Just look at some of the song titles. Better
yet, listen to these songs and imaginea time
when itwas cool tobehookedoncigarettes,
coffee and booze. When all that coughing
and wheezing was a sign of good cheer.
Somethingworthwriting a song about.
The Music
This is almost certainly the first time
that Frank Sinatra, Rev. J.M. Gates and
Little Jimmy Dickens have appeared on
the same compilation. And you can throw
Roger Miller and Lillian Leach & the
Mellows into the mix. What could bring
them together as easily as cigarettes?
Let’s have a look at the various ways
that smoking cigarettesworks itsway into
these song lyrics. Just how romantic can a
cigarette be? In Frank Sinatra’s 1946
recording of
These Foolish Things,
those
lipstick-stained cigarettes appear in the
opening line of one of the classiest love
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