Legacy
Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, in partnership
with the Dean Martin Family Trust, has acquired the singer's legendary Reprise
Records catalog and begun remastering titles for a major ongoing reissue
project.
The Dean
Martin Reprise catalog acquisition includes all the recordings Dino made during
his extraordinary creative tenure (1962-1974) at Rat Pack chairman Frank
Sinatra's Reprise Records label. The Nashville Sessions, the album Martin cut
for Warner Bros in 1983, is also included.
The Dean
Martin reissue project began with the first digital releases of The Dean Martin
Christmas Album, 1966's #1 Christmas album and perennial holiday classic, and
Dean Martin: The Reprise Years, a 2-disc anthology of the crooner's high points
at the label.
Legacy
Recordings is remastering all the tracks in Dean Martin's Reprise catalog with
an eye toward releasing the catalog digitally and physically over the course of
the next year.
On
January 20, Legacy released The Very Best of Dean Martin as part of the label's
popular Playlist series. The Dean Martin
Playlist contains:
1.Everybody
Loves Somebody
2.Every
Minute, Every Hour
3.The
Door Is Still Open to My Heart
4.You're
Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
5.Send
Me the Pillow You Dream On
6.In the
Chapel in the Moonlight
7.I
Can't Help Remembering You
8.Houston
9.Bumming
Around
10.I
Will
11.Little
Ole Wine Drinker, Me
12.Ain't
Gonna Try Anymore
13.Kiss
the World Goodbye
14.Drinking
Champagne
The next wave of titles in the Dean Martin
Reprise Records reissue project, coming February 4, will include digital
releases of ten albums:
1.The
Door Is Still Open To My Heart
2.Everybody
Loves Somebody
3.Dream
With Dean
4.Dean
Martin Hits Again
5.Welcome
To My World
6.(Remember
Me) I'm The One That Loves You
7.Dino
Latino
8.French
Style
9.The
Dean Martin TV Show
10.Houston
"We're so pleased to be working with the
Dean Martin Family Trust in bringing Dean's Reprise Records legacy to new
generations," said Adam Block, President, Legacy Recordings. "Dean's music and style embody the very
essence of 'cool' and now is the perfect time to introduce this timeless pop
music to future fans."
One of
the great lounge singers of the pre-rock era, Dean Martin hit his stride as a
cultural icon during his years with Reprise, knocking the Beatles off the top
of the charts in August 1964 with a dreamy contemporary take on "Everybody
Loves Somebody (Sometime)," a standard he'd sung on Bob Hope's radio show
in 1948 that became one of his theme songs, a sentiment so universal it's on
his gravestone.
A
multi-faceted artist whose talents crossed media boundaries, Dean Martin has
three stars on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame: one for recording, one for
movies, and one for television, where he introduced Americans to Celebrity
Roasts in the 1970s.
The
genius of Dean Martin is that he made everything sound easy and classy and fun.
Relaxed and comfortable, with a beatific self-assurance that transcended
confidence, Dino's one of the greatest singers who ever cut records. On his
Reprise Recordings, the King of Cool is also his most soulful.
THE DEAN
MARTIN CHRISTMAS ALBUM
1.White
Christmas
2.Jingle
Bells
3.I'll
Be Home For Christmas
4.Blue
Christmas
5.Let It
Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
6.A
Marshmallow World
7.Silver
Bells
8.Winter
Wonderland
9.The
Things We Did Last Summer
10.Silent
Night
DEAN
MARTIN: THE REPRISE YEARS
Disc
One: The Greatest Hits
1.Everybody
Loves Somebody
2.The
Door Is Still Open To My Heart
3.You're
Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
4.You'll
Always Be The One I Love
5.Send
Me The Pillow You Dream On
6.(Remember
Me) I'm The One Who Loves You
7.Houston
8.I Will
9.Somewhere
There's A Someone
10.Come
Running Back
11.A
Million And One
12.Nobody's
Baby Again
13.(Open
Up The Door) Let The Good Times In
14.Lay
Some Happiness On Me
15.In
The Chapel In The Moonlight
16.Little
Ole Wine Drinker, Me
17.In
The Misty Moonlight
18.You've
Still Got A Place In My Heart
19.Not
Enough Indians
20.I
Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am
Disc
Two: The Best Of The Rest
1.Who's
Got The Action
2.The
One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else
3.I've
Grown Accustomed To Her Face
4.Baby-O
5.Things
6.Corrine
Corrina
7.Bumming
Around
8.Welcome
To My World
9.My
Heart Cries For You
10.Gentle
On My Mind
11.Tik-A-Tee,
Tik-A-Tay
12.Senza
Fine
13.Tangerine
14.Besame
Mucho
15.Blue
Moon
16.I'm
Confessin' (That I Love You)
17.Darling,
Je Vous Aime Beaucoup
18.C'est
Si Bon
19.My
Melancholy Baby
20.Everybody
Loves Somebody (original version)
DEAN
MARTIN: REPRISE ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY
French
Style (1962)
Dino
Latino (1962; #99)
Country
Style (1963; #109)
Dean Tex
Martin Rides Again (1963)
Dream
With Dean (1964; #15*)
Everybody
Loves Somebody (1964; #2*)
The Door
Is Still Open To My Heart (1964)
Dean
Martin Hits Again (1965; #13*)
(Remember
Me) I'm The One Who Loves You (1965; #12*)
Houston
(1965; #11*)
Somewhere
There's Someone (1966; 40*)
Dean
Martin Sings Songs From "The Silencers" (1966; #108)
The Hit
Sound Of Dean Martin (1966; #50)
The Dean
Martin Christmas Album (1966; #1 Xmas*)
The Dean
Martin TV Show (1966; #34)
Happiness
Is Dean Martin (1967; #46)
Welcome
To My World (1967; #20*)
Dean
Martin's Greatest Hits! (1968; #26*)
Dean
Martin's Greatest Hits! Vol. 2 (1968; #83*)
Gentle
On My Mind (1968; #14*)
I Take A
Lot Of Pride In What I Am (1969; #90)
My
Woman, My Woman, My Wife (1970; #97)
For The
Good Times (1971; #113, #41 Country)
Dino
(1972; #117)
Sittin'
On Top Of The World (1973)
You're
The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me (1973)
Once In
Awhile (1978)
The
Nashville Sessions (1983; #49 Country)
*
certified gold album (most of which sold over 1,000,000 units--there was no
platinum certification at the time)
~ Legacy Recordings
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