Deana Martin can’t help remembering the swingin’ King of Cool

Sporting an omnipresent cigarette, a rugged Dean Martin capably demonstrates the fine art of tying a bandanna while looking essentially cool, on location for “Bandolero” at Alamo Village in Brackettville, Texas, circa October 1967. Photography by Pierluigi Praturlon

Welcome to Dean Martin’s world. In an exclusive scoop, Deana Martin, the swingin’ King of Cool’s fourth of eight children, waxes nostalgic about her late father’s favorite things. Deana resembles the elder Martin considerably and follows in his footsteps as a song’s best friend.

Indeed, on her Great American Songbook showcase Destination Moon, the album’s most tantalizing cut is “True Love,” a faithful recreation of Cole Porter’s sentimental ode featuring Deana’s debut duet with her father via modern recording wizardry. Swing Street, tracked within Capitol Records’ Studio A, the same room where Dino waxed much of his incendiary 1950s output, represents Deana’s fifth studio album comprised of jazz and blues-tinged material and is available on vinyl or CD — autographed to boot.

Dino epitomized a multifaceted entertainer. During the Steubenville, Ohioan’s heyday in the mid-twentieth century, he was capable of knocking the Beatles off the charts with “Everybody Loves Somebody,” breaking attendance records and earning millions at his legendary Sands Hotel residency in Las Vegas, holding his own alongside such method acting stalwarts as Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando, being the consummate straight man to wildly unpredictable comic Jerry Lewis, and ad-libbing his way through a top rated variety show — without even so…