Somewhere There’s A Someone – DEAN MARTIN***

Somewhere There’s A Someone/Any Time/Blue Blue Day/I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry/Candy Kisses/I Can’t Help It/That Old Clock On The Wall/Bouquet Of Roses/I Walk The Line/Just A Little Lovin’/Room Full Of Roses/Second Hand Rose

Boosted by his TV show Dean Martin was enormously popular with American adult audiences during the sixties. To capitalise on his appeal some of his earlier recordings were unearthed and, together with a couple of more recent songs, were presented as 'new' albums. Somewhere There's A Someone is representative of this strategy. (US:40)

"By 1966, Dean's TV show was in full swing, and the demand for his albums was H-O-T! To try and meet the demand, Reprise records tried to mix and match new Dean Martin songs, with tracks from his more obscure country albums, in order to fill out and 'sell' more albums. Somewhere There's A Someone is pure cashbox. Aside from the title song and That Old Clock On The Wall, there's nothing new here."

"Dean was producing hits so quickly that, with his television and movie appearances, he hardly had time to record enough material to fill new albums. So, Reprise re-released some laid back country material from 1962-63 for these albums, along with a new hit version of Somewhere There's A Someone. Also worth mentioning is That Old Clock On The Wall which has a great rhythm and strong beat."

"Dean's 'sound' could compete with any music that came along. Even now it is timeless. Dean's music really makes me feel good. It was fun and snappy."

"It's not that I hate everything he recorded, it's that he needs to stay away from Johnny Cash and Hank Williams songs."

"Nothing can put a smile on my face quite like Dean singing. I am 16 and all I listen to is Dean, Frank, Sammy and other artists of the genre. I don't know what has happened to music now but we need more talented and classy gents such as Dean. This is real music. Somewhere There's A Someone is in the country-pop style that brought him a series of hits in the mid-'60s."

"So smooth and he makes it look so effortless. I love Dino's voice. What a consummate entertainer."