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Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Wink Martindale Encore

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.83.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

GGACP celebrates June's National DJ Month with this ENCORE of an interview with the recently departed disc jockey, recording artist, radio/TV personality and longtime game show host Wink Martindale. In this episode, Wink shares six decades of show business memories, including performing for Ed Sullivan, interviewing Jan and Dean, cutting a Top Ten single (“Deck of Cards”) and befriending the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Also, Dickie Dawson laughs it up, Bobby Darin orders off the menu, Sam Cooke experiences technical difficulties and Wink pitches a show to Merv Griffin. PLUS: Sam Phillips! Barry & Enright stage a comeback! Paul Lynde brings down the house! Gilbert sings “Mack the Knife”! And Wink remembers Chuck Barris! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.3

We're once again recording a nutmeg with our engineer, Frank Verde Rosa.

1:05.2

Our guest this week is a disc jockey, radio personality recording artist, TV producer, and game show host,

1:14.5

who's been working pretty much non-stopping show business for over six decades.

1:21.1

He began his radio career at the ripe old age of 17 and went on to host dozens of radio programs, helping to introduce the

1:32.2

world to a new format called Rock and Roll, and interviewing artists such as Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison,

1:41.5

Carl Perkins, Jan and Dean, and even a local boy named Elvis Aaron Presley.

1:49.4

He later ventured into performing himself and in 1959 recorded the platinum selling single

1:57.9

Deck of Cards, which landed in the Billboard Top Ten and led to a memorable

2:04.6

appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. He's also hosted kid shows, appeared in soap operas and

2:12.1

sitcoms, and lent his voice to animated series like Hercules, The Jetsons.

2:19.0

But he's best known as the host of over 20 different game shows, including,

2:26.3

Watch This Song, Can You Top This, How's Your Mother-in-Law, Trivial Pursuit, high rollers, and the long-running programs Gambit

2:39.4

and Tick-Tac Doe. In a long, varied and busy career, he's worked with Paul Anka, Gene Autry,

2:48.2

Milton Burrow, Ernest Borgne, Bobby Darren, Betty White, Chuck Barris,

2:55.1

Merv Griffin, and Jerry Lee Lewis, to just name a few.

2:59.9

Please welcome to the show The Pride of Jackson, Tennessee,

3:04.7

and our only guests to have both a restaurant and a soda flavor named after him.

3:13.3

The legendary Wink Martindale.

3:18.4

Gilbert, my God, I'm exhausted, just listening to that.

3:22.1

I am so tired, and I don't know any of those people that you mention there.

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