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This is the Life—a rich mix of thoughtfully selected vocal styles and arrangements—is here to amplify the enterprise of the impassioned traveler, and complement an already convivial climate at the luxury hotel & resort, the intimate boutique hotel, and the cozy bed and breakfast, particularly as guests gather at the breakfast table, while bread is toasting and coffee is brewing.
Late afternoon, as Mr. Sun heads somewhere below the blue for Miller Time, guests at sunset bask in the ineffable task of wine and cheese tasting, as the lush sounds of This is the Life add concordant commentary and suitably fill in the gaps and empty spaces.
Each song—recorded by today’s accomplished performers, as well as the legends that introduced them—is unique in its style, arrangement, and interpretation. The music and lyrics suggest intimate travel, love, and romance. The titles concur: A Room With a View, At Long Last Love, Tonight I’m Going Out With You, Cooking Breakfast for the Ones I Love, It’s Always You… The whole collection is lush and lavish.
These are songs of the moment—This is the Life, By the Beautiful Sea, Hey Miss Moonlight, In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening, A Room Without Windows, reflecting themes of the moment; traveling, dining out, sight-seeing, the beach, falling in love, celebrating an anniversary, and falling in love again.
This is the Life (The Bed and Breakfast Music Blend™) even looks like a million bucks, replete with 15-fabulous tracks handsomely packaged in exquisite six-panel Digipak® styling, and flush with original full color artwork by Key West notable Fran Decker.
And for real aficionados, a 16-page full color liner-notes booklet offers detailed postscript about the music, writers/composers, and artists. The distinctiveness of the music and packaging makes for the ideal gift and quintessential souvenir for guests of any luxury property, cozy bed and breakfast, and out-of-the-way boutique hotel.
The whole package is for and about travelers, really—the regular folks, luminaries, and voluptuaries. And they are sure to be enchanted by This is the Life with its bed and breakfast snugness. What better way for travelers to remember their splendid travel experience? And they will remember, lovingly—and return.
Academy Award-winning songwriter Ray Evans has graciously stepped in to insure a definitive bed and breakfast song. The celebrated lyricist (and friends), in collaboration with First Cabin Records, has delivered a jewel, A Cozy Bed and Breakfast, an exclusive release from First Cabin Records.
With seven Academy Award nominations, the Livingston/Evans songwriting pair holds three Oscars for Best Song, including Mona Lisa. Their lyrics and harmonies add up to record sales exceeding 400 million. Ray happily explains, “All our song have very simple cords. That’s why they’re hits.”
Fabulous and Far Away Places are time-honored in American song (Manhattan, I Love Paris, Chicago…). We get to them on trains and boats and planes (Chattanooga Choo Choo, On a Slow Boat to China, Come Fly With Me…). There is even a solid tip-of-the hat to The Rules of the Road, and America’s most memorable highway, Route 66.
Guests are seen Puttin’ on the Ritz at the small out-of-the-way hotel as well as the luxury resort properties (There’s a Small Hotel, The Pacific Hotel, Holiday Inn, Heartbreak Hotel, Seacoast Inn…). Thanks now to Ray Evans (and friends), we have A Cozy Bed and Breakfast.
Yes, the golden era of American song is doubling back for a comeback, as evidenced by score upon score of gifted contemporary devotees discovering and recording the lovely words and music of the likes of Gershwin, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Lorenz Hart, and more. And really, we see American standards cozying up to television advertisements, cafes and restaurants, and, yes, they’re making it big in the movies.
From country and rock they come, from pop and jazz—the new crooners… Michael Feinstein, Diana Krall, Peter Cincotti, Jessica Molaskey, Mark Copeland, John Pizzarelli, Jerry Jeff Walker, Michael Buble, Nora Jones, Rod Stewart, Nelly Furtado, Harry Connick, Jr., Ann Hampton Callaway, Mark Kershner, Johnny Boyd, Bette Midler, Ronnie Milsap, and Renee Ostead, just to scratch the surface. They are the impassioned and the wandering, the lettered and the serendipitous, the torrid and the old guard. They are the fabulous.
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