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
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
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
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 ]
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 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
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)
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
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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