Amore

Performer: Dean Martin
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: This collection brings together some of the best tracks from Dean Martin's most fertile period--his tenure at Capitol in the 1950s and early '60s. During this era, Martin was a paragon of swing, the easy grace and smooth romance of his vocal style epitomizing the genre and making him one of the defining pop vocalists in America. AMORE presents the Dean Martin of the Rat Pack era, pumping on all cylinders, and it gathers tracks from his finest Capitol albums, like SLEEP WARM and CHA CHA DE AMOR. Casual listeners will be drawn in by the presence of blockbuster hits like "That's Amore," but even ardent admirers will find this 15-track compilation to be an impressive snapshot of Martin's Capitol years.

Dean Martin was a towering pop-culture icon of the 20th century. He first became known as part of a wildly successful music-and-comedy team with Jerry Lewis in the 1940s and '50s, subsequently becoming a solo singing star. His mellow, Bing Crosby-inspired crooning style lent itself well to everything from Italian ballads to pop standards and even C&W material. As part of Frank Sinatra's notorious Rat Pack, he took part in numerous films and concerts with Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr. A major presence in movies, and on TV, radio, and records up to the 1970s, Martin was one of the most recognizable faces in America. He had been in retirement from show business for several years when he died in 1995 at the age of 78.

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