Dino: The Essential Dean Martin
 | By Dean Martin Capitol, 2004, Audio CD Customer Rating: 59 reviews Recommend |
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The revisionist take on the Rat Pack's razor-witted King of Cool reveals a Dean Martin who was considerably more complex than the Titan of Tipplers legend; a man who would just as soon retire to his room with a tumbler of milk to watch a TV Western than prowl the Strip with his famous cohorts. That sublime, preternatural indifference is both underscored and belied with dizzying regularity on this good 30-track overview of Martin's singing career. The breezy hits "That's Amore" and "Volare" underscored his public staying power when many counted him out in the face of a surging 1950s youth market. He repeated the feat again with trademark effortlessness a decade later to knock no less than the Beatles off the top of the charts with the unlikely, if inviting schmaltz of "Everybody Loves Somebody." Ever informed by his warm, deceptive vocal ease, Martin's rich signature tunes are well-represented here. But the collection also spans enough lovable kitsch ("Mambo Italiano," "Little Old Wine Drinker Me") and unabashed romantic yearning ("Innamorata," "Send Me the Pillow You Dream On") to deepen the compelling mystery of one of pop music's most enduring ciphers. — Jerry McCulley
- Ain't That a Kick in the Head
- That's Amore
- Memories Are Made of This
- Just In Time
- Sway
- I'd Cry Like A Baby
- Volare
- Under The Bridges Of Paris
- Love Me, Love Me
- If
- Mambo Italiano
- Let Me Go Lover
- Standing On The Corner
- You Belong to Me
- Powder Your Face With Sunshine
- Innamorata (Sweetheart)
- I'll Always Love You
- Kiss
- You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
- Return to Me (Ritorna-Me)
- The Door Is Still Open to My Heart
- Houston
- Send Me The Pillow You Dream On
- Everybody Loves Somebody
- In the Chapel in the Moonlight
- I Will
- Little Old Wine Drinker Me
- Somewhere There's a Someone
- In The Misty Moonlight
- Gentle On My Mind
Title: Dino: The Essential Dean Martin
Sales Rank: 747 in Music
Artist: Dean Martin
Label: Capitol, 2004-06-01, Audio CD, 1 Disc
Package Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches, 0.2 pounds
- WOW!
- IF YOU BUY ONLY ONE DEAN MARTIN CD, THIS IS THE ONE!!!! I LISTEN TO IT ALWAYS!… More reviews
- Dean Martin Makes Me Swoon!
- After a recent trip to Italy for the third time, I returned home wanting to rediscover all the Italian music that played in my household when I was a young girl in the 1950's and early 1960's. I happily recall my mom singing "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime," "Let Me Go Lover," and so many other 50's era songs, while dad sang "Chitarra Romana," "Piccolo… More reviews
- DINO
- I got this for my husband and he LOVES it, He play's it all the time, it has 30 songs and is very enjoyable, if you like Dean, This is a must have. More reviews
- No Luck
- I have no luck when buying this CD album. The first one I ordered from Amazon skipped on the last five tracks. Amazon replaced it, only this one dosen't even load in my JVC Rack System's CD cassette player. I tried switching the cassette trays and even switched the cassettes. No luck, it played in my computer though... where I found new skips.
- That's Amore
- What can I say about this album - about the vocal styling, song selection, and whatnot. I mean, it's Dean Martin. Really, what could I say?
What I do have to say is that from the very first note I was immediately transported back to 1979, my Grandparents kitchen in the Bronx. The smell of sauce hanging in the air and gentle warble… More reviews
