This was the third of five albums that Martin released in 1966, that year he also starred in three films and appeared in his own television show.[4]The Hit Sound of Dean Martin peaked at 50 on the Billboard 200, and was still on the charts in the second week of February 1967.[5][6] In contrast to the chart performance of his recent LP's, The Hit Sound of Dean Martin marked a waning in his chart popularity as it only became his first LP since 1964's Everybody Loves Somebody not to go gold.[2]
The album combines newly recorded material with previously issued singles and B sides.[2] The album featured Martin's singles "Come Running Back" and "A Million and One", respectively Top 40 pop and Top Five easy listening hits, with six newly recorded songs.[2] "Shades" by Lee Hazlewood that appears on the album had previously been issued as the B side to "A Million and One". Two tracks, "Any Time" and "Ain't Gonna Try Anymore," from this album had been released originally on Martin's 1963 album Dean "Tex" Martin: Country Style.[2] The song "Any Time" was appearing for the third time on an LP by Martin, having also featured on his album Somewhere There's a Someone, released earlier in 1966.[2]
The Hit Sound of Dean Martin was reissued on CD by Hip-O Records in 2009.[7]
William Ruhlmann on Allmusic.com gave the album two and a half stars out of five. Ruhlmann commented on Martin's country music style writing that "The new songs, as usual arranged in a style that would define them as country music if they had been recorded in Nashville by a singer with more of a twang in his voice, were no great shakes".[2]
^Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (20 August 1966). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 1–. ISSN0006-2510. Retrieved 17 February 2013. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
^Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (11 February 1967). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 1–. ISSN0006-2510. Retrieved 17 February 2013. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
