Great Music for Cocktail Hour Part 5

The Ultra-Lounge Series: Bachelor Pad Royale is one of the numerous entries in the Ultra-Lounge series from Capitol Records. The series began in 1996 during the swing/cocktail culture revival and has so far continued to 2009. The Theme From Route 66 by Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra is the first track on this disc and it really sets the tone. All of the songs on the disc were recorded between 1956 and 1965. The following is from the liner notes: "There is an abiding coolness in this music, in this philosophy of the bachelor pad. It is tumescent, numbnuts cool, to be sure. But remember, this was a sublimated time, when entertainers twisted hokum into eros like clowns making balloon poodles. You had to pretend the musc was other than what it patently was - this was a time when the very way Milt Buckner 'gently touches the keys of the Hammond organ' (as it said on the back of one of his albums) was supposed to set off other organs. but scintillating his music was, as surely as Senor Wences was the hidden had of eros." -RJ Smith