Alcoholic Mad Men

How to Drink Like a Mad Man by Ralph Maloney

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


The 24-Hour Drink Book, retitled for this edition as How to Drink Like a Mad Man, seems like a training manual for alcoholics, although interesting as a period piece--it was written in 1962. If Dover Publishers was really serious about cashing in on the whole Mad Men craze, they might have found another, more interesting book to republish than this, although this one was probably in the public domain. One book from this era that comes to mind is From the Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor and has recently been republished with artwork to tie it to Mad Men. See my blog post from June, last summer.
 

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For Denny Lovers Only

A notice to all Martin Denny lovers. Vocalion has just released two two-fer CDs of Denny Albums--A Taste of Honey (1962)/Another Taste of Honey (1963) and The Versatile Martin Denny (1963)/Latin Village (1964). Three of these have never been issued on CD and the other, Latin Village, was only issued in a high-priced Japanese paper sleeve limited edition. This are available as of last weekend on Amazon and Dusty Groove.

A Taste of Honey was Denny's second highest charting album and the title tune was his only charting single of the 1960s. Latin Village is a personal favorite of mine with Denny's version of The Girl from Ipanema and Flying Down to Rio. Another favorite is The Versatile Martin Denny with the sublime Exotique Bossa Nova. There's definitely a real bossa feel through out these albums, especially the latter pair of albums.