1964 Career-Defining Hit Was Recorded 62 Years Ago Today
1964 Career-Defining Hit Was Recorded 62 Years Ago Today
Grace GalanteThu, April 16, 2026 at 4:00 AM UTC
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Dean Martin's "Everybody Loves Somebody" was recorded 62 years ago today!
The song, written in 1947 by composer Irving Taylor and pianist Ken Lane, was recorded by multiple artists—including Frank Sinatra—before Martin gave his rendition a go on April 16, 1964.
On August 15, 1964, the song hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100—marking Martin's first No. 1 song since 1956 and his first top 40 hit since 1958. "Everybody Loves Somebody" also topped the Pop-Standard Singles chart for eight weeks.
Despite Martin's long and illustrious career, he only had two No. 1 hits: “Everybody Loves Somebody” and "Memories Are Made of This."
With "Everybody Loves Somebody," the singer knocked The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" from the top spot on the charts—despite the ongoing "British Invasion" infiltrating pop and rock music in the 1960s.
Referring to The Beatles, the Italian-American crooner famously told his son Dean Paul Martin, “I’m gonna knock your pallies off the charts.”
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Martin also sent a telegram to Elvis Presley which said, “If you can’t handle the Beatles, I’ll do it for you, pally.”
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“Everybody Loves Somebody” replaced "That's Amore" as Martin's signature song, and was even the theme song for Martin's variety show, The Dean Martin Show, which ran for a decade with over 250 episodes.
The song's 1964 recording was also inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
62 years later, the song’s message is immortalized on Martin's gravestone, which reads, "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime." Martin died in 1995 at the age of 78 from acute respiratory failure resulting from emphysema and lung cancer.
Full lyrics can be found here.
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