Supposedly it was Elvis Presley who first anointed Dean Martin with the sobriquet “King of Cool.” The way Martin’s daughter, Deana, tells the story, she went to visit her father on the Paramount ...
They first met in 1945, appearing on the same bill at a New York nightclub. Jerry Lewis caught Dean Martin's eye. Better still, the funny kid with the rubbery body made the whiskey-throated crooner ...
His fondest memory of Dean Martin has nothing to do with martinis, cigarettes or women. Rather, Martin’s son, Ricci, remembers his father coming home at night and stopping in the kitchen to slowly ...
Nick Tosches, a pioneering music journalist and writer of classic biographies about Jerry Lee Lewis and Dean Martin, died Sunday in New York City. He was 69. By Mitchell Peters, Billboard.com Nick ...