Dean Martin

Dean Martin – The French Collection (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:43 minutes | 640 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Finest Recordings

Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor, comedian and television host. One of the most popular entertainers of the mid-20th century, he was nicknamed “The King of Cool”. Martin gained his career breakthrough together with comedian Jerry Lewis, billed as Martin and Lewis, in 1946. They performed in nightclubs and later had numerous appearances on radio and television and in films.

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Dean Martin – Welcome to My World (1967/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 26:44 minutes | 560 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

Welcome to My World is a 1967 studio album by Dean Martin, released after the successful singles “In the Chapel in the Moonlight” and “Litle Ole Wine Drinker Me”.

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Dean Martin – This Time I’m Swingin’ (1960/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 34:11 minutes | 1,60 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SPECIAL MARKETS (SPM)

Dean Martin’s 1960 album collaboration with conductor/arranger Nelson Riddle. The album is a collection of standards, including songs pulled from My Fair Lady and Cole Porter. Featuring titles, “On the Street Where You Live,” “True Love,” and “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face”.

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Dean Martin – The Hit Singles 1949-1961 Vol.6 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:46 minutes | 550 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor and comedian. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the mid-20th century, Martin was nicknamed “The King of Cool”. Martin gained his career breakthrough together with comedian Jerry Lewis, billed as Martin & Lewis, in 1946. They performed in nightclubs and later had numerous appearances on radio, television and in films.

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Dean Martin – The Door Is Still Open to My Heart (1964/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:42 minutes | 625 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

Released in 1964, The Door Is Still Open to My Heart was produced by Jimmy Bowen and featured arrangements by Ernie Freeman, Gus Levine and Marty Paich. The album peaked at #9 on the Billboard 200.

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Dean Martin – The Dean Martin TV Show (1966/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 24:08 minutes | 496 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

Released in 1966, The Dean Martin TV Show features Dean Martin in performance with the Les Brown orchestra, with arrangements by Ernie Freeman.

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Dean Martin – The Dean Martin Christmas Album (1966/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 24:51 minutes | 514 MB | Genre: Christmas, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

Mastered by Vic Anesini at Battery Studios from the best analog source available. This download version of 1966’s “The Dean Martin Chirstmas Album” is full of great songs. A devoted family man (despite his playboy image), Dino always adored Christmas. He was no doubt feeling nostalgic as he sang these, and you will, too, as you hear the King of Cool deliver “Silver Bells,” “Silent Night,” “Jingle Bells,” “White Christmas,” “Blue Christmas” and more!

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Dean Martin – The Classic 50s Singles (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:59 minutes | 334 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor, and comedian. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the mid-20th century, Martin was nicknamed “The King of Cool”.

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Dean Martin – Somewhere There’s A Someone (1966/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:42 minutes | 640 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

Somewhere There’s a Someone is a 1966 studio album by Dean Martin, produced by Jimmy Bowen. This was the first of five albums that Martin released in 1966, that year he also starred in three films, and appeared in his own television show. Somewhere There’s a Someone peaked at 50 on the Billboard 200.

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Dean Martin – Italian Love Songs (1962/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:56 minutes | 752 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records

Dean Martin typified both the romance and seeming effortlessness of the early-1960s swinger. This collection of lushly orchestrated songs features Italian pop classics like ‘There’s No Tomorrow,’ ‘Arrivederci Roma,’ ‘Return to Me,’ and the Latin-flavored ‘Belle From Barcelona,’ all performed with Martin’s familiar relaxed intimacy and devil-may-care swagger. The sessions producing this album’s songs were recorded between September 6 and September 8 of 1961. The backing orchestra was conducted and arranged by Gus Levene.

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Dean Martin – Houston (1965/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 29:31 minutes | 627 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

On Dean Martin’s previous album, (Remember Me) I’m the One Who Loves You, he had turned in an excellent version of Roger Miller’s “King of the Road,” and Lee Hazlewood wrote him a similar easygoing country-pop ballad about a drifter in “Houston,” which he took into the Top 40 in the summer of 1965. The song therefore lent its name to his next album, handled, as usual, by producer Jimmy Bowen, although arranger/conductor Ernie Freeman was replaced by Bill Justis. Freeman had done the chart for “Everybody Loves Somebody,” the record that launched Martin’s 1960s comeback, but Justis proved he could write in a similar style, notably on “The First Thing Ev’ry Morning (And the Last Thing Ev’ry Night),” which shared its 1950s-style rock & roll arrangement with many of the hits Martin had scored over the last year. And Justis was not afraid to take Martin even further into pop/rock with Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart’s “Little Lovely One.” He also had a good sense of middle-of-the-road pop, best shown on “I Will,” which was on its way to the Top Ten when the album was released. All of this demonstrated that Bowen was shrewdly expanding Martin’s contemporary base beyond the formula records he had made in the wake of “Everybody Loves Somebody,” and doing it successfully. Houston actually charted higher than Martin’s last two albums (it didn’t hurt that he now had a television series on which to promote his records), indicating that his comeback was being sustained, not diminishing. ~~ AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann

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Dean Martin – French Style (1962/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:49 minutes | 699 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

Recorded in 1962, French Style features French-themed popular songs and Chansons arranged by Neal Hefti, including “C’est si bon” and “La Vie En Rose.”

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Dean Martin – Everybody Loves Somebody (1964/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:29 minutes | 675 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

When the title song became a smash hit, Reprise assembled this LP from B-sides and previously released album cuts recorded between February 1962 and April 1964. It was released on the same day as the Dream with Dean studio album…

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Dean Martin – Dream with Dean (1964/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:13 minutes | 677 MB | Genre: Easy Listening, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

A profile of a rugged Dean Martin by the fireplace with a cigarette adorns the jacket of this very interesting concept album. As Stan Cornyn’s liner notes explain, “his longtime accompanist” on piano, Ken Lane, with “three of Hollywood’s most thoughtful rhythm men” — those being drummer Irv Cottler, bassist Red Mitchell, and guitarist Barney Kessel — do create a mood, Dean Martin performing as if he were a lounge singer at 1:15 a.m. as the Saturday night crowd is dwindling. His signature tune, “Everybody Loves Somebody,” is here in a laid-back style, produced by Jimmy Bowen, who would go on to produce Reba McEntire, Kenny Rogers & the First Edition, and so many others, also the same man who was behind the 1964 number one smash. This album with the original Martin recording was released after the hit single version and on the same day as the Everybody Loves Somebody LP, but how many times does the audience get a different studio reading of a seminal hit record? Not only that, but the version that preceded the hit. The backing is so sparse it is almost a cappella, with Kessel’s guitar noodlings and Ken Lane’s piano. The bass is mostly invisible, coming in only when needed. It’s a slow and sultry version that caps off side one. There is a rendition of Rodgers & Hart’s “Blue Moon” that strips away the doo wop of the Marcels’ number one 1961 remake, and a run-through of the Bloom/Mercer hit for Glen Miller, “Fools Rush In,” which Rick Nelson had launched into the Top 15 in 1963. Martin is just crooning away, and if the album has one drawback, it is that the 12 songs are incessant in their providing the same atmosphere. The backing quartet does not deviate from their job, nor does producer Jimmy Bowen add any technique, other than putting Martin’s voice way out in the mix. But Dream With Dean was no doubt excellent research and development as Bowen landed 11 Top 40 hits with the singer from 1964’s “Everybody Loves Somebody,” which evolved out of this original idea to 1967’s “Little Old Wine Drinker, Me.” It sounds as if they tracked the album in one afternoon, and it is not only a very pleasant listening experience, it shows what a tremendous vocalist Dean Martin truly was. ~~ AllMusic Review by Joe Viglione

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