Al Martino - Capitol Collectors Series - Al Martino
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Artist: Al MartinoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1992-02-25
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Here In My Heart
- Take My Heart
- Rachel
- When You're Mine
- I Love You Because
- Painted, Tainted Rose
- Living A Lie
- I Love You More And More Every Day
- Tears And Roses
- Always Together
- We Could
- Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte
- Red Roses For A Blue Lady
- Spanish Eyes
- Think I'll Go Somewhere And Cry Myself To Sleep
- Just Yesterday
- Daddy's Little Girl
- Mary In The Morning
- Love Is Blue (L'Amour Est Bleu)
- Can't Help Falling In Love
- Look Around (You'll Find Me There)
- Speak Softly Love
- To The Door Of The Sun (Alle Porte Del Sole)
- Volare (Nel Blu Di Pinto Di Blu)
- The Next Hundred Years
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Music Review: He Defied The Odds
Rating: 4 Stars
Al Martino - born Alfred Cini on October 7, 1927 in Philadelphia - was one crooner who grandly defied some pretty big odds stacked against him in the 1960s.
Once employed as a bricklayer, his obvious vocal talent, bordering on the operatic, resulted in some hefty encouragement by another Italian-American singer of note named Mario Lanza, a boyhood friend. Armed with his endorsement, and backed by Monty Kelly & His Orchestra, he took Here In My Heart to # 1 in the summer of 1952 on the BBS label. That original version is in this set, as is his second hit that year, Take My Heart.
Now on the Capitol label, and again backed by Kelly, it peaked at # 12 even as the first hit still rode high on the charts. Subsequent singles, however, struggled badly, and by the time 1955 and the Rock Era arrived it looked as though he would join fellow crooners like Eddie Fisher in hit oblivion.
And that's the way it was throughout 1955 to 1958 until he recorded a little number called I Can't Get You Out Of My Heart which just missed making the Billboard Pop Hot 100 Top 40 in June of 1959, leveling off at # 44. That was followed in October by Darling, I Love You which, although it only made it to # 63 in October, also became a # 27 R&B - his only such crossover. Lamentably both are missing from this compilation - but the first one can be found on Hey! Look What I Found Vol. 9. He was back - but only tentatively since his next charter didn't come until August 1961 when a re-make of Here In My Heart made it to # 17 Adult Contemporary (AC)/# 86 Hot 100 (that can be found on his Greatest Hits (Curb) CD).
1962 was also a washout, but in 1963 he was back with a vengeance. After I Love You Because made it to # 1 AC/# 3 Hot 100 that June, he would never be off the charts again right through the height of the British Invasion and on into the Seventies. No mean feat. And fourteen of them are in this fine set, beginning with the other two 1963 charters, Painted, Tainted Rose (# 3 AC/# 15 Hot 100) and Living A Lie (# 8 AC/# # 22 Hot 100).
From 1964 you have I Love You More And More Every Day (# 3 AC/# 9 Hot 100), Tears And Roses (# 7 AC/# 20 Hot 100), Always Together (# 4 AC/# 33 Hot 100), and We Could (# 6 AC/# 41 Hot 100), while 1966 is represented by Spanish Eyes (# 1 AC for 4 weeks/# 15 Hot 100 that January), Just Yesterday (# 12 AC/# 77 Hot 100), and Think I'll Go Somewhere And Cry Myself To Sleep (# 2 AC/# 30 Hot 100). In March 1967 he took Daddy's Little Girl to # 2 AC/# 42 Hot 100, and that summer had a # 1 AC/# 27 Hot 100 with one of my all-time Martino favourites, Mary In The Morning.
From 1970 you have Can't Help Falling In Love (# 5 AC/# 51 Hot 100) and, following the regeneration of his career by his appearance as Johnny Fontane in The Godfather, the 1975/76 hits To The Door Of The Sun [Alle Porte Del Sol](# 7 AC/# 17 Hot 100) and Volare (# 9 AC/# 33 Hot 100).
There were many other hits in the period 1965-1972 which are not in this set, a few of which may be found on these other Al Martino CDs: My Cherie (# 26 AC/# 88 Hot 100 in 1965) is on I Love You Because/My Cherie, while The Al Martino Collection has Wiederseh'n (# 3 AC/# 57 Hot 100 in June 1966) and Forgive Me (# 7 AC/# 61 Hot 100 in October 1965), More Than The Eye Can See (# 1 AC/# 54 Hot 100 in October 1967), Sausalito (# 13 AC/# 99 Hot 100 in May 1969), and Speak Softly Love (from The Godfather) - a # 24 AC/# 80 Hot 100 in May 1972.
Categorized as "hard-to-finds" are, from 1965, My Heart Would Know (# 11 AC/# 52 Hot 100 in February, and written by the legendary Hank Williams) and Somebody Else Is Taking My Place (# 11 AC/# 53 Hot 100 in April), The Wheel Of Hurt (# 12 AC/# 59 Hot 100 in November 1966), A Voice In The Choir (# 5 AC/# 80 Hot 100 in December 1967), 1968's Lili Marlene (# 7 AC/ # 87 Hot 100 in May), and I Can't Help It [If I'm Still In Love With You], another Hank Williams tunes which made it to # 10 AC/# 97 Hot 100 that December. Missing from 1969 is I Started Loving You Again (# 19 AC/# 86 Hot 100 in December, and written by Merle Haggard).
While we await - hopefully - for another CD from Capitol giving us those missing hits, you can't go wrong with this fine compilation.
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