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| Popmatters |
 Sam Cooke is the greatest American vocalist, which means that Sinatra lands somewhere around fourth or fifth in the top five. So where’s that leave Dean Martin? Who knows? Who cares? The man’s place in American popular culture is forever secure. Rat Pack. Handsome. Martin and Lewis. Golf. TV. The whole 18 holes. So, the double disc Dino: The Essential Dean Martin and its more compact companion, Classic Dino: The Best of Dean Martin, are probably not going to offer you anything you aren’t expecting. Martin was a charming guy with a good voice who recorded some memorable songs, and attempts at deeper analysis seem almost heretical for a man who made his name in an era where the illusion of glamour, immortality, and star power (read: the superficiality of celebrity) reigned supreme. The stuff the casual listener—the dame or dude who, like me, wants to have some Dino on hand for holidays and dinner parties—really wants what occupies the single disc Classic Dino set. They’re all there—“That’s Amore”, “Ain’t That a Kick in the Head”, “Volare (Nel Blu Di Pinto Di Blue)”, and “You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You”—and each reveals Martin’s uncanny ability to lend warmth to a simple melody and make us unashamed to embrace lyrics that ask us to believe in the impossible and smile all the while. But the dual disc Essential tells a far more remarkable story. There’s an attempt to sound like the King: “Memories Are Made of This” is a dead ringer for Presley’s “Return to Sender” and you can almost hear Dino curling his upper lip as he works from verse to chorus and back again. There’s pure schmaltz: “Angel Baby” is almost unbearable in its sentimentality. There’s the sentimental that is square, schmaltzy, and yet somehow bearable via “Send Me the Pillow You Dream On” and a foray into something that wasn’t quite pop and wasn’t quite country in the form of the thoroughly enjoyable “Gentle On My Mind”....full text |
| Netnewspublisher |
| Martin‘s music on June 7, just in time for Father’s Day. A new title, Classic Dino: The Best Of Dean Martin gathers 14 classic tracks, and the Platinum-certified Dino: The Essential Dean Martin has been expanded from a single disc to a 2CD package featuring 36 of Martin’s top hits and signature songs. Both titles will also be available for download purchase from all major digital service providers. The expanded edition of Dino: The Essential Dean Martin includes a previously unreleased studio version of “Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody.” Recorded by Martin on April 28, 1950, the master was presumed lost until it was recently unearthed in the Capitol vaults. On the same date, Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) will release a new 60+ page hardcover book and musical collection titled Cool Then, Cool Now featuring never before seen photos compiled from personal collections and family archives, and includes a 2CD, 28-song collection, spanning Dean Martin’s musical career. Previously announced, NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products and TIME-LIFE will release three new DVD collections featuring The Best of the Dean Martin Variety Show on May 24. The single DVD, double DVD and six-DVD Collectors Edition sets capture material never before released from some of the shows greatest episodes during its nine-year run on television from 1965 to 1974. A famed star of the silver screen, television icon, Grammy® Award-winning singing sensation and member of the renowned “Rat Pack,” Dean Martin’s show business legacy is legendary. His musical career features such classics as “Ain’t That A Kick In The Head,” “That’s Amore,” “Mambo Italiano,” “Everybody Loves Somebody,” “Sway,” “Volare,” and more, releasing dozens of album recordings over his lifetime. Starring in dozens of well-known movies including Ocean’s Eleven, Rio Bravo , The Caddy, and Who Was That Lady?, for which Martin received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor, coupled with a highly popular television career, Dean Martin certainly earned his nickname as the “King of Cool.”...full text |
| Allmusic |
| Substituting the 2004 Dino: The Essential Dean Martin -- which is now expanded to two discs as of 2011 -- as the go-to single-disc Dean Martin collection -- the 2011 collection Classic Dino: The Best of Dean Martin is a short and sweet 14-track collection of Martin’s standards. All the big hits are here -- “That’s Amore,” “Ain’t That a Kick in the Head,” “Memories Are Made of This,” “Volare,” “Return to Me,” “Everybody Loves Somebody,” “You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You”-- albeit the latter is an early non-hit version -- which is enough to make this a satisfying hits collection for most casual listeners....full text |
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