Just saw this... I'd have loved for Jimmy to be included, but that's all right.
Full story here:
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show ... 8956.shtml
Excerpt:
Dean Martin Is Forever Cool With New All-Star Collaborative Album
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Around the world, entertainment superstar Dean Martin has the market cornered on charisma, easygoing charm, playful wit, and gracious humility, all of which combine to make him infinitely cool. To honor Martin's broad appeal and countless contributions to modern entertainment via his legendary music, stage, film and television career, many of the world's top artists have recorded new collaborative tracks with him for a new album titled Dean Martin: Forever Cool. To be released worldwide in CD and deluxe CD/DVD packages and digitally on August 14 by Capitol/EMI, Forever Cool's 14 tracks pair Martin's original vocals with new arrangements and an all-star group of collaborators in a salute to the unparalleled talent and charisma of the man known around the world as Dino.
Forever Cool's inspired new recordings, woven together with several rare and previously unreleased clips of Martin's witty studio banter, feature Grammy winner Joss Stone, two-time Oscar(R) winner Kevin Spacey, saxophonist Dave Koz, Grammy winner Shelby Lynne, trumpeter Chris Botti, international superstar Robbie Williams, "American Idol" finalist Paris Bennett, country music star Martina McBride, French entertainment icon Charles Aznavour, Italian chart-topper Tiziano Ferro and other music greats. The new album swings, swaggers, rocks, rolls and whispers, gently closing with a previously unreleased a cappella version of "Lullaby" sung by Martin.
More than anyone else ever has, Dean Martin personifies masculine cool. Never was an icon so relatable, never such a velvet-voiced, affable guy so Olympian. With Forever Cool, Martin's brilliant knack for collaboration is renewed, fresh and fun all over again, bringing him together with many of the world's top performers in an exuberant celebration. "It's like a cocktail party on a record," says Forever Cool executive producer Jane Ventom, "where all sorts of wonderful, unique guests get up and make music with the host."
That the Forever Cool recording party roared in Capitol's legendary Studio A in Hollywood, where almost every classic Dean Martin recording was put to tape, lent the proceedings a thrilling and electric ambiance. Song by song, spiritual and musical harmony ensued and fully enveloped each recording session. During a break in his vocal sessions, Kevin Spacey was heard to giddily mutter, "Holy ba-joley! He's in the room... He's definitely in the room..." Sax virtuoso Dave Koz politely asked the engineers to temporarily hold off the recording: "Could you just let Dean and I jam for awhile? By ourselves?"
"There was nobody cooler," said Spacey. "The thing about Dean that's always been astounding is that it just seems like it's effortless. I think some people are just born entertainers. They recognize how to relate to an audience, how to engage an audience. I also think that one of the great things Dean had was that he could relate and engage with other performers. It's a thrill to feel a link to someone like Dean Martin."
"There is that undeniable force that you can't put a name on," said Robbie Williams. "I just want to be like him in real life. Offstage, I want to be like Dean Martin -- funny, handsome, charming... I have got it nailed (laughs)."
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"No matter what age you are at, you kind of want to be cool," said Spacey. "And there was nobody cooler at what he did." Dean Martin's approach to life with an easy smile, a graceful melody and an aura of unflappable cool is a style that was made to last forever.
For more information, please visit Dean Martin's official Website: http://www.deanmartin.com/ .
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