1 Ain’t That A Kick In The Head 
2 That’s Amore 
3 Memories Are Made Of This 
4 Just In Time 
5 Sway 
6 I’d Cry Like A Baby 
7 Volare 
8 Under The Bridges Of Paris 
9 Love Me, Love Me 
10 If 
11 Mambo Italiano 
12 Let Me Go Lover 
13 Standing On The Corner 
14 You Belong To Me 
15 Powder Your Face With Sunshine 
16 Innamorata 
17 I’ll Always Love You 
18 Kiss 
19 You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You 
20 Return To Me 
21 The Door Is Still Open To My Heart 
22 Houston 
23 Send Me The Pillow You Dream On 
24 Everybody Loves Somebody 
25 In The Chapel In The Moonlight 
26 I Will 
27 Little Ole Wine Drinker, Me 
28 Somewhere There’s A Someone 
29 In The Misty Moonlight 
30 Gentle On My Mind

Dino: The Essential Dean Martin is an attempt by Capitol Records to fill up a single CD to the brim (30 tracks in nearly 78 minutes) with Dean Martin hits in the manner of the Beatles' 1. It's a welcome development from a label that was previously content to survey the same territory on the 1998 collection Greatest Hits: King of Cool, which contained only 16 tracks and ran less than 50 minutes. Martin put 36 recordings in the pop singles charts between 1949 and 1969, and 23 of them are found here. Of the four Top 40 hits not included, the most notable is the 1964 version of "You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You." The collection does include the 1960 non-hit version of that song instead, a decision that probably was made to reduce the number of essentially similar arrangements heard on Martin's '60s singles for Reprise Records. After he hit number one with "Everybody Loves Somebody" in 1964 using a '50s rock & roll-style triplet rhythm he repeated the same approach several more times ("The Door Is Still Open to My Heart," "Send Me the Pillow You Dream On") before moving on to a pop-country style in such hits as "Houston." The compilers have broken up the same-sounding tracks with inventive sequencing, but reducing the repetition by one must have seemed like a good idea. Before the listener gets to this final phase in Martin's hit-making career, however, there is the long stretch of '50s hits, many of them with an Italianate tone (and not a few Italian lyrics). The disc's long running time allows space for quite a lot of this material; it takes up two-thirds of the album. The compilers have included a few tracks that were hits only in the U.K., plus a couple of Martin classics that were not actually chart items: his renditions of "Just in Time" from the film version of Bells Are Ringing and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head," a song he sang in Ocean's 11. By sticking to a core of major U.S. hits and adding some key elements, the collection makes for an outstanding single-disc treatment of Martin's best-known recordings. ---William Ruhlmann, AllMusic Review

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01) Introduction/Medley
02) Memories Are Made Of This
03) That's Amore
04) Monologue
05) June In January
06) You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby
07) More Laughs With Dean
08) Comedy Medley
09) Dino's 'Pretty Songs' Medley
10) Slow Boat To China
11) Medley
12) Closing Monologue
13) Celebrity Intros
14) Mr Wonderful/ Closing Theme

Recorded live at The Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada on February 8, 1964.

This live recording of a performance by Dean Martin at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas on February 8, 1964, gives a good sense of Martin's stage act at a time just before he made a major comeback on records with the release of his chart-topping hit "Everybody Loves Somebody." That song, in its soon-to-be-written rock 'n' roll-inflected arrangement, is missing from the set, which otherwise features some of Martin's biggest hits: "Memories Are Made of This," "That's Amore," and "Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto De Blu)." But the show is not to be understood as a conventional musical set by any means. Since Martin split from comedian Jerry Lewis in 1956, he had been developing an act that incorporated nearly as much comedy as a Martin & Lewis show. As part of the act, he played the part of a charming drunk who weaved from song to song, often altering the lyrics to create jokes. Numerous songs were begun and never finished, as Martin kibbutzed with his piano player and bandleader, and harangued the audience. If you attended only one of these performances, you might think it was all spontaneous, but watching several (or hearing a few of the live recordings that began appearing after Martin's death) demonstrated that the act was performed much the same way time after time. Those special lyrics had been penned for Martin by songwriter Sammy Cahn, and drunk as he might have appeared to be, his timing was never off, and much of the same material was repeated in the same way from one show to another. In other words, the act really was an act. The performance captured here is typical, full of bawdy humor and references to Martin's celebrity friends, the songs mostly tossed off. If you want to hear him sing straight, Martin says (as he did often in his shows), buy an album (carefully mispronouncing "album" the same way every time). This is an album, too, but it is really a record of a unique musical/comedic persona, Martin's most brilliant creation. ---William Ruhlmann, AMG

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