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"Music, Martinis, and Memories"
Jackie Gleason, 1954




     When it comes to smooth cocktail music, no one did it smoother than Jackie Gleason and his orchestra. Forget the "Honeymooners," Gleason is a master when it comes to the perfect mood-setting lounge music. This album, and any other you'll find from Gleason, will melt into the background of your swinging bachelor pad...and hopefully the young thing you have there with you will melt with it too! Each track is orchestrated the same, for your listening pleasure: the strings descend from the clouds and bring the song to it's main melody and then a meloncolly trumpet enters and bemoans lost loves and forgotten days. These American standards never had it so easy. This is the essence of the lounge lifestyle melted down and distilled for Mr. and Mrs. Average-American. Gleason's records hold none of the exotica tones of a Martin Denny album or the quirky hip-ness of a Esquivel piece, but they are a needed addition to any bachelor's collection if for nothing else but the incredible cover artwork. All of his albums show some sort of gorgeous woman in an equally gorgeous outfit crying over a martini or cigarette, and/or looking off into the distance remembering the man that got away. When these records are not on the Hi-Fi, they should be put on display next to your etchings or whatever artwork you have.

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