DEAN MARTIN - WINTER ROMANCE

WINTER ROMANCE

DEAN MARTIN

SONGWRITERS: SAMMY CAHN & KEN LANE

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: A WINTER ROMANCE

LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS

GENRE: CHRISTMAS BALLAD

YEAR: 1959

A Winter Romance is a 1959 long playing album by Dean Martin, accompanied by an orchestra arranged and conducted by Gus Levene. While not exclusively a Christmas album, it features several songs associated with Christmas as part of its larger winter theme. It was Martin's only Christmas themed album for Capitol Records. Martin later recorded The Dean Martin Christmas Album for Reprise Records in 1966.

The original artwork featured a picture of Martin embracing a fetching young woman. At the same time, he is throwing a passing flirt at a second, attractive woman.

The initial Billboard magazine review from November 30, 1959 chose the album as one of its "Spotlight Winners of the Week" and commented that "The tunes are all one the winter kick... Martin sings them with his usual ease and nonchalance... A potent waxing for the holiday season".

I never will forget the station where we met

You dropped your skis a happy circumstance

No one would have guessed we had started

Started a winter romance

And all the way to Maine

On that enchanted train

The passing scenery didn't get a glance

We held hands completely light hearted

Off to a winter romance

We danced that night by candle light

The world was white with snow

The way we felt we never felt

The snow could melt and go

But though the snow is gone the romance lingers on

And those that said it didn't stand a chance

Will know when they see us together

That love's not been controlled by the weather

And all of our summers we'll have our winter romance

(Though the snow is gone the romance lingers on)

(And those that said it didn't stand a chance)

Will know when they see us together

That love's not been controlled by the weather

And all of our summers we'll have our winter romance.