Caterina Valente with Stanley Black and His Orchestra. "Well, you know," said Lewis without missing a step, "there was all those rumors about our breaking up - and then when I started the show and you weren't there, I believed it." But even a sneaky, grinning Sinatra wasn't enough to mend old wounds. Franco Migliacci and Mitchell Parish and was first recorded and released by Dean Martin in 1958. "You know, it seems like we haven't seen each other for 20 years," said Martin, who had gone on to find stardom with Sinatra and the other members of the Rat Pack. The old friends hugged it out for the cameras and then fell right back into the jocular mode of friendly funnymen that defined their joint career decades earlier. "You son of a b****," Lewis was heard mumbling to Sinatra, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In 1976, a mutual friend of the former comedy duo, Frank Sinatra, arranged for Martin to appear unannounced on the telethon for an unexpected reunion. During Haley’s segment, Valente sings a duet with Haley on a newly recorded version of his song “Vive la Rock and Roll”.Lewis hosted an annual telethon on Labor Day to raise funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Valente, though today not as well known as some of her.
They do a rendition of the bossa nova song One Note Samba while sitting very close together on a hammock and flirting. In 1958, she filmed the musical comedy Hier bin ich – hier bleib ich (Here I Am, Here I Stay) which featured a guest appearance by Bill Haley & His Comets. When Italian songstress, Caterina Valente, came on the show in 1966 (one of many appearances), the magic between the two of them was quite obvious. She also plays the guitar and tap dances.
After her first musical successes, she acted in the movie Mannequins for Rio (1954) and has performed in fourteen additional films. In 2001, she released a new album, Girltalk, with harpist Catherine Michel.Ĭaterina Valente is a true world citizen and a polyglot, having sung in twelve different languages.
In 1959, she was nominated for a Grammy Award.Ĭaterina Valente was a principal, along with Carol Burnett and Bob Newhart, on the short-lived CBS variety series The Entertainers (1964–65).Ī briglia sciolta, the Italian jazz CD recorded in 1989 and re-released in later years under the titles Fantastica and Platinum deluxe, is Valente’s best-selling CD worldwide. Over the years, she has recorded or performed with many international stars, including Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, Perry Como, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Claus Ogerman, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Sy Oliver, Buddy Rich and Edmundo Ros. You can create and share your playlist by bringing together videos from different platforms. There she recorded Cole Porter’s I Love Paris under the German title Ganz Paris träumt von der Liebe, which sold more than 500,000 copies in 1954. CATERINA VALENTE & DEAN MARTIN Medley (on Dean Martin Show 1967, HD) - Dargoole searches and catalogs the videos on the most famous video sharing portals on the Web. In Germany she was a major performer of Schlager music. They had a son, Alexander, but they divorced in 1979. In 1972, she married the British pianist Roy Budd. Between 19 she was a frequent guest on the Dean Martin Show. In the mid 1960s, Caterina Valente worked with Claus Ogerman and recorded material in both Italian and English that he arranged/conducted and/or composed on the Decca and London labels.
In 1955, she was featured on the “Colgate Comedy Hour” with Gordon MacRae. Soon afterwards she achieved great success with songs such as “Malagueña”, “The Breeze and I”, and “Dreh dich nicht um” with the Werner Müller orchestra. In 1953, she made her first recordings with Kurt Edelhagen. Their son is the singer Eric van Aro, Jr. He recognized her talent and accompanied her in her initial years of worldwide success, although they later divorced.
In 1952, she married the juggler Erik van Aro (Gerd Eric Horst Scholz). She had three siblings, one of whom, Silvio Francesco, was also active in show business. Her father Giuseppe was a well-known accordion player her mother, Maria Valente, a musical clown. Werner Bochmann ( German composer (Schlager & sound tracks)) (composer) Martha Bergner (lyricist) Ilse Werner. She was born into an Italian artist family. In this appearance, she has the audience bursting with laughter as she and Dean Martin do. Caterina Valente (born 14 January 1931, Paris) is an Italian singer, dancer, and actress. Singer Caterina Valente was a frequent guest on The Dean Martin Show.