swingin' down yonder

Dean followed the lead of his best buddy and now-label mate Frank Sinatra in recording this, his first “concept” album, but where Frank drew from the Great American Songbook, Dino’s approach was typically more lighthearted, drawing from classic Dixieland tunes to fashion this 1955 romp. That easygoing drawl was perfect for these tunes: Carolina Moon; Waiting for the Robert E. Lee; When It’s Sleepy Time down South; Mississippi Mud; Alabamy Bound; Dinah; Carolina in the Morning; Way down Yonder in New Orleans; Georgia on My Mind; Just a Little Bit South of North Carolina; Basin Street Blues, and Is It True What They Say About Dixie. Bonus tracks include two from 1949, Three Wishes and Have a Little Sympathy, and two from 1954, I’d Gladly Make the Same Mistake Again and Under the Bridges of Paris.
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