120761bk Dean Martin 14/5/04 12:45 PM Page 2 1. I Got The Sun In The Morning 2:51 8. That Lucky Old Sun 3:03 14. In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The 18. You Belong To Me 3:04 (Irving Berlin) (Beasley Smith–Haven Gillespie) Evening 3:00 (Pee Wee King–Redd Stewart–Chilton Price) With Nat Brandwynne’s Orchestra With Paul Weston’s Orchestra (Hoagy Carmichael–Johnny Mercer) With Dick Stabile’s Orchestra Diamond 2036, mx 2036A Capitol 57-726, mx 4873-5 With Dick Stabile’s Orchestra Capitol 2175, mx 10272-6 Recorded July 1946, New York Recorded 10 August 1949, Hollywood Capitol 1703, mx 7326-5 Recorded 12 June 1952, Hollywood 2. Oh Marie 2:32 9. Vieni Su (Say You Love Me Too) 2:41 Recorded 9 April 1951, Hollywood 19. That’s Amore 3:09 (Eduardo di Capua) (Johnny Cola) 15. Luna Mezzo Mare 2:08 (Harry Warren–Jack Brooks) With Jerry Jerome’s All Stars With Paul Weston’s Orchestra (Paolo Citorello) With Dick Stabile’s Orchestra & Chorus Apollo 1088, mx 3142 Capitol 57-726, mx 4874-5 With Dick Stabile’s Orchestra; Dick Stabile, Capitol 2580, mx 11694-6 Recorded October 1947, New York Recorded 10 August 1949, Hollywood dialogue Recorded 13 August 1953, Hollywood 3. All Of Me 2:51 10. Muskrat Ramble 3:06 Capitol 1724, mx 7254-9 20. I Feel A Song Coming On 1:54 (Seymour Simons–Gerald Marks) (Kid Ory–Ray Gilbert) Recorded 20 June 1951, Hollywood (Jimmy McHugh–Dorothy Fields–George With Nat Brandwynne’s Orchestra With Paul Weston’s Orchestra 16. Come Back To Sorrento (Torna a Oppenheimer) Diamond 2035, mx 2035-X Capitol 948, mx 5607-6 Surriento) 3:13 With Dick Stabile’s Orchestra Recorded July 1946, New York Recorded 3 March 1950, Hollywood (Ernesto de Curtis–Claude Aveling) Capitol H 401, mx H 401-A 4. Walkin’ My Baby Back Home 2:56 11. I’ll Always Love You (Day After Day) With Dick Stabile’s Orchestra Recorded 20 November 1952, Hollywood (Roy Turk–Fred Ahlert) 2:35 Capitol 2140, mx 9320-6 With Jerry Jerome’s All Stars (Jerry Livingston–Ray Evans) Recorded 19 November 1951, Hollywood Transfers and Production: David Lennick Apollo 1088, mx 3143 With Paul Weston’s Orchestra 17. When You’re Smiling 3:03 Digital Noise Reduction: Graham Newton Recorded October 1947, New York Capitol 1028, mx 5924-3 (Larry Shay–Mark Fisher–Joe Goodwin) 5. The Money Song 3:11 Recorded 28 April 1950, Hollywood With Dick Stabile’s Orchestra Original monochrome photo of Dean Martin (Harold Rome) 12. I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Capitol 1975, mx 9625-5 from Rue des Archives/Lebrecht Music & Arts With Jerry Lewis and orchestra Shine 1:57 Recorded 21 January 1952, Hollywood Capitol 15249, mx 3404-4 (Mack David) Recorded 13 September 1948, Hollywood With Paul Weston’s Orchestra 6. You Was 2:49 Capitol 981, mx 5662-2 (Sonny Burke–Paul Francis Webster) Recorded 28 March 1950, Hollywood With Peggy Lee and orchestra 13. We Never Talk Much 2:49 Capitol 15349, mx 3587-4 (Sammy Cahn–Nicholas Brodszky) Recorded 14 December 1948, Hollywood With Helen O’Connell and Dick Stabile’s 7. Powder Your Face With Sunshine Orchestra (Smile! Smile! Smile!) 2:35 Capitol 1575, mx 7324-8 (Carmen Lombardo–Stanley Rochinski) Recorded 9 April 1951, Hollywood With Paul Weston’s Orchestra Capitol 15351, mx 3805-4 NAXOS RADIO 40 Channels of Classical Music • Jazz, Folk/World, Nostalgia Recorded 17 December 1948, Hollywood www.naxosradio.com Accessible Anywhere, Anytime • Near-CD Quality 5 8.120761 6 8.120761 120761bk Dean Martin 14/5/04 12:45 PM Page 1 After the split of the Lewis-Martin Lewis-Martin ‘music hall comedy’ The Caddy, Dean’s final screen appearances included and ‘Little Ole Wine Drinker, Me’. For three DEAN MARTIN partnership in 1956, it was at first generally this last soon established itself as Dean Martin’s Mr.Ricco (for MGM, in 1975), and Cannonball decades he played regularly to packed houses ‘When You’re Smiling’ Original 1946-1953 Recordings predicted that Dean would not make it solo. signature-tune and Dean’s recording was later Run (1981) and Cannonball Run II (1984), in Las Vegas and enjoyed a great British fan However, after an indifferent start as a light resurrected on screen in Patrick Palmer’s Oscar- both for Golden Harvest. His subsequent following; he made a successful last appearance comedian in the 1957 MGM fiasco Ten winning 1987 Italo-American comedy of biggest record hits, all for Capitol, included in London, at the Palladium, in the summer of Ballad singer, light comedian, sometime and All Of Me (1931) as well as ‘covers’ of Thousand Bedrooms, he emerged the manners Moonstruck. ‘Memories Are Made Of This’and ‘Standing On 1987. Later that year Dean’s son, rock musician dramatic screen actor and colourful Chief more recent fare, notably I Got The Sun In following year as a dramatic actor in the Marlon In later years Dean Martin would win an The Corner’ (both 1956) and the English cover- Dean Paul, was tragically killed in a plane crash Deputy of the ‘Rat Pack’, Dean Martin was the The Morning (from the Irving Berlin Brando World War II drama The Young Lions even more universal following through his NBC version of Domenico Modugno’s ‘Volare’ and, despite the support of his erstwhile Rat essence of devil-may-care, the epitome of Broadway musical Annie, Get Your Gun, 1946). (for 20th Century Fox) and in Warner’s Rio TV comedy-variety Dean Martin Show. (1958). In 1961, he switched to Sinatra’s Packers Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr., from 1988 nonchalance. Born Dino Paul Crocetti, the son None were particularly successful, nor did they Bravo (starring John Wayne, released in 1959). Screened worldwide between 1965 and 1974, newly-formed Reprise label and in 1964 took onwards his public appearances became of an immigrant Italian barber, in Steubenville, bring Dean his much-needed first break, which In MGM’s Some Came Running (also 1958) and later followed by various ad hoc ‘Celebrity the US singles charts by storm with a No.1 steadily fewer until he was finally forced to Ohio, on 17 June 1917, after quitting school in would materialise from another direction. Dean made his first screen appearance with Roast’ specials, it perpetuated Martin’s version of ‘Everybody Loves Somebody retire through ill health in 1993. Dean Martin the 10th grade he was employed as shoe-shine In 1946 Dean was still a small-time Frank Sinatra (Sinatra personally insisted on somewhat overplayed image as a lovable drunk. Sometime’ (a Ken Lane composition earlier died on 25th December 1995, aged 78 years. boy, petrol pump attendant, steel mill labourer entertainer when he first teamed with Jerry Dean’s casting as the hard-drinking professional Additionally, in the movies, he continued to give recorded by Sinatra himself, in 1947 and 1957). and (it is said) ‘card shark’, before turning full- Lewis. After their first show, at the 500 Club in gambler Bama) and, for a fee of $150,000, convincing light comedic and dramatic Further hits followed, including ‘You’re Peter Dempsey, 2004 time to pugilism where, billed variously as ‘Kid Atlantic City, they were soon in demand at redeemed his status as a screen icon. portrayals in Westerns and other genres. Ideally Nobody Till Somebody Loves You’,‘Houston’ Crochet’ or ‘Kid Crocetti’, his bouts in the other venues throughout the States. Martin the Dean’s first decade as a recording artist tongue-in-cheek, he poked fun at his own category of welterweight earned him $10 per laid-back crooner played a singing straight-man, appears to have been overshadowed by his womanising persona as the spoof James Bond fight. The shine of being a human punch-bag a stooge to the wacky machinations of the work in the spheres of cabaret and film. In ‘Matt Helm’ and was ever an esteemed member soon wore off, however, and he next took up Newark, New Jersey-born comic; their repartee 1948 he was signed by Capitol Records and by of the Rat Pack, with Sinatra & Co. A true Also available in the Naxos Nostalgia series ... employment as a croupier in a local casino and ad-libbing were infectious and by the late late 1953 had notched up a list of hits lasting in freelancer, he appeared in 1965 in The Sons Of while vocalising in his spare time. 1940s, via TV and radio, their Mutt-and-Jeff their appeal if rather limited in number, Katie Elder (for Paramount) and Marriage On By 1940, as ‘Dino Martini’, he had turned in antics had made them household names; to Mr. beginning in December with a send-up revival The Rocks (for Warner), in 1966 in The earnest to singing for a living, as vocalist first Average their hilarious knockabout comedy, of ‘That Certain Party’, a duet with Lewis which Silencers (for Columbia), Texas Across The with Ernie McKay and the following year with often reminiscent of the Marx Brothers, was a charted at No.22 in the US popular Top 30. River (for Universal) and Murderers’ Row (for the Sammy Watkins band. After the US entry tonic for post-war gloom and doom. In 1949 This was followed in close succession by two Columbia), in 1967 in Rough Night In Jericho into World War II he was excused military they were signed by Paramount and in their numbers included in the second Lewis-Martin (for Universal) and The Ambushers (for service on health grounds and, with a wife and first film My Friend Irma (1949) they appeared screen farce My Friend Irma Goes West (1950): Columbia), in 1968 in How To Save A Marriage children to support, continued to sing with in a supporting capacity; it was a prelude to a Powder Your Face With Sunshine (a No.10 And Ruin Your Life (for Columbia), Bandolero! various bands for the duration of hostilities.