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29 unusual facts about Dean Martin


196th Reconnaissance Squadron

On 21 March 1987, Captain Dean Paul Martin (son of entertainer Dean Martin), a pilot in the squadron, crashed his F-4C into San Gorgonio Mountain, California, shortly after departure from March AFB.

Aldemaro Romero

In the United States, he collaborated with many musicians, including Dean Martin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Stan Kenton, René Touzet, Machito and Tito Puente.

Apposition

Dean Martin, a very popular singer, will be performing at the Sands Hotel.

Barbara Hale

Hale also had a featured role in the 1970 ensemble film Airport, playing the wife of a jetliner pilot (Dean Martin).

California Split

MGM wanted the story to be a mafia-related “sting” concept with Dean Martin as one of the two main characters.

Chris-Craft Boats

The company sold high-end boats to famous customers such as Dean Martin, Katharine Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis Presley.

Clarence Tex Walker

In Las Vegas, Walker appeared with the Drifters who worked in the same venues with Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett and many major rock, blues and jazz artists including: The Rolling Stones; The Beatles; B.B. King; Aretha Franklin; Louis Armstrong; Count Basie; Herbie Hancock; Miles Davis; Ray Charles and Nat King Cole.

Dean Martin discography

This article contains a listing of Dean Martin's original singles, LPs, and compilations from his career.

Dino Cellini

As a youngster, Cellini worked at Rex's Cigar Store as a dice/craps casino dealer and croupier with singer Dean Martin, then known as Dean (Dino) Crocetti.

Dual-Ghia

Dean Martin had one at one point as well, according to his son Ricci.

Elliot Thorpe

Additionally, he has been writing articles and reviews for The Dean Martin Association since the late 1990s, and now maintains his relationship with the appreciation society as contributing editor.

Herbert Rehbein

Several of their songs together, including "Lady," "The World We Knew (Over and Over)," and "Sweet Maria," became international successes and were recorded by such singers as Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin and Al Martino.

Irving B. Goldman

His practice included patients from the most affluent members of New York society and the New York City show business industry, including Dean Martin, Lee Remick, the Andrews Sisters, and Frank Sinatra for multiple throat issues.

James H. Street

The Broadway musical, Hazel Flagg, was based on his short story, as well as the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis-film Living It Up.

Marco Reginelli

In the early 1950s, the 500 Club frequently presented singer Dean Martin, who first performed with comedian and future partner Jerry Lewis at the club.

Mark Rotella

His second book, Amore: The Story of Italian American Song (2010), tells of the era in American popular music during the mid-20th century dominated by Italian-American singers such as Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Dean Martin, and Tony Bennett.

Mike Downey

He is married to singer Gail Martin, daughter of the legendary entertainer Dean Martin.

Pablo Beltrán Ruiz

Pablo Beltrán Ruiz (born 5 March 1915 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico - died 29 July 2008) was a Mexican composer and band leader most famous for composing the Spanish language song "¿Quién será?", a hit made famous internationally by Dean Martin as "Sway" in 1954, and later by Bobby Rydell in 1960, with English lyrics by Norman Gimbel.

Patrick Topaloff

In the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, writer/director Philippe Clair cast Topaloff in a number of slapstick comedy films similar to the Carry On series in the UK or those made by Jerry Lewis in the US after splitting with Dean Martin.

Paul Trousdale

In 1954, he purchased the Doheny Ranch from Mrs Lucy Smith Doheny Battson, wife of Edward L. Doheny, Jr. (1893–1929), son of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny (1856–1935), and developed it into Trousdale Estates, later home to Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Curtis and Ray Charles.

Peter Corry

He performed as Dean Martin in The Rat Pack, starred in Night of 1,000 Stars at the Royal Albert Hall and performed in The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Reuben's Restaurant

The restaurant's menu included sandwiches named for celebrities; Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra both had sandwiches named for them.

Sally Mansfield

Marie Mahder (December 13, 1920 – January 28, 2001), best known by her stage name Sally Mansfield, was an American television character actress; she also had a few small roles in feature films including one with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

Satriale's Pork Store

The interior walls of the storeroom where Emil "E-Mail" Kolar is murdered by Christopher Moltisanti has black and white framed photographs of classic actors and entertainers, like Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson and Dean Martin hanging on the walls.

Sinatra and Friends

Featuring contemporary artists such as John Denver and Natalie Cole, as well as Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Loretta Lynn, Leslie Uggams and Robert Merrill, Sinatra performs duets of standards in different styles such as folk and disco in addition to each singer performing solo.

The Caddy

Lisa's brother Joe (Dean Martin) becomes Harvey's first client and becomes good enough to start playing in tournaments, with Harvey tagging along as his caddy.

It was later re-released in 1964 on a double bill with another Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis picture, You're Never Too Young.

The Dean Martin Comedy World

Created by Dean Martin and his producer Greg Garrison, the premise of this series was that it traveled around the world to find new comedy acts and show them on the air.

Willie Moretti

In the late 1940s, Moretti become acquainted with comedians Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis while they were performing at Bill Miller's Riviera nightclub in Fort Lee, New Jersey.


Abbe Lane

Her costume for an appearance on the Jackie Gleason Show was considered too revealing and she was instructed to wear something else; however she appeared on the shows of Red Skelton, Dean Martin and Jack Benny without attracting controversy.

Antonio Morelli

The greatest names in the entertainment industry graced the Copa Room Stage (the showroom at the Sands, named after the famed Copacabana Club in New York City) including Judy Garland, Lena Horne, (she was billed at the Sands as "The Satin Doll") Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, along with "The Copa Girls".

Camlin Hotel

In the ensuing years, the Cloud Room hosted numerous famous faces, among them Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Bonnie Raitt, John Lee Hooker, and Elvis Costello.

Conrad Gozzo

Gozzo, lead trumpeter on the Glen Gray, Stan Kenton, and Harry James "remakes", and in Dan Terry's 1954 Columbia sessions, recorded extensively with arrangers Van Alexander, Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Ray Conniff, Jerry Fielding and Shorty Rogers, and also with performers Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra.

Corbett Monica

In the 1970s and 80s he appeared mostly in night clubs and show rooms across the country, including Las Vegas, opening for headliners like Paul Anka, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., Lena Horne, Dean Martin, Liza Minnelli and Jerry Vale.

Daliah Lavi

Lavi's film appearances include Vincente Minnelli's Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), Mario Bava's gothic classic La Frusta e il corpo, or The Whip and the Body (1963), the role of The Girl in Lord Jim and the first Matt Helm film, The Silencers (1966), opposite Dean Martin.

Don Fagerquist

Throughout the early- to mid-1960s, Fagerquist's solos could be heard on the recordings of Pete Rugolo, Frank Comstock, Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Paul Weston, Si Zentner, Dean Martin and many others.

Dorcas Cochran

Her English language lyric for "Under the Bridges of Paris" was recorded by both Eartha Kitt and Dean Martin for United Kingdom chart hits in 1955, although they failed to chart in the United States, and Frankie Laine's recording of her song, "In the Beginning" similarly charted in the UK but not in the US that year.

Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York

'Every Street's A Boulevard In Old New York' is a song from the musical Hazel Flagg and from the movie Living It Up (in which it was performed by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis).

Fireboy

In the album's liner notes McLennan said the songs were for Gloria Swanson, Kenneth Slessor, Brett Whiteley and Dean Martin.

Fred Travalena

His television credits began in the 1970s, as a regular performer on The ABC Comedy Hour, where he once did a split screen impression of John Lennon on one side and Paul McCartney on the other, and the Dean Martin Roasts.

Greg Roskowski

Listeners to Radio Ceylon enjoyed his 'wakey wakey' style and he introduced the hit songs of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Junior, Bill Haley & His Comets, Cliff Richard and Elvis Presley to audiences in Ceylon and beyond.

Innamorata

The biggest selling recording of the song was sung by Dean Martin (issued as Capitol Records catalog number 3352), reaching #27 on the Billboard magazine chart in 1956.

JBL Paragon

There are rumours that Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin acquired three Paragons each – one for each of left, center and right channels – with which they used to monitor their recordings from master tapes.

Mitchell Torok

Torok continued to write songs, working in partnership with his wife (who has used both Gayle Jones and Ramona Redd as pseudonyms, the latter being her maiden namea), and had recordings by artists including Skeeter Davis, Kitty Wells,Hank Snow and Willie Nelson, Jerry Wallace,Billy Walker, Barbara Eden, Glen Campbell, Dean Martin and Clint Eastwood, who sang Torok's song, "No Sweeter Cheater than You" in the Warner Brothers HONKY TONK MAN movie.

Something Big

In the frontier of the southern New Mexico Territory, Joe Baker (Dean Martin) is an aging restless bandit determined to do "something big" before his fiancée Dover McBride (Carol White) arrives from the East.

Songs from the Bar Room Floor

The record is dedicated to the then recently departed Dean Martin, Sterling Morrison and Charlie Rich.

Terry Rosen

Terry was also the guitarist on a notable series of 1962 live recordings at the New Villa Venice club in Chicago backing Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. (aka the Rat Pack).

The Phat Pack

The record's title is a play on The Rat Pack, a 1950's entertainment group that most prominently featured famous Jazz artists Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford.

The Sad Sack

It was re-released in 1962 as a double feature with another Jerry Lewis vehicle, The Delicate Delinquent, they being the first two movies Lewis made without Dean Martin.

We'll Sing in the Sunshine

"We'll Sing in the Sunshine" has also been recorded as an album cut in 1964 by Bobbi Martin and also by Dean Martin, in 1965 by the Fleetwoods and also Jane Morgan plus as a duet by Bobby Bare and Skeeter Davis, in 1967 by Sonny & Cher, in 1969 by Wanda Jackson, in 1972 by Wayne Newton, in 1974 by Susan Maughan and in 1984 by Dolly Parton.

Wes Harrison

He appeared on the Ed Sullivan, Jack Paar, Garry Moore, Mike Douglas, Dean Martin, Roger Miller, and the Merv Griffin shows, and filled a complete schedule of night club work.

You Gave Me a Mountain

Other artists who have recorded versions of "You Gave Me a Mountain" or performed it live include Don McLean, Eddy Arnold, Ray Price, Margie Singleton, Gene Watson, Jim Nabors Dean Martin and Christer Sjögren.