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About Dean Martin
Dean Martin - biography; photo wallpapers; Megawallpapers.org: Dean Martin (born Dino Crocetti June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer and film actor. He was known as one of the most famous music artists from the 1950s period. His hits singles included songs such as; "Memories Are Made Of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "Mambo Italiano", "Sway", "Volare", "Let Me Go Lover" and others. Dean Martin was born in the West Virginia-Ohio border-town of Steubenville, Ohio in the Pittsburgh Tri-State region. His parents were Italian-born barber, Gaetano Crocetti, and his wife, Angela. He spoke only Italian until age five. The traces of Italian are perhaps what lent a certain Southern drawl to Martin's speaking voice, which led many who did not know he hailed from Ohio to assume he came from the South. Martin dropped out of school in the tenth grade and took a string of odd jobs ranging from steelworker to bootlegger. At the age of 15, he was a boxer who billed himself as "Kid Crocett" (Kro-Shey). From his prizefighting years, Dean got a broken nose (later fixed), a permanently split lip, and many sets of broken knuckles (as a result of not being able to afford the tape used to wrap boxers' hands). Dean won almost all of his matches; however, the prize money was meager. Eventually, Dean gave up boxing to pursue more lucrative opportunities. For a time, he worked as a roulette stickman and croupier in an illegal casino located behind a tobacco shop where he had started out as a stock boy. At the same time, he sang with local bands. Billing himself as "Dino Martini" (after the then-famous Metropolitan Opera tenor, Nino Martini), he got his first break working for the Ernie McKay Orchestra, performing in a crooning style heavily influenced by Bing Crosby and the Mills Brothers, among others. In the early 1940s, he started singing for bandleader, Sammy Watkins, at which time he changed his name to Dean Martin. In 1941, Dean married Betty McDona...