Artist Name

Dean Martin

(0 users)

Artist Image

Functions

Data Complete 70%

15%

Complete Release refresh

view

2014 - The Essential Dean Martin

2013 - Dean Martin - Italian Love Songs

2011 - Cool Then, Cool Now

2010 - That's Amore

2009 - 100 Hits Legends: Dean Martin

2006 - Christmas With Dino

2006 - Dino: Italian Love Songs

2006 - Lush Years / Relaxin'

2005 - Dean Martin Sings

2005 - Live From Las Vegas

2005 - Swingin' Down Yonder

2005 - Happy in Love / Dino-Like Never Before

2004 - When You're Smiling (1946-1953)

2004 - Dino: The Essential Dean Martin

2002 - Happiness is Dean Martin / Welcome to My World

2002 - Somewhere There's a Someone / The Hit Sound of Dean Martin

2002 - Dino / You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me

2002 - Sittin' On Top of the World / Once in a While

2002 - My Woman, My Woman, My Wife / For the Good Times

2001 - The Door Is Still Open to My Heart / (Remember Me) I'm the O

1999 - French Style/Dino Latino

1998 - The Very Best of Dean Martin

1997 - The Dean Martin TV Show + The Silencers

1997 - Memories Are Made of This

1997 - Dino: Italian Love Songs / Cha-Cha de Amor

1993 - 20 Greatest Hits

1992 - Season's Greetings

1991 - Singin' Down Yonder

1989 - The Capitol Collector's Series

1983 - The Nashville Sessions

1976 - 20 Original Dean Martin Hits

1969 - I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am

1968 - Gentle on My Mind

1967 - Welcome to My World

1966 - Hey Brother! Pour The Wine

1966 - The Dean Martin Christmas Album

1965 - Houston

1965 - (Remember Me) I'm The One Who Loves You

1964 - The Door Is Still Open to My Heart

1962 - Cha Cha De Amor

1962 - Dino Latino

1960 - This Time I'm Swingin'

1959 - Sleep Warm

1959 - A Winter Romance

1958 - This Is Dean Martin

0 - Country Dino

0 - Italian Love Songs

Members
1 Male

Origin
origin flag

Steubenville, Ohio, USA

Genre
flag

Pop

Style
Rock/Pop

Mood
Happy

Born

1917

Active
1939 to 1995

Cutout

Alternate Name
Dino Martini

Most Loved Tracks
4 users

Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It...
4 users

Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It...
3 users

Dean Martin - Ain't That a Kick in the Head
3 users

Dean Martin - That's Amore

Music Video Links

King of the Road

Artist Biography
Available in:

Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian.
One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the mid-20th Century, Martin was nicknamed the "King of Cool" due to his seemingly effortless charisma and self-assuredness. A member of the "Rat Pack," Martin was a major star in four areas of show business: concert stage/night clubs, recordings, motion pictures, and television. He was the host of the successful television variety program The Dean Martin Show (1965-1974), and subsequently The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts (1974-1985)
Martin's relaxed, warbling crooning voice earned him dozens of hit singles including his signature songs "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?".
Martin was born in Steubenville, Ohio, to an Italian father, Gaetana and an Italian-American mother, Angela Crocetti (née Barra). His father was from Montesilvano, Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy, and his mother was of Neapolitan and Sicilian ancestry. Martin had an older brother named Bill. Martin spoke only Italian until he started school. He attended Grant Elementary School in Steubenville, and took up the drums as a hobby as a teenager. He was the target of much ridicule for his broken English and ultimately dropped out of Steubenville High School in the 10th grade because he thought that he was smarter than his teachers. He delivered bootleg liquor, served as a speakeasy croupier, was a blackjack dealer, worked in a steel mill and boxed as a welterweight. He grew up a neighbor to Jimmy the Greek.
At the age of 15, he was a boxer who billed himself as "Kid Crochet". His prizefighting years earned him a broken nose (later straightened), a scarred lip, and many sets of broken knuckles, bruised body (a result of not being able to afford the tape used to wrap boxers' hands). Of his twelve bouts, he would later say "I won all but eleven." For a time, he roomed with Sonny King, who, like Martin, was just starting in show business and had little money. It is said that Martin and King held bare-knuckle matches in their apartment, fighting until one of them was knocked out; people paid to watch. Martin knocked out King in the first round of an amateur boxing match.
Eventually, Martin gave up boxing. He worked as a roulette stickman and croupier in an illegal casino behind a tobacco shop where he had started as a stock boy. At the same time, he sang with local bands, calling himself "Dino Martini" (after the famous Metropolitan Opera tenor, Nino Martini). He got his first break working for the Ernie McKay Orchestra. He sang in a crooning style influenced by Harry Mills (of the Mills Brothers), among others. In the early 1940s, he started singing for bandleader Sammy Watkins, who suggested that he change his name to Dean Martin.
In October 1941, Martin married Elizabeth Anne McDonald. During their marriage (ended by divorce in 1949), they had four children. Martin worked for various bands throughout the early 1940s, mostly on looks and personality until he developed his own singing style. Martin famously flopped at the Riobamba, a high class nightclub in New York, when he followed Frank Sinatra in 1943, but it was the setting for their meeting.
Martin was drafted into the United States Army in 1944 during World War II, serving a year stationed in Akron, Ohio. He was then reclassified as 4-F and was discharged (possibly because of a double hernia; Jerry Lewis referred to the surgery that Martin needed for this in his autobiography).
By 1946, Martin was doing relatively well, but was still little more than an East Coast nightclub singer with a common style, similar to that of Bing Crosby. He drew audiences to the clubs where he played, but he inspired none of the fanatical popularity enjoyed by Sinatra.