{"id":28425,"date":"2019-11-13T10:56:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T17:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=28425"},"modified":"2019-11-13T10:58:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T17:58:05","slug":"dean-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/dean-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Martin Returns in Let It Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Martin has a new <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> release. Well, kinda. It&#8217;s another posthumous appearance by Dino &#8211; yet another &#8220;old wine in new bottles&#8221; approach to <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> music.<\/p>\n<p>This time, he&#8217;s animated. Take a peek&#8230;and a listen:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rnil5LyK_B0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is the latest release in bringing the classics of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> music to a whole new generation through animated videos.<\/p>\n<p>Universal Music Enterprises is releasing brand-new animated videos like Dino&#8217;s to go with Frank Sinatra&#8217;s &#8220;Jingle Bells,&#8221; Brenda Lee&#8217;s &#8220;Rockin&#8217; Around The <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Tree,&#8221; Bobby Helms&#8217; &#8220;Jingle Bell Rock,&#8221; the Jackson 5&#8217;s &#8220;I Saw Mommy Kissing <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> Claus,&#8221; the Supremes&#8217; &#8220;My Favorite Things&#8221; and The Temptations&#8217; &#8220;Silent Night&#8221;. Evidently even more classic artists will be featured in the future.<\/p>\n<p>We gotta admit that Dean sounds better than ever.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve cleaned him up pretty good, too. Missing is the ever-present cigarette and the glass of hooch.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, today&#8217;s savvy youth could always watch the animation and then search Youtube&#8217;s archives of Dean&#8217;s old <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> specials. I suppose that&#8217;s part of the point.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, these videos in their own way are a cute way of looking back at <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> as it used to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Martin has a new Christmas release. Well, kinda. It&#8217;s another posthumous appearance by Dino &#8211; yet another &#8220;old wine in new bottles&#8221; approach to Christmas music. This time, he&#8217;s animated. Take a peek&#8230;and a listen: This is the latest release in bringing the classics of Christmas music to a whole new generation through animated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[594,754,755],"class_list":["post-28425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","tag-dean-martin","tag-let-it-snow","tag-universal-music-enterprises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}