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Dean Martin & Caterina Valente – One Note Samba

An evening pause: Performed live on the Dean Martin Show, 1966.

Hat tip Judd Clark.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

4 comments

  • Chris

    I didn’t think i would be entertained, but i was.

  • Jeff Wright

    Dean? Wah! Nice Lady!

    I think Jerry had a heart attack after vaulting up a flight of stairs while filming Cinderfella.

    So’s he’s in this hospital, right? Oxygen tent–the woerks
    Then the door opens, and in peeks his Dad:

    “Do you know what you’re doing to your Mother?”

    Now, I don’t believe for a moment that any of that happened. But it’s a good story!

    I think one of the actresses on The Nanny made up a story about hurting her finger.

    My late lady friend Debra loved that show… likely the source of my ulcer. It was like being crucified from the inside….at least I got to see Moriarty that way.

    She kept the remote…I kept quiet.

  • Dick Eagleson

    Nobody did self-deprecating effortless charm like Dino in his prime.

  • Jeff Wright

    There is some black & white footage of her with Bing Crosby doing the same bit.

    There is a book on old Hollywood called “Bring on the Empty Horses.” (Not “Goodbye Horses,” which I just love to dance to :)

    That and another book are really compilation of stories as if experienced by one person.

    If you were to ask people a few decades ago who the “coolest” person of all time was…the name “Dean” was bound to be in two candidates, James…or Martin.

    I would pick a different pairing…author of RING WORLD…and the better known author of the earlier books I mentioned…famed raconteur, David Niven.

    Nobody wore a blazer as well.

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