Hi! Hope everyone had a nice weekend. The weather was just beautiful here in the city. That all changed to rain today for a gloomy Monday.
I started my summer schedule so I'm a bit tired tonight, so it's Music Monday.
Today's puzzle by Gail Grabowski is called "Holding Water." The theme answers, please:
20A: New Orleans "blues" thoroughfare (BASIN STREET). The song "Basin Street Blues" is a Dixieland jazz staple. It was first made famous by Louis Armstrong (see video below) in 1929 and recorded by several other artists, including Glenn Miller, Sam Cooke, and Louis Prima. The title refers to Storyville, the notorious red-light district of the early 20th-century French Quarter.
51A: Sports-Car Features (BUCKET SEATS). Last night on "Mad Men," Don Draper and Joan Harris test drove a Jaguar. They looked great inside the car! Don was trying to calm down Joan after she was served divorce papers. Don was also back in full swing as he announced that they would be working 24/7 in order to land the Jaguar account. You remember that they lost a chance at the account because of Pete Campbell's extra-curricular activities with a hooker.
11D: Success-vs.-failure choice (SINK OR SWIM). Here is a song called "Sink or Swim" by the folk-pop artist Tyrone Wells that was first featured on "Gray's Anatomy."
29D: Prohibition-era liquor (BATHTUB GIN). See The Great Gatsby. Also see the video for this jazz-inspired song by the band Phish.
Speaking of music, we have lost many musicians in 2012 at the prime of their lives: Whitney ("Witless") Houston, Adam Yauch (MCA), Robin Gibb, Donna Summer, Davy Jones, Levon Helm, etc. And the year isn't even half over yet. So sad.
Till tomorrow. . . .
Signing off,
The Puzzlechick
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