| The Dean Martin Christmas Album | ||||
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| Released | October 1966 [1] | |||
| Recorded | September 1966 | |||
| Genre | Christmas, traditional pop, jazz | |||
| Label | Reprise - R/RS 6222 | |||
| Producer | Jimmy Bowen | |||
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The Dean Martin Christmas Album is a 1966 studio album by Dean Martin arranged by Ernie Freeman and Bill Justis. [2]
This was Martin's only album of Christmas music released on Reprise Records (his only other Christmas album, A Winter Romance , having been released in 1959 on Capitol Records). It was reissued on CD by Hip-O Records in 2008, retitled A Very Cool Christmas. [2]
This was the fourth of five albums Martin released in 1966. [1] Billboard magazine reported in its December 3, 1966 issue that The Dean Martin Christmas Album was on top of its "Best Bets for Christmas" chart. [3]
The release of The Dean Martin Christmas Album in October and The Dean Martin TV Show in November 1966 were accompanied by what Billboard described as a "merchandising avalanche" [4] by Reprise Records and their parent company Warner Music. [4] Billboard described Martin as running the "hottest streak of his career", and said that Reprise planned to sell $4 million of his records over the Christmas sales period. [4] Billboard later reported that Martin had sold 850,000 albums in December 1966. [5]
Ricci James Martin, Martin's son, wrote in a biography of his father that The Dean Martin Christmas Album was the only one of his father's albums that was played in the Martin household; his parents seldom listened to Dean Martin's music. [6]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
Reviewing A Very Cool Christmas (a 2008 CD reissue of the Dean Martin Christmas Album) on Allmusic.com, William Ruhlmann gave the album three and a half stars out of five. Ruhlmann commented that Martin was in a "typically easygoing, good-natured mood on these tracks...He sings the seasonal material with the same nonchalance he gave to pop music of the period". [2]
| Chart (1966–2024) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Canadian Albums ( Billboard ) [7] | 17 |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [8] | 78 |
| US Billboard 200 [9] | 27 |
| US Top Holiday Albums ( Billboard ) [10] | 16 |
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