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The Nashville Sessions (Dean Martin album)

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Released
  
June 15, 1983

Artist
  
Dean Martin

Producer
  
Jimmy Bowen

Length
  
28:30

Release date
  
15 June 1983

Label
  
Warner Bros. Records

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Recorded
  
January 17–21, 1983, Masterfonics, Nashville

Genres
  
Traditional pop music, Country pop

Similar
  
Dean Martin albums, Traditional pop music albums

The Nashville Sessions is a 1983 studio album by Dean Martin, produced by Jimmy Bowen. This was Martin's last album.

Contents

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

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

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, Janis Carnes, Rick Carnes)
  10. "Love Put a Song in My Heart" (Ben Peters)

Personnel

  • Reggie Young, Billy Joe Walker, Jr. - guitar
  • Jimmy Capps - acoustic guitar
  • John Hughey, Sonny Garrish - steel guitar
  • David Hungate - bass
  • David Briggs, Alan Moore - keyboards
  • Buddy Spicher - fiddle
  • Kieran Kane - mandolin
  • James Stroud - drums
  • Denis Solee, Sam Levine - horns
  • Carol Chase, Dennis Wilson, Diane Tidwell, Donna Sheridan, Doug Clements, Gary Janney, Karen Taylor, Lisa Silver, Lori Brooks, Louis Nunley, Philip Forrest, Sherilyn Huffman, Terry Dearmore, Tom Brannon - backing vocals
  • Nashville String Machine - strings
  • Al De Lory - string arrangements
  • Carl Gorodetzky - concertmaster

    • Songs

    1Old Bones3:11
    2Everybody's Had The Blues2:21
    3Don't Give Up On Me2:50

    References

    The Nashville Sessions (Dean Martin album) Wikipedia
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