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Koop is enjoying the Cannes Film Festival this week so for your pleasure a Cocktail Nation Rewind as we take a look at the life of Sam Butera with a special interview that was recorded back stage with Sam in 1999. http://www.cocktailnation.net/ Cy Coleman-Playboys Theme Dom Halpin-Out Of The Blue Sam Butera and the Witnesses-Dig That Crazy Chick Jackie Gleason-Te...

This week we talk to the publisher of an online magazine called Queens Of Vintage, her name is Lena Weber and recently she interviewed me in her kings of vintage portion of the website so I thought we should have her on to talk vintage culture and the English scene. www.cocktailnation.net David Carbonara Twenty Third Floor Diana Krall Cry Me A River Esquivel That Old Black Magic Frank Bennett...

Back again for another week on the Cocktail Nation. This week we talk loungin bachelor pad movies with Kramer as we check out the Film Our Man flint starring James Coburn Rohan from Careless Navigator stops by to talk about a new mug he is selling. www.cocktailnation.net Clouseaux Search For a Vulcan David Carbonara The Men Of Sterlin...

There are a lot of festivals around the world…but none like this one I am going to tell you about,which  is just a little bit different ….a Marilyn Monroe festival! My press agent has been working overtime of late so we will check out some interviews I have done about the Cocktail  Nation….I have a listener question to address…and of course the best lounge and exotica from across the planet.

this week we continue with our chat to the  man who knows everybody, a friend of the big stars who has seen it all,  his name is Morris Diamond and he started life out as a song plugger. He joins me two part series this week. Got some news about  some Rare Kennedy photos, an email through from Waitiki 7 with some very exciting information for you along with the best classic and neo lounge from across the globe. www.cocktailnation.net Sergio Mendez Mas Que Nada Karen Souz...

there is a man who knows everybody, a friend of the big stars who has seen it all,  his name is Morris Diamond and he started life out as a song plugger. He joins me this week on the show as part of a two part series this week and next week. Mad Men Season six kicked off this week so we will find out what people thought of it. Plus Zsa Zsa Gabor news and the best lounge and exotica from across the globe.

We are going to get lost in paradise this week as we talk to Chris Bonomo the man behind the Lost In Paradise you tube series, Ive got some interesting Hugh Hefner news, a brand new artist to introduce to you who you might remember from the eighties in her previous lifeo as an actress, a cool vintage website and online magazine to dig plus as always the best lounge and exotica from across the globe. www.cocktailnation.net Don Tiki...

When it comes to holding a party in  your swank pad you want it to go off with out a hitch, this week Kramer stops by to talk about a movie where it all goes wrong..The Party staring Peter Sellers. This is one of those films that you will laugh so much you will cry and forevermore will have quotes and scenes etched in your memory. My favourite part of the film is when Peter Sellers manages to lose his slip on shoe,and ofcourse we can’t forget Birdy Num Num! Movi...

one of my favourite places in the world is New York city. Sadly I am too young to have been caught in the whirl wind of excitement that the big apple provided back in the fifties and sixties, but I can go there in my mind with the  large number of songs written about the big apple. So this week its an all New York show as we take a trip in the time machine of our minds visiting the Rockefeller centre, central park, the Chrysler building and the Empire State Building and all those marvell...

I’ve always loved parties, big parties, little parties, swank parties. To me it’s the expectation of wonderful stories and friendships strengthened by the occasion. New friends and old friends coming together. Parties can be held for lots of reasons or no reason at all so tonight we will talk about the forty greets parties in Literature with society gal  Suzette Field from London and we talk to trash movie expert Andrew Leavold who is going to tell...