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Post subject: Dean Martin Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:30 pm |
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Dean Martin - again again. Dino Paul Crocetti. Was he a whisky or a bourbon man?
Let's see now, Dean Martin on the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th. Will I play the Dean Martin CD for five consecutive days? We shall see, this is all very exciting. I don't know what tomorrow will bring. I might try something else. I like the song "Arrivederci Roma", it's so old world. Dean Martin died on Christmas Day. So did James Brown. When I was a kid, I'd watch The Dean Martin Show on TV:
Dean Martin performs the classic song, "Somewhere There's a Someone" on "The Dean Martin Show"
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P26RA3lOJd0[/youtube]
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Post subject: Dean Martin Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:46 pm |
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Errm, here's the CD that I've played for four days straight now: Amazon.com Whether you see Dean Martin as an iconic, velvet-voiced crooner or a repugnant symbol of Vegas excess, Forever Cool is a fascinating--if flawed--experiment in keeping the celebrated performer contemporary. A reworking of his vocal tracks as duets with internationally known collaborators (from British singer Joss Stone to Italian chart-topper Tiziano Ferro), the album additionally features new arrangements as well as one previously unreleased track (an a cappella version of "Brahms' Lullaby"), all seamlessly mixed with droll studio banter ("Last time I was this hot I had a kid") that gives the recording a palpable immediacy. In keeping the new instrumental backing tasteful and smart, producers Rob Christie, Phil Ramone, Patrick Williams, and Bobby Colomby spotlight Martin's considerable vocal skills and rescue him from his unctuous, drunk, and schmaltzy self-caricaturizing, even as some of the spoken prattle threatens to lift the martini glass to that trait. While trumpeter Chris Botti and saxophonist Dave Koz prove sparkling choices as collaborators, the selection of vocal guests sometimes seem head-scratchingly strange. Stone, who appears on "I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me," is far too husky a singer to pair with Martin's smooth mega-baritone (and one can't help but think she could be his great-granddaughter), while Paris Bennett, the American Idol finalist, comes off as lightweight as Tinkerbell. Perhaps not surprisingly, actor/singer Kevin Spacey, with his hipster Bobby Darin chops, comes closest to matching Martin's joie de vivre, while Martina McBride's elastic, adaptive soprano makes her the most believable female counterpart, even as she is forced to truncate her usual phrasing. All in all, this is a thoroughly enjoyable invitation to a fantasy cocktail party where Dino is always, and ever, the star. --Alanna Nash
Product Description To honor Dean Martin's broad appeal and countless contributions to modern entertainment via his legendary music, stage, film and television career, many of the world's top artists have recorded new collaborative tracks with him on Dean Martin: Forever Cool. Forever Cool's 14 tracks pair Martin's original vocals with new arrangements and an all-star group of collaborators in a salute to the unparalleled talent and charisma of the man known around the world as "Dino". A special CD/DVD edition of Forever Cool is also available & contains a 25 minute "making of" & interview documentary footage.
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Post subject: Dean Martin Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:51 pm |
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If you can stay sober long enough, you can thumb thru this bio:  Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams (Paperback) by Nick Tosches Amazon.com Review Only a handful of showbiz biographers can lay claim to posessing the literary acumen of writers like Michael Holroyd and Peter Ackroyd. Nick Tosches is one of these writers, and his unauthorized biography of Dean Martin stands as a testament to his genius. Several inimitable sequences in which Tosches adopts his subject's perspective (most of which are regrettably unsuitable for quotation here) make the book a real standout. Dino is a fascinating portrait of a man who had it all--money, fame, women--and didn't give a damn about any of it and suggests that, even as he wallowed in the excesses of Hollywood and the Rat Pack, Martin stayed critically aloof from that world, albeit often in a booze-and-pill-addled haze. He got into showbiz precisely because it required so little effort of him: "I can't stand an actor or actress who tells me acting is hard work," he once said. "It's easy work. Anyone who says it is hard never had to stand on his feet all day dealing blackjack." Nobody could impress Martin. While Frank Sinatra would do anything just to hang out with reputed Mafioso, the Mob would have to make special trips to ask Martin in person to play a show at one of their casinos.
Tosches' portrait, written only a few years before Martin's death in 1996, depicts its subject as nothing so much as a Zen master without the spiritual anchor; after sampling everything that life had to offer and finding it lacking, Martin spent the last years of his life waiting to die in virtual seclusion. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal Tosches, best known for his biography of Jerry Lee Lewis ( Hellfire , LJ 1/15/82), worked in a similar vein to produce this biography of Dean Martin. Tosches's extensive research is obvious, and his book has been aided immeasurably by extensive interviews with Martin's longtime wife, Jeanne, and with his former partner, Jerry Lewis. Martin himself was not interviewed. It's all here: Martin's career in nightclubs, movies, and television as well as his friendships with various mafiosi. The book stays afloat despite the weightiness of too many Italian and Yiddish words, too many gratuitous expletives, and just plain too many words bearing too much metaphorical weight for the subject. - John Smothers, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Post subject: Dean Martin Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:08 pm |
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from http://wikibin.org/articles/list-of-ico ... nkers.html*Dean Martin - American singer, the most notable drinker in the hard living Rat Pack. In reality, Martin didn't drink nearly as much as he was reputed to; although usually seen with a drink in hand, it was often the same drink for hours.
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Post subject: Dean Martin Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:17 pm |
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I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up. --- Dean Martin 
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Post subject: Dean Martin Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:27 am |
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Smokin' D'oh !
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GoogaMooga wrote: Let's see now, Dean Martin on the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th. Will I play the Dean Martin CD for five consecutive days? We shall see, this is all very exciting. Ironic.  Are you on a desert island with just one Dino cd ? Dino is coolest,he didn't need a glass of scotch or bourbon to lend him that now mythologised image of cool,he was naturally cool without the booze and had an effortless laid-back charm.He could do the un-coolest of things and still look cool,like making an entry by sliding down a fireman's pole on his show.
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Post subject: Dean Martin Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:30 am |
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I was a little bit ironic, yes, but I could easily see myself playing the same CD for a fifth consecutive day. Instead I'm playing a 2CD reissue of the first three albums by a great Danish pop duo from the '80s, "Rugsted Kreutzfeldt". I bought a $20 2CD limited editon of an act I only knew ONE song by! Now that's what I call taking a chance. Luckily, I'm loving every bit of it so far. I've got a good intuition about what's good for me in music.
Yes, I remember Dino sliding down the fireman's pole on his TV show, but couldn't find a youtube clip.
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Post subject: Dean Martin Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 6:08 pm |
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I know that one half of that act without googling.Jens Rugsted was either the rhythm guitar (but more likely the bass) player with Savage Rose.I've seen his name credited in the various album cds.
I also caught a clip of him a while back on youtube with SR in a black and white tv studio appearance where they performed one of the more well known songs from either the first, or second album.Unfortunately I cannot remember the name of the song,but his name also showed on-screen when the camera focused on him.
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