The Hit Sound of Dean Martin
| The Hit Sound of Dean Martin | ||||
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| Released | August 1966 | |||
| Recorded | 1966 | |||
| Genres | Traditional pop, country | |||
| Length | 29:28 | |||
| Labels | Reprise R 6213 | |||
| Producer | Jimmy Bowen | |||
| Dean Martin chronology | ||||
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The Hit Sound of Dean Martin is a 1966 studio album by Dean Martin arranged by Ernie Freeman and Billy Strange.[1][2]
This was the third of five albums that Martin released in 1966, that year he also starred in three films and appeared in his own television show.[3] The Hit Sound of Dean Martin peaked at 50 on the Billboard 200, and was still on the charts in the second week of February 1967.[4][5] In contrast to the chart performance of his recent LP's, The Hit Sound of Dean Martin marked a waning in his chart popularity as it only became his first LP since 1964's Everybody Loves Somebody not to go gold.[1]
The album combines newly recorded material with previously issued singles and B sides.[1] The album featured Martin's singles "Come Running Back" and "A Million and One", respectively Top 40 pop and Top Five easy listening hits, with six newly recorded songs.[1] "Shades" by Lee Hazlewood that appears on the album had previously been issued as the B side to "A Million and One". Two tracks, "Any Time" and "Ain't Gonna Try Anymore," from this album had been released originally on Martin's 1963 album Dean "Tex" Martin: Country Style.[1] The song "Any Time" was appearing for the third time on an LP by Martin, having also featured on his album Somewhere There's a Someone, released earlier in 1966.[1]
The Hit Sound of Dean Martin was reissued on CD by Hip-O Records in 2009.[6]
Reception
[edit]| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
William Ruhlmann on Allmusic.com gave the album two and a half stars out of five. Ruhlmann commented on Martin's country music style writing that "The new songs, as usual arranged in a style that would define them as country music if they had been recorded in Nashville by a singer with more of a twang in his voice, were no great shakes".[1]
Track listing
[edit]Side One:
- "A Million and One" (Yvonne DeVaney) â 2:56
- "Don't Let the Blues Make You Bad" (Billy Mize) â 2:05
- "Any Time" (Herbert "Happy" Lawson) â 2:20
- "One Lonely Boy" (Baker Knight) â 2:22
- "I'm Living in Two Worlds" (Jan Crutchfield) â 2:38
- "Come Running Back" (Dick Glasser) â 2:07
Side Two:
- "Shades" (Lee Hazlewood) â 2:21
- "Today Is Not the Day" (Mary Taylor) â 2:01
- "Terrible, Tangled Web" (Mize) â 2:09
- "Nobody But a Fool (Would Love You)" (Bill Anderson) â 2:11
- "Ain't Gonna Try Anymore" (Clint Ballard) â 2:18
Personnel
[edit]- Dean Martin â vocals
- Ernie Freeman â arranger
- Billy Strange â conductor
- Ed Thrasher â art direction
- Eddie Brackett â engineer
- Jimmy Bowen â producer
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 The Hit Sound of Dean Martin at AllMusic
- â Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. August 20, 1966. pp. 1â. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
- â Nick Tosches (April 13, 1999). Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams. Random House Publishing Group. p. 381. ISBN 978-0-385-33429-7. Retrieved February 16, 2013.
- â The Hit Sound of Dean Martin â Awards at AllMusic
- â Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. February 11, 1967. pp. 1â. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
- â The Hit Sound of Dean Martin at AllMusic