Dean Martin And Nancy Sinatra - Things - 1967 |
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Things was written by Bobby Darin in 1962. It reached #3 in the U.S., and #2 in the UK. Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Perciville Cassotto, May 14, 1936 -- December 20, 1973) was a two-time grammy award winning American singer, Oscar nominated actor and accomplished musician. In 1962, Darin also began to write and sing country music, with hit songs including Things (U.S. #3) (1962). The song was sung by Dean Martin and Nancy Sinatra in the 1967 TV special: Movin' With Nancy, starring Nancy Sinatra, which was released to home video in 2000. Other songs "You're the Reason I'm Living" (U.S. #3), and "18 Yellow Roses" (U.S. #10). The latter two were on Capitol Records, which Darin joined in 1962, before returning to Atlantic four years later. Darren married Sandra Dee; . They had one son, Dodd Mitchell Darin (also known as Morgan Mitchell Darin). She and Darin divorced in 1967.------- Nancy Sandra Sinatra (born June 8, 1940) Jersey City, New Jersey, is an American singer and actress. She is the daughter of singer/actor Frank Sinatra, and remains known for her 1966 signature hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" and her cover of Cher's "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" (lyrics and music by Sonny Bono), which was used as the opening sequence theme in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. A run of chart singles followed, including the two 1966 Top 10 hits "How Does That Grab You, Darlin'?" (#7) and "Sugar Town" (#5). "Sugar Town" became her second million seller. The ballad "Somethin' Stupid" — a duet with father — hit #1 in the U.S. and the UK in April 1967 and spent nine weeks at the top of Billboard's easy listening chart. It earned a Grammy Award nomination for Record of the Year and remains the only father-daughter duet to hit No.1 in the U.S. It became Sinatra's third million selling disc. Other 45s showing her forthright delivery include "Friday's Child" (#36, 1966), and the 1967 hits "Love Eyes" (#15) and "Lightning's Girl" (#24). She rounded out 1967 with the raunchy but low-charting "Tony Rome" (#83) — the title track from the detective film Tony Rome starring her father — while her first solo single in 1968 was the more wistful "100 Years" (#69). --------- Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti,in Steubenville, Ohio June 7, 1917 -- December 25, 1995) to Italian immigrant parents, Gaetano and Angela Crocetti (née Barra). His father was an immigrant was an American singer, film actor and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "Mambo Italiano", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?". Nicknamed the "King of Cool", he was one of the members of the "Rat Pack" and a major star in four areas of show business: concert stage/night clubs, recordings, motion pictures, and television. [1]
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