A Music Library Must Have
Hey lady! do I look all blurry to you? ‘Cause you look blurry to me!’
- Dean Martin
Are you looking to treat yourself? Hop over to Amazon. There is a Dean Martin at the Sands long box set that is the perfect backdrop for any swanky party. Maybe it is just a party for yourself as you tidy up the place. What’s more is that it features some of Dino’s best and is under twenty bucks.
It was recorded on February 8, 1964. It was before his big comeback, and just before “Everybody Loves Somebody” made him chart topping gold again. The recordings give you a real good sense of what his stage presence and touring act was like back then. In otherwords, go grab it.
Trivia time: Did you know that during the Dean Martin show and his prior appearances with Jerry Lewis, most of the time, the glass of booze Dino seemed to always had in his hand was fake? Yep. Many people thought it was real, but he was just playing it up.
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Hey pallie, loves the Dinopix….this Dinoalbum over at amazon appears to like be a single Dinoalbum with 14 Dinotracks. Never was, never will be anyone as cool as the King of Cool……..oh, to return to the days when Dino walked the earth….
Dean definitely is missed – a true original.
If you read down on the product description…it looks like the track list is not complete. The banter in between songs, etc, is hard to list in a neat little amazon track list. It is an older release so can be snapped up for a song.
Had no idea the “boozer” image was fake! Glad to hear it.
Loved his voice, rich and mellow. No one else comes close.
Thanks for the post.
On the tv show he used apple juice, and in the Rat Pack days he was usually the first to call it a night. Being the drunk was just his schtick/persona. His license plate I think even said “Drunky.” Obviously now you can’t make fun of stuff like that, but he was pretty un-PC. He may have had issues in the early days with it, perhaps, but it was hard for anyone to prove.