The piano has been drinking ... But what about you? Photograph: Martin Argles
So, only a brief scuffle on the blog over last week's topic of songs about smoking. To those who objected, liking songs about a particular subject doesn't necessarily count as an endorsement - despite listening to a lot of hip-hop, I'm not especially keen on gang-related slayings.
Anyway, thanks again for a staggeringly long list, and particularly to the reader who introduced me to Sarah Vaughan's brilliant No Smoke Blues, a song which somehow manages to add a sheen of glamour to the practice of raiding ashtrays for scraps of tobacco. Not that this column would encourage such unhealthy behaviour, oh no.
As some of you may already have guessed, this week's blog calls for songs about drinking. To mark Britain's first Christmas party season under the new licensing laws, I'm looking for everything from raucous singalongs and Rat Pack tomfoolery to barfly melancholia and hungover regret. Wikipedia has a list of songs on the subject but it's rubbish. You can do better than that.
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