Jimmy Fallon celebrates yacht rock
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OK everyone, time to break out your topsiders and sailor hat and comb out your moustache. On tonight’s “Late Show” (12:35 a.m. NBC), Jimmy Fallon is throwing a yacht rock party and you’re invited!
Yacht rock, of course, is that genre of late ’70s/early ’80s easy-listening music popularized by Hall & Oates, Michael McDonald and Christopher Cross. And it’s the title of a hilarious, now-classic Channel 101 Web series. Take a peek:
Tonight on Fallon, special guest Christopher Cross will be crooning “Sailing” and “Ride Like the Wind,” and the show is going all-out to provide tips on how you can better enjoy the experience, including fashion advice, a list of classic yacht rockers and a recipe for a “Caribbean Queen” cocktail (which sounds like it would induce sickly sweet, technicolor vomit).
Enjoy! (But don’t rock the boat, baby!)
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