Song lyrics to use in conversation today

Taken from:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1ntGV4Dhq4g41r2xdsVN988/seven-song-lyrics-to-use-in-conversation-today

One More for the Road

Frank Sinatra

We’ve all used this one. It comes from a song called Home James and Don’t Spare the Horses, sung originally in 1934 by Elsie Carlisle and the Mayfair Hotel Orchestra. No lyricist is credited, but some say it was something Queen Victoria said!

Book signing event Waterstone's Piccadilly, London

All welcome to the exciting book signing event with Peter Owen authors.

16th June 2016, time tbc
Waterstone's, Piccadilly, London

Where Tom Smith will be mixing up some favourite Frank Sinatra cocktails from his book One For My Baby.

Well, it might as well be Spring..

 

Dry Martini by Tom Smith

Feeling restless as a willow in a windstorm? Helpless as a baby on a swing?
Maybe it's the season..

It Might As Well Be Swing was the punning title of a 1964 Sinatra album which included the song that included the lines that may have inspired this blog, to whit:"you have the cool, clear eyes of a seeker of wisdom and truth. And then the wham, bam tang reminiscent of gin and vermouth."
Gin and vermouth usually spells Martini, but could also refer to this forgotten classic:

DELMONICO

 3/4 measure gin (red)

1/2 measure of sweet vermouth

1/2 measure of dry (white) vermouth

1/2 measure cognac

2 dashes of Angostura bitters

Twist of orange peel

You could, if you so choose, strain this into a Martini glass after stirring the ingredients in an ice-filled cocktail shaker, adding the twist as a garnish. Nice.

With Easter on the horizon why not try the:

BUNNY HUG

1/3 measure gin

1/3 measure scotch whisky

1/3 measure absinthe

A heady brew inspired not by Easter bunnies but by a post World War 1 dance craze.

Another legendary Frank..

Frank Auerbach by Tom Smith.

Legendary painter Frank Auerbach (catch him if you can at Tate Britain).