Deana Martin Talks Music, The Rat Pack, and her Famous Dad
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- Deana Martin, singer, actress, author and daughter of the popular entertainer Dean Martin chatted with Hollywood on the Potomac on the occasion of the annual National Italian American Foundation gala.
Martin, who recently released her newest album Swing Street, shared lessons learned through the years growing up in Hollywood, learning to sing from her father and "Uncle Frank" (Sinatra) and what it was like to have a front row seat to pop culture history from her own living room.
Interview by Janet Donovan
Filmed and Edited by Brendan Kownacki
For Hollywood on the Potomac
I’ve fallen in love with Deana during the pandemic. She has done free online shows every Friday on Facebook and RUclips. 83 shows so far. She is so talented and sweet - she answers every comment! Such a blessing.
There is a deep closeness between Dean Martin and his children and shows that they are all honorable.
It also shows that he was great father.
Not one of them thought of writing a derogatory book to cash in.
Deana Martin said, "Don't expect any "Daddie Dearest" revelations from any of us."
Beautiful classy woman. It sounds like she has wonderful memories of her father and her famous uncles. So cool that she's still working to keep his memory alive and well.
Dean did "just have it". So smooth. Made it all look so simple and easy. What a multi-talented human. Could sing, act, dance, and do comedy. Loved him.
There was nobody as talented as Dino! His voice was fantastic. It was a gift from God. He was also a great comedian and wonderful actor. He had it all!
Wonderful to hear Deana talk about her famous dad , I loved him so glad I remember him and can still watch him.
There was nothing better then the rat pack. They were the greatest of all time, and there's never gonna be another one like them. It brings you way back to those good old days. I've enjoyed everything they have done. The music lives on for ever.
I love when we hear first hand from the children what a great dad he was. The time he spent with the kids.
Recently purchased the book Deana wrote and it’s really good so far. So many great things I never even heard about Dean. Love the many stories of her childhood and how great of a father Dean was.
What a wonderful interview... Pure class. Love all these great entertainers.
Deana is so beautiful and talented, and such a very kind lady. She was a first hand witness to the magic of the Rat Pack, the equal of which will never again be seen.
The 3 older children would have seen it from the beginning.
Talent promoters want instant success . They won't allow talent to mature and grow before exploiting them for their 15 minutes of fame, then on to the next talent of the month , IMO.
This is SO cool!! I always loved your father. He was pure class. We miss him so much!! Loved this video.
Dean was the most under rated of all time
He ain't underrated to me. Greatest of all time.
thepoopsoup hh
Not in my book !!!!
He should've won an oscar for Rio bravo. Or some came running. Or the young lions. You're right he was never given the respect that frank and bing received.
not underrated at all
What a beautiful articulate woman. 'Loved her fathers' work, what a star.
she is such a sweet sweet lady. she sings beautiful and she is so proud to be dean martins daughter. i am so glad i have the pleasure of meeting her many many times. just a lovely lovely person. and singer and writer. thanks for keeps the memories alive !!!! love ya sue and roy
Such a piece of history to be listened to, i could listen to Deana for hours and hours.
Such a Beautiful Story. I study past people and there lives. This was Truly the Golden Era of Class! of Craft and People.
Deana is very well spoken and is very elegant. She appears to be very youthful.
In my opinion, he is the greatest all round performer of all time... I could listen to him all day long.
Dean like many fathers adored his baby Daughter.
a great interview of the daughter of legendary entertainer Dean Martin.
Thank you for your beautiful family, father friends and being wonderful people, I love you all.
When I went to school in Las Vegas, I got to meet Mr. Sinatra & Totie Fields & Mr. Sinatra was also very kind to me. I regret moving from Las Vegas & wished I had met Mr. Martin.
Mr. Sinatra was my favorite singer but Dean did it effortlessly & he was my second favorite.
Today when I hear God awful music over speakers by singers who really can't sing, I say to people :
" Get rid of the crap and put on some Sinatra or Dean Martin or Sammy ( or anyone who knew how to sing and carry a tune & not rely on rhythm or the beating of drums or overly loud base. ) "
I miss all 3 of these talented men so very much and being OLD school, I have many of their cds but back then I had so many of their records.
So fascinating to hear Deana's memories of her Dad & the rat pack. I've only loved Dean since I was a kid....she is so beautiful, like father, like daughter..: ))))
Dear Deana, You are amazing and I truly thank you for all of your interviews and your performances are terrific. I'm so sorry about the loss of Ricci ... thank you , thank you... thank you...
In my opinion, Dean Martin’s voice was more romantic and better than Sinatra’s voice. 🇮🇹RIP Dean.
Nat King Cole was better than both of them
Your opinion is right.
More romantic, I'd agree but better, no. Martin's voice was effortless but Sinatra's had more of the human condition about it. They both did upbeat to perfection but no-one has ever nailed the opposite in the way that Sinatra did.
N F
He was magnificent Rip Dean
Dean's voice just melted me. Such a rich mellow sound! Like butter !!
they were truly the best.
She's fascinating and so is Nancy Sinatra! Two daughters of two of the greatest entertainers of the 20th century. The 3rd would be Liza Minnelli, daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli. Those 3 daughters certainly inherited a massive amount of talent from their parents!
I don’t think you can compare them with Liza. In her prime she bowled the others over. She was amazing.
Who's comparing anyone to Liza?? all I SAID was they all have amazing talent.. I never once said they were better or worse than anyone.. go back and re-read what I said ...
Hank Austin and I just disagree. Nancy and Deanna are marginal to Liza and definitely to their dads. They are far from having “amazing talent” where Liza was as good as her mom.
Everyone knows Liza M has lived off her mother's reputation all her life.. that doesn't make her great at all .. makes her a hack!
Hank Austin what are you smoking? Deanna and Nancy have Only lived off their dad’s reputation. Liza is the only one of the three that didn’t need her mom. She could sing and dance. Nominated for two academy awards and won for Cabaret. Look up the multiple awards in different categories she has won. And the other two????
The good ole days... it was nothing but, FUN... thank you for the reminder. ^5
I have been trying to find the episode were Deana sings her first single Baby, I See You" and "The Bottom Of Your Mind". When I was a young man working on a parking lot in Hollywood, (trying to make it as a songwriter) producer Lee Hazlewood came on my lot, going to the bank across the street. I noticed he had some records on the car seat, so I told him I was a songwriter and asked if he might be looking for some original songs. He said, Well, give me a copy, I'd be happy to give them a listen. Next time he came in I gave him some demos and a few days later, when I came to work, he was waiting for me. He said, Bob, we're recording your songs today with Deana Martin! I about dropped dead! A month later someone had given me some tickets to the Dean Martin Show and amazingly she was the guest star and preformed both these songs. My wife and I got to meet her afterwards, but I was never able to get a copy of the episode. Would love to have the video for posterity, but can't find it anywhere up here, or elsewhere . If somebody comes across it, please let me know. Been trying to find it for some time. Much thanks, BC Bobcorso27@yahoo.com
That's a great story - not all of Dean's kids really 'sang' but I guess Deana did her share of tunes but I don't really remember seeing her that much, except from time to time on her Dad's TV show - very interesting. Were you ever able to locate the show that you were interested in?
Kim
Awwww she called her stepmom mom that so sweet
What a wonderful Lady!! What an experience!!!!
...I saw Deana Martin i covert at Lehman College's Lovinger Theater in the Bronx, a few years ago..she was selling her book after the show. What a wonderful tribute to Dean...she sang MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS....a duet of sorts....with his recorded voice.
she tried her whole life to use her father to make money....but of course dean never had any relationship with her..so it was not going to happen
@@jadezee6316 I have no idea. I knew Dean primarily from the DEAN MArtIN ROStS on NBC in the 70s...earlier 80s. I couldn't tell from the show that there was any distance betwen Dean and her: several members of the Harlettes were in attendance with their families, and jass guitarist, Bucky Pizzarelli, who died last month from COVID-19, played with her band.
She was as much as a talent as her dad, great voice. Her dad was a super star in his time.
She looks like a mix of Mary Tyler Moore and Jane Fonda - but a lot like Dean.
Susan Manderson so true I see that once you mentioned it
Susan Manderson I thought Joan rivers
I agree
@@JUANIBOTERO Funny, I was going to post how she reminds me of Mary T. Moore, but thought I would first read other comments, YOU BEAT ME TO IT,,,,,,,,,,,LOL.
it's funny that you should say that because that was a very first thing that came to mind the very first time I saw this video but I was a little bashful to write it down for fear that people would think I was crazy
I do so hope that this documentary will be shown by one of our TV stations here in the UK.
Lovely stories about those great stars! It really sounds like they were kind gentlemen too with great personal qualities and humour. I wish we had more like them today.
I miss your father so much!! There wasn't anything he couldn't sing. And. He faced his life with style and grace. Class. All the way. He could sing the phone book and turn it into a massive hit. I'll always love him. 💕💕
Classy lady... !!!!
DEANA MARTIN, FANTASTIC WOMAN.
Dean Maritin, sensational !!
Dean was the epitome of cool, he had swagger before punks knew what swagger was... charming, funny, talented, and didn't give a rat's ass who didn't approve of his lifestyle, because even his lifestyle was a ruse... he didn't drink as hard as was portrayed, although he promoted that image for comedy content (until he started drinking heavily later in his life). He was the smoothest of the smooth.
lol...another fool....dean was a pretend drinker his whole life...then suddenly when he got older he just out of no Where...became a heavy drinker...
the truth is dean martin was a far far bigger drinker than Sinatra...who drank the night away after every show...seldom quitting till 5...6...7 am!...the next day...if you look at how frail dean was as he got older..you are seeing the end result of what a person looks like after drinking like a fish his whole life.....yes..his son...the only child he ever cared about.......killing him self...made him worse....but in the end he was just a shadow of what he had been Sinatra....calling him out for throwing a LIT CIGARETTE INTO THE AUDIENCE.....is what made dean martin quit the show with him frank and sammy....he just didnt care about anything...which is exactly the way he lived his entire life
Jade Zee. Family, friends, stage workers, staff members, have all said most of Dean's drinking was was nowhere near the comedic image that he portrayed on stage, but go ahead spew out more bullshit, you're the pretend expert.
We love you and miss you Dean ❤️❤️❤️
Priceless.
Love to see and listen to everything that is told about your Father, their is not a day that goes by that I don't think about
him and Frank
All of Dean’s kids grew up so normal. Not a bunch of drug addicts.
They had other issues. And several step mothers .
@@eileenmcdonald1599 Are you related to Dean's first wife?
what about steve martin. a total cokehead.
@@bsdgffishtuna5186 ?? Dean didn't have a kid named Steve.
@@bsdgffishtuna5186 wonder who the filthy stinking creep was who got him the coke. If he even tried any to begin with 😉
Loved Dean Martin
The western my rifle my pony and me was so amazing.
Love that song Dean Martin was my favourite from a very age 🇦🇺💙💙💙
Deana you are beautiful!
Loved your Dad!!!! You Rock Girl!!!
She seemed to have a half way decent life ,Hope her mother made out ok also
Such a classy lady and her dad so talented!
I LOVE DINO ! YOU KNOW the song ,, CHANGE OF HEART ,, YOU CAN HEARE ,,
Wow, she's got that old school class that's gone these days!
Great interview.
What a great, beautiful and graceful woman !
I loved Dean Martin when I was a kid.
Dean and Frank were really good fathers. I respect that.
lol....no they weren't......dean had no time for his kids.....if not working he was golfing...if home he was secluded...never interacted..with his kids...exception dean jr.
Sinatra favored his daughters.....hardly had any time for frank jr........people all saw it...and felt bad for little frank.
Very attractive, intelligent woman. If you didn't know she was Italian, you could tell by the way she "talks with her hands".
I am deaf, and I understood every word Deana said
You noticed that as well John ?
John Stewart - she is an American of Italian descent. Many people used gestures when speaking. That does not make them Italian.
@@maryanng6841😲 Nonsense , no one ever descends from being Italian!! However one may ascend! She is 1000% italiano 👊💪🏼🇮🇪💪🏼
Wow, of course she's wonderful. I saw Dean Martin's mom on one of those
old 50's shows, maybe "What's My Line"? The one with Steve Allen and Dorothy? His mother was beauiful and just what you'd expect! Kind and sweet.
2023 still loving it
What a wonderful testimony to her beloved Dad And Jeanne was a wonderful mother and stepmother True love in this family❤❤❤❤❤
Deanna is one class act…gorgeous beautiful girl….I would love to hear MORE
I totally agree dean was By far the best singer of the two being frank
Dean was so sexy and handsome
He just sang so beautiful beside being so handsome and damn sexyI couldn’t get enough of seeing and hearing him. personality galore soooo cute
What a beautiful daughter. 😍
THE RAT PACK IS WONDERFULL MUSIC.
SO COOL DEANA
NO IDEA ABOUT TRANSLATING YOUR BOOK IN FRENCH
WOULD BE SO INTERESTING FOR US
Cool. Thanks for the upload.
I loved Martin in Bells are Ringing with Judy Holliday. The dance scene is cute.
I’m so happy you are keeping your dad’s memory alive. I have a 15 year old daughter that simply loves him, she has watched all his movies, tv shows, music and all books she can find about him. She says they don’t make talent like him anymore.
Luved dean martin
I LOVE DEAN MARTIN ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you, i didn't realize that i am so glad that deana sings too, she has a interesting back story too, i mean this forwardly your amazing deana from misty in auckland new zealand🇳🇿
Very Nice!
Still a beauty.
It says a lot about Jeanne that she lovingly took care of Dean's 4 kids from his first marriage.
Very nice Deana Martin! I love romantic songs Dean Martin!!!
A delightful, sincere interview. Thank you Deana.
Im about half way through her book "memories are made of this" Dean Martin through his daughters eyes. Dean broke her mothers heart. Her mother Betty was as in love with her dad as much as a women could ever be but Dean left her for a more attractive women who he fell in love with. It didn't take much because Jeanne was the kind of girl my dad used to say "you fell in love with as soon as you see her" because of her beauty. It was easy after a while for Deana to forget her real mom after the privilege, the homes, the celebrities that came with living with dad and his new bride. How awful it had to be for Betty to loose her children who she loved dearly not just from one household to another but to lose them from the children not wanting her anymore. From what I have gathered so far Deana has never been for want for anything that money could buy and had never known the heartache of those far less fortunate, heartache attached to having nothing.
I understand what you're saying, but you can't really blame the children for the situation they found themselves in and though it's true that they didn't want for anything financially after Dean and Jeannie gained custody of them, they did have a relatively hard time before that because Betty spent a lot of the alimony and child maintenance Dean paid her on drinking and partying. I don't know how far you have got in her book, but Deana writes quite honestly about the fact that they often moved house because Betty couldn't pay the rent, and how each move also meant another change of school and trying to make new friends each time. And though the divorce was acrimonious and was obviously heartbreaking for Betty, it seems that for a long while she was in denial and kept hoping that Dean would eventually come back to her. But many marriages break up when one or the other partner meets someone else and as sad as it is, many mothers manage to pull themselves together and carry on to make some kind of life for the sake of their children. It would seem that Betty wasn't strong enough to cope and to me it's an indication of how bad things had become that Dean and Jeannie were eventually granted custody of the children at a time when it was practically unheard of for the father to get custody.
So did she have a drinking problem when they met? Was the drinking because Dean was out cheating on her? Jerry Lewis was another who was not faithful in his marriage either. So her mother was not capable of taking care of them any more but Jeanne is?? Jeanne had a nanny raise her kids.
Yes she does. Finally the story of the first family got told and I thank her for it. All I ever heard for years was Jeanne, Jeanne, Jeanne, and then for a few minutes--Cathy Hawn Martin--and both sets of kids. And since I was always a Martin fan, I always wondered "well what about his first wife?" So I thank her for writing it.
...you may have to read Deana's book!
I have read Deana Martins book "Memories are made of this" it seems that you may have mixed up the facts anout Deanas mother Betty, the lady had an alcoholi problem, she loved her children dearly, but alcohol took over, the children were being neglected to a certain extent, and luckly Jeanie took over and did a good job as a far as I understand, I felt very sorry for his first wife but she was in no state to bring up her and Deans children.
Dean...Who wouldn't love him!!!
Great stuff
Love Dean's singing! A most classy and beautiful woman!
Side note: Deanna Martin was in a Monkees TV show episode "Some Like It Lukewarm." in 1968.
I never knew about Deanna 🇮🇹
dean martin crocetti il piu' grande, ciao deana.
To be born when and to who she was. What luck is that. Loved the rat pack
Dino was the best rat pack member.
Gorgeous woman!🥰😍🤩
Questa donna ha un fascino incredibile.
His music, his humor, his movies will be watched a 100 yrs from now. He gave apple juice a new name. Booze LOL
Dean was an underrated singer. Too good at too many other things to get the credit. He seemed to just do it for the love of it.
dean martin was a comedian..a straight man...his singing was horrible...but people really liked him...so they thought he could sing...he couldnt
@@jadezee6316 everyone is entitled to a their opinion
Lovely lady
Liebe Deana❤,Dad war fantastisch,charmant,super❤😢
great personality and interview. She is so normal. The one thing that bugged me about Dean Martin is he would never act normal - always joking and in character. Even Don Rickles would be serious and wax philosophical and sentimental sometimes.
I ran the job to tear down the old Chelsen's Restaurant, where the Rat pack used to play. They had their own little night club upstairs and an apartment out back.
yes looks matter in everything
ON MY PAGE,, CHANGE OF HEART,, from DINO
Where the heck did they record this with all the background noise and conversations?
Nice lady!
Has the film she spoke about come out?
I miss those guy's very much they were the koolest
So who's this "Jade Zee" person here in comments making out he/she knows everything and that all other info about Dean Martin is incorrect?