The Nashville Sessions (Dean Martin album)

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The Nashville Sessions
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Studio album by
Dean Martin
ReleasedJune 15, 1983
RecordedJanuary 17–21, 1983
StudioMasterfonics, Nashville [1]
Genre Traditional pop, country pop
Length28:30
Label Warner Bros. - WB-1-23870-1
Producer Jimmy Bowen
Dean Martin chronology
Once in a While
(1978)		The Nashville Sessions
(1983)
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The Nashville Sessions is a 1983 studio album by Dean Martin, produced by Jimmy Bowen. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] This was Martin's last album. [1]

Contents

The album consists of country standards, recorded in country pop arrangements. [2]

Martin sang two of the songs in duet, "My First Country Song" with Conway Twitty, and "Everybody's Had the Blues" with Merle Haggard. [1]

Track listing

  1. "Old Bones" (John Hadley)
  2. "Everybody's Had the Blues" (Merle Haggard)
  3. "Don't Give Up on Me" (Ben Peters)
  4. "In Love Up to My Heart" (Chester Lester)
  5. "Shoulder to Shoulder" (Dallas Frazier)
  6. "Since I Met You Baby" (Ivory Joe Hunter)
  7. "My First Country Song" (Conway Twitty)
  8. "Drinking Champagne" (Bill Mack)
  9. "Hangin' Around" (Chip Hardy, Rick & Janis Carnes)
  10. "Love Put a Song in My Heart" (Ben Peters)

Personnel

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  3. ↑ "The Nashville Sessions". Amazon. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "The Nashville Sessions". mtv.com. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  5. ↑ "The Nashville Sessions". music.msn.com. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  6. ↑ "Dean Martin– The Nashville Sessions". discogs.com. 15 June 1983. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
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