Friday, August 15, 2014

On This Day In Dino-history: August 15, 1964



Hey pallies, likes today is the most golden of golden days in all of Dino-history.   Likes it was on this day, August 15, in the year of our Dino 1964, that our most mighty Dino knocked the Beatles outta the numero uno spot on Billboard's charts with what became his signature croon, "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime."

To share this wondrous news, we return to one of our most fav posts we have ever shared here from our Dino-devoted pallie, American character actor, voice actor and comedian, Mr. Eddie Deezen.  Deezen first shared this Dino-homagin' post on May 12, 2009, and we proudly reprint it here 'gain this Dino-day in honor of the Golden Anniversary when our King of Cool blew the mop tops off the top of the charts.

We likes deeply deeply digs how Eddie recounts that greatest of great days in the life, times, and teachin' of our Dino quotin' our Dino tellin' his boypallie that "I'M GONNA KNOCK YOUR PALLIES OFF THE CHARTS."  Likes the only thin' pallies is that in Nick Tosches' beau-ti-ful biography of our beat-ti-ful man, "DINO: Living  High In The Dirty Business Of Dreams," tells us that he was speakin' to his beloved name sake boypallie Dino Jr. rather then boypallie Ricci.   Likes whichever boypallie our most beloved Dino was speakin' with, indeed we do know that he spoketh the totally totally complete Dino-truth!

 Indeed, we salute our golden voiced Dino on this golden anniversary of strikin' pure pure gold with his golden signature croon, "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime"....and in the process bustin' the Beatles outta the top spot on the Billboard Charts!  Thanks to Mr. Eddie Deezen for sharin' this most special of special Dino-memory at his personal pad on the web.  To checks this out in it's original format, simply clicks on the tag of this here Dino-gram.   Dino-always, ever, and only, DMP  btw, we are includin' two great live versions of our King of Cool singin' his hit of hits!



DEAN MARTIN KNOCKS THE BEATLES
OUT OF #1 SPOT - AUGUST 15, 1964


I'M GONNA KNOCK YOUR PALLIES OFF THE CHARTS
                                            - DEAN MARTIN

RICCI MARTIN
, WAS JUST LIKE MOST ANY OTHER TEENAGER IN THE EARLY MONTHS OF 1964. RICCI WAS TOTALLY CRAZY ABOUT AND OBSESSED WITH THE BEATLES. EVER SINCE THEIR ARRIVAL IN AMERICA, THEY HAD CAPTIVATED TEENAGERS FAR AND WIDE AND TAKEN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY BY STORM. THEY WERE MAKING APPEARANCES ON TV, THEIR NEW FILM A HARD DAY'S NIGHT WAS A SMASH HIT, AND THEIR SONGS WERE BLASTING OUT OF EVERY RADIO ON THE CONTINENT.
DURING THIS WAVE OF BEATLEMANIA, RICCI WAS RAVING ON AND ON ABOUT THE BOYS FROM LIVERPOOL. HIS FATHER,DEAN MARTIN, STAR OF STAGE, SCREEN, TELEVISION, LAS VEGAS, AND THE RECORD WORLD, GOT FED UP ONE DAY AND TOOK RICCI TO THE SIDE AND TOLD HIM:

I'M GONNA KNOCK YOUR PALLIES OFF THE CHARTS.

RICCI SMIRKED AND BARELY HELD BACK FROM ROLLING HIS EYES RIGHT TO HIS FATHER'S FACE. SURE, HIS DAD WAS THE GREAT DEAN MARTIN, BUT DINO HADN'T HAD A HIT RECORD IN SIX YEARS - AND COME ON - THESE GUYS WERE THE BEATLES!
IN 1962, DEAN MARTIN HAD SIGNED A RECORDING CONTRACT WITH REPRISE RECORDS, A COMPANY OWNED BY HIS CLOSE FRIEND AND COMRADE-IN-ARMS FRANK SINATRA. IN 1963, REPRISE SIGNED A MAN NAMED JIMMY BOWDEN TO THEIR A & R DEPARTMENT. JIMMY VERY MUCH WANTED TO RECORD AN ALBUM WITH DEAN MARTIN. DEAN, ALWAYS AN EASY-GOING GUY, AGREED TO WORK WITH BOWDEN, BUT DEAN, A MAN WHO DID NOT LIKE CHANGE, WANTED TO RECORD AN ALBUM OF SOFT, MOODY, "LAS VEGAS-TYPE" SONGS.
IT WAS TO BE A TYPICAL "DEAN MARTIN ALBUM" - SLOW BALLADS AND LOVE SONGS SUNG BY THE DROOPY-EYED CROONER AND WAS CALLED DREAM WITH DEAN.
BOWDEN WANTED TO RECORD DEAN AND TRIED TO SET AN ATMOSPHERE THAT WAS PLEASING TO HIS ARTIST. THE RECORDING STUDIO WAS SET UP WITH MOODY LIGHTING TO CREATE THE PROPER ATMOSPHERE. HE GOT TOGETHER A SMALL BAND AND DINO QUICKLY AND SMOOTHLY RECORDED THE FIRST 11 SONGS FOR THE ALBUM.

THE 12TH HE JUST HATED - IT WAS A SONG CALLEDEVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODY SOMETIME. THE SONG HAD BEEN WRITTEN AROUND 15 YEARS PREVIOUSLY BY DEAN'S CLOSE FRIEND AND PIANO PLAYER, KEN LANE (THIS FACTOR, I'M SURE, HAD A LOT TO DO WITH DEAN RECORDING A SONG HE COULDN'T STAND. DEAN WAS A VERY NICE, EASY-GOING GUY AND HE PROBABLY JUST WANTED TO HELP A PAL GET SOME ROYALTIES). DEAN HAD TO BE COAXED INTO RECORDING THE NUMBER, BUT AFTER SOME PUSHING, HE FINALLY AGREED TO RECORD THE TUNE THAT HAD ALREADY BEEN RECORDED BY SEVERAL OTHER ARTISTS INCLUDING SINATRA, PEGGY LEE AND DINAH WASHINGTON, AND HAD NEVER GONE ANYWHERE.
WHEN DEAN'S ALBUM CAME OUT, THE SONG WAS GIVEN LITTLE NOTICE AND RAISED NO STIR, BUT IN, EARLY IN 1964, DEAN RECORDED THE SONG AGAIN AS A SINGLE. IT WAS GIVEN A NEW ARRANGEMENT, DEAN SPED UP THE TEMPO A BIT, AND ADDED A MORE CONTEMPORARY SOUND TO IT. AT FIRST, THE SONG WENT NOWHERE AND REPRISE DECIDED TO STOP PROMOTING IT. BUT RADIO STATIONS IN NEW ORLEANS AND WORCHESTER, MASS. STARTED PLAYING IT.
IT SOON SPREAD TO OTHER STATIONS AND GAINED POPULARITY, AND ON AUGUST 15, 1964, JUST AS HE HAD BOASTED TO HIS SKEPTICAL SON,
EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODY SOMETIME
ACTUALLY KNOCKED THE BEATLES OUT OF THE #1 SPOT ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 RECORD CHART.

SEE, I TOLD YOU 
I WAS GONNA KNOCK YOUR PALLIES OFF

SAID DEAN CASUALLY TO HIS AWESTRUCK SON. RICCI MARTIN SAID HE LOOKED ON AT HIS FATHER WITH PRIDE, WONDER AND AMAZEMENT. AND THUS, DEAN MARTIN, IN ALL PROBABILITY, BECAME THE ONE AND ONLY PERSON TO CORRECTLY PREDICT THAT HE WAS GOING TO KNOCK THE BEATLES OUT OF THE NUMBER ONE SPOT ON THE CHARTS AND ACTUALLY DO IT!
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BILLBOARD'S TOP FIVE SONGS - AUGUST 15, 1964

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