Dean Martin / Dino / Italian Love Songs

I have quite a few Dean Martin albums both on CD and vinyl but this one together with 'A Winter Romance' are my all-time favourites.This vinyl version of 'Dino - Italian Love Songs' is just lush. Big artwork, great sound and thirty three and a third revolutions per minute! Watch it spin and dream awhile with great songs, fabulous arrangements, quaint backing singers and of course, Dean Martin's incomparable voice.Well worth a purchase on this 180 gram vinyl version and an mp3 download card is included for all you modern folk!Altogether now...'Como è bella c'è la luna brille è stretteStrette como è tutta bella a passeggiareSotto il cielo di Roma...'Great stuff!

Classic Originalalbum. I dont need to talk about the Music - its great. This 2005 EMI-Edition sounds perfect and is better than the 1997 "2on1" Edition, which was taken from the Vinyl (but for Vinyl it sounds very good). This 2005 Edition contains four rare bonustracks from 1954/55 and 1960/61.

I bought the vinyl version years ago and waited so long for the digital version to become available. Not disappointed.

Fast service, great Italian songs. Great service from this Company.

I have always loved Dean Martin's singing but his Italian Love Songs album is my favourite. His laid back, warm and sensuous tone throughout, together with the soft cha cha cha emphasis is a sheer delight. One can only think of all things good about Italy whilst listening - the colours, the music, the hot sun, love etc. etc. etc. Magic!

nice album. good quality ,nice price

Who does;nt love Dino singing a love song....Fantastic cd.

Cha Cha da Amor was Dean Martin's last album for Capitol records before he left for Sinatra's Reprise label. Due to the fantastic success of Dean's previous album "This time i'm swingin" Capitol decided to pair Dean again with Nelson Riddle and his orchestra, Riddle of course had arranged so many of Sinatra's great Capitol albums and with him on board success was pretty much a guarantee.This album is very different beast to Dean's previous albums in that all the songs have been arranged with a Latin flavour. This is infact both a help and a hindrance to a certain degree. Whilst this shows how versatile Martin was as a performer, making diverse albums ranging from jazz to country, here sadly the music never really catches fire the way it should, don't get me wrong, this is a very listenable and likeable album but Riddle's arrangements are hampered by the style of music and his orchestra never really gets chance to cut loose like they did on the "This time i'm swingin" album or his great works with Sinatra. This isn't any fault of Riddle's work just that your so locked into the style and rhythm of the music there doesn't leave much room to play around with. Infact most of the tracks segue into each other with little variation in tempo or style leaving the listener a little bored at times,Pleasant but unexciting.This is still a good album but it's not one you'll probably want to listen and pay attention intently to all the way through. Martin is in fine form vocally and Nelson Riddle does his best with what he can do with the songs but neither showcases each other's talents to the fullest.Still recommended though.