Dean & me (a love story)
Record details
- ISBN: 9781415947791 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1415947791 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
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remote - Publisher: New York : Books on Tape, 2007.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 8:43:20. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Stephen Hoye. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 125386 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Martin, Dean -- 1917-1995 Lewis, Jerry -- 1926- Entertainers -- United States -- Biography |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
They were the unlikeliest of pairs--a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry Lewis was dressing up as Carmen Miranda and miming records on stage. But the moment they got together, something clicked--something miraculous--and audiences saw it at once. Before long, they were as big as Elvis or the Beatles would be after them, creating hysteria wherever they went and grabbing an unprecedented hold over every entertainment outlet of the era: radio, television, movies, stage shows, and nightclubs. Martin and Lewis were a national craze, an American institution. The millions (and the women) flowed in, seemingly without end--and then, on July 24, 1956, ten years from the day when the two men joined forces, it all ended. After that traumatic day, the two wouldn't speak again for twenty years.