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"Everybody Loves Somebody" is a song written in 1947
1947 in music

Events*August 7 - Carlo Bergonzi makes his professional debut as Schaunard in La Boh?me at the Arena Argentina in Catania.*October - Enrico De Angelis leaves Quartetto Cetra to join the army....
 by Irving Taylor
Irving Taylor (songwriter)

Irving Taylor , was an American composer, lyricist, and screenwriter. He enlisted in the United States Navy the day after Pearl Harbor. While in uniform, he and Vic Mizzy wrote entertainments for personnel stationed at the Staten Island Navy Yard, and he later served as a quartermaster on an LST involved in African and European invasions du...
 and Ken Lane
Ken Lane

Kermit "Ken" Lane was an United States musician from Brooklyn, New York.He was best known to audiences as Dean Martin pianist on The Dean Martin Show in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but was already well known in the film community before that....
. The song had already been recorded by several artists (including Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
) by 1964, but without much success. But it was in that year that Lane was playing piano for Dean Martin
Dean Martin

Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
 on his Dream With Dean LP sessions, and with an hour or so of studio time left and one song short, Lane suggested that Martin take a run at his tune. Dean was agreeable, and the small combo of piano, guitar, drums and bass performed a relatively quiet, laid back jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 version of the song.

Almost immediately thereafter, Martin re-recorded the tune for his next album, this time with an orchestra and chorus.






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"Everybody Loves Somebody" is a song written in 1947
1947 in music

Events*August 7 - Carlo Bergonzi makes his professional debut as Schaunard in La Boh?me at the Arena Argentina in Catania.*October - Enrico De Angelis leaves Quartetto Cetra to join the army....
 by Irving Taylor
Irving Taylor (songwriter)

Irving Taylor , was an American composer, lyricist, and screenwriter. He enlisted in the United States Navy the day after Pearl Harbor. While in uniform, he and Vic Mizzy wrote entertainments for personnel stationed at the Staten Island Navy Yard, and he later served as a quartermaster on an LST involved in African and European invasions du...
 and Ken Lane
Ken Lane

Kermit "Ken" Lane was an United States musician from Brooklyn, New York.He was best known to audiences as Dean Martin pianist on The Dean Martin Show in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but was already well known in the film community before that....
. The song had already been recorded by several artists (including Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
) by 1964, but without much success. But it was in that year that Lane was playing piano for Dean Martin
Dean Martin

Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
 on his Dream With Dean LP sessions, and with an hour or so of studio time left and one song short, Lane suggested that Martin take a run at his tune. Dean was agreeable, and the small combo of piano, guitar, drums and bass performed a relatively quiet, laid back jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 version of the song.

Almost immediately thereafter, Martin re-recorded the tune for his next album, this time with an orchestra and chorus. His label, Reprise Records
Reprise Records

Reprise Records is an United States record label, founded in 1960 in music by Frank Sinatra, which is owned by Warner Music Group, and operated through Warner Bros....
, was so enthusiastic about the hit potential of this version, they even titled the LP Everybody Loves Somebody to capitalize on it.

Although still a major recording artist, Martin had not had a Top 40 hit since 1958. And with the British Invasion
British Invasion

File:The Beatles in America.JPGThe British Invasion was the term applied by the news media?and subsequently by consumers?to the influx of rock and roll, beat music and pop music performers from the United Kingdom who became popular in the United States, Canada and Australia....
 ruling the U.S. charts, few had hopes that a middle aged Italian
Italian people

The Italian people are a Southern European ethnic group located primarily in Italy and, by virtue of a wide-ranging Italian diaspora, throughout Western Europe, the Americas and Australia....
 crooner
Crooner

Crooner is an epithet given to a male singer of a certain style of popular songs, dubbed pop standards. A crooner is a singer of popular ballads and thus a "balladeer"....
 would sway many teenagers. And yet, defying the odds, Everybody Loves Somebody shot straight up to the top of the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
. The song also topped the Billboard "easy listening
Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks

The Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary music and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States....
" chart for eight weeks. It ultimately replaced "That's Amore
That's Amore

"That's Amore" is a 1952 song by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Jack Brooks . It became a major hit, signature song for Dean Martin in 1953....
" as Martin's signature song
Signature song

A signature song is the one song that a popular and well-established singing or band is most closely identified with, even if they have had success with a variety of songs....
, and he sang it as the theme of his weekly television variety show from 1965 until 1974. The song has become so identified with Dean Martin, that later cover versions are invariably compared to his hit take on the tune.

Following the song's peak at the top of the charts, Martin sent his close friend Sinatra a telegram saying "THAT'S THE WAY YOU DO IT". In the 1990s the song was licensed to Western Union
Western Union

The Western Union Company is a financial services and communications company based in the United States. Its North American headquarters is at Englewood, Colorado, and its international marketing and commercial services headquarters are in Montvale, New Jersey....
 for use in a series of television commercials.

The words "Everybody Loves Somebody" appear on Dean Martin's grave marker in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
.