Merry Christmas!

Here's wishing you a beautiful holiday, and all the best in 2011. You'll find a collection of all of my program episodes for the holiday season on the main site at NOEBIE.COM.

Best Wishes,

Brian

Christmas with Dean and Jerry

This time around we're listening to some of the best music for the holidays from Dean Martin, and then we've got two episodes of old time radio from Christmas Season 1949.

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Shownotes and Links

Dean Martin Christmas Music:
My Kind Of Christmas (CD)
A Winter Romance (CD)
My Kind Of Christmas (MP3 Album)
A Winter Romance (MP3 Album)
Christmas With The Rat Pack (MP3 Album)
Making Spirits Bright (CD)

The Frank Truth: Christmas With Sinatra

Check back for more holiday listening.

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Christmas with Frank and Dean

Around this time of year I'm sometimes asked to recommend my favorite Christmas albums by Dean Martin and others. I'll be getting a podcast episode out with a more thorough review, but here are a few suggestions for starters. These are the records by Dino, Frank Sinatra and The Rat Pack that you're most likely to find me playing over the coming weeks. Many of them are available as MP3 downloads, as well as CDs.

Episode 75: Thanksgiving With Abbott and Costello

This time around on our show, a little change of pace. We're celebrating Thanksgiving with Abbott and Costello, in a broadcast from November 25th of 1943. Guest Star Jane Wyman joins in the fun.

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Shownotes and Links

Abbott and Costello Wikipedia Entry

Abbott and Costello Official Site

Maybe I'd Better Go O-H-I-O

Episode 70

Episode 71 (Dean Martin Festival)

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Episode 74: Happy Halloween!

This time around on our Martin and Lewis old time radio show Podcast, it's a spooky double-feature. First, from an NBC Radio Network broadcast of on May 8th, 1949, Dean and Jerry welcome Peter Lorre to the program. Then from April 18th of 1952, Boris Karloff joins the boys for more creepy fun.

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Shownotes and Links

Dean and Me

Russ Loniello in Branson

Deana Martin's Schedule

Java's Bachelor Pad Radio Show Halloween Specials

Zenith's Las Vegas Room



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Episode 73: With Anne Baxter

From an NBC Radio Network broadcast originally airing on May 5th of 1953, Dean and Jerry welcome Anne Baxter to the show.

Dean sings The Breeze, Your Cheatin' Heart and Moments Like This.

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Shownotes and Links

Anne Baxter Wikipedia Listing

Anne Baxter at IMDB

Contribute to MDA

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Episode 72: With Laraine Day

This time around on our Martin and Lewis Old Time Radio Podcast, from an April 28th of 1953 NBC Radio Network broadcast, Dean and Jerry welcome Laraine Day to the show.

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Shownotes and Links



Laraine Day Wikipedia Listing
Laraine Day at IMDB
Leo Durocher
Dean sings Thumbelina, Have You Heard and The Nearness of You on this episode.
@DinosPlace
@CapitolVaults
@Bubafettt
@Noebie
Deana Martin on Facebook
Memories are Made of This on Facebook
Patty Lewis Book
Nick Tosches Book
Dante's Site
Wonder Pets
Wonder Pets Rat Pack Episode



Thanks to Matt Walters for the Dean and Jerry puppets picture, taken at the Museum of American History at the Smithsonian.

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Episode 71: Dean Martin Festival 2010

This time around, we're visiting Steubenville, Ohio for the 2010 Dean Martin Festival.

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Links

Dean Martin Festival Official Site

Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival

Deana Martin Official Site

Naples Restaurant

The Spot Bar

Lauren Mascitti

Russ Loniello

Drew Anthony

Eric DeLauro

The Dean-O-Holics

David Iannandrea

Lou Martini, Jr.

The Crooner and The Comic

Fort Steuben

American Legion

Dean Martin Scholarship Fund

Steubenville Police DARE Program

Bayberry House Properties

Froehlich's Classic Corner

Murals of Steubenville

YouTube Festival Collection

Flickr Set

City of Steubenville

Set Up at The Spot

The Rat Pack Is Back

All Of Me Video

Picture of Drew Anthony and Claudia

The Walters

St. Anthony's Church

Boyhood Footsteps of Dean Martin (PDF) - Steubenville CVB

Church of the Holy Trinity (Greek Festival)

Save The Grand Theater

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Save Stuebenville's Grand Theater

The Steubenville Historic Landmarks Foundation is currently working to save the once elegant Grand Theater on 4th Street in downtown Steubenville. It was built in the 1920s, modeled after a theater in New York City. It was the second air conditioned theater in the nation, and was home both to movies and live acts. Dean Martin would have spent a great deal of time there as a child watching his beloved Westerns, and as a young man dreaming of stardom.



The restoration project includes plans for a Dean Martin Museum on site.

Your help is critical right now. The building is scheduled for demolition, and can only be saved if it gets a new roof in the next few months. The Historic Landmarks Foundation is looking for 120 businesses or individuals who can afford to donate $1000 each as founding donors for the project, but donations of any size would be appreciated.

My wife and I are currently discussing how much we can afford to donate, but we will definitely be making a donation of some amount this week, and would encourage you to do the same.

Please make checks payable to the Steubenville Historic Landmarks Foundation Grand Theater Restoration Project. If you need a Federal Tax ID to make a donation please call Scott Dressel at (740) 632-2899 or email grandtheater@historicsteubenville.org. Donations (with name, address and phone number) can be sent to Chase Bank, 401 Market Street, Steubenville, Ohio 43952. You can also donate via PayPal on the Foundation's website.

The Steubenville Historic Landmarks Foundation is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit (in process).

Let's do our best to honor Dean Martin by helping to save this historic landmark in his hometown of Steubenville. If you do happen to make a donation, please let me know so I can recognize your contribution on the program.

Thanks!

Dean Martin Festival 2010 Links and Information

I'm still editing audio and preparing for a Podcast recap of the festivities in Steubenville last week. It was an absolutely marvelous time, and I hope we can attend again in 2011.

I put together a page over on NOEBIE.com with links and information from Dean Martin Festival 2010. I'd encourage you to check it out, and to set a bookmark there as I'll be adding more in the coming days.

If you attended the festival, either this year or in the past, we'd love to hear your stories too. You can comment here, or on the other page, contact me by email, or leave a voicemail on the comment line at (312) 235-2139.

Direct from Steubenville

We're enjoying a wonderful time in Steubenville at the annual Dean Martin Festival. You'll find occasional (almost) real time reports over on Twitter, and my most recent uploads of pictures and videos on this Flickr set.

I'll also be putting together a podcast episode in a week or so with a full recap and some audio from various events here. In the meantime, enjoy this short video from Deana Martin's book signing this afternoon. She is gracious, beautiful and (like her father) a natural wit.

Episode 70: With Vic Damone

This time around on our Martin and Lewis Old Time Radio Podcast, from an April 21st, 1953 NBC Radio Network broadcast, Dean and Jerry welcome Vic Damone to the show.

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Shownotes and Links

Dean Martin Festival 2010

Martin and Lewis Miniseries

Meredith's Review

Jerry Lewis Instruction Book For Being A Person (or Just Feeling Better)

Donate to the USO

Vic Damone (Official Site)



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Episode 69: Linda Darnell Returns

This time around on our Martin and Lewis Old Time Radio Podcast, from an April 14th, 1953 NBC Radio Network broadcast, Dean and Jerry welcome Linda Darnell back to the show.

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Shownotes and Links

Dean sings Them There Eyes, Pretend and I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do).

Dean Martin Festival 2010



Linda Darnell IMDB Listing

Linda Darnell Wikipedia Listing

"Her debut was in 1939 in the role of Marcia Bromley in Hotel for Women (1939). She was all of 16 at the time and became the youngest leading lady in Hollywood history"-IMDB

Linda Darnell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1631 Vine Street.

Previous Episode with Linda Darnell

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I Laffed Till I Cried: Thirty-Six Years of Marriage to Jerry Lewis

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Dean Martin Festival 2010

The annual Dean Martin Festival in Steubenville, Ohio is less than a month away. Here's the schedule of events for 2010. It looks like two days packed full of activities, with lots of great entertainment, and opportunities to meet other fans as well as celebrities in attendance (including Dean Martin's daughter, Deana).

If you're planning to attend, I'd love to meet you. Feel free to contact me by email to noebie@gmail.com or leave a comment here on the Weblog. If there's enough interest, I'm thinking that breakfast on Saturday morning might work.

Let me know your thoughts!

Episode 68: With Mitzi Gaynor

This time around on our Martin and Lewis Old Time Radio Podcast, from an April 7th, 1953 NBC Radio Network broadcast, Dean and Jerry welcome Mitzi Gaynor to the show.

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Shownotes and Links

Dean sings Sposin' and All That I'm Asking is Sympathy and I Wished on the Moon.

Don't Raise The Bridge, Lower The River

Five Hundy By Midnight on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars

Deana Martin Website

Deana Martin Facebook

Nashville Symphony Concert

Dean Martin Festival 2010

Mitzi Gaynor Site

IMDB Listing

Wikipedia Listing

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