{"id":2869,"date":"2010-02-17T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=2869"},"modified":"2022-06-09T12:29:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:29:48","slug":"55-years-ago-today-in-music-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/55-years-ago-today-in-music-3\/","title":{"rendered":"55 Years Ago Today In Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2872 lazyload\" title=\"deanmartin\" src=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/deanmartin.jpg\" alt=\"deanmartin\" width=\"425\" height=\"396\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/deanmartin.jpg 425w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/deanmartin-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>February the 17th saw the hugely sucsessful Dean Martin with surprisingly, his only ever UK number one. With <em>&#8220;Memories Are Made Of This&#8221;<\/em>, Written by Terry Gilkyson, Richard Dehr and Frank Miller, Dean enjoyed one month in the UK top spot.<\/p>\n<p>Terry Gilkyson&#8217;s daughter Eliza spoke of her dad, &#8220;He always hated people finding hidden meanings an metaphors in his songs,\u00a0because\u00a0he just did it as a job. He went to the office everyday and just wrote songs. But &#8220;Memories Are Made Of This&#8221; was an exception, its about us: its about him meeting my mother and having three kids. He&#8217;s left us a wonderful legacy. At the time everything dad was writing was turning to gold&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand Dean Martin was going through hell in 1956. His\u00a0marriage\u00a0was on the rocks and his hugely\u00a0successful\u00a0comedy duo with Jerry Lewis was just about over. He told Gilkyson that <em>&#8220;Memories Are Made Of This&#8221; <\/em>was awful as far as he was concerned so they recorded it anyway. He recorded it with <em>&#8220;The Easy Riders&#8221;<\/em>, a group containing Gilkyson co-writers, Richard Dehr and Fran Miller.<\/p>\n<p>The single topped the US chart for 6 weeks, with a cover version of the song, Gale Storm, reaching number 5 simultaneously. The only whiff of a snip of any real competition in the UK came from television comedian Dave King, whose own version of the song also only reached number 5. 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