The Hit Sound of Dean Martin | ||||
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Released | September 1966 [1] | |||
Recorded | 1966 | |||
Genre | Traditional pop, country | |||
Length | 29:28 | |||
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Reprise R 6213 | |||
Producer | Jimmy Bowen | |||
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The Hit Sound of Dean Martin is a 1966 studio album by Dean Martin arranged by Ernie Freeman and Billy Strange. [2] [3]
This was the third of five albums that Martin released in 1966, that year he also starred in three films and appeared in his own television show. [4] The Hit Sound of Dean Martin peaked at 50 on the Billboard 200, and was still on the charts in the second week of February 1967. [5] [6] In contrast to the chart performance of his recent LP's, The Hit Sound of Dean Martin marked a waning in his chart popularity as it only became his first LP since 1964's Everybody Loves Somebody not to go gold. [2]
The album combines newly recorded material with previously issued singles and B sides. [2] The album featured Martin's singles " Come Running Back" and " A Million and One", respectively Top 40 pop and Top Five easy listening hits, with six newly recorded songs. [2] "Shades" by Lee Hazlewood that appears on the album had previously been issued as the B side to "A Million and One". Two tracks, "Any Time" and "Ain't Gonna Try Anymore," from this album had been released originally on Martin's 1963 album Dean "Tex" Martin: Country Style. [2] The song "Any Time" was appearing for the third time on an LP by Martin, having also featured on his album Somewhere There's a Someone, released earlier in 1966. [2]
The Hit Sound of Dean Martin was reissued on CD by Hip-O Records in 2009. [7]
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [2] |
William Ruhlmann on Allmusic.com gave the album two and a half stars out of five. Ruhlmann commented on Martin's country music style writing that "The new songs, as usual arranged in a style that would define them as country music if they had been recorded in Nashville by a singer with more of a twang in his voice, were no great shakes". [2]
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