Author: Martin, Dean

Format: Best of

Release Date: 15-06-2004

Details: Product Description A single CD that covers Dean Martin's hits for *both* Capitol and Reprise, and a 30-track single CD at that! Includes That's Amore; Memories Are Made of This; Everybody Loves Somebody; Return to Me (Ritorna-Me); If; Sway; The Door Is Still Open to My Heart; Little Old Wine Drinker Me; I Will; Somewhere There's a Someone; In the Misty Moonlight; In the Chapel in the Moonlight; Love Me, Love Me; Powder Your Face with Sunshine; You Belong to Me; I'd Cry Like a Baby; I'll Always Love You; Innamorata (Sweetheart); Standing on the Corner; Volare; Houston; Send Me the Pillow You Dream On , and more. Amazon.ca 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

UPC: 724386652720

EAN: 0724359848723

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood