Music for a Bachelorette's Pad (2005)

About this title: The revival of space age pop and exotica proved almost as chauvinistic as the music's original heyday four decades earlier. Virtually every reissue seemed geared to the male psyche, with gorgeous women on the covers, cocktail recipes in the liner notes, and wonderfully cheesy grooves promising to lubricate the art of seduction. Music for a Bachelorette's Pad is a corrective to the trend, raiding the Atlantic and Warner archives to assemble two dozen femme-centric tunes that turn the tables, proving that sex was just as much on the minds of postwar women as it was with their men. Latter-day ... read more

Tracks:

1. Teach Me Tiger [Tempo]
2. An Occasional Man [Martin/Blanc]
3. Free Spirits [Mapp]
4. Fever [Davenport/Cooley]
5. Maņana [Lee/Barbour]
6. Mas Que Nada [Ben]
7. Love for Sale [Porter]
8. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) [Ellington/Mills]
9. Call Me [Harry/Moroder]
10. T'Ain't Nobody's Bigness If I Do [Robbins/Grainger]
11. Caravan [Ellington/Tizol/Mil]
12. Comin' Home Baby [Tucker/Dorough]
13. Able Mable [John/John]
14. I Love the Life I Live [Dixon]
15. The Honeydripper [Liggins]
16. I'm Gonna Go Fishin' [Lee/Ellington]
17. Evil Gal Blues [Feather]
18. Seņor Big and Fine [Pomus/Shuman]
19. Moon River Cha Cha [From Breakfast at Tiffany's] [Mancini/Mercer]
20. I'm Gonna Live 'Till I Die [Hoffman/Kent/Curtis]
21. Romance in the Dark [Green]
22. Hey, Stuff! [Capers]
23. Welcome to My Party [LaChiusa]
24. Dirty Martini Recipe [DeLaria/Mason]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.