Capitol
2004
Christmas With Dino
About This Album
Between 1953 and 1966, Dean Martin recorded one Christmas single (1953's "The Christmas Blues") and two Christmas LPs, A Winter Romance (1959, Capitol Records) and The Dean Martin Christmas Album (1966, Reprise Records), the material consisting of a total of 23 recordings of 19 different songs. ("Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!," "The Things We Did Last Summer," "Winter Wonderland," and "White Christmas" were each recorded for the two albums.) Christmas With Dino, the first Martin seasonal compilation to combine tracks originally issued by Capitol and Reprise, features 17 of those recordings. Although all 23 recordings could have fit on a single CD, compiler Frank Collura has made a judicious choice, omitting songs that had only a tangential connection to the holidays or that have not proven memorable ("The Things We Did Last Summer," "June in January," "Canadian Sunset," "Out in the Cold Again," "It Won't Cool Off"). His inclusion of both the 1959 and 1966 versions of "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow," "Winter Wonderland," and "White Christmas" is welcome, but the billing of the repeated songs as "bonus alternate versions" is a deceptive marketing ploy.
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