Dean Martin(born Dino Paul Crocetti, June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) American actor and singer, couldn't read music, and yet recorded more than 100 albums and 600 songs, racking up major hits such as "That's Amore", "Volare", "You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You" and his signature tune "Everybody Loves Somebody". Besides being the ladies' man counterpart of Jerry Lewis in a series of comedies, besides being a ratpacker, Dean Martin, in his long variety show run on NBC, often seemed to be dead drunk on national TV. The fact that America saw his show as charming and wholesome just the same is a testament not only to the culture of the time but to Martin's own great charm. Dean was well known as a family man and his "drinking" was just an act. It used to bother Frank Sinatra (who was a big drinker) that Dean went home early to be with his wife and kids and not go hitting the bars with him.
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Artists And Models (feat. Jerry Lewis) Lyrics
Dean Martin
You can trace the mystery of ancient history
Through art of artists and their models
You can comb through the Rome coliseum
And the rear of your nearest museum
There's the Mona Lisa, the Tower of Pisa
A cowhand's daughter out in Texas
And there's modern art to see
That makes you wonder
What the heck is meant to be
On the streets of Murmark there's a fancy kind of art that is strictly for the
tourists from the sticks
And those wise Greenwich guys really open up your eyes painting portraits of
their pretty little chicks
So to each creator and imitator who daubs and dabbles with the brushes
To the guys that draw their bunnies or the Sunday morning funnies
And brighten up the world today
And to every girl that poses to every Grandma Moses
We like to tip the old beret