Toasting Dean Martin with new CDs

For Dean Martin fans, this really is "Amore."

Aficionados of the legendarily sauced Rat Packer should be drunk with glee this year as a collection of CDs, DVDs and even a coffee-table tome are readied for release.

"We want to see more projects and we're trying to figure that out now," Gail Martin-Downey, a Martin heir, told Billboard last week. "When our children and grandchildren see dad [Martin] pop up on YouTube, we know there's a growing audience out there."

And it will grow even larger when the music-and-book collection "Cool Then, Cool Now" hits shelves June 7, his birthday (he would have been 94). There are close to 30 songs spanning Dino's career on two CDs; in the book's 60 pages you'll find photos from friends and the Martin family archives.

Also arriving June 7: "Classic Dino: The Best of Dean Martin," a reissue of a 2004 disc with six new songs.

For those who want to see the man in action, "The Best of the Dean Martin Variety Show" comes out May 24. It's available as either a single, double or six-set DVD. "The TV shows captured 'Dean Martin' in his casual, comfortable way," Martin-Downey said. "Most of the shows capture that, plus you get his serious side and the silly sketches. It really shows who he was at home."