking about her career and background, some Bond news on that submarine car that's been put-up for sale recently. There some news on a new doco that lifts the lid on the JFK assassination.

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Nutty Five Nights

Pink Martini No Hay Problema

Laura Ainsworth Necessary Evil

Lou Busch Cool

Louis Prima Just a Gigolo

Marty Paich Summertime

Joey Altruda Tropical Paradise

Diana Krall Stop This World

Alvino Rey Night Train

Julie O'Hara I Fall in Love To Fast

Vic Flick Live and Let Die

Leroy Holmes Search For A Vulcan

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Cocktail Nation 278 Pink Panther and Tiki Delights


My neighbour, Kramer is back again this week to talk lounging bachelor pad movies this as we head back to 1964 to talk the Pink Panther Movie plus
we are jammed pack with new music this week ….with new stuff from The Tiki Delights as we talk to the man behind it all, there's new music from a spy jazz band called Codename Carter and another new release from a Bossa Nova band called O Som Do Jazz. Join me for the swank affair that is the Cocktail Nation

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O Som Do Jazz Sambou Sambou
Codename Carter Stealth Palmer
Henry Mancini Pink Panther
Jackie Gleason Out Of Nowhere
Seth Mac Farlane Music Is Much Better Than Words
Tiki Delights Bali Safari
Oscar Peterson Morton Swing
Combustible Edison Millionaires Holiday
Nutty Paranoid Cat
Robert Hicks I didn't Like It The First Time
Sergio Mendes Mas Que Nada
James Morrison The Call
Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited November Morning
Coleman Hawkins Cocktails For Two

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Cocktail Nation 279 Raymond Scott



on the show this week we catch up with Irwin Chusid to talk about the great Raymond Scott and the work that he has done and continues to do for the family. We've lost a great in that of Eydie Gorme who passed away last week so we will take a look at her life and another passing in that of
Faster pussy cat star Haji.

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David Carbonara Bunnys Bop

Aaron Diehl Epilogue

Raymond Scott What Is This Thing Called Love

O Som Do Jazz Batucda

Codename Carter Defect

Eydie Gormet Frenesi

Frank Sinatra Fly Me To The Moon

Laura Ainsworth He's So Unusual

MoonRays Mysterioso

Mr Ho's Orchestra Let's Dance

Plas Johnson Pink Panther/it Had Better Be Tonight

Quincy Jones Cast You're Fate To The Wind

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Cocktail Nation 280 Bachelor Pad Cooking

on the show this week we are talking bachelor pad cooking for one with James M Kraus who has a marvellous book out called Jet Age Cooking for the Bachelor, I have some Man from Uncle news for you and some Mad Men news

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Tikiyaki Orchestra Maitais On The Moon

Ixtahule Searching For Souq

James Bond and His Sextet You Only Live Twice

O Som Do Jazz Brisa Do Nordeste

Spy Fi Man From Uncle

Oscar Peterson Dreamsville

Mavis Rivers You'd Be So Nice To Come Home to

Martini Kings Desfinado

Aaron Diehl The Cylinder

Arthur lyman Blue Hawaii

Bob Thompson There A Small Hotel

Tiki Delights Scorpian Rider

Pink Martini Taya Tan

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Cocktail Nation 281 Codename Carter

Some spy action this week as we catch up with a new band to the show Codename Carter, news on the home of some the worlds greatest songs with the Brill Building, sad news on the passing of Marian Mc Partland from NPR plus our world of swank gig guide and the swankiest tunes from across the globe as we broadcast from Sydney's home of Lounge …the Penthouse.

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Dom Mariani 4 in the Mornin

Kenny Sasaki Fly Me To The Moon

Codename Carter Perfect Clarity Perfect Cut

Elmer Bernstein Thinking Of Baby

David Carbonara A Beautiful Mine


Duke Ellington Anatomy Of A Murder

Enoch Light Autumn In New York

Tiki Delights Sandy Samba

Tiki Joes Ocean Lullaby For Lono

O Som Do Jazz Manha Alegre

Nelson Riddle Your Zowie Face

Mr Ho's Orchestrotica Phoenix Goodbye

Martin Denny Love Dance

Janet Seidel Midnight Sun

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Cocktail Nation 282 Birthplace of Exotica

Imagine being at the birthplace of Exotica at the Hawaiian Hilton when exotica was born, what a moment. Well you can experience that feeling when Waitiiki 7 and Jimmy Borges hit the stage later this year, Randy Wong stops by to talk about this concert, Ive got news on my new automotive purchase and we talk about the lost mansions of LA

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Clouseaux Hunt Of The Savage
Spy Fi Eldorado
Waitiki 7 Voodoo Love
Aaron Diel Generation Y
Hugo Montengro Guaglione
Lex Baxter A Taste Of Honey
Diana Krall Night We Called It A Day
Jackie Gleason-The Girl From Ipanema
Mancini Quiet Village
Oscar Peterson Morten Swing
Tiki Delights Stormy Outrigger
Barbara Lusch So Nice
Si Zentner Walk On The Wild side

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Cocktail Nation 285 Church Of Frank Sinatra

Koop Kooper back with Cocktail nation after a two week vacation and ready to go with the best lounge and exotica sitting on the Hi Fi.
Now tell me, would you consider Frank Sinatra a god? Some people have felt that it would be appropriate to build a church around the chairman of the board....we will find out more about that as I speak to head of the Los Angeles church of Frank Sinatra. We have news on the passing of Louis Primas wife and musical partner Gia Maione and some news on the Tikiyaki Orchestra.

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Aaron Diehl The Cylinder
Clouseaux Search For A Vulcan
Frank Sinatra Mr Success
Halford Jetset Tema De Anna
Peggy Lee You're Blase
Tikiyaki Orchestra Mysteria
Don Tiki Jungle Julie
Gia Maione On The Other Side Of Tears
Jimmy Vargas Dahlias Web
David Carbonara Elevator Gossip
Monty Norman Dr No's Fantasy
Kenny Sasaki Jellyfish

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Cocktail Nation 288 The Young Man Of Paris

One of my favourite places is Paris so this week on the show I thought why not honour this marvellous city, this spectacular country with a rich, swank and romantic culture with a playlist of French music and French inspired lounge

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Billie Holiday April In Paris
Mark Copeland I Love Paris
Nelson Riddle C’est Magnifique
Serge Gainsbourg Je T’aime Moi Non Plus
Stereophonic Space Sound unlimited la fille dans le train
Billy May The Poor People Of Paris
Button Down Brass French Connection
Cy Coleman Parisian Women
Dicky Do and The Don’ts Vive L’amour
Joe “Fingers" Carr Under Paris Skies
Laura Ainsworth La Vie En Rose
Andre Popp Musique Mecanique
CLouseax Le Nuit
Pink Martini Sympathique
Les Double Six French Rat Race
Elmer Bernstein Valentina
Henri Reni Petite Fleur

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Cocktail Nation 289 Designing Bond

There is no doubt about it James Bond is one stylish lounge lothario. To me it doesn't matter what era of Bond you are talking about, they all have that factor swank cool.
This week on the show talking to the curator of a Bond exhibition called Designing Bond, we talk the perils of over collecting and details about a tour to check out to experience the marvelous music of Mr Ho's Orchestrotica along with the best gigs from across the globe.

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Spy FI Black Tie Spy
Sally Street Play Your Hands Girls
Leroy Holmes The James Bond Theme
Mr Ho’s Orchestrotica Maracatune For Chalco
Sarah Vaughn Peter Gunn
Acca Daiquiris Witchcraft
David Carbonara How Mable Got Stable Cha Cha Cha
Aaron Diehl Blue Nude
Earl Hagan I Spy
Martini Kings Zou Biscou Biscou
Freddy Cole Waiter Ask The Man to Play the Blues
Ixtahule Gardens Of Mu
Jonah Jones Blue Danube Rock

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Cocktail Nation 290 Disney Frozen In Ice

the franchise that is Disney is one of the best known across the globe, the man who began it all, Walt Disney was a man with vision and that vision continued after his death in 1966, this week we talk to a man who has put together book all about the time after Walts Death.
News on a new book from Beachbum Berry and a new series on Kennedys you might have caught on the box

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Aaron Diehl The Cylinder
Metropole Orchestra Spellbound
Arthur Lyman Leis Of Jazz
Machiniso Percusion Frenzy
Tiki Delights Stay In My Arms
Jimmy Vargas The Girl You Left Behind
Laurie Allyn So In Love
Linda Lawson Mood Indigo
Narco Lounge Combo Squizy Tahini
Nelson Riddle Your Zowie Face
Oscar Peterson My Heart Belongs To Daddy
Pink Martini Mar Desconocido
Stan Getz Charade
Jackie Gleason Darn That Dream

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Cocktail Nation 291 Tiki Iniki

I love it when a new Tiki Bar opens and keeps the Aloha spirit alive, this week I talk to the manager of a new Tiki Bar when has opened on the big Island called Tiki Iniki …continuing on the big island news of a legal battle that Brad Tiki shark Parker has been plunged into and whilst many of us who are into the fifties and sixties culture dress in vintage clothes, collect furniture and drive classic cars this week I will bring you a story of a couple who have gone back…way back to the turn of the century.

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Cocktail Inn Dragnet

Ricki Derek Rio

Tiki Joe’s Ocean Quiet Voyage

Ray Conniff Caravan

Paris Mitchell Strings Dream

Ixtahuele Dengue Fever

Neal Hefti Cherry Point

Seth MacFarlane It’s Anybodys Spring

Sergio Mendez Girl From Ipanema

101 Strings Cha Cha Italiano

Laura Fygi Perfidia

Tiki Lounge Crew Hipsters Lair

Jerry Costanzo Penthouse Serenade

Cal Tjader A Night In Tunisia

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Cocktail Nation 292 Shelley Berman To Laughter With Questions

A couple of years ago I had the pleasure of speaking to the great Comedian Shelley Berman, well he's back on the show to talk about a book of poetry he's has written along with extraordinary ability to adlib. I've got a free vintage online magazine to check out, and a nice box set for you in time for Christmas

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David Carbonara A Beautiful Mine
Cocktail Inn Brief And Breezy
Enoch Light Bingo Bango Bongo Baby
Mancini Brothers Go To Mothers
Ixtahuele Rarohengen Dance
Morton Stevens Hawaii Five O
Mr Ho’s Orchestrotica Would You like Bongos With That Fugue
Nutty Back In Black
Plas Johnson Mean To Me
101 Strings A Man And A Woman
John Barry 7 Underground Lair
Count Basie April In Paris

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Cocktail Nation 293 American International Pictures

this week on the show we take a look at one of the smallest players in the movie making machine of Hollywood of the fifties that just happened to be one that packed a really big punch…news on the demise of the Hukilau event in Florida plus the best lounge and exotica from across the globe along with the best parties to end the year with.

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Clouseaux Search For a Vulcan
Tiki Lounge Crew Suburbia 62
Reg Owen Everyday
Percy Faith Theme From A Summer Place
Octobop Jazz Goes To Siwash
Tiki Joe’s Ocean Night Of The Jungle
Martin Denny Exotica
Janet Seidel Miami Beach Mambo
Barney Mcall Mysteriss
Sir Julien You Only Live Twice
O Som Do Jazz Nanna
Nina Simone Wils Is The Wind

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Cocktail Nation 294 Potions of The Caribbean with Jeff Beachbum Berry

Jeff Beachbum Berry has got a brand new book out that will blow your mind about the history of tiki drinks. For those in Los Angeles I have a very cool hang out for you plus a very groovy newsletter to sign up for which I can guarantee you won't regret when it drops into your inbox each week.

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Tony Bennett With Plenty Of Money And You
Aaron Diehl Moonlight In Vermont
Si Zentner From Russia With Love
Mr Ho’s Orchestrotica Ritual Mallet Dance
Percussion For Playboys Angel Eyes
Metropole Orchestra Third Man Theme
Martin Denny Rain
Pink Martini and Saori Yuki Mayonka No Bossa Nova
Dave Bruebeck Broadway Bossa Nova
Frank Sinatra I Wish I Were In Love Again
Sally Street When In Rome
Peggy Lee From Now On
Clouseaux Paraiso

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Cocktail Nation 295 Best Of The Best 2013

What a year it had been here at the Cocktail Nation with the show being added to more and more stations across the globe....look out Ryan Seacrest, I'm coming to get you. The podcast was enhanced, we got a new website and I bought a 1964 Austin Healey! But ofcourse the show needs great guests and great music and we have had plenty of that. Each year I like to highlight the best of the best of the year and that's sometimes difficult in a one hour show so for you some of the most stand out releases of the last twelve months.

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Mr Ho’s Orchestrotica Chiseling Music
O Som Do Jazz Sambou Sambou
Metropole Orchestra My Blue Heaven
Ixtahuele Stone Gods Of Bimini
Codename Carter Stealth Palmer
Aaron Diehl The Cylinder
Molly Ringwald Don’t You Forget About Me
Narco Lounge Combo Caravan
Laura Ainsworth Necessary Evil
Tiki Delights Twist Of Lyman

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Cocktail Nation 296 Julie London, Lady Liberty

Show number one for 2014 as we kick off the year in fine style talking about the wonderful Julie London and a fantastic book. Speaking of books we will talk about a book you need on your shelf to improve your swank life and we have all the swank parties linked up in our world of swank gig guide.
Standby for an announcement on a new segment plus we will have a laugh with Don Rickles.

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Nathan Haines Lament
David Carbonara The Twenty Third Foor
Julie London Must Be Catchin
Cal Tjader Meditcao
Sally Street All I Do Is Dream Of You
Chet Baker I Fall In Love To Easy
Lee Presson and the Nail Coax Me A Little
Pink Martini But Now I’m Back
Warren Barker Hawaiian Eye
Gerry Mulligan Night Lights
Stacey Kent Waiter Oh Waiter
Royal Crown Revue Deadly Night Call

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Cocktail Nation 297 Don Adams Comedy

Starting our new monthly feature of the classic comedy of the golden age and this week we kick of with the stand up comedy of Don Adams.
Some news for the purists that hang out here, news that I think will pleas a lot of people who like authenticity when it comes to lighting the pad.

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Larry Gelb Trio Love Walked In

Barbara Levy Daniels Mean To Me

Hugo Montenegro Get Smart Theme

Buddy Greco Thats Why The Lady Is A Tramp

The Lounge Lizards The Hanging

O Som Do Jazz Brisa Do Nordes

Nathan Haines Cocktails

The New Gary Burton Quartet Did You Get It

Al Hirt And Ann Margaret Everybody Loves My Baby

Ixtahule Orust Luau

Bobby Darin When Day Is Done

Jackie Gleason Brazil

Si Zentner Charade

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Cocktail Nation 298 The Encounter Restaurant

the lounge sounds are ready to go as we set the needle on the vinyl up high in the sydney penthouse and thus week we take a look at an an architectural giant of the the US landscape…The Encounter Restaurant at the Theme Building in LAX…news on the release of a very noir book to pick up and some news from me when your swank life goes slightly awry!

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Useless Playboys Caravan
Cocktail Inn Brief And Breezy
Frank Sinatra Nothing But The Best
Don Baker Trio Dansero
Jimmy Vargas A Blue Negligee
Project Pimento Star Trek
Reg Owen Dancing On the Ceiling
Sonny Lester Salome’s Veil
Tito Puente Ritual Drum Dance
James Bond And His Sextet You Only Live Twice
James Morrison The Master Plan

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Cocktail Nation 299 The Left Arm Of Buddha

we head to Belgium to find out about a brand new exotica band called The Left Arm of Buddha, if you are in the market for a new retro styled watch we have something you will just love. There’s a new literary segment for the lounge lotharios and the best lounge and exotica from across the globe.

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Octobop Jazz Goes to Siwash

Don Sebesky Orchestra Samba With Some Barbecue

The Left Arm Of Buddha A Monkeys Affair
Clifford Brown You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To

Blossum Dearie Manhattan

Aaron Diel Generation Y

Larry Gelb Monica

Arthur Lyman Midnight Sun

Ricki Derek Rio

Martini Kings Theme From A Summer Place

Jackie Gleason Ghost Of A Chance

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Cocktail Nation 300 Cocktail Time

There is nothing better than a nice relaxing Cocktail Bar. Everybody has their favourites and I thought that his week we should talk about some of the cool cocktail bars for the jetset to visit across the globe along with the origins of the worlds most famous cocktails plus the history of cocktailian culture
An all cocktail theme this week along with the look at the world of swank and all the retro news you count on the Cocktail Nation team to bring you

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Billy May Cocktails For Two

Xavier Cugat Daqiuri.
New Morty Show Blue Martini

Kenny Sasaki Rum and Coke

Stacey Kent Waiter, Oh Waiter

Mark Copeland Drinking Again

Raph Flanagan Hot Toddy

Art Van Damme Cheers

Lenny Dee Tequila

Buster Poindexter Knock Em Down Whisky

Tiki Lounge Crew Martini Nova

Nathan Haines Cocktails

Jimmy Vargas Cocktail Noir

Tikiyaki Orchestra Maitais On the Moon

Ruth Cameron Something Cool

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Cocktail Nation 301 Auto Universum

talking cars this week with a man who has a fantastic blog about my favourite topic cars, we talk swank texting, we check out the penthouse library with a book about the most beautiful woman in the world and we find out where the Bahooka Fish Rufas is going to retire to, along with our world of swank gig guide.

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Howard Shore Ed Wood Theme
Janet Seidel A Man And A Woman
Larry Gelb Luiz
Jackie Gleason From Russia With Love
Les Baxter Lust
Martini Kings Hawaii Five-0
Louisville Sluggers Blow It Baby
Monty Norman Dr No’s Fantasy
Al Hirt Music To Watch Girls By
Diana Krall We just Couldn’t Say Goodbye
Bennett and Bruebeck Chicago
Oscar Peterson This Could Be The Start Of Something New
Vic Flick Nobody Does It Better