- Format: CD
- Label: Collectors Choice
- Genre: Rock / Pop
Dean followed the lead of his best buddy and now-label mate Frank Sinatra in
recording this, his first “concept” album, but where Frank drew from the Great
American Songbook, Dino’s approach was typically more lighthearted, drawing
from classic Dixieland tunes to fashion this 1955 romp. That easygoing drawl was
perfect for these tunes: Carolina Moon; Waiting for the Robert E. Lee; When It’s
Sleepy Time down South; Mississippi Mud; Alabamy Bound; Dinah; Carolina in the
Morning; Way down Yonder in New Orleans; Georgia on My Mind; Just a Little Bit
South of North Carolina; Basin Street Blues, and Is It True What They Say About
Dixie. Bonus tracks include two from 1949, Three Wishes and Have a Little
Sympathy, and two from 1954, I’d Gladly Make the Same Mistake Again and Under
the Bridges of Paris.
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