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" &amp;quot;&amp;#039;One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer&amp;#039; by the great bluesman Amos Milburn. &amp;#039;Margaritaville&amp;#039; by Jimmy Buffett: Anyone who can listen to it without wanting to dance feverishly and set their hair on fire is a stone! &amp;#039;Scotch and Soda&amp;#039;: There&amp;#039;s no more languid drinking song than this, even when the Kingston Trio sang it. Sinatra&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;One for My Baby (And One More for the Road),&amp;#039; the ultimate wind-down-the-bar song. And last \u2014 &amp;#039;The Bartender&amp;#039;s Just Like a Mother to Me&amp;#039; by Slim Gaillard.&amp;quot; \u2014Dale DeGroff, author of The Craft of the Cocktail and president of the Museum of the American Cocktail &amp;quot;I have quite a few favorites, but I limited my choices to two male vocalists, two females, and one instrumental. &amp;#039;Alone Together&amp;#039; by Gary Williams, a young British vocalist whose gentle voice is just perfect for standards. I can hear the glasses tinkling in the background when I put this on. John Proulx&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Moon and Sand&amp;#039; is a great showcase for this singer, who puts a fresh spin on classics and writes his own original music, too. Shirley Horn&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Here&amp;#039;s to Life,&amp;#039; with luscious orchestrations by Johnny Mandel, is one of the most perfect albums ever made. Her vocals are caressing, wise, and worldly, and the strings go straight to the heart. And &amp;#039;Rosie Solves the Swingin&amp;#039; Riddle&amp;#039; by Rosemary Clooney and Nelson Riddle is one of my all-time favorites. I&amp;#039;ll end with &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;ll Take Romance&amp;#039; by jazz pianist Beegie Adair, a marvelously understated player whose interpretations of the standards are just brilliant.&amp;quot; \u2014Michael Feinstein, singer and pianist &amp;quot;I listened to these 25 years ago, when I first turned legal. They&amp;#039;re still great drinking songs: &amp;#039;My Generation,&amp;#039; The Who; &amp;#039;Mess Around,&amp;#039; Ray Charles; &amp;#039;Too Much Fun,&amp;#039; Commander Cody; &amp;#039;Peace Frog,&amp;#039; The Doors; and &amp;#039;Stir It Up,&amp;#039; Bob Marley.&amp;quot; \u2014Chris Weld, owner, Berkshire Mountain Distillers &amp;quot;&amp;#039;Floating into the Night&amp;#039; by Julee Cruise. &amp;#039;I Only Have Eyes for You&amp;#039; by The Flamingos. &amp;#039;Staring at the Sun&amp;#039; by TV on the Radio. &amp;#039;Cheree&amp;#039; by Suicide. &amp;#039;Sunday Morning&amp;#039; by Velvet Underground.&amp;quot; \u2014Moby, pop star &amp;quot;&amp;#039;Big Butter and Egg Man&amp;#039; for all the Prohibition references, and because nothing&amp;#039;s better to drink to than jazz, especially Mr. Armstrong&amp;#039;s horn. Bessie Smith&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Me and My Gin&amp;#039; \u2014 the blues are perfect for a late-afternoon sip. Mae West&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk,&amp;#039; which reminds us that a woman and her whiskey can be so, so sexy. Sloe gin fizzes with Loretta Lynn&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Portland, Oregon.&amp;#039; And for a morning-after-a-wild-night egg cocktail: &amp;#039;How Do You Like Your Eggs in the Morning?&amp;#039; by Dean Martin and Helen O&amp;#039;Connell.&amp;quot; \u2014Lenell Smothers, owner LeNell&amp;#039;s Ltd.: A Wine &amp;amp;amp; Spirit Boutique, Brooklyn &amp;quot;Here&amp;#039;s my recipe for a perfect evening: Walk in the door, kick off your shoes, and switch on &amp;#039;Time I Took a Holiday&amp;#039; by Nick Lowe \u2014 the perfect easy groove for the end of a stressful day. Once drinks have been poured, follow up with &amp;#039;Waterloo Sunset&amp;#039; by the Kinks. Plant yourself in your deepest armchair, and bliss out to John Hiatt&amp;#039;s bittersweet &amp;#039;Lipstick Sunset.&amp;#039; Feeling a little melancholy? Indulge with Elvis Costello&amp;#039;s dark but tender &amp;#039;Favourite Hour.&amp;#039; If your frame of mind&amp;#039;s more mellow, play his wife Diana Krall&amp;#039;s bluesy &amp;#039;Stop This World.&amp;#039; Then samba into the kitchen to Paul McCartney&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Bluebird&amp;#039; and enjoy cooking dinner for a change.&amp;quot; \u2014Holly Hughes, editor of the annual Best Food Writing series &amp;quot;My MP3 player has 5,000 songs on it, but these seem just right: &amp;#039;The Touch of Your Lips&amp;#039; by Tony Bennett and Bill Evans. &amp;#039;Let&amp;#039;s Do It,&amp;#039; the Louis Armstrong version \u2014 you&amp;#039;ve got to have some Cole Porter on the list. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;S Wonderful by Diana Krall&amp;#039; \u2014 Gershwin and Krall are a perfect combo. &amp;#039;Manhattan&amp;#039; by Blossom Dearie \u2014 you can&amp;#039;t have cocktails without &amp;#039;Manhattan,&amp;#039; even in New Orleans. &amp;#039;Route&amp;#039; 66 by Nat Cole \u2014 his vocals, the tempo, the beat just makes it happy hour every time for me.&amp;quot; \u2014Chris McMillian, bartender at the Renaissance Pere Marquette&amp;#039;s Bar Uncommon in New Orleans &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;ve got to have something from the bossa nova canon, and you can&amp;#039;t beat Getz/Gilberto by Stan Getz and Jo\u00E3o Gilberto. It&amp;#039;s got &amp;#039;The Girl from Ipanema,&amp;#039; of course, but I love &amp;#039;Desafinado.&amp;#039; It&amp;#039;s kind of a clich\u00E9, but you&amp;#039;ve got to have some Sinatra. Nothing says you&amp;#039;ve made it to the end of the day better than &amp;#039;Only the Lonely,&amp;#039; &amp;#039;The September of My Years,&amp;#039; or &amp;#039;In the Wee Small Hours.&amp;#039; And then the album European Concert by The Modern Jazz Quartet from 1960. This combo of piano, bass, drums, and vibraphone has a crystalline sound that makes me feel like I&amp;#039;m in a sleek old hotel lobby. Charlie Rich&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Behind Closed Doors&amp;#039;: He sings country music the way a soul singer would. For later in the evening, &amp;#039;At Home/Around Midnight&amp;#039; by Julie London.&amp;quot; \u2014Tom Moon, author of 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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