Dean Martin's Christmas With Dino to Spread Holiday Cheer With Brand New Duet With Martina McBride

Dean Martin's Christmas With Dino to Spread Holiday Cheer With Brand New Duet With Martina McBride

Martin's Classic Capitol/EMI Holiday Album Includes a New Recording of 'Baby, It's Cold Outside'

In Stores: September 12, 2006

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Dean Martin's Christmas With Dino is a holiday classic, and to make this year's yuletide especially bright, the 16-track CD has been expanded with a new duet with country music superstar Martina McBride. The new duet of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" was recorded at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, California, the same studio where Martin cut his original version of the song in 1959. Christmas With Dino, to be released September 12 by Capitol/EMI, also presents holiday classics from Martin's Capitol and Reprise catalogs and alternate studio recordings of "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" and "Winter Wonderland."

"There's something about hearing a Dean Martin holiday song," says McBride, "You think, 'Ok, it's time to start the season, it's Christmas time.' That's definitely how I feel."

"Baby, It's Cold Outside," newly recorded as a duet for the new Christmas With Dino release, captures all of the warmth and romance of the holiday season, with McBride's coy protests answering Martin's smooth advances. The result is a magical collaboration in a pairing that is at once classic while also thoroughly modern.

"It's an honor to be able to be a part of this," says McBride, "Dean had such a great voice, and to be able to sing with him all these years later is a thrill."

Christmas With Dino, a perennial holiday music must-have, also includes Martin's warm renditions of "Silver Bells," "White Christmas," "Winter Wonderland," "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer," "I'll Be Home For Christmas," "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!," "Silent Night," and other classics.

Martina McBride will perform the new "Baby, It's Cold Outside" duet during her annual holiday season tour. In a one-of-a-kind show "guaranteed to put you in the holiday spirit" (Champaign, IL News-Gazette), the mega-platinum artist and four-time CMA Female Vocalist of the Year is once again preparing to dazzle fans with her glorious soprano. The critically lauded Christmas spectacular The Joy of Christmas, now in its fourth year, kicks off a 16-city tour in Chicago November 24 and runs through December 22.

McBride has been wowing audiences and critics alike since she burst on the country scene in the early '90s. Over the last decade, she has sold more than 16 million albums, garnered 20 Top 10 hits, including nine #1s, and she has received numerous awards.

Dean Martin's legacy as an artist and an icon continues to grow. The man who knocked the Beatles from the top chart position at the height of Beatlemania also scored a Platinum record with his fastest-selling album ever, 2004's Dino: The Essential Dean Martin. The 30-track CD entered Billboard's Top 200 chart as its "Hotshot Debut," the week's highest new entry at #28, and

also debuted in iTunes' Top 5, alongside new releases from Avril Lavigne and Modest Mouse.

Dean Martin is as important now to generations of music fans as he's ever been. The warm sensuality of his voice continues to beguile with a winning style and just a touch of mystery. Martin's recordings are heard regularly in the hippest movies, TV shows and commercials.

Dean Martin: Christmas With Dino
1. Baby, It's Cold Outside (NEW DUET with Martina McBride)
2. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
3. White Christmas
4. Silver Bells
5. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
6. Winter Wonderland
7. Blue Christmas
8. Jingle Bells
9. A Winter Romance
10. A Marshmallow World
11. The Christmas Blues
12. Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
13. Silent Night
14. I'll Be Home For Christmas
15. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (Alt. version)
16. Winter Wonderland (Alt. version)

Source: Capitol/EMI

CONTACT: Jennifer Ballantyne of EMI Music Catalog Marketing,
+1-323-871-5494, jennifer.ballantyne@emicap.com

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