Happy Hour #104 – Discotheque
Happy Hour #104
Discotheque
One of the saddest days of the cocktail was the Mid 1970s up through the cocktail revival of the 1990s.  It was all about instant mixes like Bartenders Choice which was just citric acid and sugar in a packet you would combine with the alcohol of choice to have a “cocktail”. It was nothing more than Kool Aid marketed towards adults.  Add whiskey, it was a Whiskey Sour. Add rum, it was a daiquiri, add vodka and it was a gimlet.  The photos on the package changed along with the color, but the artificial ingredients and colorings were all the same.  We did have a few, and they are outlined below.  One great liqueur that came about was Midori. It made its debut at the wrap party for the movie of  Saturday Night Fever, undoubtedly a classic and the movie that not only defined the era, but promoted and preserved it. Studio 54 was the setting and mixologists were called to create cocktails around this Japanese melon liqueur.
COCKTAILS
- Mellonball
- Chablis (French White Wine)
- Harvey Wallbanger
- Whiskey Sour
PLAYLIST
- INTRO: Seduced At A Cocktail Party
- Disco Inferno – Tramps
- Stayin’ Alive – Bee Gees
- You Should Be Dancing – Bee Gees
- Fly Robin Fly – Silver Convention
- Get Up & Boogie – Silver Convention
- Let’s All Chant – Michael Zager Band
- The Hustle – Van McCoy & Soul City Symphony
- INTERMISSION
- To Be Real – Cheryl Lynn
- My First, My Last, My Everything – Barry White
- I’m Your Boogie Man – KC & The Sunshine Band
- Love Train – O’Jays
- Last Dance – Donna Summer
- Ill Be Seeing You – Jackie Gleason Orchestra
- OUTRO
NEWSROOM TRANSCRIPT
Today we enter a new generation as the midcentury is officially over with the resignation of President Richard Milhaus Nixon. The US dollar is no longer backed by gold in Fort Knox, and the value of the dollar plunges.
Gasoline prices reach 50 cents per gallon as leaders of the oil producing countries known as OPEC halt sales to the United States for backing Israel during the Yom Kippur War.
Sugar is 65 cents per pound and a gallon of milk is double that price at $1.30.
Paleo Anthropologists discover a 3.2 million-year-old human skeleton in Ethiopia and name her Lucy after a popular song by The Beatles who just recently broke up and gave way to
a new genre of dance music known as disco.
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