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Features Disc of the day
Dean Martin
Christmas With Dino
(Capitol, 2004)
Dino Crocetti throws a Christmas cocktail party. Everyone's invited.
Christmas with Dino. Let's ponder that concept a second. No, let's revel in it. It would involve plenty of these, perhaps one or two of these, and plenty of feet-up time. Dean might sing you a song... but rest assured he wouldn't knock himself out. That's OK, though. Martin's good-natured mumble-croon is the perfect complement to a lazy Yule: real-fire warm and ludicrously laid back - practically comatose, in fact, on Winter Wonderland, drawn for this seasonal Dino roundup from his 1966 Crimble cash-in, The Dean Martin Christmas Album. These tracks are never less than exceedingly agreeable, but are bettered by those drawn from 1959's A Winter Romance, with gloriously witty arrangements and crisp work by the Gus Levene-conducted orchestra putting the porridgey '66-vintage orchestrations to shame. This, surely, is the best Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! on record, and elsewhere Dino lives up to his King Leer nickname on Frank Loesser's slyly lascivious Baby, It's Cold Outside. Dean's Christmas TV special became a holiday staple in the States. Like everything else, he didn't seem to take it very seriously, and perhaps the irony was not lost on him when he expired, of an acute respiratory failure, on Christmas morning, 1995. All ye who live to loaf, raise a glass to him.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 30/12/2009
Further Listening
Dean Martin – Dino! Italian Love Songs (Capitol, 1962)
Andy Williams – The Andy Williams Christmas Album (Columbia, 1963)
Perry Como – Season’s Greetings (RCA, 1962)
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