"And now, the star of our show. Direct from the bar..."Yes, I still call them albums :-)
I was never a big Dean Martin fan, not anti-Dean, just unfamiliar. Well, they were playing this album in an episode of The Sopranos (the one about the beach house). I found the album on Amazon, and it is hilarious. It is far more a comedy routine than a concert; Martin makes up new words to songs and cracks jokes in the middle of them. He says "If you want to hear me do a song straight, go buy an album."
Some of the jokes are pretty old, but he's a funny guy. Well worth getting if it's your kinda thing, or if you like comics.
Oh, and some of my retro readers might be able to enlighten me here. I had heard Dino was not really a big drinker; that was just a shtick. Wikipedia said he ran moonshine, but that doesn't necessarily make you a drunk :-)
2 comments:
I love this album. One thing is that Dean Martin never took himself too serious. He didn't often sing a song straightforward. He liked to crack jokes between songs. The drinking was essentially a prop for his show. It was part of his act. He played the part well. I think it was usually apple juice. Later in his life after the death of his son, he did start to drink heavily though.
He is really funny on this. I listened to it last night and laughed like a nutter! This morning I felt like hell, not wanting to go to work, so I threw it in the streo and was in a good mood by the time I got there :-D
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