Dean Martin 'Collected Cool' preview

For the first time, Dean Martin's entire career is being saluted in a box set with Collected Cool, due June 12 from Universal Music Enterprises (UMe).

Combining hits and tracks from both his years at Capitol and Reprise records, the set also includes two rare concerts by the true king of cool. Up first is an audio recording of a Lake Tahoe show from July 27, 1962. This performance has never been released in its entirety, only a few tracks were available as bonus material, but it's now available on this box set. Featured are performances of Volare, On An Evening In Roma, It Had To Be You/Nevertheless, Beautiful Dreamer and his only recording of Matt Monro's hit My Kind Of Girl. Dino's quick wit and sense of humor shines bright through his onstage banter and parodies of classics such as I Love Tahoe (Paris) and Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes, all caught on this 51-minute rare recording.

The included DVD has a 1983 show from London's Apollo Victoria Theatre. This performance originally aired only on Showtime and has never been made commercially available until now. This live concert features Dino performing some of his biggest hits and well-known songs including Everybody Loves Somebody, That's Amore, Little Ole Wine Drinker Me and Welcome To My World, plus classic Martin parodies of Pennies From Heaven, Please Be Kind and It's Magic.

Track List:

Disc 1

Dean's Spoken Word Introductions
My Own, My Only, My All
Powder Your Face With Sunshine (Smile! Smile! Smile!)
I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine
That's Amore
If I Could Sing Like Bing
Sway
Long, Long Ago
Memories Are Made Of This
Pardners (with Jerry Lewis)
Volare
Rio Bravo
On An Evening In Roma
Sleep Warm
Ain't That A Kick In The Head
Just In Time
Arrivederci Roma
Return To Me
A Hundred Years From Today

Disc 2

Tik-A-Tee, Tik-A-Tay
Senza Fine
Who's Got The Action
Guys And Dolls
Marina
Everybody Loves Somebody (with instrumental quartet)
The Door Is Still Open To My Heart
You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You
In The Misty Moonlight
Sophia
Send Me The Pillow You Dream On
In The Chapel In The Moonlight
Welcome To My World
Houston
I Will
Somewhere There's A Someone
My First Country Song (featuring Conway Twitty)
LA Is My Home

Disc 3

Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
Almost Like Being In Love
I Love Tahoe (Paris)
Show Banter #1
My Kind Of Girl
Show Banter #2
Show Banter #3
June In January
Show Banter #4
Break It To Me Gently
Show Banter #5
Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody
Instrumental
Show Banter #6
Primrose Lane/You Are Too Beautiful/Carolina In The Morning/Love Walked In/I Love Being A Girl
Beautiful Dreamer
You Made Me Love You
It Had To Be You/Nevertheless
I m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
Volare
On An Evening In Roma
Show Banter #7
I Love Paris (Tahoe)
Outro

DVD

Everybody Loves Somebody
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
When You re Smiling
Pennies From Heaven
L-O-V-E
Everybody Loves Somebody (reprise)
Where Or When
Welcome To My World
Drinking Champagne
That's Amore
Love Walked In
Please Be Kind
It s Magic
Ken s Noodle
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
For The Good Times
Here Comes My Baby Back Again
Little Ole Wine Drinker Me
Bumming Around
One Hour With You

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