3/16/2024 0 Comments The rat pack albums![]() ![]() The slim volume includes 49 pages of photos, showing Martin at work and at play, but focusing on his home life, with more than two-dozen images (many of them published for the first time) of Dean as doting papa. Shaped like a vintage family photo album, it is, in fact, precisely that. Typical of Hip-O project, the packaging is pretty nifty. Which makes the arrival of the new Martin book/CD combo, Cool Then, Cool Now (Hip-O Select) just in time for Father’s Day rather synchronistic (and, no doubt, calculatedly so). His three marriages resulted in no fewer than eight kids -a boy and three girls while wed to Betty two more boys and another girl with Jeanne and adopted daughter Sasha from his final marriage to Catherine. Dino was, history suggests, also the coolest of dads. Not because of the constant boozing (a well-fueled Martin myth, compared to Sinatra he was practically a teetotaler) or endless carousing (never really Martin’s scene-he preferred a night at home, preferably with a good western on the tube), but because of his utter unflappability and wicked sense of humor. Though Sinatra was the Rat Pack’s undisputed ringleader, the pied piper of come-fly-with-me hijinks and high living, we’ve always known that Dean Martin was the coolest of that crew. ![]()
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