Dean Martin scored another Top 40 pop and Top Five easy listening hit in the late winter of 1966 with "Somewhere There's a Someone," a song recorded in the same sort of familiar 1950s-style rock & roll arrangement that had been giving him hits since his comeback with "Everybody Loves Somebody" almost two years earlier. Reprise Records naturally wanted an album tie-in, but apparently Martin was too busy with his TV show and movies to oblige, so the label simply borrowed ten tracks from two of his earlier albums, added the two sides of the recent single, and titled the result Somewhere There's a Someone. All the tracks were listed on the front cover, so you couldn't accuse Reprise of deception. Dean Martin fans probably would have realized that "Anytime," "Blue Blue Day," "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," "I Walk the Line," and "Room Full of Roses" had been released previously on 1963's Country Style and that "Candy Kisses," "I Can't Help It" (aka Hank Williams' "I Can't Help It if I'm Still in Love With You"), "Bouquet of Roses," "Just a Little Lovin'," and "Second Hand Rose (Second Hand Heart)" had been on its follow-up, Dean "Tex" Martin Rides Again, also in 1963. Those who didn't know probably didn't have those two relatively poor-selling albums in their collections. And the LP's commercial success justified the approach: Although Somewhere There's a Someone didn't chart as high as Martin's recent efforts, it eventually became his eighth gold album. But this was the most egregious example yet of Reprise's tendency to recycle its Martin catalog.

DEAN MARTIN
SOMEWHERE THERE'S A SOMEONE

(Reprise RS-6201)

February/1966
Produced by Jimmy Bowen


1.
SOMEWHERE THERE'S A SOMEONE
(Baker Knight)
« © '66 Unichappell Music, BMI »

Somewhere there's a someone for everyone
Somewhere there's a someone for me
Though I may be lonely now I'll see it through somehow
To someone's heart I know I hold the key

Somewhere there's a someone for everyone
Somewhere there's a someone for me
And I'll search my whole life through until I find a love that's true
For I know somewhere there's a someone for me
[ horns ]
(Somewhere somewhere)
And I'll search my whole life through...
For I know somewhere there's a someone for me
**********
2.
ANYTIME
(Herbert Lawson)
« © '21 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP »

Anytime you're feeling lonely anytime you're feeling blue
Anytime you feel down hearted that'll prove your love for me is true
Anytime you're thinking bout me that's the time I will think of you
So anytime you say you want me back again
That's the time I'll come back home to you

(Anytime you're feeling lonely anytime you're feeling blue)
Anytime you feel down hearted that'll prove your love for me is true
Oh anytime you're thinking bout me that's the time I will think of you
So anytime you say you want me back again
That's the time That's the time
Yes that's the time I'll come back home to you
**********
3.
BLUE BLUE DAY
(Don Gibson)
« © '57 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »

It's been a blue blue day I feel like running away
I feel like running away from it all
My love has been untrue she's found somebody new
It's been a blue blue day for me

I feel like crying dying what can I do
I feel like praying saying I'm glad we're through
It's been a blue blue day I feel like running away
I feel like running away from the blues
[ guitar ]
How can I make believe that I don't sit and grieve
It's been a blue blue day for me
I can't pretend and say that I don't love her anyway
It's been a blue blue day for me

I feel like crying dying what can I do...
I feel like running away from the blues
**********
4.
I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY
(Hank Williams)
« © '49 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill he sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low I'm so lonesome I could cry

I've never seen a night so long when time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind a cloud to hide its face and cry
[ strings ]
The silence of a falling star lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are I'm so lonesome I could cry
I'm so lonesome I could cry
**********
5.
CANDY KISSES
(George Morgan)
« © '48 Unichappell Music, BMI »

(Candy kisses wrapped in paper)

Candy kisses wrapped in paper mean more to you than any of mine
Candy kisses wrapped in paper you'd rather have 'em any old time

You don't mean it when you whisper those sweet love words in my ear
Candy kisses wrapped in paper mean more to you than mine do dear

(Oh candy kisses wrapped in paper mean more to you than any of mine
Candy kisses wrapped in paper)

Once my heart was filled with gladness now there's sadness only tears
Candy kisses wrapped in paper mean more to you than mine do dear
Mean more to you than mine do dear
(Candy kisses)
**********
6.
I CAN'T HELP IT (IF I'M STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU)
(Hank Williams)
« © '51 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »

(I can't help it if I'm still in love with you)

Today I passed you on the street and my heart fell at your feet
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you
Somebody else stood by your side and he looked so satisfied
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you

A picture from the past came slowly stealing
As I brushed your arm and walked so close to you
Then suddenly I got that old time feeling
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you
[ strings ]
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you

(It's hard to know another's lips will kiss you
And hold you just the way I used to do)
Oh heaven only knows how much I miss you
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you
**********
7.
THAT OLD CLOCK ON THE WALL
(Ken Lane - Irving Taylor)
« © '66 Sands Music »

Like that old clock on the wall that keeps ticking night and day
My heart will keep beatin' just for you
Like that old river that flows and keeps rolling out to sea
My love will go on my whole life through

Like that old sun in the sky seems to hide when clouds come by
And seems brighter when those clouds roll away
Well I make each day turn out fine just as long as you are mine
With my heart beating for you through it all
Like that old clock on on the wall

(Like that old clock on the wall that keeps ticking night and day)
[ horns ]
(Like that old river that flows and keeps rolling out to sea)
[ horn ]

Like that old sun in the sky...
**********
8.
BOUQUET OF ROSES
(Steve Nelson - Bob Hillard)
« © '47 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP / Better Half Music, ASCAP »

(Oh I'm sending you a big bouquet of roses)

I'm sending you a big bouquet of roses one for every time you've broke my heart
And as the door of love between us closes tears will fall like petals when we part

I've begged you to be different but you'll always be untrue
I'm tired of forgivin' now there's nothin' left to do
So I'm sending you a big bouquet of roses
One for every time you've broke my heart
[ strings ]
(I'm sending you a big bouquet of roses)

I know that I should hate you after all you've put me through
But how can I be bitter when I'm still in love with you
So I'm sending you a big bouquet of roses
One for every time you've broke my heart
One for every time you've broke my heart
**********
9.
I WALK THE LINE
(Johnny Cash)
« © '56 House Of Cash, BMI »

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds because you're mine I walk the line

I find it very very easy to be true I find myself alone when each day is through
Yes I'll admit that I'm a fool for you because you're mine I walk the line

As sure as night is dark and day is light I keep you on my mind both day and night
And happiness proves that it's right because you're mine I walk the line
[ guitar ]
You got a way to keep me on your side you give me cause for love that I can't hide
For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide because you're mine I walk the line

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine...
**********
10.
JUST A LITTLE LOVIN' (WILL GO A LONG WAY)
(Eddy Arnold - Zeke Clements)
« © '47 Unichappell Music, BMI »

(Just a little lovin' will go a long way long long way)

Just a little lovin' will go a long way
And you will make me happy the rest of my days
Put your arms around me then I'll be your slave
Cause just a little lovin' will go a long way

(A little lovin' go a long way
Make me happy the rest of my days
Arms around me be your slave
A little lovin' go a long way)

(Just a little lovin') will go a long way
And you will make me happy oh the rest of my days
Put your arms around me then I'll be your slave
Cause just a little lovin' will go a long way
(Just a little lovin') will go a long way
**********
11.
ROOM FULL OF ROSES
(Tim Spencer)
« © '49 Unichappell Music, BMI »

If I sent a rose to you for every time you made me blue
You'd have a room full of roses
If I sent a rose of white for every time I cried all night
You'd have a room full of roses

And if you took the petals and you tore 'em all apart
You'd be tearing at the roses just the way you tore my heart
And if someday you're feeling blue you could send some roses too
I don't want a room full of roses I just want my arms full of you
[ guitar ]
You'd have a room full of roses
[ guitar ]
You'd have a room full of roses

If you took the petals...
**********
12.
SECOND HAND ROSE (SECOND HAND HEART)
(Harlan Howard - Grant Clarke - James Hanley)
« © '63 Tree Publishing, BMI / Quartet Music, ASCAP /
Range Road Music, ASCAP / Sony Tunes, ASCAP »


Second hand shoes second hand clothes they all call her second hand rose
They all think they're pretty smart but rose don't have a second hand heart

I love a little girl who lives across the way
I go to see her nearly every day
But when I get the money I'll take her away
And they can't gather around her and say

(Second hand shoes second hand clothes) they all call her second hand rose
They all think they're pretty smart but rose don't have a second hand heart
[ strings ]
They tease her about her clothes and things
It's hard to believe some folks could be so mean
But when I get the money I'll buy her the best
I'll take a rose you can have all the rest

(Second hand shoes...
(Second hand shoes...
(My sweet rose)
**********

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