just a good laugh is all i think it is...i laughed so hard at the Madonna and Elton one :rofl:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,3-2007290023,00.html

 

 

Click Slideshow for photo. ^_^

25 June 2007

ROBBIE'S ANGEL

Courtesy The Daily Record UK

 

Singer shows off Maddie T-shirt at world title bout

 

By Karen Bale

 

POP star Robbie Williams gave heavy weight support to the search for Madeleine McCann yesterday.

 

At the end of boxer Ricky Hatton's world title bout in Las Vegas, the singer put on a white T-shirt appealing for information about the abducted child.

 

As fans and photographers clamoured for his attention, Robbie stood up to show the shirt emblazoned with a striking image of the four-year-old.

 

Fifty days after she went missing from a Portuguese holiday resort, Robbie's shirt showed Madeleine dressed in an Everton football shirt.

 

On the back, it had an image of her distinctive right eye and a plea for information.

 

There were 10,000 English fans cheering on Hatton in the Thomas and Mack Centre and millions more watching on TV around the world.

 

 

Those around Robbie clapped and slapped him on the back in support.

 

 

Gene Bennett, who flew from Manchester for the fight, was just yards away from the star.

 

 

She said: "It was a touching gesture.

 

 

"He must have known lots of TV cameras and photographers would be looking at him, so he used his fame for a good cause.

 

 

"I think everyone realised what a good thing it was that he was doing.

 

 

"This certainly proved that Robbie has a heart of gold."

 

 

Madeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, was snatched from her bed onMay 3 while her parents dined at a nearby restaurant in Praia da Luz.

 

 

Since then, her parents, Kate and Gerry, have launched a high-profile campaign to find her, travelling extensively around Europe and toMorocco.

 

 

Robbie was among a number of celebrities who watched as Hatton retained the IBO junior welterweight title with a stunning fourth round knockout of Jose Luis Castillo.

 

 

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney carried his friend's world championship belt into the ring ahead of the fight and joined the celebrations at the end.

 

 

Fellow England internationals Rio Ferdinand, Wes Brown, Joe Cole and Kieron Dyer were also in the crowd.

 

 

Hatton is now undefeated in 43 professional fights.

 

 

 

Robbie's biggest swipe at Liam has come with the release of his album Intensive Care. One track is rumoured to be about his relationship with Nicole - and reveals details about their sex life.

 

 

HUH?!?! A little late aren't they?

 

Hatton wants to wow Wembley

Dailymail

 

Ricky Hatton believes he could draw as many as 60,000 fans to Wembley and start his series of super-bouts against new IBF welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi.

 

Talks have already started for a Hatton-Malignaggi fight, with New York's Madison Square Garden the alternative venue, in October or November.

 

 

Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather and the fearsome Miguel Cotto are the marquee names Hatton will pick from as he moves up to the 147lb division from junior-welterweight following his emphatic victory over Jose Luis Castillo in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

 

Hatton said yesterday: "It's frightening to think how many tickets we could sell at Wembley. If I didn't say 50,000-60,000 I'd be lying. I want to keep hammering home the message in America but I haven't fought in England since the Carlos Maussa fight in November 2005 and maybe the fans are thinking they're never going to see Ricky fight in England again."

 

The English climate might be an obstacle at Wembley in October but there is a precedent for big outdoor autumn fights from the Lennox Lewis-Frank Bruno bout in Cardiff.

 

Hatton says his remaining ambitions are to box at the home of English football and Madison Square Garden, American boxing's Old Vic.

 

"To put it bluntly, I only want big opponents now," he said. He ruled out an all-British showdown with Bradford's Junior Witter, the WBC champion, whom he clearly loathes, saying: "I'm enjoying seeing him squirm, fighting nobodies for no money."

 

Although Mayweather is the opponent he most wants to test himself against, he accused the world's No 1 pound-for-pound fighter of "boring everyone to death" and said: "Cotto is the fight everyone would pick out for entertainment value and in terms of styles."

 

After a long night of carousing, Hatton reflected on his fourth-round knock-out of Castillo and looked ahead to multi-million dollar paydays.

 

He said: "I looked round the arena and saw Robbie Williams and all those footballers and celebrities and thought 'This is a bit different to the social club, the working man's club in Manchester where I kicked off'."

 

He also revealed that Wayne Rooney visited Castillo's dressing-room before the fight to speak to the Mexican's two sons, who both wore Manchester United shirts to the Thomas and Mack Centre.

Must be what those rumours way back when were about linking Kevin Spacey and Rob

 

 

 

Dean Martin Is Forever Cool With New All-Star Collaborative Album

Posted : Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:34:01 GMT

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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® 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)."

 

"Dean had a swagger about him we all wish we had as entertainers," said Shelby Lynne. "He's got one of the greatest, most recognizable and smooth voices of all time. I'm not gonna lie. I'd love to be Dean Martin." Added Scotty Morris of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, "When you hear Dean Martin, he gives you a feeling. It's a special gift. I love him and I want to do him justice, and I'd like to think that he'd be proud of me."

 

Forever Cool's production team includes EMI Music Marketing vice president of A&R Jane Ventom and Dean Martin's business manager Laura Lizer as executive producers and Rob Christie as producer, with recording and mixing by co- producer and 15-time Grammy winner Al Schmitt (Norah Jones, Ray Charles, Diana Krall, Quincy Jones, etc.). Select tracks were produced by 12-time Grammy winning producer Phil Ramone (Tony Bennett, Paul Simon, Ray Charles, etc.), Grammy-winning producer, arranger and conductor Patrick Williams (Frank Sinatra, B.B. King, Barbra Streisand), and Bobby Colomby (Chris Botti). The album's tracks were recorded and mixed at Capitol Studios in Hollywood.

 

"It's a thrill to hear such a talented and diverse array of artists collaborate with Dean and celebrate his music," said Dean Martin's business manager Laura Lizer. "All of the artists have brought unique talents, inspiration and vibrant energy to the songs, complementing Dean with their own great styles and with a lot of love and respect for him. Forever Cool is a high-spirited, brilliant new entry in Dean's recorded canon, and we are proud to share it with his fans around the world. He would get a real kick out of this."

 

Said Martin's daughter, Gail Martin, "It gives me a warm glow to know that everybody -- all ages, all generations -- just seem to adore him and want more of him. That's exciting, and it doesn't surprise me."

 

Of his first encounter with Martin, Jerry Lewis recalled, "That's what I want to be like, you think. Maybe if I hang around with him, some of that'll rub off on me." In recent years Martin's star has shone ever more brightly. In a 2004 Playboy magazine feature, writer Bill Zehme crowned Martin "the coolest man who ever lived." More than 40 years after knocking the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" out of the #1 chart position with "Everybody Loves Somebody" in 1964, he continues to enthrall music fans around the world. Said Phil Ramone, "I think Dean's whole re-birth, so to speak, is that young people have realized how cool he is and how funny he is... and he could sing."

 

"He made music that's going to stand the test of time and be around forever," said Spacey. "People will always be listening to Dean Martin."

 

"When he sings, you believe it," said Martina McBride. "He had a great personality that just came across and made you feel like you knew him. I feel humbled and honored and proud to be a part of this project." Echoed Lynne, "Some people are just naturally cool, and he was definitely naturally cool. It's quite an honor to be a part of this."

 

Martin's effortless vocalizing has become a modern shorthand for cool, as evidenced by the use of his songs in films like Goodfellas, Casino, Swingers, Out of Sight, L.A. Confidential, A Bronx Tale and Payback, as well as top- rated television programs, including "The Sopranos," "Ugly Betty" and "Dancing With The Stars." Martin's music has also been featured in major brand TV advertising for Nissan, Microsoft, Marriott Hotels, Carl's Jr., Heineken, this year's Superbowl-premiered Budweiser commercial with "Ain't That a Kick In the Head," and many others.

 

The phenomenal sales of Capitol/EMI's 2004 collection Dino: The Essential Dean Martin, which collects 30 of Martin's key recordings for both Capitol and Reprise on one CD, has provided the strongest signal yet of Dino's continued prominence in the pop-music firmament. As the week's highest-charting new entry, it was Billboard's "Hotshot Debut", and it has sold more briskly than any previous Martin recording, going gold within months and platinum within a year. Dino also hit the Top 5 on Apple's iTunes Music Store album chart. As Zehme observed in Playboy, "Dean provides smooth, winking succor to generations anew."

 

"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/.

 

DEAN MARTIN: FOREVER COOL (CD & Digital Album) 1. Who's Got The Action - Featuring Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (3:02) (Brooks - Duning) Original Arrangement By: Don Costa Adapted by: Joshua Levy Co-Produced by: Scotty Morris Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is: Scotty Morris, Kurt Sodergren, Dirk Shumaker, Andy Rowley, Glen Marhevka, Karl Hunter & Josh Levy 2. Ain't That A Kick In The Head - Featuring Kevin Spacey (2:38) (Cahn - Van Heusen) Arranged by: Nelson Riddle Conducted by Patrick Williams Co-Produced by: Phil Ramone 3. I have Grown Accustomed To Her Face - Featuring Chris Botti (3:15) (Lerner - Loewe) Arranged and Conducted by: Gil Goldstein Produced by: Bobby Colomby Chris Botti appears courtesy of Sony BMG Music Entertainment 4. Baby-O - Featuring Paris Bennett (3:09) (Mercer - Rotella) Arranged by: Neal Hefti and Patrick Williams Conducted by: Patrick Williams Paris Bennett appears courtesy of 306 Music and Entertainment 5. Who Was That Lady? - Featuring The Capitol Studios Orchestra (2:27) (Cahn - Van Heusen) Arranged by: Nelson Riddle Adapted and Conducted by: Patrick Williams 6. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone - Featuring Robbie Williams (2:27) (Clare - Stept) Arranged by Nelson Riddle Conducted by: Patrick Williams Robbie Williams courtesy of The In Good Company Co Limited and Chrysalis Records Limited. 7. I Can't Believe That You are In Love With Me - Featuring Joss Stone (2:29) (Gaskill -McHugh) Arranged by: Nelson Riddle Conducted by: Patrick Williams Additional Engineer: Chuck Brungardt 8. Just In Time - Featuring Dave Koz (2:36) (Comden - Green - Styne) Arranged and Conducted by: Patrick Williams Co-Produced by: Patrick Williams 9. Baby, It's Cold Outside - Featuring Martina McBride (3:01) (Loesser) Arranged and Conducted by: Patrick Williams Co-Produced by: Patrick Williams 10. King Of The Road - Featuring Kevin Spacey (2:28) (Miller) Original Arrangement by: Ernie Freeman Adapted and Conducted by: Patrick Williams Co-Produced by: Phil Ramone 11. You are Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You - Featuring Big Bad Voodoo Daddy & Shelby Lynne (3:09) (Cavanaugh - Morgan - Stock) Arranged by: Joshua Levy (inspired by Nelson Riddle) Co-Produced by: Phil Ramone, with Scotty Morris 12. Arrivederci Roma - Featuring Tiziano Ferro (2:45) (Garinei - Giovanni - Ranucci - Sigman ) Original Arrangement by: Gus Levine Additional Arrangement Adapted & Conducted by: Patrick Williams Co-Produced by: Patrick Williams Additional Engineer: Michele Canova Iorfida 13. Everybody Loves Somebody - Featuring Charles Aznavour (3:16) (Coslow - Lane - Taylor) Original Arrangement by: Ken Lane & Jimmy Bowen Adapted by: Tom Ranier Additional Engineer: Roland Guillotel Artistic Adviser: Levon Sayan 14. Brahm's Lullaby A Capella - Dean Martin (2:05) (Brahms - Traditional) Orchestral Intro Arrangement by: Pete King (p) 2007 Capitol Records, Inc. DEAN MARTIN: FOREVER COOL (Deluxe Edition CD/DVD) (DVD contents) Making Of Forever Cool Classic Dean Martin film clips (details to be announced) *All Tracks Recorded and Mixed at Capitol Studios, Hollywood Additional Recording on "Arrivederci Roma" at Kaneepa Studios, Italy. Additional Recording on "Everybody Loves Somebody" at Studio Guillaume Tell, Paris, France. Recorded, Mixed and Co-Produced by: Al Schmitt Engineered by: Steve Genewick Tracks 1, 2, 11, 13, 15 Recorded by: Charlie Paakkari Executive Producers: Laura Lizer and Jane Ventom Produced by: Rob Christie Tracks 2, 10, 11, Co-Produced by: Phil Ramone Tracks 8, 9, 12, Co-Produced by: Patrick Williams Track 3, Produced by: Bobby Colomby Original tracks Produced by: Lee Gillette and Jimmy Bowen Mastered by: Ron McMaster Musicians: Drums: Gregg Field, Vinnie Colaiuta (track 4) Piano: Tom Ranier, Mike Lang, Randy Waldman Bass: Chuck Berghofer, Kevin Axt, Brian Bromberg Guitar: John Chiodini, Jim Fox, James Harrah Concert Master: Assa Drori Alto Sax: Dan Higgins, Gary Foster, Sal Lozano Tenor Sax: Bob Sheppard, Gene Cipriano, Vince Trombetta Baritone Sax: Greg Huckins, Lee Callet Trumpet: Wayne Bergeron, Warren Luening, Larry Lunetta, Larry McGuire, Gary Grant, Rick Baptist, Charley Davis Trombone: Charley Loper, Chauncey Welsch, Bob McChesney, George Bohannon, Andy Martin, Bill Elton Bass Trombone: Craig Gosnell, Richard Bullock French Horn: Brian O'Connor, Kurt Snyder, Suzette Moriarty, Justin Hageman Flute: Robert Shulgold, Stephen Kujala, Richard Mitchell Tuba: John Van Houten Jr. Vibes: Dan Greco Accordion: Frank Marocco Background Vocals: Joey Gian, Paula Salvatore, Rob Christie Capitol/EMI

 

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Oooh that looks like a good one!

"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)."

Yes you are Rob, yes you are :lol:

 

...... and so much more :wub:

 

 

Has anyone heard of that song ?? I haven't but I like the title B)

 

Don't know that song at all. :blink:

 

 

So is this an album of 'Dean Duets' then? :unsure:

Is it this song? :unsure:

 

 

 

 

Can't say it rocks my boat. :blink:

Oh cool, when is it released? :unsure:

Oh cool, when is it released? :unsure:

think it says its released August 14th.

 

Ant can't make it, he's shopping

 

June 27, 2007

 

TELLY’S best-known presenting duo have turned into ANT and BECKS.

 

DEC DONNELLY showed off his skills playing for a famous US footie club, and I’m not talking about DAVID BECKHAM’s LA Galaxy.

 

The TV star donned a No9 shirt to turn out for ROBBIE WILLIAMS’ star-studded side LA Vale. Robbie’s best mate JONATHAN WILKES was skipper while Rob took the manager’s duties.

 

ANT McPARTLIN looked as sick as a parrot at missing out as he was dragged round the shops in Majorca by wife Lisa.

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,4-2007290420,00.html

 

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

 

Do you know that there is gonna be a DVD with this as well... ( part of a deluxe set. ) I will definately be getting that....our little boy in a FAB SUIT................ :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:

 

See this site:

 

Press Release Source: Capitol/EMI (Taken from Yahoo site )

 

 

Dean Martin Is Forever Cool With New All-Star Collaborative Album

Tuesday June 26, 9:30 am ET

New Capitol/EMI CD, Deluxe Edition CD/DVD and Digital Album Pairs Martin with Other Top Entertainment Luminaries, Including Joss Stone, Kevin Spacey, Robbie Williams, Charles Aznavour, Martina McBride, Dave Koz, Chris Botti and More!

Also Features Previously Unreleased Dean Martin Vocal Track and Witty Studio Banter

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® 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've got it nailed (laughs)."

"Dean had a swagger about him we all wish we had as entertainers," said Shelby Lynne. "He's got one of the greatest, most recognizable and smooth voices of all time. I'm not gonna lie. I'd love to be Dean Martin." Added Scotty Morris of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, "When you hear Dean Martin, he gives you a feeling. It's a special gift. I love him and I want to do him justice, and I'd like to think that he'd be proud of me."

 

Forever Cool's production team includes EMI Music Marketing vice president of A&R Jane Ventom and Dean Martin's business manager Laura Lizer as executive producers and Rob Christie as producer, with recording and mixing by co- producer and 15-time Grammy winner Al Schmitt (Norah Jones, Ray Charles, Diana Krall, Quincy Jones, etc.). Select tracks were produced by 12-time Grammy winning producer Phil Ramone (Tony Bennett, Paul Simon, Ray Charles, etc.), Grammy-winning producer, arranger and conductor Patrick Williams (Frank Sinatra, B.B. King, Barbra Streisand), and Bobby Colomby (Chris Botti). The album's tracks were recorded and mixed at Capitol Studios in Hollywood.

 

"It's a thrill to hear such a talented and diverse array of artists collaborate with Dean and celebrate his music," said Dean Martin's business manager Laura Lizer. "All of the artists have brought unique talents, inspiration and vibrant energy to the songs, complementing Dean with their own great styles and with a lot of love and respect for him. Forever Cool is a high-spirited, brilliant new entry in Dean's recorded canon, and we're proud to share it with his fans around the world. He would get a real kick out of this."

 

Said Martin's daughter, Gail Martin, "It gives me a warm glow to know that everybody -- all ages, all generations -- just seem to adore him and want more of him. That's exciting, and it doesn't surprise me."

 

Of his first encounter with Martin, Jerry Lewis recalled, "That's what I want to be like, you think. Maybe if I hang around with him, some of that'll rub off on me." In recent years Martin's star has shone ever more brightly. In a 2004 Playboy magazine feature, writer Bill Zehme crowned Martin "the coolest man who ever lived." More than 40 years after knocking the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" out of the #1 chart position with "Everybody Loves Somebody" in 1964, he continues to enthrall music fans around the world. Said Phil Ramone, "I think Dean's whole re-birth, so to speak, is that young people have realized how cool he is and how funny he is... and he could sing."

 

"He made music that's going to stand the test of time and be around forever," said Spacey. "People will always be listening to Dean Martin."

 

"When he sings, you believe it," said Martina McBride. "He had a great personality that just came across and made you feel like you knew him. I feel humbled and honored and proud to be a part of this project." Echoed Lynne, "Some people are just naturally cool, and he was definitely naturally cool. It's quite an honor to be a part of this."

 

Martin's effortless vocalizing has become a modern shorthand for cool, as evidenced by the use of his songs in films like Goodfellas, Casino, Swingers, Out of Sight, L.A. Confidential, A Bronx Tale and Payback, as well as top- rated television programs, including "The Sopranos," "Ugly Betty" and "Dancing With The Stars." Martin's music has also been featured in major brand TV advertising for Nissan, Microsoft, Marriott Hotels, Carl's Jr., Heineken, this year's Superbowl-premiered Budweiser commercial with "Ain't That a Kick In the Head," and many others.

 

The phenomenal sales of Capitol/EMI's 2004 collection Dino: The Essential Dean Martin, which collects 30 of Martin's key recordings for both Capitol and Reprise on one CD, has provided the strongest signal yet of Dino's continued prominence in the pop-music firmament. As the week's highest-charting new entry, it was Billboard's "Hotshot Debut", and it has sold more briskly than any previous Martin recording, going gold within months and platinum within a year. Dino also hit the Top 5 on Apple's iTunes Music Store album chart. As Zehme observed in Playboy, "Dean provides smooth, winking succor to generations anew."

 

"No matter what age you're 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.

 

 

DEAN MARTIN: FOREVER COOL (CD & Digital Album)

1. Who's Got The Action - Featuring Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (3:02)

(Brooks - Duning)

Original Arrangement By: Don Costa

Adapted by: Joshua Levy

Co-Produced by: Scotty Morris

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is: Scotty Morris, Kurt Sodergren, Dirk

Shumaker, Andy Rowley, Glen Marhevka, Karl Hunter & Josh Levy

 

2. Ain't That A Kick In The Head - Featuring Kevin Spacey (2:38)

(Cahn - Van Heusen)

Arranged by: Nelson Riddle

Conducted by Patrick Williams

Co-Produced by: Phil Ramone

 

3. I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face - Featuring Chris Botti (3:15)

(Lerner - Loewe)

Arranged and Conducted by: Gil Goldstein

Produced by: Bobby Colomby

Chris Botti appears courtesy of Sony BMG Music Entertainment

 

4. Baby-O - Featuring Paris Bennett (3:09)

(Mercer - Rotella)

Arranged by: Neal Hefti and Patrick Williams

Conducted by: Patrick Williams

Paris Bennett appears courtesy of 306 Music and Entertainment

 

5. Who Was That Lady? - Featuring The Capitol Studios Orchestra (2:27)

(Cahn - Van Heusen)

Arranged by: Nelson Riddle

Adapted and Conducted by: Patrick Williams

 

6. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone - Featuring Robbie Williams

(2:27)

(Clare - Stept)

Arranged by Nelson Riddle

Conducted by: Patrick Williams

Robbie Williams courtesy of The In Good Company Co Limited and

Chrysalis Records Limited.

 

7. I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me - Featuring Joss Stone

(2:29)

(Gaskill - McHugh)

Arranged by: Nelson Riddle

Conducted by: Patrick Williams

Additional Engineer: Chuck Brungardt

 

8. Just In Time - Featuring Dave Koz (2:36)

(Comden - Green - Styne)

Arranged and Conducted by: Patrick Williams

Co-Produced by: Patrick Williams

 

9. Baby, It's Cold Outside - Featuring Martina McBride (3:01)

(Loesser)

Arranged and Conducted by: Patrick Williams

Co-Produced by: Patrick Williams

 

10. King Of The Road - Featuring Kevin Spacey (2:28)

(Miller)

Original Arrangement by: Ernie Freeman

Adapted and Conducted by: Patrick Williams

Co-Produced by: Phil Ramone

 

11. You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You - Featuring Big Bad Voodoo

Daddy & Shelby

Lynne (3:09)

(Cavanaugh - Morgan - Stock)

Arranged by: Joshua Levy (inspired by Nelson Riddle)

Co-Produced by: Phil Ramone, with Scotty Morris

 

12. Arrivederci Roma - Featuring Tiziano Ferro (2:45)

(Garinei - Giovanni - Ranucci - Sigman )

Original Arrangement by: Gus Levine

Additional Arrangement Adapted & Conducted by: Patrick Williams

Co-Produced by: Patrick Williams

Additional Engineer: Michele Canova Iorfida

 

13. Everybody Loves Somebody - Featuring Charles Aznavour (3:16)

(Coslow - Lane - Taylor)

Original Arrangement by: Ken Lane & Jimmy Bowen

Adapted by: Tom Ranier

Additional Engineer: Roland Guillotel

Artistic Adviser: Levon Sayan

 

14. Brahm's Lullaby A Capella - Dean Martin (2:05)

(Brahms - Traditional)

Orchestral Intro Arrangement by: Pete King

(p) 2007 Capitol Records, Inc.

 

 

DEAN MARTIN: FOREVER COOL (Deluxe Edition CD/DVD)

(DVD contents)

Making Of Forever Cool

Classic Dean Martin film clips (details to be announced)

 

*All Tracks Recorded and Mixed at Capitol Studios, Hollywood

Additional Recording on "Arrivederci Roma" at Kaneepa Studios, Italy.

Additional Recording on "Everybody Loves Somebody" at Studio Guillaume

Tell, Paris, France.

 

Recorded, Mixed and Co-Produced by: Al Schmitt

Engineered by: Steve Genewick

Tracks 1, 2, 11, 13, 15 Recorded by: Charlie Paakkari

 

Executive Producers: Laura Lizer and Jane Ventom

 

Produced by: Rob Christie

 

Tracks 2, 10, 11, Co-Produced by: Phil Ramone

Tracks 8, 9, 12, Co-Produced by: Patrick Williams

Track 3, Produced by: Bobby Colomby

Original tracks Produced by: Lee Gillette and Jimmy Bowen

Mastered by: Ron McMaster

 

Musicians:

Drums: Gregg Field, Vinnie Colaiuta (track 4)

Piano: Tom Ranier, Mike Lang, Randy Waldman

Bass: Chuck Berghofer, Kevin Axt, Brian Bromberg

Guitar: John Chiodini, Jim Fox, James Harrah

Concert Master: Assa Drori

Alto Sax: Dan Higgins, Gary Foster, Sal Lozano

Tenor Sax: Bob Sheppard, Gene Cipriano, Vince Trombetta

Baritone Sax: Greg Huckins, Lee Callet

Trumpet: Wayne Bergeron, Warren Luening, Larry Lunetta, Larry McGuire,

Gary Grant, Rick Baptist, Charley Davis

Trombone: Charley Loper, Chauncey Welsch, Bob McChesney, George Bohannon,

Andy Martin, Bill Elton

Bass Trombone: Craig Gosnell, Richard Bullock

French Horn: Brian O'Connor, Kurt Snyder, Suzette Moriarty, Justin Hageman

Flute: Robert Shulgold, Stephen Kujala, Richard Mitchell

Tuba: John Van Houten Jr.

Vibes: Dan Greco

Accordion: Frank Marocco

Background Vocals: Joey Gian, Paula Salvatore, Rob Christie

Edited June 27, 200718 yr by TessaT

28 June 2007

GOOD ON ROBBIE FOR DOING HIS BIT TO HELP FIND MADDIE

Shari Low

ISN'T it a cynical world we live in?

 

One or two of the more jaded commentators have had a go at Robbie Williams for wearing a "Find Madeleine" T-shirt, claiming it was only done as a desperate act of self-promotion.

 

Come on, folks, let's get real - Robbie is quite capable of getting attention all on his own without resorting to milking such a devastating situation.

 

Gerry and Kate McCann have made it clear they want to keep the search for Madeleine at the forefront of the public consciousness.

 

Robbie joining the cause is a blessing and in our shallow, celebrity-obsessed world this is one kind of publicity stunt even the sceptics should be encouraging.

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/news/tm_...-name_page.html

geez there is just no way to win...if a celeb does nothing then they are heartless. but if they actually do something then they are only trying to milk the situation :wacko:

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Edited June 28, 200718 yr by TessaT