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Dean Martin - Happiness Is Dean Martin/Welcome to My World Audio CD

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Dean Martin Band: Dean Martin
Title: Happiness Is Dean Martin/Welcome to My World
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Release Date: 2002-06-11
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Lay Some Happiness on Me 2: Think About Me 3: I'm Not the Marrying Kind 4: If I Ever Get Back to Georgia 5: It Just Happened That Way 6: (Open Up the Door) Let the Good Times In 7: You've Still Got a Place in My Heart 8: Sweet, Sweet Lovable You 9: He's Got You 10: Thirty More Miles to San Diego 11: Nobody's Baby Again 12: In the Chapel in the Moonlight 13: Release Me (And Let Me Love You Again) 14: I Can't Help Remembering You 15: Turn to Me 16: Wallpaper Roses 17: Little Ole Wine Drinker Me 18: Green, Green Grass of Home 19: Place in the Shade 20: Pride 21: Welcome to My World

Welcome to my World
Dean's version of Welcome to my World is the absolute best for me. I have listened to the album "Welcome to My World" on vinyl for many years now and it is still one of my favourite albums and tracks of all time. All of the other tracks on this double compilation are fantastic. I can now put my vinyl album away and listen to that magic in a much more convenient way. The production is terrific. .


Dean's Magnetic Persona...
Later, when I started my own record collection, I purchased a used copy of the album. Back in the 1970s, my grandparents had "Happiness is Dean Martin" on 8-track. Now I have purchased the CD, which also comes with a bonus album.

"Happiness is Dean Martin" reflects the light side of Dino. He covers some excellent songs like "He's Got You", and some new ones such as "Lay Some Happiness On Me" and "Open Up the Door and Let the Good Times In". In a word, this music is-FUN. Dean's sense of humor shines through. A less talented artist could not make this material a masterful concept piece, but Dino could-just because he had that magnetic persona. .


ALL YOU NEED IS DINO.
I WAS ONE OF A FEW WHO ASKED HIS PEOPLE TO DO THIS WITH HIS LATER REPRISE WORKS WHEN THE CDS OUT THERE WERE OF VARYING QUALITY. I LOVE THESE REPRISE COMPILATIONS. THEY DID A GREAT JOB. HIS RENDITION OF WINE DRINKER IS DEAN TO THE MAX , A SONG HE GOT FROM BOB MITCHUM. AND NO ONE DOES WELCOME TO MY WORLD BETTER THAN DEAN. JIM REEVES IS GREAT BUT THIS SURPASSES THAT. IN ANOTHER COMPILATION DEAN SINGS FOR THE GOOD TIMES. AND PRICE DID IT GREAT BUT LISTEN TO DEANS AND IT WILL BE ALL TOO CLEAR WHO DID THE BEST RENDITION. EVERBODY LOVES SOMEBODY AND WE ALL LOVE DEAN.


EASY LISTENING
We're about halfway mark through the REPRISE years,and DINO fresh from the success of his tv series, almost transform everything from the standards to his new songs like LITTLE OLE WINE DRINKER,ME into his own unique style. If you are a fan of DEAN MARTIN,you'll love those two 1967 lps . That is the mark of a singer who knows his craft,even if the material is medium. This is easy listening music at it's best,and DINO is almost in the twilight of his career with still a few delights to come. As you know,there are many DEAN MARTIN impersonators nowadays,but why not stick with the original?The song IN THE CHAPEL IN THE MOONLIGHT was originally a FRENCH song recorded by LEO MARJANE in 1938 under the title LA CHAPELLE AU CLAIR DE LUNE.


Middle of the road Dino pop
"Welcome To My World" equals the original rendition by Jim Reeves, though somewhat different in style. These are probably not Dino's finest Reprise recordings, but there are a few gems. Dean's "Green Green Grass Of Home" is very impressive. "Little Old Winedrinker" is fun, and there are nice cuts of "Wallpaper Roses" and "Chapel In The Moonlight (great Ernie Freeman arragnements and the latter is an extremely impressive vocal by Dean), and the gentle "I Can't Help Remembering You". The rest is filler. . . but good filler!.


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