Dean Martin - Dino: The Essential Dean Martin (Special Platinum Edition) (2CD)
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Artist: Dean MartinEdition: Music CD
Format: Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-06-07
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- 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
- I'll Always Love You
- Kiss
- You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
- Return To 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 Ole Wine Drinker, Me
- Somewhere There's A Someone
- In The Misty Moonlight
- Gentle On My Mind
- Intro by Frank Sinatra/Medley: Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes/Almost Like Being In Love/I Love Tahoe [Paris] (Live-Lake Tahoe 1962)
- My Kind Of Girl (Live-Lake Tahoe 1962)
- Medley: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter/Volare/On An Evening In Roma (Live-Lake Tahoe 1962)
- Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody (Live-Lake Tahoe 1962)
- Comedy Routine (Live-Lake Tahoe 1962)
- June In January (Live-Lake Tahoe 1962)
- Break It To Me Gently (Live-Lake Tahoe 1962)
Music reviews of Dino: The Essential Dean Martin (Special Platinum Edition) (2CD)
Music Review: Bonus disc is really for collectors only
Rating: 4 Stars
This was already a fine sampling of Dean's single hits dating from 1949-1969 from the Capitol and Reprise catalogs. It originally came out in 2004, and I did not purchase it then because I had these songs on other compilations. But Capitol has now reissued it with a bonus disc titled "Live from Lake Tahoe, California-July 27, 1962". There is no explanation as to the location of the show, but it appears to be the opening night of Dean's engagement at the newly renovated Cal-Neva Lodge, an establishment owned by Frank Sinatra, Martin, Hank Sanicola and reputedly several other interesting silent partners. (One wonders if Marilyn Monroe was in attendance at this show? She sought refuge at the Cal-Neva shortly before her death eight days later on August 5th.)
I opted to pick up this "Special Platinum Edition" for the bonus. There's a quick intro from Frank, and it's the usual 'direct from the bar' line. For those who have heard Dean's legendary lounge act before, the jokes are familiar. Musically, there are a few new nuggets: Dean's breezy but swinging take on Sinatra's "My Kind Of Girl" by Leslie Bricusse, a slow and bluesy version of "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby (With A Dixie Melody)", and another sweet slow swinger jokingly dedicated to Eddie Fisher, "Break It To Me Gently". But that's about it. Where's the rest of the show? The disc fades out to silence. I suspect there is more but we will have to be satisfied with this for now. It's a shame because the concert is sonically quite good- the orchestra is miked close, even occasionally covering Dino a tad when he's mumbling more than singing.
The included booklet has three enjoyable but short essays from Stevie Van Zandt, Deana Martin and Gail Martin Downey, plus some studio pictures of Dean at work and complete track information for the first disc. Again, no info is given for the bonus disc except for brief track info on the back of the jewel case and the silver shrink wrap which protects it.
So it's up to you if you want to plunk down the extra money to buy this reissue. If you are a collector, then you probably will. There are plenty of other discs with live shows of Dean solo or with the Rat Pack, and this bonus disc is not the definitive version of Dino in concert in the 60's. The first disc's hits are obviously great for a introduction to Martin's crooning, plus both discs sound great, so it does deserve four stars- and had it included a complete Cal-Neva show, it would've probably earned a five star rating.
Description of Dino: The Essential Dean Martin (Special Platinum Edition) (2CD)
THE PLATINUM CERTIFIED DINO: THE ESSENTIAL DEAN MARTIN ADDS 6 STANDOUT RECORDINGS FOR AN EXPANDED 36 TRACK, 2CD COLLECTION OF MARTIN'S TOP HITS Includes the previously unreleased track Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody.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
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