14 Things You Didn’t Know About Dean Martin
3 min readOct 7, 2022
His roasts were my favorite Dean Martin projects.
As a performer, I liked Dean Martin fairly well. I especially enjoyed the Dean Martin roasts. I also enjoyed some of his movies, particularly his westerns. I even liked his singing. Few performers were as versatile as Martin. So here are some things you may not have known about Dean.
1: As a boxer he had 12 fights. He jokingly said, “I won all but 11.”
He billed himself as “Kid Crochet.” Why? Was Kid Needlepoint taken?
2: Martin’s signature song was “Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime.”
That might account for Martin’s three marriages.
3: His charisma and self-assurance led him to being known as, ‘The King of Cool.”
Well, that does sound a lot better than Kid Crochet.
4: When Martin went to school, his broken English made him a target of bullies.
Dean’s parents spoke Italian and as did Dean until he was five. I can see where this might have put him on that boxing track.
