I recorded this song as tribute to the fiancé that I tragically lost a month before I was honorably discharged from the Navy in 1983. I fell into alcohol and other things for about a year as I grieved, but I pulled through.

"Drinking Again" is a 1962 torch song, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer and music by Doris Tauber. It embodies the emotion of true love and how true love can have a lifelong effect.

The song has been recorded by Frank Sinatra (The World We Knew), Dinah Washington (Drinking Again), Aretha Franklin (Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington), Bette Midler (Bette Midler) and James Anthony (Blue Again) among others.