Dean Martin

INCLUDES 2 BONUS TRACKS

Cha Cha de Amor marked Martin’s final sessions for Capitol Records before switching to Frank Sinatra’s Reprise label. This curious LP was an attempt to take advantage of the craze for cha-cha music. It was Martin’s second album under the baton of Nelson Riddle, who must also have been itching to join Reprise (as he did by 1963). In any case, both artists turned in competent performances. Martin could sing as easily over charts filled with peppy horns and Latin percussion as he could over anything else, but the music did not especially move him, and the result was an odd coda to the Capitol years.

PERSONNEL:

DEAN MARTIN, vocals
Orchestra arranged & conducted by NELSON RIDDLE
The Capitol Tower, Hollywood, December 18-20, 1961.

Bonus Tracks (A7 & B7):
DEAN MARTIN (vcl) with Dick Stabile & His Orchestra. Hollywood, November 26, 1954.

SIDE A:

01. SOMEBODY LOVES YOU
02. MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE
03. LOVE (YOUR SPELL IS EVERYWHERE)
04. I WISH YOU LOVE
05. CHA CHA CHA D’AMOUR (MELODIE D’AMOUR)
06. A HUNDRED YEARS FROM TODAY
07. MAMBO ITALIANO (*)

SIDE B:

01. I LOVE YOU MUCH TOO MUCH
02. (I LOVE YOU) FOR SENTIMENTAL REASONS
03. LET ME LOVE YOU TONIGHT
04. AMOR
05. TWO LOVES HAVE I
06. IF LOVE IS GOOD TO ME
07. THE NAUGHTY LADY OF SHADY LANE (*)