Sleep Warm
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Sleep Warm is an album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 recorded by Dean Martin
Dean Martin
Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"...

 for Capitol Records
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...

 in three sessions between October 13, 1958 and October 15, 1958 with arrangements by Pete King
Pete King
Pete King was a British musician.The drummer Pete King played in the British punk band The Flys then joined After the Fire throughout most of the band's brief heyday, performing on their biggest stateside hit, "Der Kommissar," before he became the replacement of Jan Dix in the German rock band BAP...

 and orchestra conducted by Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...

. Described in the liner notes as a "beguiling set of lullabies for moderns", the selections follow a "bedtime" concept with several of the song titles containing the words "dream" and/or "sleep". The completed album was released March 2, 1959. In 1963, Capitol Records re-released Sleep Warm under the title Dean Martin Sings/Sinatra Conducts.

Side A

  • 1. "Sleep Warm" (Lew Spence/Marilyn Keith/Alan Bergman
    Alan Bergman
    Alan Bergman is an American lyricist and songwriter.-Life & career:Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UCLA. His involvement in the entertainment industry began in the early 1950s as a director of children's television shows...

    )
    – 3:51
Session 7333; Master 30400. Recorded October 14, 1958.
  • 2. "Hit the Road to Dreamland" (Harold Arlen
    Harold Arlen
    Harold Arlen was an American composer of popular music, having written over 500 songs, a number of which have become known the world over. In addition to composing the songs for The Wizard of Oz, including the classic 1938 song, "Over the Rainbow,” Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the...

    , Johnny Mercer
    Johnny Mercer
    John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...

    )
    – 2:51
Session 7266; Master 30150. Recorded October 15, 1958.
  • 3. "Dream
    Dream (song)
    "Dream", sometimes referred to as "Dream ", is a jazz and pop standard with words and music written by Johnny Mercer in 1944...

    " (Johnny Mercer
    Johnny Mercer
    John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...

    )
    – 3:20
Session 7322; Master 30354. Recorded October 13, 1958.
  • 4. "Cuddle Up A Little Closer" (Karl Hoschna, Otto Harbach
    Otto Harbach
    Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies...

    )
    – 3:12
Session 7322; Master 30357. Recorded October 13, 1958.
  • 5. "Sleepy Time Gal" (Ange Lorenzo, Richard A. Whiting
    Richard A. Whiting
    Richard Armstrong Whiting was a composer of popular songs including the standards, "Hooray for Hollywood", "Ain't We Got Fun?" & "On the Good Ship Lollipop"....

    , Joseph R. Alden, Raymond B. Egan
    Raymond B. Egan
    Raymond Blanning Egan was a songwriter. He moved to the United States in 1892 and settled in Michigan where he attended the University of Michigan. His first job was a bank clerk, but he soon moved onto be a staff writer for Ginnells Music Co...

    )
    – 2:51
Session 7266; Master 30147. Recorded October 15, 1958.
  • 6. "Good Night Sweetheart
    Goodnight, Sweetheart (1931 song)
    "Goodnight, Sweetheart" is a popular song of the 1930s and 1940s, and was written by the British song-writing team of Ray Noble, Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly, and performed by Rudy Vallée, Bing Crosby and Dean Martin, among others....

    " (Ray Noble
    Ray Noble (musician)
    Ray Noble was an English bandleader, composer, arranger and actor. Noble studied music at the Royal Academy of Music and became leader of the HMV Records studio band in 1929. The band, known as the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra, featured members of many of the top hotel orchestras of the day...

    , Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly)
    – 3:10.
Session 7322; Master 30356. Recorded October 13, 1958.

Side B

  • 1."All I Do Is Dream of You
    All I Do Is Dream of You
    "All I Do Is Dream of You" is a popular song. The music was written by Nacio Herb Brown, the lyrics by Arthur Freed. The song was published in 1934. It was originally written for a 1934 film Sadie McKee. The first recording of the song was on April 23, 1934, by Dick Robertson and Angelo...

    " (Nacio Herb Brown
    Nacio Herb Brown
    Nacio Herb Brown was an American writer of popular songs, movie scores, and Broadway theatre music in the 1920s through the early 1950s.-Biography:...

     / Arthur Freed
    Arthur Freed
    Arthur Freed was born Arthur Grossman in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a Jewish American lyricist and a Hollywood film producer.- Biography :Freed began his career as a song-plugger and pianist in Chicago...

    )
    – 2:46
Session 7266; Master 30149. Recorded October 15, 1958.
  • 2."Let's Put Out the Lights (And Go To Sleep)
    Let's Put Out the Lights (and Go to Sleep)
    "Let's Put Out the Lights " is a popular song by Herman Hupfeld, published in 1932.-Recorded versions:*Ambrose and his orchestra...

    " (Herman Hupfeld
    Herman Hupfeld
    Herman Hupfeld was an American songwriter whose most notable composition was "As Time Goes By."-Biography:Hupfeld studied violin in Germany at 9. He was in the military during World War I, and he entertained camps and hospitals during World War II...

    )
    – 2:45
Session 7333; Master 30401. Recorded October 14, 1958.
  • 3."Dream a Little Dream of Me" (Wilbur Schwandt
    Wilbur Schwandt
    Wilbur Schwandt is credited for the music to the song "Dream a Little Dream of Me" with Fabian Andre.He frequently went by the stage name of "Don Swan."...

     / Fabian Andre
    Fabian Andre
    Fabian Andre was an American composer, best known for cowriting the music of "Dream a Little Dream of Me" with Wilbur Schwandt in 1931. Popular in its time, the song was revived when covered by The Mamas & the Papas after Andre's death in Mexico City in 1960.-External links:*...

     / Gus Kahn
    Gus Kahn
    Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist.-Biography:Kahn was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1886. The family emigrated from there to the United States and moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1890...

    )
    – 3:16
Session 7322; Master 30355. Recorded October 13, 1958.
  • 4."Wrap Your Trouble in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)
    Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (song)
    "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" is a popular song written by Harry Barris with lyrics by Ted Koehler and Billy Moll, published in 1931.The original 1931 popular hit recording was made by Bing Crosby with the Gus Arnheim Orchestra, but the song has become a standard, recorded by many other artists...

    " (Ted Koehler
    Ted Koehler
    Ted L. Koehler was an American lyricist.-Life and career:Koehler was born in Washington, D.C. He started out as a photo-engraver but was attracted to the music business, where he started out as a theater pianist for silent films. He moved on to write for vaudeville shows and Broadway, and he also...

     / Harry Barris / Billy Moll)
    – 2:59
Session 7266; Master 30148. Recorded October 15, 1958.
  • 5."Goodnight, My Love
    Goodnight My Love (1936 song)
    For other songs with this title, see Goodnight My Love"Goodnight My Love" is a popular song with by Mack Gordon and lyrics by Harry Revel, published in 1936. It was incorporated in the 1936 movie Stowaway, where it is sung by Shirley Temple and Alice Faye.Ella Fitzgerald recorded it on her Capitol...

    " (Mack Gordon
    Mack Gordon
    Mack Gordon was an American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film. He was nominated for the best original song Oscar nine times, including six consecutive years between 1940 and 1945, and won the award once, for "You'll Never Know"...

     / Harry Revel
    Harry Revel
    Harry Revel was an English composer of musical theatre.Revel was born in London. Before emigrating to the United States in 1929, he wrote musicals for productions in Paris, Copenhagen, Vienna and London....

    )
    – 3:03
Session 7333; Master 30403. Recorded October 14, 1958.
  • 6."Brahms' Lullaby" (Public Domain) – 3:00
Session 7333; Master 30402. Recorded October 14, 1958.

Ed. 2005

Collectors' Choice Music
Collectors' Choice Music
Collectors' Choice Music is a company primarily in two businesses. They are best known for re-issuing albums originally recorded in LP record form as compact discs...

 reissue added four more tracks to the twelve tracks on the original Capitol LP. Catalog Number WWCCM06022.
  • 1. "The Sailor's Polka" (Jerry Livingston
    Jerry Livingston
    Jerry Livingston was an American songwriter, and dance orchestra pianist.-Biography:...

     / Mack David
    Mack David
    Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television, with a career spanning from the early 1940s through the early 1970s. Mack was credited with writing lyrics and/or music for over one thousand songs...

    )
Session 2309; Master 9020-6. Recorded September 15, 1951.
  • 2. "Humdinger" (Edna Lewis / Irving Fields)
Session 7757; Master 31691-11. Recorded May 15, 1959.
  • 3. "Baby Obey Me" (Jay Livingston
    Jay Livingston
    Jay Livingston was an American composer and singer best known as half of a songwriting duo with Ray Evans that specialized in songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics....

     / Ray Evans
    Ray Evans
    Raymond Bernard Evans was an American songwriter. He was a partner in a composing and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films...

    )
Session 1726; Master 5923-3. Recorded April 28, 1950.
  • 4. "Zing-A Zing-A-Boom" (Black-Out e Ze Maria / Glen Moore
    Glen Moore
    Glen Moore is a jazz bassist who occasionally performs on piano, flute and violin.His performing career began at age 14 with the Young Oregonians in Portland, Oregon where he met and played with Native American saxophonist, Jim Pepper. He graduated with a degree in History and Literature from the...

    )
Session 1646; Master 5605-4. Recorded March 3, 1950.

Complete Musical Credits

  • Dean Martin
    Dean Martin
    Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"...

    : Vocals.
  • Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra
    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...

    : Leader.
  • Benjamin Barrett: Contractor.
  • Alfred Viola: Guitar.
  • Joseph G. 'Joe' Comfort: Bass.
  • Alvin A Stoller
    Alvin Stoller
    Alvin Stoller was an American jazz drummer. Though he seems to have been largely forgotten, he was held in high regard in the 1940s and 1950s...

    : Drums (Sessions 7322 and 7333).
  • William Richmond: Drums (Session 7266).
  • Ken Lane: Piano.
  • William Miller: Piano.
  • Elizabeth Greensporn: Cello.
  • Edgar 'Ed' Lustgarten: Cello (Session 7322).
  • Kurt Reher: Cello (Session 7333).
  • Eleanor Aller Slatkin (Session 7266).
  • Kathryn Julye: Harp (Sessions 7322 and 7266).
  • Stella Castellucci: Harp (Session 7333).
  • Alvin Dinkin: Viola (Sessions 7322 and 7266).
  • Louis Kievman: Viola (Session 7322).
  • Alexander Neiman: Viola (Session 7333).
  • Paul Robyn: Viola (Session 7333 and 7266).
  • Victor Arno: Violin.
  • Harry Bluestone: Violin (Session 7322).
  • Jacques Gasselin: Violin (Session 7322).
  • James Getzoff: Violin (Session 7333).
  • Seymour Kramer: Violin (Session 7322).
  • Carl LaMagna: Violin (Session 7322).
  • Daniel 'Dan' Lube: Violin.
  • Amerigo Marino: Violin.
  • Alexander 'Alex' Murray: Violin (Session 7333).
  • Erno Neufeld: Violin (Session 7333).
  • Louis Raderman: Violin (Session 7266).
  • Paul C. Shure: Violin.
  • Felix Slatkin: Violin (Session 7266).
  • Marshall Sosson: Violin (Session 7266).
  • Gerald Vinci: Violin (Sessions 7333 and 7266).
  • Jack Cave: French Horn (Sessions 7322 and 7333).
  • Gus Bivona
    Gus Bivona
    Gus Bivona was an American musician.This reed player—covering a range of clarinets, saxophones, and flute—was at the height of the big band era. Following World War II, he was a staff musician for the MGM Studio Orchestra, playing on countless soundtracks and sessions...

    : Saxophone (Session 7266).
  • Herman C. Gunkler: Saxophone (Sessions 7322 and 7333).
  • Dale Issenhuth: Saxophone.
  • Jules Jacob: Saxophone.
  • Abraham E. Most: Saxophone.
  • Theodore M. 'Ted' Nash: Saxophone (Sessions 7322 and 7333).
  • Wilbur Schwartz
    Wilbur Schwartz
    Wilbur Schwartz was a clarinetist and alto saxophonist best remembered today for his work with Glenn Miller....

    : Saxophone (Session 7266).
  • Frances L. 'Joe' Howard: Trombone (Session 7266).
  • Murray McEachern
    Murray McEachern
    Murray McEachern was a Canadian jazz trombonist and alto saxophonist born in Toronto, perhaps best-known for having played trombone for Benny Goodman from 1936-1937...

    : Trombone (Session 7266).
  • George M. Roberts: Trombone (Session 7266).
  • Frank F. Beach: Trumpet (Session 7266).
  • Conrad Gozzo
    Conrad Gozzo
    Conrad J. Gozzo was an American trumpet player born in New Britain Connecticut on February 6, 1922. Gozzo was a member of the NBC Hollywood staff orchestra at the time of his death on October 8, 1964...

    : Trumpet (Session 7266).
  • Dale McMickle: Trumpet (Session 7266).
  • Edwin L 'Buddy' Cole: Piano.
  • Julian C. 'Matty' Matlock: Clarinet.
  • Charles T. 'Chuck' Gentry: Saxophone.
  • Edward R. Miller: Saxophone.
  • Elmer R. 'Moe' Schneider: Trombone.
  • Charles Richard 'Dick' Cathcart: Trumpet.
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