APOLLO RECORDS / DEAN MARTIN / HIS FIRST RECORD

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DEAN MARTIN

*WALKING MY BABY BACK HOME*

OH! MARIE

RARE 10 INCH RECORD.

HIS FIRST RECORD EVER MADE!

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Dean Martin – From Boxer to Crooner

Dean Martin was everyone’s idea of Mr. Smooth.  Say his name and even today, almost four years after his death, and many more years since his television show, it immediately conjures up the image of a relaxed, twinkle-in-the-eye kind of guy – who was still in control.  A guy who hung out with the Rat Pack, and was pals with Frank Sinatra. 

Dean Martin had several careers, in radio, TV, movies and records – as a comedian, an actor, and a singer.   He started out a singer.

Born in Steubenville, Ohio, on June 7th, 1917 as Dino Crocetti, he was subsequently given the confirmation, or middle, name of Paul at his first Holy Communion less than a month before his tenth birthday.  

His teens took place during the Great Depression of the Thirties, and he quit high school in the tenth grade, remarking later that “It was because I thought I was smarter than the teacher!”   He held down a number of part and full-time jobs as a teen – service station attendant, shoe-shine boy, clerk in a store, steel-mill worker, and amateur welterweight boxer and prizefighter.  Fighting as “Kid Crochet,” the teenager earned from $10 to $25 a match.  During this period he suffered a cracked lip and a broken nose, both of which he dealt with later with corrective surgery.

Prohibition was still in sway in the early Thirties and Dino earned money delivering bootleg liquor across state lines, selling lottery tickets (then illegal), and doing some small-time book-making – taking bets (also illegal).  This led him in turn to become an expert dealer and croupier in the gambling houses around Steubenville.   And it was in these “joints” that he was exposed to the entertainers who passed through and played the clubs.

Dino could sing, and did for his own pleasure and amusement.  One night in August, 1934, some of his friends who had heard him sing talked him into going on-stage himself. He was 17.

By the time he was 21 he was singing in a variety of local clubs and developing a reputation.  He was working with the Ernie McKay Band at the State Restaurant in Columbus, Ohio when Cleveland bandleader Sammy Watkins heard him and hired him. Dino became Watkins’ featured vocalist and word of mouth quickly spread.  On November 1st, 1940 he changed his name to Dean Martin.

Less than three years later, in September, 1943, Martin signed an exclusive contract with the MCA booking company to sing at the Riobamba Room in New York City – immediately following the hottest new singer around, Frank Sinatra.  In 1944 he had his own fifteen-minute radio show, Songs by Dean Martin, on which he crooned as many as five songs daily.

In 1945 a friend of Martin’s, singer Sonny King, introduced him to a young comedian, Jerry Lewis.  But they did not begin working together until March, 1946, when they were each booked on the same bill.  They performed separately, but got along well with each other. After that series of club dates, they went their separate ways again.

But in July, 1946 Lewis was booked into another club and was asked to recommend a singer to share the bill.  He suggested Martin.  

Right around this time Martin also made his first recordings.  They were recorded on July 11th, for the small Diamond Records label, and were “Which Way Did My Heart Go?” b/w “All of Me” (2035) and “I Got the Sun in the Morning” b/w “The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi” (2036).  The first two were used on a now equally rare Diamond compilation LP (D-7).

Most fans of Dean Martin’s recordings are aware of him from his Capitol Records period, during which he recorded hundreds of songs and released literally dozens of albums – or the later Reprise period.  But Martin did not sign to Capitol until 1948, and did not begin recording for Capitol until that September.

Before that he made three records for two other now-rare labels.

The first was “Oh Marie” b/w “Walkin’ My Baby Back Home” for Apollo Records (1088), recorded in October, 1947.  The second, also for Apollo, was “Santa Lucia” b/w “Hold Me” (1116), recorded a month or less later.  Although the original 78’s are difficult to find, they were subsequently issued on the only slightly less rare Audition LP, Dean Martin Sings/Nicolini Plays (AUD 33-5936).

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