Collected Cool

Hey pallies, likes our great pallie Danny-o just 'lerted me to a google 'lert that contains such cool Dino-news that we simply can't wait 'til 'morrow to shares it with all youse Dino-holics. From the pen of Mr. Erik Pedersen, from the blog pad, " The Hollywood Reporter," comes the outstandin' news that likes on June 12th the pallies at Universal Music Enterprises are pullin' out all the stops to offer the coolest of the cool Dino-box-set tagged "Collected Cool."

Likes as you will read below, this set included 3 musical CD's as well a 1 DVD of amazin' Dino-tunes. The first two CDs will put the accent on recorded Dino-treasures from both his Capitol and Reprise Records gigs. The third CD will be audio recordin' of a 51-minute 1962 concert in Lake Tahoe that has never ever been released in it's entirety before. The DVD features our Dino in his 1983 concert at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London, previously only shown on Showtime.

Couple this news with the recent report that the first uncut DVD episodes of the Dino-show are comin' our way in May, and it is clear to see that this is shapin' up to be likes 'nother stellar year of celebratin' our most beloved Dino...simply showin' that truly truly the Dino-revolution is at full tilt dudes!

ilovedinomartin sends out kudos to Mr. Erik Pedersen of "The Hollywood Reporter" for breakin' this news on the net. To view this in it's original format, likes just clicks on the tag of this Dino-report. Don't know 'bout you dudes, but likes I am gonna have to save up some bread real quick to gets my hands on both the Dino-show DVDs and this amazin' new Dino-box-set. Keeps lovin' our Dino! Dino-always and ever, DMP

Dean Martin Box Set Due in Summer

by Erik Pedersen

The package spans the Rat Packer's nearly half-century career and features concerts from 1962 and 1983, the latter on DVD.

Memories are made of this – and vice versa.

A four-disc Dean Martin box set will be released June 12, Universal Music Enterprises said Thursday. Collected Cool will feature several dozen tracks from his years recording for Capitol and Reprise. A highlight of the set is a 51-minute 1962 concert in Lake Tahoe that is making its CD debut.

The set will span Martin’s nearly half-century career, ranging from late-'40s hits including “Powder Your Face With Sunshine (Smile! Smile! Smile!)” to the 1985 single “L.A. Is My Home.” Collected Cool also features a DVD of Dean Martin Live in London, filmed in 1983 at the Apollo Victoria Theatre. The concert aired on Showtime but has never been available on home video.

A quadruple-threat performer on stage, TV, music and movies, Martin has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Having enjoyed moderate East Coast success as a crooner, his career took off when he paired with Jerry Lewis in 1946. The comedy team of Martin and Lewis starred in nightclubs and on radio, TV and the big screen for a decade, with Martin as the consummate straight man. Meanwhile, Martin began to score hits as a singer, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks with “Memories Are Made of This” in early 1956.

Martin’s singing career flourished in the mid-‘60s. Having left his longtime home at Capitol Records for pal Frank Sinatra's nascent Reprise label, he racked up a dozen gold albums from 1964-69, fueled by his popular NBC variety show and membership in the Rat Pack. Martin topped the Hot 100 again in 1964 with “Everybody Loves Somebody.”

His singing career had flagged by the early ‘70s, but the man Playboy famously called “the coolest man who ever lived” continued to draw solid ratings on TV. After his show wrapped in 1974, Martin worked intermittently for the last 20 years of his life. He died in on Christmas Day 1995 at 78.

The Collected Cool track list:

Capitol Records Years (CD 1):

1. Dean’s Spoken Word Introductions

2. My Own, My Only, My All

3. Powder Your Face With Sunshine (Smile! Smile! Smile!)

4. I Don’t Care if the Sun Don’t Shine

5. That’s Amore

6. If I Could Sing Like Bing

7. Sway

8. Long, Long Ago

9. Memories Are Made of This

10. Pardners (with Jerry Lewis)

11. Volare

12. Rio Bravo

13. On an Evening in Roma

14. Sleep Warm

15. Ain’t That a Kick in the Head

16. Just in Time

17. Arrivederci Roma

18. Return to Me

19. A Hundred Years From Today



Reprise Records Years (CD 2):

1. Tik-a-Tee, Tik-a-Tay

2. Senza Fine

3. Who’s Got the Action

4. Guys and Dolls

5. Everybody Loves Somebody

6. The Door Is Still Open to My Heart

7. You’re Nobody ’Til Somebody Loves You

8. In the Misty Moonlight

9. Send Me the Pillow You Dream On

10. In the Chapel in the Moonlight

11. Welcome to My World

12. I Will

13. Somewhere There’s a Someone

14. My First Country Song (featuring Conway Twitty)

15. L.A. Is My Home



Live From Lake Tahoe (CD 3)

1. Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes

2. Almost Like Being in Love

3. I Love Tahoe (Paris)

4. Show Banter #1

5. My Kind of Girl

6. Show Banter #2

7. Show Banter #3

8. June in January

9. Show Banter #4

10. Break It to Me Gently

11. Show Banter #5

12. Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody

13. Instrumental

14. Show Banter #6

15. Primrose Lane/You Are Too Beautiful/Carolina in the Morning/Love Walked In/I Love Being a Girl

16. Beautiful Dreamer

17. You Made Me Love You

18. It Had to Be You/Nevertheless

19. I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter

20. Volare

21. On an Evening in Roma

22. Show Banter #7

23. I Love Paris (Tahoe)

24. Outro



Dean Marin Live in London (DVD):

1. Everybody Loves Somebody

2. Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes

3. When You’re Smiling

4. Pennies From Heaven

5. L-O-V-E

6. Everybody Loves Somebody (reprise)

7. Where or When

8. Welcome to My World

9. Drinking Champagne

10. That’s Amore

11. Love Walked In

12. Please Be Kind

13. It’s Magic

14. Ken’s Noodle

15. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

16. For the Good Times

17. Here Comes My Baby Back Again

18. Little Ole Wine Drinker Me

19. Bumming Around

20. One Hour With You
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Dean Martin -- he was a stallion in his day, aw' shucks humor and the quintessence of cool.

Hey pallies, likes I loves to share Dino-hearted stories with all youse pallies of the amazin' role that our Dino plays in the daily events of his devotees' lives. Today we turn our attentionado to 'nother new-to-ilovedinomartin blog, "jguywrite," where "jguy," an educator and senior center volunteer, shares tales 'bout his senior center bud, "Sudz."

Seems recently "jguy" and "Sudz" just finished playin' themselves some draw poker at the center when "jguy" plays a record al-b-um of our most beloved Dino "on the turn table of the chestnut 60s era Zenith stereo." When "Sudz" hears our Dino croonin' he inquires of "jguy" if that al-b-um might just contain "my old top hat?" And, likes pallies, indeed the Dino-disc did...likes how magical is that!

This eventually leads to "Sudz" reminiscin' 'bout "how Sudz's dad sang with that song on the eight-track tape, sang all the songs with Dino for the three-hour drive to Kansas City office where 19-year-old Matthew (Sudz) would officially sign up for the military."

And likes Dino-magic happened 'gain! Likes I am positive pallies that this "jguy" likes had no notion what wonderful Dino-memories that bringin' an old Dino-al-b-um to the senior center woulda likes brings to his pallie "Sudz." But, likes 'gain our great man weaves his great magic and sweet sweet memories are shared...much to the pleasure of "Stuz" and "jguy."

Likes just 'nother stunnin' example of the difference that our Dino makes in the life of his deep, pure, and true devotees. ilovedinomartin sends out kudos to "jguy" for volunteerin' at the senior center and for bringin' back great memories for his pallie "Sudz" and for sharin' this wonderful Dino-testimony with all his readers. To view this in it's original format, likes just clicks on the tag of this here Dino-gram. Dino-connected, DMP






Dean Martin - Bumming Around



My friend Sudz and I were sitting at a back table playing poker at the Senior Center where I volunteer. Sudz, at 59, is something of a volunteer there as well -- holding chairs out for frail old ladies and helping to serve meals from the kitchen. Sure I call him an old man, but to the regulars in their 80s and 90s, Sudz is just a kid.

A happy kid, too. With his family, particularly his wife of 20 years (his third) and his grandchildren, he's all about the best things of life.

He had to take an early retirement from the refinery, lives on disability, goes to the VA for all his medical needs and maintains quite well. A few years back he was diagnosed with the same degenerative condition that took his old man -- a hard, formidable square-jawed 1950s man and the lingering light in Sudz's life. To hear Sudz talk about his dad is to hear him being young and strong again.

After a game of draw poker, I got up from our round table and placed a record on the turn table of the chestnut 60s era Zenith stereo. Dean Martin -- he was a stallion in his day, aw' shucks humor and the quintessence of cool. He sang country songs backed by a swingin' orchestra.

"Is that one song on there," Sudz asked and started singing, "my old top hat?"

I didn't know. I'd just bought the old album a couple of days earlier at Flashback Sound Shack, a used record shop in the Delano district of Wichita and I hadn't had time to listen to much of it. A little while later the needle came to that groove in the vinyl.


I got an ol' slouch hat,
got my roll on my shoulder
I'm as free as a breeze
an' do as I please,
just a bummin' around . . .

Sudz's dad sang with that song on the eight-track tape, sang all the songs with Dino for the three-hour drive to Kansas City office where 19-year-old Matthew (Sudz) would officially sign up for the military.

"My lottery number would be up in a few months so I figured I'd sign up when I could pick the branch I wanted," he recalled over a cup of black coffee, discarded cards before his hands. "A few months later, they discontinued the draft.

"There were a lot of war protesters, but I didn't know much about it. I figured if my country was in a war, it must be right."

He stops and sings with the vinyl. "Just a bummin' around."

Sudz's old man loved that song and "he had one good singing voice." It was a sonorous baritone, emanating from the lungs of a broad man with a gift for pugilism and physical stanima. A veteran homicide detective and police chief, he had been among the thousands -- the young men stomping through the ocean waves on to the shores of Normandy in June of 1944.

It was a fall day in 1971 when Sudz's dad drove him to the induction building. A couple of years later, FBI agents, police chiefs, detectives and seargeants from all across the country would be at the old man's funeral.

Actually, he died young, nearly a year short of his 50th birthday. Sudz, who like most of us, doesn't come close to the strength his father had, has outlived the man by around 10 years.

Sudz recalled different choices he could have made. He's diehard patriotic and respects all men and women who have served, but he can't help but thinking what it would have been like to go another way.

"He could've got me into the FBI," Sudz said, recalling the pull his influential father had.

After his dad drove away, Sudz hesitated for 10 minutes before walking into the building and then there was no going back. The old man drove around for awhile, but came back to see if his son wanted to change his mind. He was already in the building. Gone.

"If I had seen him, I would've turned back," Sudz said.

"My life would have been totally different."

On This Day In Dino-history: April 11, 1945

Hey pallies, likes just found out that likes today is 'nother great day in all of Dino-history 'cause it was on this Dino-date in 1945 that Miss Barbara Gail Martin was ushered into the world. We have this news thanks 'gain to our "popculturefanboy" pallie Mark R. who likes goes such a stellar job of sharin' all thin's Dino.

Likes included with this post are a couple of pixs of our most beloved Dino with his girlpallie Miss Gail as well as pose of Gail by herself...and a vid clip from the Dino-show of our Dino croonin' a medley of tunes with lovely Miss Gail that aired on Oct. 23rd 1966.

ilovedinomartin 'gain expresses our thanks to pallie Mark R. of "popculturefanboy" fame for keepin' his readership up on the latest of late Dino-history news. To view this in it's original format, likes just clicks on the tag of this here Dino-gram.
Dino-always and ever, DMP



1945 - Future Capitol Records artist Dean Martin and his wife Elizabeth welcome their second daughter, Barbara Gail Martin, into the world.



Dean Martin performs on stage with Gail Martin in the Sands Copa Room on August 1967. Gail was the daughter of Dino and his first wife Betty MacDonald. She followed her fathers footsteps and entered into the entertainment industry.

What have we learned from Dino? Dance with your date, drink with your friends and smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.

Hey pallies, likes his tag is Jeremiah Simmons, he hangs his hat at the blogsphere "A HEADLONG DIVE by Jeremiah Simmons" with the impressive subtag, "A man's impetuous sartorial reflections on the aesthetic faculties," and likes most importantly he obviously has the good taste to dig our most beloved Dino.

Today's Dino-reflection here at ilovedinomartin is Mr. Simmons' great "impetuous sartorial reflections on the aesthetic faculties" of none other then our great man.
Likes his simply tagged post, "Dean Martin" features a photoessay of not less the 20-count-'em-20 awesome pixs of our great man. So of the Dino-poses are well known to Dino-philes such as us, and I dare say a number of 'em...in my estimation perhaps even six....are ones that many of us have never viewed before.

It woulda 'pear that Jeremiah is very much likes our Dino at least in one aspect, likes our Dino, Simmons appears to be a man of few few words, sayin' only two sentences, less then two dozen words to summarize the deep, dark and oh so true philosophical implications of all dem Dino-images. Mr. Simmons pontificates with the very very provocative quire, "What have we learned from Dino?" And Jeremiah so so evocatively answer himself with, "Dance with your date, drink with your friends and smoke ‘em if you got ‘em."

To this Dino-holic's way of Dino-knowin' likes gotta say that I am likes in total total agreement with Jeremiah's Dino-assessment! ilovedinomartin sends out great Dino-thanks to Mr. Jeremiah Simmons for liftin' up the life, times, and teachin's of our Dino in such a grand fashion and helpin' his readership to come to know, love, and honor our amazin' Dino. To view this in it's original format, likes just clicks on the tag of this here Dino-prose. Dino-always and ever, DMP





A HEADLONG DIVE by Jeremiah Simmons

A man's impetuous sartorial reflections on the aesthetic faculties.

Jeremiah Simmons
Jeremiah was raised in the Southeast and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Tennessee. He holds both a Master of Arts in Counseling and Master of Divinity



Dean Martin
April 8, 2012









































What have we learned from Dino? Dance with your date, drink with your friends and smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.

- DJS

UNCUT captures the spirit of the show like no other DVD has before.

Hey pallies, likes I have been waitin' with bated breath for more news on the upcomin' May 22 release of "THE DEAN MARTIN VARIETY SHOW--UNCUT." Well yesterday afternoon ilovedinomartin struck pay dirt when we wandered over to a blog pad tagged, "County Music News International" where an offical news release 'bout the upcomin' 3 DVD set has been posted.

Likes I was particularly curious 'bout what the packagin' for this new Dino-release will look likes and am so so pleased with the cool cool shots of our most beloved Dino that will grace the cover of this Dino-dynomite release. And there is some more concrete information and so of the great entertainers that these Dino-discs will be featurin.

And, likes I was likes totally totally delighted to read the followin'.........
"Two 6 DVD collections of The Dean Martin Variety Show were released last year, featuring clips from 38 episodes, and have already sold over 5 million copies."
Likes how stunnin'ly stellar is that pallies!!!! Truly our Dino is hotter then ever....thinks 'bout it pallies 5 million copies...that's a lot of Dino-devotion and sure to encourage the pallies at NBCUniversal and Time-Life to keep on releasin' more and more sets of the Dino-show in the future!

Likes not sure why "Country Music News International" were the pallies to first get this grand news on the 'net, but we share our deep, pure, and true Dino-appreciato with 'em for gettin' this news out to all us Dino-philes. To view this in it's original format, likes, as usual, just clicks on the tag of this Dino-report. Dino-always and ever, DMP


THE DEAN MARTIN VARIETY SHOW

8:16 PM Christian Lamitschka

THE DEAN MARTIN VARIETY SHOW--UNCUT
TO BE RELEASED BY TIME LIFE MAY 22, 2012

NEW 3-DVD SET FEATURES 6 COMPLETE AND UNEDITED EPISODES
AS THEY ORIGINALLY AIRED ON TELEVISION

MORE CLASSIC FOOTAGE OF DEAN & GUESTS, INCLUDING COMEDY
FROM SID CAESAR, JACKIE MASON, ZERO MOSTEL, BOB NEWHART,
GEORGE GOBEL, DOM DeLUISE AND MANY OTHERS

COLLECTION ALSO FEATURES MORE THAN 75 MUSICAL PERFORMANCES
BY BUCK OWENS, CYD CHARISSE, JOEY HEATHERTON, AND MORE

Los Angeles, CA (April 9, 2012) – NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products Group and TIME LIFE have announced the release of a new 3-DVD set featuring The Best of the Dean Martin Variety Show, available at all major retailers on May 22nd. The Dean Martin Variety Show--UNCUT features 6 entire episodes from the series, digitally re-mastered and restored for this special collection. UNCUT captures the spirit of the show like no other DVD has before. Previous collections have featured clips from the program, but none offered fans the chance to view the show as it originally aired during its nine-year run on NBC from 1965 to 1974. Hosted by Dean Martin, the acclaimed variety and comedy show was one of the highest-rated in television history, garnering 12 Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe award (Dean Martin “Best Actor in a Comedy Television Series” 1967), and frequented by hundreds of guests from across the world of entertainment including legendary actors and actresses from the stage and screen, pop and jazz singers, dancers and comedians.

The Dean Martin Variety Show--UNCUT boasts six classic episodes of The Dean Martin Variety Show, featuring Dean and an impressive array of guests. The variety and comedy show was like no other at the time. There were no rehearsals, no re-takes, and Martin simply just wasn’t a host behind a desk and a microphone – he took part in virtually all the segments and created a freewheeling setting that became a rare and exciting element for viewers. Whether talking and singing with guests or performing a comedy sketch, Martin put every guest at ease and was able to coax even the most serious actors to indulge in their comedic and musical sides. The show was as fun to be a part of as it was to watch, and no other DVD conveys that atmosphere better than UNCUT. Two 6 DVD collections of The Dean Martin Variety Show were released last year, featuring clips from 38 episodes, and have already sold over 5 million copies.

Among the comedians and actors featured in UNCUT are: Sid Caesar and Marguerite Piazza, who at the time were co-stars of the popular series Your Show of Shows; comic legends Allen & Rossi and Jackie Mason, together in one side-splitting episode; country-music legend Buck Owens, who duets with Dean, reminding fans that Dean loved country music; plus Broadway legends Zero Mostel and Tommy Tune.

A famed star of the silver screen, television icon, Grammy® Award-winning singing sensation and member of the renowned “Rat Pack,” Dean Martin’s show business legacy is legendary. His musical career features such classics as “Ain’t That A Kick In The Head,” “That’s Amore,” “Mambo Italiano,” “Everybody Loves Somebody,” “Sway,” “Volare,” and more, releasing dozens of album recordings over his lifetime. Starring in dozens of well-known movies including Ocean’s Eleven, Rio Bravo, The Caddy, and Who Was That Lady?,for which Martin received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor, coupled with a highly popular television career, Dean Martin certainly earned his nickname as the “King of Cool.”

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Why Dean Martin's still so cool

Hey pallies, likes ain't gonna needs to say much 'bout today's post, just gonna lets it's Dino-coolness speaks likes for itself. From the pages of CNN Opinion comes a stunnin' piece of Dino-prose crafted by best sellin' journalist Mr. Bob Green. Green won many many awards while scribin' for two dozen years at the Chicago Tribune, and has penned many a best sellers on a variety of topics.

Mr. Green is a guy who is truly in the Dino-know and his Dino-essay puts a huge accent on how our most beloved Dino is more loved then ever. Very cool of Green to include some wonderful reflections by our Dino's girlpallie Gail.

Likes ain't gonna sez any more dudes, simply invites you to partake of the Dino-feast below. ilovedinomartin sends out our deepest Dino-appreciato to the pallies at CNN, Mr. Bob Green and Miss Gail Martin for this amazin' tribute to our King of Cool. To read this in it's original format with the ability to hear Mr. Bob Green speak these deep, pure, and true words of Dino-devotion, just likes clicks on the tag of this Dino-message. Dino-always and forever, DMP

Why Dean Martin's still so cool

By Bob Greene, CNN Contributor

updated 9:39 AM EDT, Sun April 8, 2012



Years after his death, Dean Martin's relaxing singing voice is still a presence on TV, in shopping malls and restaurants.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Bob Greene says the coolness of Dean Martin seamlessly crosses generations
He says the crooner's calm, cool delivery slows everything down

Greene: Martin's ease on stage made audiences feel at ease too

Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a best-selling author whose books include "Late Edition: A Love Story" and "And You Know You Should Be Glad: A True Story of Lifelong Friendship."


(CNN) -- A few years ago a group of us were having dinner at a steakhouse, and among the people at the table were the terrific sports columnist Mike Downey and his wife, Gail Martin. The manager of the place came over to say hello; introductions were made.

At one point in the evening I was making my way to the men's room and ran into the manager again. I said to him, "That Gail Martin you met? I think you're probably familiar with her late father."

"Who was her dad?" the man said.

"His first name was Dean," I said.

Within minutes the taped music that had been playing in the restaurant stopped, and a new tape was substituted -- a Dean Martin tape. Any steakhouse worthy of the name has his music on hand.

There it was, coming out of the ceiling: "You're nobody till somebody loves you. ..."

And just the sound of it -- just that instantly recognizable deep tremolo of Martin's voice, so warm and easy and seemingly effortless -- had an effect on the room. It was as if someone had sprayed some kind of invisible muscle relaxant into the air. People visibly loosened up, they smiled a little more, it was like a friend had arrived and had said: Quit worrying about things. Life doesn't have to be so serious.

He's been gone for more than 16 years now -- he died on Christmas Day, 1995 -- yet he seems to get only bigger as the years go by. I've been noticing it in recent days: That voice keeps drifting out of radios, out of television sets, out of hidden speakers in malls and coffee shops and clothing stores ... it's as if his voice, and his face, have by some sort of silent national acclamation been voted the quasi-official antidote for tense times. In a lousy mood? That changes as soon as you hear: "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie. ..."

The coolness of Dean Martin seamlessly crosses generations; young guys heading for a weekend in Las Vegas with their buddies understand his appeal just as viscerally as their grandparents do. He never, in life, actively campaigned for this role -- the eternal model of coolness -- and in death it has just seemed to be bestowed upon him naturally.

His friend Frank Sinatra may have liked the image of being Chairman of the Board, but the core of Martin's enduring allure is that not only did he not want to be chairman, he didn't even want to serve on the board: It would mean that he would be cooped up in some boardroom for meetings when he'd rather be out playing golf. The sight of him in a tuxedo -- he wore it as comfortably as most men wear a pair of pajamas -- says to people who weren't even born when he was at the height of his fame: Take a deep breath and let yourself grin. Your problems can wait until tomorrow.

He didn't like to rehearse, his friends said, because he knew he would do just fine without it. As he grew older he didn't feel the need to endlessly seek out applause, because he had been so famous for so long -- his nightclub and motion picture partnership with Jerry Lewis, his own movie career, the Rat Pack years, his success as the host of his television shows, his sold-out concerts -- that he'd heard enough ovations to last a lifetime. His ease onstage made his audiences feel at ease, too; he seemed as at home in front of a packed Vegas concert crowd as he was in the den of his own house (his line at catching his first glimpse of an audience: "How did all these people get in my room?").

It had been a while since I'd talked with Gail Martin, but I called her the other evening, and she told me that, like the rest of us, she is forever encountering her dad's voice unexpectedly in public places: "It's always reassuring, it's always nice. I was in a store one holiday season, and there was a Christmas tape playing. A choir of some sort was singing a Christmas carol, and that ended and then there was my dad: 'Oh, the weather outside is frightful...' I just smiled a quiet smile. He's always there."

She said the reason he appeared so relaxed while working was because it wasn't an act. "Nothing seemed to bother him. And if something ever did, he sure wasn't going to bother anyone else with it." She said that when she was a girl and was in a bad mood at home, her dad, in that voice of voices, would say to her, without a bit of rancor: "Go up to your room if you're going to pout. Come on back down when you're happier."

In Florida the other night I was walking along the street and thought I heard him singing. It was a restaurant with an outdoor terrace; a local duo -- they billed themselves as Frank and Dean — was performing in front of one of those digital music machines that can replicate the sound of a full orchestra.

The shorter of the two was singing Sinatra songs, the taller was doing Dean Martin. The physical resemblance wasn't really there, but the songs were right. Whenever it became the Dean imitator's turn for a tune, he would jack the vibrato in his vocals into overdrive: "Everybody loves somebody sometime ... "

And the thing is, the people at the cafe were gravitating toward him. They were on their feet, beaming, moving closer to the microphone, some of them dancing, some just blissfully staring, seduced by the sound.

The singer looked as if he was accustomed to getting this reaction. It turns out that it's cool to be Dean Martin even when you're not really Dean Martin. Ain't that a kick in the head?

Danny G.'s Sunday Serenade With Dino: "How D'ya Like Your Eggs In The Mornin'?"

Buona Pasqua pallies! Happy Easter! Man o man...didn't think I'd be able to find just the right tune for this very special "Easter Sunday Serenade", But guess what pals??? Dean led me right to the most perfecto Easter duet! "How D'ya Like Your Eggs In The Mornin'?"

 Now I wasn't plannin' on makin' this a "Duetin' with Dino" but...it just happened that way! Seems that way way back in 1951 our pal of pals put this fun fun little number together with a Ms. Helen O'Connell. Fast forward to the 21st century and we find nother' great Dino-lovin' pal has put together a great great vid with this classic tune & the Easter vibe in mind! I couldn't have planned it any better myself!

I'll let you get back to your celebratin' with your Easter hams and your leg o lambs pallies. Remember to keep our great pal in mind as you enjoy your day and ALWAYS remember to keep the Dino & the vino flowin'! Enjoy!

Dean Martin & Helen O'Connell - 1951



HELEN: How d'ya like your eggs in the morning
DEAN: I like mine with a kiss
HELEN: Boiled or fried
DEAN: I'm satisfied, as long as I get my kiss

HELEN: How d'ya like your toast in the morning
DEAN: I like mine with a hug
HELEN: Dark or light
DEAN: The world's all right, as long as I get my hug

DEAN: I've got to have my love in the AM
HELEN: Or the rest of my day is positively mayhem
DEAN: I'm a regular monster

HELEN: How d'ya like your eggs in the morning
DEAN: I like mine with a kiss
HELEN: Up or down
DEAN I'll never frown, eggs can be almost bliss
BOTH: Just as long as I get my kiss

DEAN: How d'ya like your eggs in the morning
HELEN: How d'ya like your eggs in the morning
DEAN: I like mine with a kiss
HELEN: I like mine with a kiss
DEAN: Boiled or fried
HELEN: I'm satisfied
BOTH: As long as I get my kiss

HELEN: How d'ya like your toast in the morning
DEAN: How d'ya like your toast in the morning
HELEN: I like mine with a hug
DEAN: I like mine with a hug
HELEN: Dark or light
DEAN: The world's all right
BOTH: As long as I get my hug

DEAN: I've got to have my love in the morning
HELEN: Or the rest of my day is positively mayhem
DEAN: I'm a regular monster

HELEN: How d'ya like your eggs in the AM
DEAN: I like mine with a kiss
HELEN: Up or down
DEAN: I'll never frown
BOTH: Eggs can be almost bliss, just as long as I get my kiss         

On This Day In Dino-history: April 7, 1958

Hey pallies, likes gots 'nother great date in Dino-history to share with all you Dino-philes. The year is 1958 and the date April 7th. The Dino-event is that our most beloved Dino's Capitol Records single release of "Return To Me" entered the top 40 of the United States' Pop Single Chart.

From our Dino-devoted pallie Mark R., our "popculturefanboy" continues to share each and every Dino-musical-and-more detail that he cans for all our Dino-edification...and today's remembrance is puttin' the accent on "Return To Me." Likes I have always thought of this tune as one of our Dino's most hauntin'ly cool croons, so likes how cool to gain knowledge of this very important Dino-date.

Hats off 'gain to our pallie Mark R. for goin' his part to spread these Dino-events with all us Dino-holics. To view this in it's original format, likes just clicks on the tag of this Dino-gram. And for your Dino-viewin'-and-listenin' pleasure, likes enjoy this version of "Return To Me" that features our Dino and Mr. Perry Como. Dino-addictedly, DMP





1958 - Dean Martin's Capitol Records single "Return To Me", with "Forgetting You" on the flip side, enters the top 40 of the U.S. Pop singles chart.

I'm head-over-heels for Dean Martin

Hey pallies, likes here tag is R.C., she hails from Cornelia, Georgia, her swinin' blogsphere is "The Shades Of Black And White," and likes most importantly she is "head-over-heels for Dean Martin." Likes we first visited with Miss R.C. on February 16 of this very Dino-year where we shared part of her Valentine meme that spoke more of her deep, pure, and true Dino-devotion when she sed, "How could any woman not want to be kissed by him?"

Well today, in her post, "I'm In Love...With Gordon MacRae!" she speaks of her head-over-heels infacuation with our most beloved Dino. Likes my guess pallies is R.C. is one of dem youthful Dino-devotees who is still learnin' that truly only Dino-matters. Likes we all know who interest in MacRae (no disrespect meant pallies) will certainly decrease as her deep, pure, and true devotion to our great man increases.

Anywho, likes loves, loves, loves to put the accent on each and every of today's youthful mods who are turnin' on to our amazin' Dino. So thanks pallie R.C. for likes so boldly and brazenly sharin' your "head-over-heels for Dean Martin" state of Dino-bein'. Likes to view this in it's original Dino-format, likes just clicks on the tag of this Dino-gram. Dino-followin', DMP

As you all know by now, I'm sure, I'm head-over-heels for Dean Martin; I'm mad about him in the truest sense of the word. He was terrific, and anyone who has the audacity to say he wasn't in my presence . . . LOOKOUT! is all I can say. Saying that, there is NO ONE that COULD EVER, or WILL EVER, take his place . . .

THE BOOTLEG FILES: 3 RING CIRCUS

Hey pallies, likes today we gets treated to some patter 'bout the least known,least shown Martin and Lewis flick, "3 Ring Circus." From 'nother new-to-ilovedinomartin blog site, "Film Threat," we gets to partake of a very insightful essay by Mr. Phil Hall on the only flick that our most beloved Dino did with Mr. Lewis that has never ever seen the lights of DVD.

Hall gives some excellent background on the tension between our great man and Lewis that took place over the creatin' of the screenplay as well as while the feature was bein' filmed. Mr. Phil also shares problems with the content of the film centerin' 'round the circus theme.

And, I definitely learned a least one new Dino-detail 'bout "3 Ring Circus" that I had not known before...let's see if all you pallies can guess the Dino-knowledge that I have gained from Mr. Hall's reflections.

ilovedinomartin salutes the "Film Threat" blog and in particular Mr. Phil Hall for offerin' a quality piece of Dino-prose on a lesser known Dino-work. To view this in it's original format, likes just clicks on the tag of this Dino-gram. Keeps lovin' our Dino and keeps learnin' the Dino-truth! Dino-always, DMP

THE BOOTLEG FILES: 3 RING CIRCUS

BOOTLEG FILES 420: “3 Ring Circus” (1954 comedy starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis).

LAST SEEN: It is on YouTube.

AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.

REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: It is the only Martin and Lewis film not on DVD.

CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Hey, laaaaaaaaaaaady!

You may sometimes ask yourself: Why is it that certain films have never been released in home entertainment channels? There are several reasons, ranging from legal disputes on the ownership of the films, problems clearing music rights, the need for expensive digital restoration of source materials, and the perceived lack of consumer interest in some titles.

None of this, however, seems to explain the absence of “3 Ring Circus” from home entertainment release. This 1954 feature is notable as the only production in the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis canon to be unavailable on DVD.

Paramount Pictures has never offered any public explanation for not releasing the film on DVD – the studio has put all of the Martin and Lewis films on DVD except for “At War With the Army” (which is in the public domain and available on many cheapo labels) and “Money From Home” (which was outsourced to the independent Legend label, for no clear reason). Jerry Lewis never made any public comment regarding the film’s MIA status, though perhaps this is one production that he would just as soon not talk about.

By the time “3 Ring Circus” rolled around into pre-production, the Martin and Lewis team were showing signs of fraying. In their film work, Lewis was the dominant figure – to the point that Martin often seemed like a supporting character rather than an equal partner in comic crime. For his part, Martin was beginning to gain recognition as a distinctive solo talent – his recording of “That’s Amore” was a major bestseller and he reportedly received inquiries about starring in the film versions of “The Pajama Game” and “Guys and Dolls.” But Martin was contractually obligated to be part of a team, to his chagrin.

Lewis, however, seemed tin-eared to Martin’s agitation. For “3 Ring Circus,” he brought in his pal Don McGuire to write the screenplay. There have been conflicting reports of what happened next, but it appears that Martin violently balked at his role within the screenplay. Supposedly, Martin sarcastically asked why he was being cast, because his part was (in his view) so insubstantial.

The Hollywood tabloid press caught wind of Martin’s unhappiness and the entertainment news headlines were full of reports that Martin and Lewis were going to split up. Even Groucho Marx got into the act, sending public letters to the comics urging them to stay together. Numerous rewrites of the screenplay were created before Martin would express some degree of satisfaction with the project, but the tension between Martin and Lewis increased substantially. It is a shame that the volatility that took place off-screen was not captured on camera, because the finished film turned out to be one of the most enervated comedy films ever made.

One of the problems with “3 Ring Circus” was, of all things, the setting – a circus is, on its own terms, a comic exaggeration of reality, and inserting comedians (especially those who thrive on surreal humor) into that setting seems to create a weird effect where the laughs are strangely diluted. Chaplin’s “The Circus,” for example, was one of his weakest features, while the Marx Brothers’ shapeless “At the Circus” is recalled today only for Groucho’s classic song “Lydia the Tattooed Lady.” The sawdust setting also found W.C. Fields off his mark in two so-so circus films, the 1928 silent “Tillie’s Punctured Romance” and his 1938 “You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man,” Danny Kaye’s film career went into a tailspin with his failed circus comedy “Merry Andrew,” and Paul Reubens saw his zany alter ego’s film career shrivel up with the dismal “Big Top Pee-Wee.”

Indeed, the only genuinely memorable circus films either use the big top environment for warped psychological thrillers – most notably Tod Browning’s “The Unknown” and “Freaks” – or for pure hokum, such as Cecil B. DeMille’s Oscar-winning “The Greatest Show on Earth” and the Burt Lancaster-Tony Curtis “Trapeze.”

With “3 Ring Circus,” Martin and Lewis are soldiers who are newly discharged from the Army and eager to find civilian jobs. Lewis wants a circus career, while the shiftless and penniless Martin tags along. They wind up at a financially troubled circus, and the film then breaks into the usual Martin and Lewis formula: Dean gets to woo the pretty gals (in this case, Joanne Dru as the circus manager and Zsa Zsa Gabor as an aerialist) and sing a couple of tunes, while Jerry gets himself into all sorts of crazy shenanigans.

The problem with “3 Ring Circus,” however, is typical of all of the Martin and Lewis films: they are totally lacking in the feral spontaneity that made the team’s live performances so energetically funny. Sequences where the duo get caught up with a malfunctioning frozen custard machine or perform a bouncy song about a magical puppet (“Hey Punchinello”) are contrived and completely uninspired, and it is not cynical to imagine that neither star actually had his heart in making those sequences work.

But where “3 Ring Circus” really goes off the tracks is when Lewis’ character takes on the persona of a circus clown. Martin reportedly claimed that Lewis fancied himself as Chaplin’s heir, which appears to be the case as the screeching Lewis goes into the woeful pantomime routines of a bedraggled clown. But Lewis lacked Chaplin’s physical dexterity and split-second timing, and the film’s most controversial moment – with Lewis, in clown make-up, trying to make a polio-crippled child laugh – is utterly embarrassing because of the funnyman’s inability to differentiate between pathos and exploitation. Lewis, of course, did not see the error of his ways and would repeatedly return to the clown persona later in his career, most infamously in his unfinished debacle “The Day the Clown Cried.”

“3 Ring Circus” has some distractions to keep the bored viewer occupied: Zsa Zsa Gabor is actually amusing and sexy as the self-obsessed aerialist, while the always-reliable Elsa Lanchester turns up as a bearded lady. “3 Ring Circus” was also the second film shot in VistaVision, Paramount’s proprietary widescreen process. Unfortunately, the sequences designed to take full advantage of the widescreen are completely ruined when viewed on today’s small screens.

“3 Ring Circus” was a box office hit, but in 1955 the film’s producer, Hal B. Wallis, was sued for $65,000 by a pair of writers who claimed “3 Ring Circus” ripped off a screenplay they submitted to Wallis. It is unclear how that case was ever settled. The film was re-edited and re-released in 1978 under the title “Jerrico the Wonder Clown,” but it was only booked for screenings in the kiddie matinee circuit.

In the absence of a DVD release, Martin and Lewis fans can catch “3 Ring Circus” on YouTube – the visual quality is adequate, and the site’s fast-forward feature helps speed the viewer through the film’s many dull patches. The title can also be located via collector-to-collector sites. But unless you are a die-hard Martin and Lewis fan, this is one big top romp that can easily be missed.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: The unauthorized duplication and distribution of copyright-protected material, either for crass commercial purposes or profit-free shits and giggles, is not something that the entertainment industry appreciates. On occasion, law enforcement personnel boost their arrest quotas by collaring cheery cinephiles engaged in such activities. So if you are going to copy and distribute bootleg material, a word to the wise: don’t get caught. Oddly, the purchase and ownership of bootleg DVDs is perfectly legal. Go figure!

For me, it's always been Dean.

Hey pallies, likes today's Dino-love is one of those oh so short, but oh so sweet Dino-grams. Likes when I read this guy tagged Guy at the very cool blog, "Greasy Kulture Magazine," say boldly, "For me, it's always been Dean," likes I just knew that I had to share this gem with all you Dino-holics.

As you see below, Greasy Kulture Guy is askin' the profoundly provocative quire.."Dean or Frank?" And his ever evocative answer, as I said, "For me, it's always been Dean," has endeared this Guy guy to me for life. Simply loves to find others who brashly and boldly proclaim their devotion to our most beloved Dino.

And, likes as you further read, Guy says, " I loved Dean Martin's voice as soon as I heard it." Likes countless billions of us Dino-philes, Mr. Guy got hooked the very very first time he encountered the Dino-difference.

Guy also speaks more of his devotion to our great man sayin'..."I spent countless evenings in the late '80s and early nineties wallowing in the sentimentality of 'Little ol' wine drinker, me' which featured on the famous jukebox in Bradley's bar in Hanway Place. As San Miguel carried me away, I always chose Dean to accompany me on my journey into oblivion." Likes this Guy guy knows that there is no one better to spend your time with gettin' sauced.

ilovedinomartin sez our deepest of deep Dino-appreciato to Mr. Guy for lettin' all his "Greasy Kulture Magazine" readers know the amazin' difference that our Dino has made in his life. Such Dino-testimonials are sure to help others grow in knowin', lovin', and honorin' our most beloved Dino! To read this in it's original format, likes just clicks on the tag of this Dino-gram. Dino-devotedly, DMP




Dean or Frank?



For me, it's always been Dean.

Although all we heard was Frank Sinatra when we were growing up, I loved Dean Martin's voice as soon as I heard it; I spent countless evenings in the late '80s and early nineties wallowing in the sentimentality of 'Little ol' wine drinker, me' which featured on the famous jukebox in Bradley's bar in Hanway Place. As San Miguel carried me away, I always chose Dean to accompany me on my journey into oblivion.

Frank? I think he's overrated. So shoot me.

On This Day In Dino-history: April 3, 1949

Hey pallies, likes was just perusin' Dino-lerts sent out by the pallies at google, when I came 'cross this little gem of a note 'bout 'nother great day in Dino-history. Likes from the pallies at Patch, in this case "BethelPatch," of Bethel, CT., by guest editor Miss Christine Rose comes the news that it was on this very day, April 3, in the year of 1949 that our most beloved Dino and his partner Jerry debuted on the NBC Radio Netwark with their self-tagged programme, the "Martin and Lewis Show."

Likes always so so pleased to learn 'nother great historic date in the life and times of our great man. ilovedinomartin sez our thanks to our pallies at Patch 'specially Miss Rose for sharin' this Dino-note with the world. To view this in it's original format, likes just clicks on the tag of these here Dino-words.

Am includin' a couple of cool pixs of our Dino and Jerry in front of the mic and a couple of youtube vids from the radio programme....one from 1952 when Miss Marilyn Monroe starred with the boys, and 'nother of an outtake from the show where our Dino flubs up a line durin' the recordin' of the show and then he and Jerry take off into sorts of fun patter 'tween 'em. Keeps lovin' our Dino...'cause truly, only Dino matters! Dino-ever and always, DMP



1949 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis debuted on radio on the "Martin and Lewis Show". The NBC program ran until 1952.

On This Day In Dino-history: April 2, 1957

Hey pallies, likes just discovered that likes today is 'nother stellar day in all of Dino-history. From our pallie Mark R. our "popculturefanboy" (clicks on tag of this Dino-gram to goes there lets the world know that it was on this very very day, April 2, in 1957 that the flick that introduced the world to the amazin' dramatic actin' ability of our most beloved Dino, "The Young Lions" maked its debut on the big screen.

As Mr. Mark points out, "The Young Lions" made "Martin a dramatic movie star on his own right without Jerry Lewis." This landmark film was certainly a huge huge landmark in our Dino's amazin' career in flicks, provin' that our great man was great at both dramatic and comedic roles, as well as singin' likes no one else.

Likes have included here some very cool pixs of our Dino durin' the filmin' and from the film, as well as the trailer from this landmark Dino-classic.

ilovedinomartin sends our out deepest thanks to pallie Mark R. for remindin' us of this very very special day in the life and times of our Dino. Pallies likes Mark are certainly doin' their part to helps all of us in our Dino-edification. Dino-awed, DMP








1958 - The motion picture "The Young Lions", starring Capitol Records artist Dean Martin, as well as Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, opens and makes Martin a dramatic movie star on his own right without Jerry Lewis.

The “king of cool” affects the same blasé attitude

Hey pallies, likes I am still awaitin' my copy of the newest of the new Dino-release of "Who's Got The Action" on DVD. So, while I wait, I was thrilled to find an on-line review of this swingin' sixties sex farce. From the flick pad, "Disc Dish," from a reviewer tagged Ed Grant comes a short and sweet bit of Dino-prose followin' the action of what Mr. Grant tags this "fast-paced and quite cuckoo 1962 screwball comedy."

Grant has an impressive string of credentials, havin' "written about film for a wide range of periodicals, books and websites. He edited the reference book The Motion Picture Guide Annual and, since 1993, has produced and hosted the weekly cable program Media Funhouse, which Time magazine called 'the most eclectic and useful movie show on TV.'”

And, likes our pallie Ed does a great job of sellin' us on the pleasures to be found in this Dino-epic. ilovedinomartin gives kudos to Mr. Ed Grant for such a timely and talented review of "Who's Got The Action," sure to encourage many many pallies to goes out and gets their own copies. To view this in it's original format, likes just clicks on the tag of this Dino-message. Dino-always and ever, DMP

DVD Review: Who’s Got The Action?

By Ed– 03/30/2012

STUDIO: Olive Films | DIRECTOR: Daniel Mann | STARS: Dean Martin, Lana Turner, Eddie Albert, Walter Matthau, Paul Ford, Nita Talbot, John McGiver

RELEASE DATE: 3/27/12 | PRICE: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray $29.95

BONUSES: none

SPECS: NR | 93 min. | Comedy | 2.35:1 widescreen | stereo

One of the joys of watching Dean Martin’s ultra-laidback variety show was seeing him play characters with only the simplest of costumes thrown over a tuxedo. The “king of cool” affects the same blasé attitude in the film Who’s Got The Action?, a fast-paced and quite cuckoo 1962 screwball comedy.


Dean Martin looks for a payout from Walter Matthau in Who's Got The Action?
He plays a high-powered attorney here, but his actual profession is not an issue — although it does serve to explain the splendor he and his novelist wife (Lana Turner, The Postman Always Rings Twice) live in. Action has two main principal appeals: its view of what critic J. Hoberman has called the “dreamlife of America” (in this case, the Mad Men-era Kennedy years), and a terrific supporting cast that includes Nita Talbot, Sgt. Bilko’s Paul Ford, John McGiver (Who’s Minding The Store?), Jack Albertson (Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory) and a mega-hammy and very funny Walter Matthau (Dennis the Menace).

The first half of the picture is silly in the manner of any sitcom episode; the second half is SO brazenly ridiculous that viewers can sit back, forget about the plot and just watch the cast have a good a time. As for said plot, it can be boiled down to this: Lana and Dean’s law partner (Eddie Albert, The Longest Yard) decide to curb Dean’s horse-playing habit by making her his new secret “bookie.”

When Dean’s string of big losses turns into a winning streak — and then he recruits three other gamblers to make bets with Lana — the real mayhem begins. The preceding would’ve been enough to drive any three sitcom episodes, but when Matthau comes on board as a computer-dependent gangster (his Univac knows all the “angles”) intent on reclaiming the four gamblers he lost to Lana, the movie moves to an even higher plane of absurdity.

Scripter Jack Rose had an excellent pedigree in movie comedy writing — from Bob Hope movies and the Martin & Lewis vehicle Living It Up to A Touch of Class — so one can only assume that he was “in” on the joke here and was indeed playing the ultra-illogical storyline strictly for laughs.

There are no extras on the disc, but the rarity of the titles being released by Olive will be enough for most vintage comedy fans. Action was released on disc together with a pair of excellent Frank Tashlin (Rock-A-Bye Baby) comedies starring Jerry Lewis, and the Neil Simon adaptation Come Blow Your Horn, starring Dean’s Rat Pack “pallie,” some guy by the name of Sinatra.

Danny G.'s Sunday Serenade With Dino: "Sweet Sweet Lovable You"

Welcome back pallies! Gots' us a great great Sunday Serenade this week! This song comes from the 1967 al b um "Happiness Is Dean Martin". And man o man pals... if that title doesn't say it ALL... then I don't know WHAT does!

"Sweet Sweet Lovable You" is the kinda tune that shows us just how much AMORE Dino has to share! Sounds like this special lady could possibly be THE one for our pal! Maybe the future Mrs. Martin???

Guess we'll never know exactly who Dean was singin' this one to...but I think we ALL have a VERY special someone in mind as we listen to Dino's smooth smooth croonin'. Let's pour ourselves nother' drinky...sit back & think bout' that special someone in our lives. It's sure to bring a happy thought to mind! Remember pallies...ALWAYS keep the Dino & the vino flowin'! Enjoy! 
I thought that I'd love before but now I can tell ye
I've never lost until I have ye
I'll never leave sweet sweet lovable you
You make me so happy
True love is here you'll never be lonely
Forget your fears cause I love you only
I'll never leave sweet sweet lovable you
I may look around and tease me
another ah once in a while
But you're only dear I'll hurry right home
Cause I love your smile you're just my style
How could I ever think of another now
that I found love so true
I'll never leave sweet sweet lovable you
I'll never leave sweet sweet lovable you
You make me so happy
I'll never leave sweet sweet lovable you
I may look around...

He is almost 15 and loves John Lennon, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin.

Hey pallies, likes it is always always so so cool to find 'nother of today's youth who truly truly loves our Dino. Yesterday was drawn to a blog tagged "Sharpshooters International" where pallies from all over the globe loves to post their fav pixs. Among the pictoral posts on "Wednesday photo of the week" is one by a lady tagged Stacy who hails from Allen, Texas.

Likes Miss Stacy chose to share a snapshot of her oldest child, boypallie Drake, who at "almost 15" is "an old soul, through and through." And who does this teenager love...."John Lennon, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin." Likes how thrillin' to know that Mr. Drake digs our Dino! Likes I get so psyched up when I read of 'nother of the younger generation who is a true Deanager!

So, hats off to Miss Stacy for sharin' the news of her boypallie Deanager Drake's devotion to our most beloved Dino. Simply stunnin' pallies to know that tons of today's teenagers are becomin' hooked on our amazin' Dino! To view this in it's original format, likes just clicks on the tag of this Dino-gram. Dino-devotedly, DMP


Here’s my photo this week. Any time people are dealing with things with their kids, it makes me think an extra moment about my own. This is my oldest, Drake. I had him when I was pretty young (barely 20) and as a result, he and I have a very special relationship. He is an old soul, through and through. He is almost 15 and loves John Lennon, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin. He plays guitar and reads books far beyond what normal teenagers are interested in. He is a beautiful person who makes me proud and makes me feel like I’ve done something right in this life every single day. He’s also a great sport whenever I ask him to come outside and let me take pics of him.

Nikon D90 50mm f/1.8 Shot around sunset 1/320 @ f/1.8 ISO 200 Retro processed with exposure offset increase and vibrance.

Caught him mid-sentence and in great need of a haircut.

2012/

FROM THE EMAIL BAG: Martin Memorialized.

Hey pallies, likes cool to be able to share with you dudes that our pallies Frank and Joe over at the ubber classic flick pad, "Classic Movie Chat," have 'gain lifted up the name of our Dino featurin' some patter yours truly left when I quired 'em why they were surprised by my deep, pure, and true appreciato for Mr. Nick Tosches' amazin' Dino-bio, "Dino: Living High In The Dirty Business Of Dreams."

Likes they quotes my Dino-response and shares a stunnin' pix of our Dino and their personal Dino-thoughts. So so glad they are cool with my Dino-delight in Tosches' Dino-tome. Likes always always surprises this dude that any one who loves our most beloved Dino doesn't also likes totally totally groove on Tosches' tome.

Always so so great to keeps our most beloved Dino before Mr. Frank and Mr. Joe's readership. So, ilovedinomartin sends out our deepest and truest thanks to Frank and Joe for continuin' to spread the Dino-message at their amazin' blog. To view this in it's original format, likes just clicks on the tag of this Dino-gram. Keeps lovin' our Dino! Dino-honorin', DMP

FROM THE EMAIL BAG: Martin Memorialized.

Finally, our uber-Dean Martin enthusiast, Dino Martin Peters poses this question about March 7 blog covering biographies of the singer-actor:

Hey pallies, Mr. Frank and Mr. Joe likes …now you got me wonderin’ by your words, ‘Well, Dino in his inimitable prose style surprised us with the following…’

Gotta ‘fess up that I am likes totally totally surprised that youse all were ‘surprised’ by my Dino-reflections on Nick Tosches’ tome. Might I ask you to say more ’bout what surprised you and why?

We were a tad surprised, given your feelings about Martin, to read of your unqualified enthusiasm for author Nick Tosches’ 1999 biography Dino: Living High In The Dirty Business Of Dreams.

Unlike books about the late actor-singer by his children, Tosches’ takes a tougher stance towards Martin, and doesn’t hesitate to criticize him. Give your enthusiasm for Dino, we thought this might not sit well. Glad it does.

On This Day In Dino-history: March 29, 1973

Hey pallies, today is 'nother very important Dino-date to remember. It was on this date, March 29 in 1973 that our Dino's divorce from his second wife, Jeanne Biegger, was finalized.

Dino has originally sought the divorce from Jeanne after he met, while playin' in 'Vegas, 21 year old Miss Gail Renshaw. Our most beloved Dino was totally totally smitten by Renshaw, then serving as Miss USA. That amore cooled after a time, and at the point that our Dino's divorce was finalized he was engaged to Miss Catherine Mae Hawn, a 24 year old beauty parlor receptionist...who would then become Mrs Dean Martin less then a month after our Dino's divorce was finished.

Represented here are pixs of our Dino with all three of his amores, Miss Jeanne, Miss Gail, and Miss Catherine Mae. Keeps learnin' those Dino-facts pallies, and likes above all else...Keeps lovin' our Dino! Dino-learnin', DMP

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963) - Film Locations

Hey pallies, likes today we makes a quick return to our new pallie Robby Crest's awesome blog, "Dear Old Hollywood." Yesterday we featured Mr. Crest's excellent post on the newly released on DVD Dino-flick, "Who's Got The Action." and today we return to an earlier post accentin' "Whose Been Sleeping In My Bed," with the same sort of Dino-twist...the pairin' of on location pixs with present day realities.

Likes how cool to see original Dino-images from the shootin' of this Dino-flick side-by-side with modern day shots of those same places!!!! Mr. Crest indeed has a very unique accent to his blog, and this Dino-focused post shows off Robby's passion likes to the max.

Certainly, "Whose Been Sleeping In My Bed" is one of our Dino's lesser known film efforts, but Mr. Robby Crest has done yoeman's effort in the cause of raisin' the level of Dino-knowledge 'bout said big screen effort.

ilovedinomartin sends out our deepest of the deep Dino-appreciato to Mr. Robby Crest for his stunnin' efforts here, and truly truly hopes that Crest will continue featurin' more of our Dino's films at his outstandin' blog, "Dear Old Hollywood."
To view this in it's original format, likes just clicks on the tag of this Dino-gram.
Dino-awed, DMP

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963) - Film Locations


Dean Martin at grand opening for Market Basket

Originally, I was going to post part two of The Big Fix (1978) film locations, but I decided to push that back to next week to make way for the swingin', crooning, Italoamericano, Dean Martin.


In the film Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963) Martin plays a doctor on a popular television show, particularly popular with female audiences. He is engaged to cute art teacher, Melissa Morris (Elizabeth Montgomery) who wants to get married but who is upset with Martin for delaying their wedding plans. Things get worse when all of the wives of Martin's poker playing friends, confusing Martin for his television persona, start coming to him for advice on their marital doldrums. Each encounter with his friends' wives makes Martin even more disenchanted with the idea of marriage and he decides to break his engagement with Melissa. With the help of her friend Stella (Carole Burnett), Melissa comes up with a plan to get Martin to propose to her again.


Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963) may not be one of Dean Martin's best films, but it does have some funny moments, especially a couple with a scene stealing Carole Burnett appearing in her film debut. Other notable stars supporting Martin include Jill St. John and Richard Conte. The film also features a few interesting film locations, including scenes at Paramount Studios, a Market Basket supermarket, and the Beverly Hills Hotel swimming pool.

The film starts with Dean Martin appearing as the celebrity TV doctor at the grand opening of a Market Basket supermarket. This was a grocery chain and the location used in the film was one that was once located at 11315 Ventura Boulevard, Studio City, California. Interesting to note is that this Studio City location had its grand opening in 1963, the same year as this film. The Market Basket supermarket is now gone and today the building is used as a Bally Total Fitness.



A crowd gathers at the Market Basket for the grand opening.
11315 Ventura Blvd, Studio City

11315 Ventura Blvd, Studio City
The Market Basket is now Bally Total Fitness



A view of the Market Basket parking lot.



The parking lot as it appears today.



Another view of the parking lot as seen in the film.


After Martin makes his appearance at the Market Basket grand opening we see Martin take off in his car. While driving, Martin leaves Studio City behind and gets on the 405 freeway heading south. In the next comparison below, Martin is on the 405 freeway with a view of Sherman Oaks in the background.



Martin driving on the 405 Freeway. Sherman Oaks in background.



A present day view looking down the 405 towards Sherman Oaks.



The 405 freeway looking towards Sherman Oaks.



The 405 freeway looking towards Sherman Oaks.


Stella arranges a phony wedding for Melissa, hoping it will make Martin jealous. The scene takes place at the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel, located at 9461 Sunset Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California. The pool area looks much different today. The hotel has expanded since the 1960s.



The Beverly Hills Hotel Pool as seen in the film.



An old photograph of the pool maybe from the 1960s.



The pool as it appears today.
Photo from BeverlyHillsHotel.com



Burnett & Martin at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool.


There are a few scenes that take place on the Paramount Studios lot. It's at this studio where Martin's character films his television medical drama. All of the scenes were shot on what is known as "Avenue P" of the Paramount lot.



Dean Martin exits Stage 18 on Avenue P.



Stage 18 on the Paramount Studios lot.


It's this same area of the Paramount Studios lot that was so famously used in the classic film Sunset Boulevard (1950). Stage 18 is the same stage where in Sunset Boulevard Gloria Swanson goes to visit Cecil B. Demille.


In the next comparison below, Martin's studio co-workers and poker buddies are seen standing on Avenue P of the Paramount Studios lot. The palm trees in the background are sticking up from Hollywood Forever Cemetery which borders the backside of the Paramount lot. The two story building seen of the left is the "Dreier" building, the same building used by William Holden in Sunset Boulevard as the writers building.



Martin's studio co-workers and poker buddies.



Looking down Avenue P as it appears today.


The next comparison is still of Avenue P but looking the other direction, away from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery border. On the left is the Medical Services building and straight ahead is the Lubitsch building.



The Paramount Studios Medical Services building as
seen in Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963)



Paramount's Medical Service building and Lubitsch
building as they appear today.



Dean Martin signs autographs outside Stages 5 & 6.



Stage 5 & 6 as they appear today.


This last comparison shows the beginning of Paramount's Avenue P, just past the historic Bronson Gate. Stage 4 can be seen straight ahead and Stage 2 and the Edith Head building can be seen on the right.



Looking towards Paramount's Stage 4 as seen in the film.



Looking towards stage 4 as it appears today.


Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963) is another Swinging Sixties sex comedy, similar to a couple other films I've covered here on Dear Old Hollywood: Sex and the Single Girl (1964) starring Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda, Lauran Bacall, and Mel Ferrer and Bachelor in Paradise (1961) starring Bob Hope and Lana Turner.


Thanks to my friend Chris Cottle for the photos at Paramount.


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