Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7,
1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor, recording artist and
comedian. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the
mid-20th century, Martin was nicknamed "The King of Cool" for his
seemingly effortless charisma and self-assurance.
Martin gained his career breakthrough
together with comedian Jerry Lewis,
billed as Martin & Lewis,
in 1946. They
performed in nightclubs and later had numerous appearances on radio, television
and in films. Following an acrimonious ending of the partnership in 1956,
Martin pursued a solo career as a performer and actor.
Martin established himself as a notable
singer, recording numerous contemporary songs as well as standards from the Great
American Songbook. He became one of the most
popular acts in Las Vegas and was known for his friendship with fellow artists Frank Sinatraand Sammy Davis Jr.,
who together formed the Rat Pack.
Starting in 1965, Martin was the host of the
television variety program The
Dean Martin Show, which centered on Martin's
singing and comedic talents and was characterized by his relaxed, easy-going
demeanor. From 1974 to 1984, he was roastmasteron the popular Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, which
drew notable celebrities, comedians and politicians.
Throughout
his career, Martin performed in concert stages, nightclubs, audio recordings
and appeared in 85 film and television productions. His
relaxed, warbling, crooningvoice earned him dozens of hit singles, including his signature
songs "Memories Are Made of This",
"That's Amore",
"Everybody Loves Somebody",
"You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You",
"Sway", "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?" and
"Volare".
Christmas with the Rat Pack is a 2002 albumcompiling Christmas
songsby Frank Sinatra,
Dean Martin,
and Sammy Davis Jr.
(Wonderland winter wonderland wonderland)
Sleigh bells ring are you listening
In the lane snow is glistening
A beautiful sight oh we're happy tonight
Walking in a winter wonderland
Gone away is the bluebird
Here to stay is a new bird
He's singing a song as we go along
Walking in a winter wonderland
Well in the meadow we can build a snowman
And pretend that he is Parson Brown
He'll say are you married we say no man
But you can do the job when you're in town
Later on we'll conspire as we dream by the fire
To face unafraid of the plans that we made
Walking in a winter wonderland
(In the meadow we can build a snowman)
And pretend he's a circus clown
We have lots of fun with Mr. Snowman
Until the other kiddies knock him down
Oh when it snows ain't it filling
Though your nose gets a chilling
We'll frolic and play the Eskimo way
Walking in a winter wonderland
(Wonderland wonderland).
MERRY CHRISTMAS, DARLING
THE CARPENTERS
SONGWRITERS: FRANK POOLER & RICHARD LYNN CARPENTER
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: CHRISTMAS PORTRAIT
LABEL: A & M RECORDS
GENRE: SOFT
YEAR: 1978
The Carpenters were an American vocal
and instrumental duo consisting of siblings Karen(1950–1983) and Richard Carpenter(b.1946). They
produced a distinct soft musical style, combining Karen's contraltovocals with Richard's harmonizing, arranging and composition skills.
During their
14-year career, the Carpenters recorded ten albums, along with numerous singles
and several television specials.
The siblings were born in New
Haven, Connecticut, and moved to Downey,
California, in 1963. Richard took piano
lessons as a child, progressing to California State University, Long Beach,
while Karen learned the drums. They first performed together as a duo in 1965
and formed the jazz-oriented
Richard Carpenter Trio followed by the middle-of-the-roadgroup Spectrum.
Signing as Carpenters to A&M
Recordsin 1969, they achieved major success
the following year with the hit singles "(They Long to Be) Close to You"
and "We've
Only Just Begun". Subsequently, the duo's
brand of melodic popproduced a record-breaking run of hit recordings on the American Top 40and Adult Contemporarycharts, and
they became leading sellers in the soft rock,
easy listeningand adult contemporary musicgenres. The
Carpenters had three number-one singles and five number-two singles on the Billboard Hot 100and fifteen number-one hits on the Adult Contemporary chart, in
addition to twelve top-10 singles. They have sold more than 90 million
records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
The duo toured continually during the 1970s, which put them under increased
strain; Richard took a year off in 1979 after he had become addicted to Quaalude,
while Karen suffered from anorexia
nervosa.
Their career together ended in 1983 when
Karen died from heart failurebrought on by complications of anorexia. Extensive news coverage
surrounding these circumstances increased public awareness of eating disorders.
Though the
Carpenters were criticized for their clean-cut and wholesome conservative image
in the 1970s, their music has since been re-evaluated, attracting critical
acclaim and continued commercial success.
"Merry Christmas Darling" is a
Christmas song by the Carpenters(music by Richard Carpenter, lyrics by Frank Pooler),
and originally recorded in 1970. It was first available on a 7-inch singlethat year (A&M
Records1236), and was later re-issued in
1974 (A&M 1648) and again in 1977 (A&M 1991). The single went to number
one on Billboard's
Christmas singles chart in 1970 (and did so again in 1971 and 1973) and peaked
at number 41 in Cashbox.
In 1978, the Carpenters issued their Christmas
Portraitalbum, which contained a new version
of "Merry Christmas Darling". The original 1970 mix continued to be used for all
single releases, however. The major difference between the
1970 and 1978 versions is a newly recorded vocal by Karen Carpenteron the latter, which was done at her request. Richard Carpenter
himself calls the original recording one of his sister's very best. The
original single version of the song can be found on the compilation albums From
the Topand The Essential Collection: 1965–1997.
Greeting cards have
all been sent
The Christmas rush is through
But I still have one wish to make
A special one for you
Merry Christmas, darling
We're apart, that's true
But I can dream
And in my dreams
I'm christmasing with you
Holidays are joyful
There's always something new
But every day's a holiday
When I'm near to you
The lights on my tree
I wish you could see
I wish it every day
The logs on the fire
Fill me with desire
To see you and to say
That I wish you merry
Christmas
Happy new year too
I've just one wish
On this Christmas eve
I wish I were with you
I wish I were with you
Merry Christmas, darling.
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER
BOB DYLAN
SONGWRITER: BOB DYLAN
WHERE: AT THE CONCERT FOR THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF
FAME
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: JOHN WESLEY HARDING
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK ROCK
YEAR: 1967
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May
24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist. Widely
regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major
figure in popular culturefor more than 50 years. Much of his most celebrated work dates from
the 1960s, when songs such as "Blowin'
in the Wind" (1963) and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" (1964)
became anthems for the civil
rightsand anti-warmovements. His lyrics during this period incorporated a range of
political, social, philosophical, and literary influences, defied pop musicconventions and appealed to the burgeoning counterculture.
Following his
self-titled debut albumin 1962, which
mainly comprised traditional folk songs,
Dylan made his breakthrough as a songwriter with the release of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylanthe following
year. The
album features "Blowin' in the Wind" and the thematically complex
"A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall". For
many of these songs, he adapted the tunes and phraseology of older folk songs. He
went on to release the politically charged The Times They Are a-Changin'and the more lyrically abstract and introspective Another Side of Bob Dylanin 1964. In
1965 and 1966, Dylan drew controversywhen he adopted
electrically amplifiedrock instrumentation, and in the space of 15 months recorded three
of the most important and influential rock albums of the 1960s: Bringing It All Back Home(1965), Highway
61 Revisited(1965) and Blonde on Blonde(1966). Commenting on the six-minute single "Like
a Rolling Stone" (1965), Rolling Stonewrote: "No other pop song has so thoroughly challenged and
transformed the commercial laws and artistic conventions of its time, for all
time."
In
July 1966, Dylan withdrew from touring after a motorcycle accident. During
this period, he recorded a large body of songswith members of
the Band,
who had previously backed him on tour. These recordings were released as the
collaborative álbum The
Basement Tapesin 1975. In the late 1960s and early
1970s, Dylan explored country
musicand rural themes in John
Wesley Harding(1967), Nashville Skyline(1969), and New
Morning(1970). In 1975, he released Blood
on the Tracks, which many saw as a return to
form. In the late 1970s, he became a born-again
Christianand released a series of albums of
contemporary gospel music before returning to his more familiar rock-based
idiom in the early 1980s. Dylan's 1997 album Time Out of Mindmarked the
beginning of a renaissance for his career. He has released five critically
acclaimed albums of original material since then, the most recent being Rough
and Rowdy Ways(2020). He also recorded a series of
three albums in the 2010s comprising versions of traditional American standards,
especially songs recorded by Frank
Sinatra. Backed by a changing lineup of musicians,
he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed the Never Ending Tour.
Since
1994, Dylan has published eight books of drawings and paintings, and his work
has been exhibited in major art galleries. He has
sold more than 100 million records, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
He has received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, ten Grammy Awards,
a Golden
Globe Awardand an Academy Award.
Dylan has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fameand the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The Pulitzer PrizeBoard in 2008 awarded him a special citationfor "his profound impact on popular music and American culture,
marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power". In 2016,
Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature"for
having created new poetic expressions within the great American song
tradition"
"All Along the Watchtower" is a
song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.
The song initially appeared on his 1967 album, John
Wesley Harding, and it has been included on
most of Dylan's subsequent greatest hits compilations. Since the late 1970s, he has
performed it in concert more than any of his other songs. Different
versions appear on four of Dylan's live albums.
Covered by numerous artists in various
genres, "All Along the Watchtower" is strongly identified with the
interpretation Jimi Hendrixrecorded for the album Electric
Ladyland with the Jimi
Hendrix Experience. The Hendrix version, released
six months after Dylan's original recording, became a Top 20single
in 1968, received a Grammy
Hall of Fameaward in 2001, and was ranked 47th
in Rolling Stonemagazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Timein 2004.
There must be some
way out of here
Said the joker to the thief
There's too much confusion
I can't get no relief
Business men they
drink my wine
Plow men dig my Earth
None of them along the line
Know what any of it is worth
No reason to get
excited
The thief he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who fell that life is but a joke?
But you and I, we've
been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
The hour is getting late
All along the
watchtower
Princes kept the view
While all the women came and went
Barefoot servants too
Outside in the
distance
A wild cat did growl
Two riders were approaching
The wind began to howl.
MIDNIGHT RAMBLER
THE ROLLING STONES
SONGWRITERS: KEITH
RICHARDS & MICK JAGGER
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: LET IT BLEED
LABEL: DECCA RECORDS
GENRE: BLUES ROCK
YEAR: 1969
The Rolling Stones are an English rockband formed in Londonin 1962. As a diverging act to the popular pop rockof the early 1960s, the Rolling Stones pioneered the gritty, heavier-driven
sound that came to define hard rock.
The band's first stable line-up consisted of bandleader Brian Jones(guitar, harmonica, keyboards), Mick Jagger(lead vocals, harmonica), Keith
Richards(guitar, vocals), Bill Wyman(bass guitar), Charlie
Watts(drums), and Ian
Stewart(piano), the last of whom was
removed from the official line-up in 1963, but continued to work with the band
as a contracted musician until his death in 1985. The band's primary
songwriters, the partnership
of Jagger and Richards, assumed leadership after Andrew
Loog Oldhambecame the group's manager. Jones
left the band less than a month before his death in 1969, having already been
replaced by Mick Taylor,
who in turn left in 1974 and was replaced in 1975 by Ronnie Wood,
who has since remained. Since Wyman's departure in 1993, Darryl Joneshas served as bassist. The Stones have not had an official
keyboardist since Stewart's departure in 1963, but have employed several additional
musicians in that role, including Jack
Nitzsche(1965–71), Nicky Hopkins(1967–82), Billy
Preston(1971–81), Ian McLagan(1978–81), and Chuck
Leavell(1982–present).
Rooted in bluesand early rock and
roll, the Rolling Stones started out playing
covers and established themselves at the forefront of the British Invasionof bands that became popular in the United States in 1964, also
being identified with the youthful and rebellious counterculture of the 1960s. The
band found more success with their own material; songs such as "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
and "Paint It Black"
became international hits, and Aftermath(1966) – their first
entirely original album – has been considered the most important of the band's
formative records. After a short period of experimentation with psychedelic rockin the mid-1960s, the Stones returned to their 'bluesy' roots with Beggars Banquet(1968), Let It
Bleed(1969), Sticky Fingers(1971) and Exile
on Main St.(1972). In 1969 they were first
introduced on stage as 'The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World'.
The band continued to release commercially
successful albums through the 1970s and early 1980s, including Some Girls(1978) and Tattoo You(1981), the two best-sellers in their discography. During the 1980s, infighting
curtailed their output, and they kept a low profile for the rest of the decade.
Their fortunes changed when they released Steel Wheels(1989), promoted by a large stadium and arena tour, the Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour. Since the 1990s, new material has
been less frequent. Despite this, the Rolling Stones continue to be a huge
attraction on the live circuit. By 2007, the band had four of the
top five highest-grossing concert toursof all time: Voodoo
Lounge Tour(1994–95), Bridges
to Babylon Tour(1997–98), Licks Tour(2002–03) and A Bigger Bang(2005–07). In 2012, the
band celebrated their 50th anniversary. Their latest album, Blue & Lonesome(2016), became their twelfth UK number-one album.
The group continues to sell out venues, with their recente No Filter Tourrunning for two years and concluding in August 2019.
The Rolling Stones' estimated record sales of
240 million makes them one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
The band have been awarded three Grammy
Awardsand a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. They were
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Famein 1989 and the
UK
Music Hall of Famein 2004. They have released30 studio albums, 23 live
albums and numerous compilations. Let It Bleed (1969) marked the first of five
consecutive No. 1 studio and live albums in the UK. Sticky Fingers (1971)
was the first of eight consecutive No. 1 studio albums in the US. In
2008, the Stones were listed 10th on the Billboard
Hot 100All-Time Top Artists chart, and in
2019 Billboardmagazine ranked them second in their list of the "Greatest
Artists of All Time" based on US chart success.
"Midnight Rambler" is a song by the
English rockband the
Rolling Stones, released on their 1969 album Let It Bleed.
The song is a loose biography of Albert
DeSalvo, who confessed to being the Boston Strangler.
Keith Richardshas called the number "a blues opera" and the
quintessential Jagger-Richards song, stating in the 2012 documentary Crossfire
Hurricanethat "nobody else could have
written that song."
Did you hear about
the midnight rambler
Everybody got to go
Did you hear about the midnight rambler
The one that shut the kitchen door
He don't give you a hoot of warning
Wrapped up in a black cat cloak
He don't go in the light of the morning
He split the time the cock'rel crows
Talkin' about the midnight
gambler
The one you never seen before
Talkin' about the midnight gambler
Did you see him jump the garden wall
Sighin' down the wind so sadly
Listen and you'll hear him moan
Well, talkin' about the midnight gambler
Everybody got to go
Did you hear about
the midnight rambler
Well, honey, it's no rock 'n' roll show
Well, I'm talkin' about the midnight gambler
Yeah, the one you never seen before
Oh don't do that, oh
don't do that, oh don't do that
Don't you do that, don't you do that (repeat)
Oh don't do that, oh don't do that (repeat)
Well you heard about
the Boston...
It's not one of those
Well, talkin' 'bout the midnight...sh...
The one that closed the bedroom door
I'm called the hit-and-run raper in anger
The knife-sharpened tippie-toe...
Or just the shoot 'em dead, brainbell jangler
You know, the one you never seen before
So if you ever meet
the midnight rambler
Coming down your marble hall
Well he's pouncing like proud black panther
Well, you can say I, I told you so!
Well, don't you listen for the midnight rambler
Play it easy, as you go
I'm gonna smash down all your plate glass windows
Put a fist, put a fist through your steel-plated door!
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