Dino: Italian Love Songs Songwriting Credits by Dean Martin

Dino: Italian Love Songs is Dean Martin working entirely as an interpreter. Every track is a pre-existing Italian or Italian-American standard, from Neapolitan songs like 'O Sole Mio' and 'Torna a Surriento' to Italian film and pop hits like 'Arrivederci Roma' and 'Non Dimenticar,' and Martin has no writing credit anywhere on the record. Several songs carry a split authorship trail: an Italian composer and lyricist on the original, then separate American writers credited for the English adaptation actually registered on this release, as with 'Just Say I Love Her' (Rodolfo Falvo's original 'Dicitencello Vuie' adapted for Capitol by Jack Val, Jimmy Dale, Martin Kalmanoff, and Sam Ward) and 'Non Dimenticar' (P.G. Redi and Michele Galdieri's original, Shelly Dobbins' English lyric). Where a credited writer used a professional name with a documented legal name, the legal name appears in the composer column: Renato Rascel as Renato Ranucci, Al Stillman as Albert Irving Silverman, Sunny Skylar as Selig Shaftel, Danny Di Minno as Daniel Gaetano DiMinno, and Johnny Farrow as John Joseph Faracchio Jr. The one re-recording, 'Return to Me,' revisits Martin's own 1958 hit rather than any new original material, reinforcing that this album's identity rests entirely on Martin's voice and Gus Levene's arrangements, not on Martin's pen.