While it doesn't bring me joy that Lauren Bacall died two weeks ago, it does bring attention to a style of music I'm not ashamed to say "I love"... Yacht Rock

Fully realizing that my 'cool meter' just got covered in ice, I have been re-listening to the my extensive library of Yacht Rock songs. (Wow... I just realized that's a sentence I've never said out loud in front of anyone). What is Yacht Rock? Well, for you 'too cool for the room' types, it's defined like this by Urban Dictionary:

Urban Dictionary
Urban Dictionary
Urban Dictionary

In the 2 weeks since Lauren Bacall's death sales of Bertie Higgins yacht rock hit "Key Largo", that just happens to be about Bacall, have gone up 625 percent. And you have to love the video from his drag off the cig in the beginning to the fact that there's an actual boat in the video.

I don't even have a boat to listen to my Yacht Rock mixtape on, but I will be sipping a "Pina Colada" while I put this Top 10 list together.

Andriy Bezuglov, ThinkStock
Andriy Bezuglov, ThinkStock
Andriy Bezuglov, ThinkStock

Then I'm 'Taking It To The Streets' and 'Ride Like The Wind'. Maybe I'll 'Steal Away', call the girls, 'Josie' and her best friend 'Peg' and enjoy a 'Cool Night'... yep... 'This Is It!' How 'bout that for a sentence. While I love all those songs above (yes, they're all links to the videos), these are my...

Top 10 Favorite Yacht Rock Songs.

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Lidian Neeleman, ThinkStock
Lidian Neeleman, ThinkStock

10. "Morning Dance" by Spyro Gyra

9. "(Arthur's Theme) Best that You Can Do" by Christopher Cross

8. "How Much I Feel" by Ambrosia

7. "Baby Come Back" by Player

6. "'65 Love Affair" by Paul Davis

5. "Your Smiling Face" by James Taylor

4. "Rosanna" by Toto

3. "Minute By Minute" by The Doobie Bros

2. "Heart To Heart" by Kenny Loggins

1. "Somebody's Baby" by Jackson Browne

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