Dean Martin Enters Billboard Top 200 at # 39 August
27, 2007 – Dean
Martin’s easygoing charm is still cool!
The singer’s “Forever Cool” CD
featuring duets with Chris Botti, Joss Stone,
Robbie Williams, Martina McBride and Kevin Spacey
entered the Billboard top 200 album chart at #
39. The Capital/EMI album released on August 14
shows off Martin’s inter-generational popularity
with his new revamped website receiving 154,500
hits last week alone. "No matter what age
you are at, you kind of want to be cool, and there
was nobody cooler," said Dean Martin's Forever
Cool collaborator Kevin Spacey. Martin actually
knocked the Beatles “A Hard Day’s Night”out
of the #1 chart position with "Everybody
Loves Somebody" in 1964. “Young people
have realized how cool he is and how funny he
is ... and he could sing,” says 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."
Martin died on Christmas Day in 1995. - by John
Beaudin
August
27, 2007 – 
