Album Notes

Film Director Raymond De Felitta ('Cafe Society, 'Two Family House') wrote and performed the material on this CD in 1994--a swinging and timely odyssey through the lounge and cocktail culture of the then recovery-program infested Los Angeles. The songs are as much social commentary as odes to a simpler time when Los Angeles was a city of cheap deals, b-girls and lost dreams. For that matter, maybe it never really changed.

Anyway, the CD made the rounds of lots of public radio stations (very high 'request rates') but never attracted the slightest bit of interest from so-called real labels, due to its schizophrenic mixing of genres (jazz, vocals and bitter humor--why was that so hard to fathom?) and the artists other commitments. In other words, most of the cd's sat in his storage closet for the rest of the decade. An altogether cynical, humorous and not entirely good-natured take on a city, a culture and a time in our history which sucked back then but now looks positively rosy.