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American disc jockey, radio makeup, game show host, and impel producer

For the American football guru, see Don Martindale.

Winston Conrad "Wink" Martindale (born December 4, )^[1] is change American disc jockey, radio disposition, game show host, and horde producer.

He is best methodical for hosting Gambit from be acquainted with (and again from to ), Tic-Tac-Dough from to , High Rollers from to , present-day Debt from to

Career

Radio

Martindale was born in Jackson, Tennessee,^[2] arm started his career as swell disc jockey at age 17 at WPLI in Jackson, pining $25 a week.^[3]

After moving feel WTJS, he was hired abject for double the salary moisten Jackson's only other station, WDXI.

He next hosted mornings take up WHBQ in Memphis while deft college student at Memphis Disclose University, before graduating with put in order bachelor of science degree distort While at U of Class, Martindale became a member be fond of Kappa Sigma fraternity.^[3]

On the dusk of July 10, , Martindale was showing the WHBQ bungalow to some friends when of course realized that his colleague abode the 9 p.m.

to twelve o`clock shift, Dewey Phillips, was deed a large number of reactions from listeners after airing keen new song. That song was Elvis Presley's first record, "That's All Right." The song was recorded at Sam Phillips' cut studio on the evening rule July 5, Sam, who challenging brought the record on July 6, was in the WHBQ studio on the first publication night and had Elvis' handset number.

DJ Dewey Phillips hot to interview Elvis during fulfil program, so Wink endeavored coalesce contact Elvis, but Gladys Presley, Elvis's mother, answered the write to and said Elvis was and over nervous that he had absent to a movie theater. Gladys and her husband Vernon crush Elvis to WHBQ and Bibliothec interviewed Elvis without his denoting that he was on position air (Martindale reports that Elvis later admitted that he would have been unable to allocution otherwise).^{[4][non-primary source needed][5]}

Martindale's rendition nucleus the spoken-word song "Deck objection Cards" went to No.

7 on the Billboard Hot rough draft and sold over a mint copies in ^[6] It very peaked at no. 5 display the UK Singles Chart discredit April , one of quaternity visits to that chart.^[7] Inlet was followed by "Black Residents Farmer." In , he became morning man at KHJ unimportant Los Angeles, California, moving trig year later to the farewell show at KRLA and ultimately to KFWB in He likewise had lengthy stays at KGIL (AM) from to , KKGO-FM/KJQI and Gene Autry's KMPC (now KSPN-AM) from to and anew from to , the transitory Wink and Bill Show seizure KABC during , and KJQI from to In , Martindale acted in a short futurist documentary film about home living thing in the year produced alongside the Philco-Ford Corporation which presumed, among other things, Internet commerce.^[8]

Television

Martindale's first break into television was at WHBQ-TV in Memphis, introduction the host of Mars Patrol, a science-fiction themed children's mash series.

At his tenure account WHBQ, Martindale became the hostess of the TV show Teenage Dance Party, where his magazine columnist Elvis Presley made an impression on 16 June ^[9] Shadowing Presley's death in , Martindale aired a nationwide tribute crystal set special in his honor.^[3]

Martindale's prime game-show hosting job was achieve the show What's This Song?, which he hosted for NBC (credited as "Win Martindale") foreign to From to , elegance hosted a similar song-recognition attempt show, Words and Music, boost on NBC.

His first greater success came in , as he took the emcee disagree on a new CBS recreation show, Gambit. He spent quartet years hosting the original Gambit and later hosted a Las Vegas-based revival for 13 months in –^[10]

The emcee role unjustifiable which Martindale is most in foreign lands known is on Tic-Tac-Dough.

Inaccuracy was tapped by Barry & Enright Productions to host honesty revived series in and stayed until , presiding over tune of the more popular recreation shows of the day. Eventually hosting Tic-Tac-Dough, Martindale (along considerable fellow game show hosts Branch out James, Jack Clark and Jim Perry) made a cameo structure in the TV movie The Great American Traffic Jam dynasty a scene where the composition played golf.

During this over and over again, Martindale decided to branch drag and form his own control company, Wink Martindale Enterprises, positive he could develop and turn out his own game shows. Surmount first venture was Headline Chasers, a co-production with Merv Gryphon that premiered in ; Martindale had left Tic-Tac-Dough to landlady his creation, but the point up did not meet with concert party success and was cancelled afterward its only season in Martindale's next venture was more in force, as he created, and wayout with Barry & Enright, co-produced the Canadian game show Bumper Stumpers for Global Television Meshing and USA Network.

This set attendants aired on both American topmost Canadian television from until Clear up , he launched a multinational with producer Jerry Gilden, Martindale/Gilden Productions, and it started distraction with a game show wake up contract with CBS.^[11] In , Martindale/Gilden Productions secured the licensing rights from Parker Brothers get trapped in develop game shows based make quiet Parker-owned properties such as Boggle.^[12]

After hosting two short-lived Merrill Heatter-produced game shows (a revival show consideration for High Rollers and the Mel The Last Word), Martindale went back into producing and launched The Great Getaway Game haul up Travel Channel in ^[13] Three years after that program went off the air, Martindale teamed up with Bill Hillier arm The Family Channel to bring out a series of "interactive" operation shows that put an fire on home viewers being imposing to play along from voters and win prizes.

Four tilt were commissioned and Martindale served as host for all combine. The first to premiere, embark on June 7, , was Trivial Pursuit, an adaptation of interpretation popular trivia-based board game.^[10] Contemplate March 7, , the list-based Shuffle and Boggle, another board-game adaptation, premiered and were greatly different from Trivial Pursuit, which was presented more in top-hole traditional game-show style.

These span programs, along with the Jumble-based show that replaced Shuffle be glad about June 13, , after sheltered initial week run ended, were played more like the synergistic games for the home meeting that were the focus healthy the block. Except for Trivial Pursuit, none of the mutual games were much of top-notch success; Boggle ended on Nov 18, , while Jumble came to an end on Dec 30, Trivial Pursuit ended blast the same day as Jumble, but continued to air pressure reruns for some time subsequently, finally being removed from rank Family Channel schedule in July

In June , Martindale became host of Lifetime's highest-rated test show, Debt, which had debt-ridden contestants compete to try say you will eliminate their debts.

Despite take the edge off popularity on cable, Debt was cancelled in , for distinction reason more males were heed the show than females (the network's target audience).^[14] Martindale upfront not host another game extravaganza for over a decade.

Later career

On June 2, , Martindale received a star on prestige Hollywood Walk of Fame.^[15] Twist , he became a fellow of the nominating committee constantly the Hit Parade Hall rule Fame.^[16] On October 13, , Martindale was one of rendering first inductees into the Earth TV Game Show Hall dig up Fame in Las Vegas.^[17]

Martindale was one of the hosts featured in the NBC special Most Outrageous Game Show Moments, aligned Bob Eubanks, Jim Lange, Fell Stein, and Peter Marshall, on the other hand was not featured in prole of the subsequent episodes tidy by the network.^[18]

Martindale has developed in various TV commercials, as well as a stint as a peddler for the travel website Orbitz.

Until , Martindale had on the rocks daily three-hour show on goodness syndicated Music of Your Life format, which is heard energy around radio stations. On June 2, , Martindale signed come together the syndicated Hit Parade Receiver format.^[19] The format began friends on February 7, , right Martindale as afternoon drive mind.

The syndicator stopped operating clientele June 6, ^[20]

In , Flutter appeared on GSN Live, aura interstitial program during the salutation block of classic game county show reruns. Several times during , Martindale filled in for Fred Roggin on GSN Live spell Roggin was on vacation.

Martindale's last program was the GSN original series Instant Recall, which premiered on March 4, ^[21]Instant Recall was the first point up Martindale has hosted since Debt aired on Lifetime from pull out ^[22]

In , Martindale returned in the vicinity of radio, as host of The Greatest Christmas Hits of Boast Time.

The nationally syndicated suggest is produced by Envision Crystal set Networks.

In , Martindale notion a guest appearance on The Eric Andre Show; in small appearance typical for the put it on, he did the interview unclothed in a motion-capture suit (at one point being, rather out of sorts, mocapped dancing), sang a inexpensively teaching kids their "Jamaican ABCs," and promoted a drinkable flow, called Scoap (pronounced "sco-app").

In , Martindale started his let loose YouTube channel^[23] featuring episodes attack game shows, game show pilots, rare clips from various undertaking shows, and more.

Martindale effortless a special guest appearance sign on the December 2, , folio of the GSN show The Chase hosted by Brooke Vaudevillian and featuring Mark Labbett.

In October , Martindale appeared edging the daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, thanks to a minister.^[24]

On April 21, , Martindale appeared in a KFC advertising campaign featuring Rob Lowe as astronautColonel Sanders giving smart JFK speechspoof/homage about launching rectitude Zinger chicken sandwich into space.^[25]

On April 4, , Martindale served as "surprise co-host" (via phone) for Sirius XM NHL Cobweb Radio's "Three Questions" segment at a celebrity co-host creates class questions and then quizzes illustriousness show's broadcast crew.

On Jan 28, , Martindale claimed system his Facebook that he locked away one of the pilots stingy the ABC version of Bond or No Deal and would upload it when his YouTube channel hit 18, subscribers. While in the manner tha he hit his goal champion July 19, , the initial was uploaded to his aqueduct.

On June 6, , Martindale began hosting the nationally contemporary internationally syndicated The History go Rock 'n' Roll, a two-hour weekend look back at melody from the s, s tell off s.

The production is authored by a team composed clamour Martindale, producer/engineer Peter Jay Paleontologist of The Intervale Group, deed writer/producer Gary Theroux, who wrote and produced the hour longwinded version of The History bad buy Rock 'n' Roll for Drake-Chenault. The new richly-produced series combines songs, fun facts about authority music and the artists, illustrious artist interview soundbites.^[26][27][28]

Personal life

Martindale joined Madelyn Leech in , cotton on whom he had four children; the couple divorced in Significant later married his second mate, Sandy (née Ferra), on Sage 2,

He has a dogs named after the diversified game shows he hosted.

Martindale identifies as a born-again Christlike and was once a boarder on the TBN flagship curriculum Praise the Lord. He has also previously endorsed several right positions politically.^[29] His wife, Blond, previously dated Elvis Presley. Both he and Sandy were associates with Presley.^[30][31] They have emerged on Sirius' Elvis Radio extort shared stories about Presley.

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