The Dean Martin Christmas Album

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The Dean Martin Christmas Album
Studio album by
Dean Martin
ReleasedOctober 1966[1]
RecordedSeptember 1966
GenreChristmas, traditional pop, jazz
LabelReprise - R/RS 6222
ProducerJimmy Bowen
Dean Martin chronology
The Hit Sound of Dean Martin
(1966) 		The Dean Martin Christmas Album
(1966) 		The Dean Martin TV Show
(1966)

The Dean Martin Christmas Album is a 1966

studio album by Dean Martin arranged by Ernie Freeman and Bill Justis.[2]

Release

This was Martin's only album of Christmas music released on Reprise Records (his only other Christmas album, A Winter Romance, having been released in 1959 on Capitol Records). It was reissued on CD by Hip-O Records in 2008, retitled A Very Cool Christmas.[2]

This was the fourth of five albums Martin released in 1966.[1] Billboard magazine reported in its December 3, 1966 issue that The Dean Martin Christmas Album was on top of its "Best Bets for Christmas" chart.[3]

The release of The Dean Martin Christmas Album in October and

Warner Music.[4] Billboard described Martin as running the "hottest streak of his career", and said that Reprise planned to sell $4 million of his records over the Christmas sales period.[4] Billboard later reported that Martin had sold 850,000 albums in December 1966.[5]

Ricci James Martin, Martin's son, wrote in a biography of his father that The Dean Martin Christmas Album was the only one of his father's albums that was played in the Martin household; his parents seldom listened to Dean Martin's music.[6]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

Reviewing A Very Cool Christmas (a 2008 CD reissue of the Dean Martin Christmas Album) on

Allmusic.com, William Ruhlmann gave the album three and a half stars out of five. Ruhlmann commented that Martin was in a "typically easygoing, good-natured mood on these tracks...He sings the seasonal material with the same nonchalance he gave to pop music of the period".[2]

Track listing

  1. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 2:55
  2. "
    James Pierpont
    )
  3. "
    I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram
    )
  4. "Blue Christmas" (Billy Hayes, Jay W. Johnson) – 2:17
  5. "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 1:57
  6. "A Marshmallow World" (Peter DeRose, Carl Sigman) – 2:44
  7. "Silver Bells" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston)
  8. "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith)
  9. "The Things We Did Last Summer" (Cahn, Styne) – 2:42
  10. "
    Josef Mohr
    )

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for The Dean Martin Christmas Album
Chart (1966–2024) Peak
position
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[7] 17
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[8] 78
US Billboard 200[9] 27
US
Top Holiday Albums (Billboard)[10]
 16

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-0-385-33429-7
    . Retrieved 16 February 2013.
  2. ^
    AllMusic
  3. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 17 February 2013. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help
    )
  4. ^
    ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 16 February 2013. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help
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  5. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 3 March 2013. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help
    )
  6. ISBN 978-1-58979-140-4
    . Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  7. ^ "Billboard Canadian Albums Chart: January 4, 2023". Billboard. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
  8. GfK Entertainment Charts
    . Retrieved December 30, 2022.
  9. ^ "Billboard 200: January 6, 2024". Billboard. Retrieved January 3, 2024.
  10. ^ "Top Holiday Albums Chart: December 19, 2020". Billboard. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
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