1. Which Way Did My Heart Go
2. All Of Me
3. I Got The Sun In The Morning
4. Walkin' My Baby Back Home
5. Santa Lucia
6. Hold Me
7. One Foot In Heaven
8. Night Is Young And You're So Beautiful
9. The Money Song
10. That Certain Party
11. Once In Love With Amy
12. Powder Your Face With Sunshine (Smile! Smile! Smile!)
13. Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder (For Somebody Else)
14. Have A Little Sympathy
15. Dreamy Old New England Moon
16. Three Wishes
17. Just For Fun
18. My Own, My Only, My All
19. That Lucky Old Sun
20. Rain
Widely accepted as less an entertainer, more an icon, Dean Martin enjoyed virtually unrivalled success for near on 50 years. Although his initial career was not successful, a chance pairing with comedian Jerry Lewis in 1946 paved the way for future stardom as an actor and singer and a star of stage, screen and later television.
Born in Ohio in 1917 Dean (born Dino Paul Crocetti) spoke only Italian until the age of five and was the target of much ridicule at school because of his broken English. He overcame the taunts with comparative ease (the fact that when he left school he worked briefly as a boxer may have had something to do with it!) and through underworld contacts launched a club career as Dean Martini. After a few years of struggling near the bottom of the bill, he was catapulted to stardom after another act quit and Dean linked with Jerry Lewis in a improvisational comedy routine. The pair would go on to make 13 hugely successful films before their split in 1956, by which time Dean had also enjoyed additional success on the pop charts. His initial aim of emulating Bing Crosby as a crooner was soon surpassed: Dean Martin oozed coolness.
If his reputation today has been cemented by his membership of the so called Rat Pack with Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr, then the three albums in this series serve to remind us just how good a singer he ultimately became.
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