Collected cool

"The audio portion is an excellent selection of hits and neglected classics, with a few unreleased nuggets -- all of which deserved the excavation ... Collected Cool functions extremely well as the best possible overview of the aspects that made Dean Martin a star -- his peerless voice and, equally, his distinctively cool and clowning way with a crowd".

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"To be cool is to have mastered the art of indifference ... He cultivated indifference early as protection against the small-time Mafioso of Steubenville, Ohio, then fashioned it into art. This collection gives glimpes of that evolution in the '50s, and then its leisurely drift into self-parody by the '70s".