If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats: The Art of Pop #44

July 14, 2009

Swingin' Down Yonder
(Dean Martin)
(Capitol Records; 1955)

estiv said...: What a bizarre artifact. Of course like everyone else, I always associate sanitized fantasy musical versions of the South with Mr. Dino Crocetti. It's nice to speculate that the reason they used an illustration instead of a photo is because he refused to pose for it. The album is forty minutes long and probably took forty-five minutes to record. He -- okay, I'll stop.; July 14, 2009 12:43 AM
Tempest said...: I wish I was at the marketing meeting when they were kicking ideas around for this album cover.

Stories yet untold and lost in the mist of time.; July 14, 2009 12:52 AM
Christopher said...: thats the album I open up and de-seed my Ganja on.. ;o); July 14, 2009 1:38 AM
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Yet even further more proff that Dean Martin was one of the greatest vocalists God ever drew breath into.; July 14, 2009 3:25 PM
michaelE said...: I have a sneaky feeling somebody seriously considered doing him in black-face!; July 16, 2009 12:16 PM
Maria Jensen said...: Dino Crocetti :D
That album cover is so cool ;)

Maria; October 27, 2009 5:27 PM