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Dean Martin

Everybody Loves Somebody

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  • Dream
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1964
  • 1964
  • 2009
  • 1965
  • 1947
  • 1967

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“Everybody Loves Somebody” is a song written in 1947 by Irving Taylor and Ken Lane. The song had already been recorded by several artists (including Frank Sinatra) by 1964, but without much success. But it was in that year that Lane was playing piano for Dean Martin on his Dream With Dean LP sessions, and with an hour or so of studio time left and one song short, Lane suggested that Martin take a run at his tune. Dean was agreeable, and the small combo of piano, guitar, drums and bass performed a relatively quiet, laid back jazz version of the song. Almost immediately thereafter, Martin re-recorded the tune for his next album, this time with an orchestra and chorus. His label, Reprise Records, was so enthusiastic about the hit potential of this version, they even titled the LP... Read on...

Song lines: ♪ Everybody loves somebody sometime ... Then every minute, every hour ... If I had it in my power

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