The Nashville Sessions (Dean Martin album)

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The Nashville Sessions
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 15, 1983
RecordedJanuary 17–21, 1983
StudioMasterfonics, Nashville [1]
Genre Country
Length28:30
Label Warner Bros. - WB-1-23870-1
Producer Jimmy Bowen
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Once in a While
(1978)
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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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