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Dream with Dean
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 4, 1964
GenreTraditional pop, vocal jazz
Length30:12
LabelReprise - R/RS 6123
ProducerJimmy Bowen
Dean Martin chronology
Dean "Tex" Martin Rides Again
(1963)
Dream with Dean
(1964)
The Door Is Still Open to My Heart
(1964)

Dream with Dean is a 1964 studio album by Dean Martin, produced by Jimmy Bowen.[1]

This was the first of two albums that Martin released in 1964. Dream with Dean peaked at 15 on the Billboard 200.[2] The album features "Everybody Loves Somebody" with a quartet accompaniment, Martin was to re-record the song with strings later in 1964, and it would become his second single to top the Billboard Hot 100.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

The initial Billboard review from 22 August 1964 praised the selection of material on the album and wrote that "As long as the performer is Dean Martin, you've got to see the words "sales" and "airplay" light up".[3]

Joe Viglione on Allmusic.com gave the album three stars out of five. Viglione said that if the album had "one drawback, it is that the 12 songs are incessant in their providing the same atmosphere...not only a very pleasant listening experience, it shows what a tremendous vocalist Dean Martin truly was". Vigilone describes Martin as performing as if "he were a lounge singer at 1:15 a.m. as the Saturday night crowd is dwindling".[1]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)"Don Dougherty, Ellis Reynolds, Al J. Neiburg3:15
2."Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)"Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer3:04
3."I'll Buy That Dream"Herbert Magidson3:16
4."If You Were the Only Girl (In the World)"Clifford Grey, Nat Ayer3:03
5."Blue Moon"Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart3:07
6."Everybody Loves Somebody"Sam Coslow, Irving Taylor, Ken Lane3:11
7."I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)"Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk2:36
8."Gimme a Little Kiss, Will Ya, Huh?"Maceo Pinkard2:18
9."Hands Across the Table"Jean Delettre2:18
10."Smile"Charlie Chaplin, John Turner, Geoffrey Parsons2:58
11."My Melancholy Baby"Ernie Burnett, George A. Norton2:45
12."Baby Won't You Please Come Home"Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams2:18

Personnel

Performance
Production

References

  1. ^ a b c Dream with Dean at AllMusic
  2. ^ Dream with Dean - Awards at AllMusic
  3. ^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (22 August 1964). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 24–. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 24 May 2013. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)