Swingin' Down Yonder Songwriting Credits by Dean Martin

Every song on Swingin' Down Yonder came from Tin Pan Alley and early jazz songwriters decades before Dean Martin cut the album, and none of the twelve tracks carries his own writing credit. The oldest cut, 'Waiting for the Robert E. Lee,' dates to 1912 and was written by Lewis F. Muir and L. Wolfe Gilbert, while the newest, 'Just a Little Bit South of North Carolina,' was a 1941 Sunny Skylar co-write. In between sit standards by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell ('Georgia on My Mind'), Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn ('Carolina in the Morning'), and Buddy DeSylva, Bud Green, and Ray Henderson ('Alabamy Bound'). Martin's role on the record is strictly as interpreter - he sings the melodies as written, backed by Dick Stabile's orchestra, without altering the credited authorship of a single track. The album's identity comes from its song selection and Martin's phrasing, not from anything he wrote.