Happy Hour #263 / Martini Music
Happy Hour #263 / Martini Music
Martini Music – It’s all about the Martini cocktail this Happy Hour. What aged spirits such as whiskey are to the Old Fashioned, Gin is to the Martini on a more sophisticated level. It is the simplest drink which is also the easiest to mess up if you don’t get the proportions correct.
Scenario: The Year is 1951 and the Martini Cocktail is at the height of its popularity, and a great value at only .50 cents.
United Nations Headquarters opens in Manhattan New York City. Communist China declines a cease fire in Korea further escalating the war. Back in the western hemisphere there is a military coup in Bolivia.
While the USSR announces it has nuclear abilities, the United States has already begun testing on the next wave Hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific Bikini Atoll Islands. This technology is also being used for the peaceful purposes such as the world’s first Nuclear power plant in Idaho.
The first American Football game is televised on CBS. If you don’t have a television and have .27 cents for a gallon of gasoline, you can drive to the first shopping mall in Massachusetts to buy a television set for $300. It is too late to watch Joe DiMaggio, he won his final World Series and has now retired from Baseball to become engaged to Marilyn Monroe.
COCKTAILS: (limit 3 per show)
- Classic Gin Martini
- Ava Gardner
- Vesper Martini
- Kangaroo
- Vodka Martini
- Mocktail Highball: Seltzer with Lemon (dash of Angostura bitters optional)
PLAYLIST
- INTRO – Seduced at a Cocktail Party
- I Can’t Get Started – Jackie Gleason Orchestra
- My Ideal Music – Jackie Gleason Orchestra
- Fred Astaire – Martini Instructional
- Michael Ruhlman on the Martini
- Summer Place – Henry Mancini
- Brief & Breezy – Henry Mancini
- It Happened in Monterey – Jackie Gleason Orchestra
- It Happened in Monterey – Frank Sinatra
- The Way You Look Tonight – Juan Esquivel
- So In Love – Juan Esquivel
- Manhattan – Xavier Cugat
- Old Fashioned – Xavier Cugat
- COCKTAIL COUP NEWSROOM: The 1951 Year in Review
- VINTAGE COMMERCIALS: Alka Seltzer; Carter’s Liver Pills; Brisk Toothpaste
- How High The Moon – Jackie Gleason Orchestra
- A Hundred Years From Now – Dean Martin
- Girl From Impanema – Stan Getz
- Agua De Beber – Esquivel
- La Bikina – Esquivel
- Manhattan Serenade – Tommy Dorsey
- I’m Sentimental Over You – Tommy Dorsey
- The Song is Ended – Jackie Gleason Orchestra
- I’ll Be Seeing You – Jackie Gleason Orchestra
- OUTRO: Morse Code; Johnny Depp
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