Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra with their families on the set of the The Dean Martin Show for a Christmas special in December 1967. Photo by Martin Mills.
Again the same song sung by both. There are so many songs that both one and the other sang.
Jerry's usual great energy despite chronic back pain and Percodan addiction in 1975 and Dean's total disinterest that is very visible.
He didn't take anything seriously anymore. Not even her singing. And that awful hair color that looked awful on him and the fake smile on his lips. The printed smile.
As if, without Jerry, she no longer finds interest in anything, including her own physical appearance.
You’re telling me that after What A Way To Go! (1964) no one thought it would be a good idea to put Dean Martin and Dick Van Dyke in another movie together??? Or at least have them guest star on each other’s shows??? We were robbed 😤😤😤😤
Martin sang two solo numbers per show, one a serious ballad. He would join his weekly guests in song medleys, trading lyrics back and forth. Some of these duets were deliberately played for laughs—with Liberace, for example—with special lyrics by Lee Hale to suit the performers.
One recurring segment was based on Martin's club act, in which he would begin to sing a popular song and suddenly insert a gag lyric in an attempt to make his pianist Ken Lane laugh hard enough to break his concentration.
Pretty much what he did with Jerry.
There were elements of the Martin & Lewis live shows on the Dean Martin Show (as well as the Rat Pack). Sometimes thinking that Dean copied everything from Jerry really bothers me. Then I remember what one of my teachers once told me when she told us that copying wasn't stealing. "Copying is synonymous with admiration. Whoever copies you admires what you do" So I have to think that Dean continued to admire the things he had done with Jerry (not rehearsing to keep everything fresh remembered exactly all the times he and Jerry got lost laughing at each other) and by extension... Dean continued to admire Jerry. Even if he didn't say it publicly.