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1.StopAin't That a Kick in the Head – Dean Martin 02:24
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2.StopThat's Amore – Dean Martin 03:07
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3.StopMemories Are Made of This – Dean Martin 02:16
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4.StopJust in Time – Dean Martin 02:13
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5.StopSway – Dean Martin 02:42
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6.StopI'd Cry Like a Baby – Dean Martin 02:35
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7.StopVolare (Nel Blu, Di Pinto Di Blu) – Dean Martin 02:59
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8.StopUnder the Bridges of Paris – Dean Martin 02:46
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9.StopLove Me, Love Me – Dean Martin 02:34
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10.StopIf – Dean Martin 02:46
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11.StopMambo Italiano – Dean Martin 02:19
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12.StopLet Me Go Lover – Dean Martin 03:00
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13.StopStanding on the Corner – Dean Martin 02:47
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14.StopYou Belong to Me – Dean Martin 03:02
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15.StopPowder Your Face with Sunshine (Smile! Smile! Smile!) – Dean Martin 02:32
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16.StopInnamorata [Sweetheart] – Dean Martin 02:24
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17.StopI'll Always Love You (Day After Day) – Dean Martin 02:33
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18.StopKiss – Dean Martin 02:22
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19.StopYou're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You – Dean Martin 02:12
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20.StopReturn to Me (Ritorna-Me) – Dean Martin 02:23
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21.StopThe Door Is Still Open to My Heart – Dean Martin 02:53
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22.StopHouston – Dean Martin 02:41
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23.StopSend Me the Pillow You Dream On – Dean Martin 02:29
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24.StopEverybody Loves Somebody – Dean Martin 02:45
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25.StopIn the Chapel in the Moonlight – Dean Martin 02:32
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26.StopI Will – Dean Martin 02:22
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27.StopLittle Ole Wine Drinker, Me – Dean Martin 02:48
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28.StopSomewhere There's a Someone – Dean Martin 02:14
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29.StopIn the Misty Moonlight – Dean Martin 02:44
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30.StopGentle on My Mind – Dean Martin 02:35
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31.StopIntroduction by Frank Sinatra/Drink to Me Only with Thine ... – Dean Martin 06:03
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32.StopMy Kind of Girl [Live] – Dean Martin 03:31
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33.StopMonologue [Live] – Dean Martin 05:04
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34.StopJune in January [Live] – Dean Martin 02:55
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35.StopI'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter/Volare/On an ... – Dean Martin 04:54
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36.StopRock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody [Live] – Dean Martin 03:40
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37.StopBreak It to Me Gently [Live] – Dean Martin 02:42
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. [A Special Platinum Edition with seven bonus tracks recorded live in Lake Tahoe, CA was also released.] William Ruhlmann, Rovi
- Genre: Rock, Vocal
- Category Vocal Pop, Traditional Pop, American Popular Song
- Label: CAPITOL
- Release Date: June 7, 2005
- Artist: Martin Dean