I was born in 1952 and I wouldn't trade growing up in the 50's and 60's with ANY generation. I teach English to kids in Italy now and I try to explain how exciting it was when we would wait all year for movies like "The Wizard of Oz" and "Miracle of 34th Street", or Mary Martin in "Peter Pan" to come on television. But how do you explain the excitement and anticipation when the kids today have so many options and can watch what they want, when they want, as many times as they want. It means that NOTHING is special. It's so sad.
I was just telling my husband yesterday how exciting the holidays were when I was a kid. We’d start planning for Thanksgiving at the beginning of November, then of course came Christmas. My grandparents just lived around the corner and we saw them all the time but it was SO exciting and fun to be all together at the holidays.
So true I was just discussing this with my wife and yes we can look up any Christmas movie we want at anytime just doesn't have the same feeling of excitement or anticipation
What a great Christmas show! Sadly, nothing like this exists on TV anymore. But thanks to UA-cam, even today's kids can experience what it was like back in 1968!
Because these people were decent Americans who loved their country no matter who was president...that all changed in the 60's. We have no more superstars like them.
Sounds like my Christmases of the past except we played aggravation instead of monopoly every Xmas. My grandma liked playing it, so it was just her and I playing most of the time up until she passed. Others got tired of playing it , but she never seemed to. Christmas just hasn't been the same since. I miss the old days we were busy going from relatives and neighbors houses back and forth throughout the whole holiday season into the New Year. Fun times back then.@@providahotwater7688
Damn, where did the time go? Used to have a Dean Martin, Bob Hope, Perry Como, Andy Williams and other celebrities with a one hour Christmas special. Singing, dancing, laughing, got you into the Christmas spirit. Man, I miss that.
I'm 57 yrs old I remember growing up watching these family clean Christmas TV special shows from the 50s 60s 70s and 80s the good old days....great memories...totally different today.
@@miahsaint-georgesif you’re talking about the so called downsides of the old fashioned stuff like this, it’s still miles better than Cardi B’s WAP, obnoxious SJWs, Slow uncaring Pot Stoners, and a treasonous self hating populace
Back when CHRISTMAS (itself) was special. Did you know .. there's a HUGE 'movement' to BAN Christmas in these United States of America ?? I think it's headed by atheists.
@@floatsting20 Atheist don't want to take away your mythical Christmas. We just don't want you to shove you FASCIST ideology and dogma in our face. We celebrate the holiday too, the returning of the SUN in the N. hemisphere. And we never had an issue with "MERRY CHRISTMAS." Your hate conservative/evangelical media tells you that!
Miss shows like this. I remember my parents dancing to Dean Martin all the time. To this day I think he has the smoothest voice ever. And NO auto tune!!
Young Folks probably don't remember that when conservatives and liberals and independents alike would work together and cared about one thing Americans
They still do, but the media covers the .003% that are radical trying to manipulate all Americans to think this is 50% of the people. They wont cover the 99% who love America
We gathered as a family to watch these Christmas specials. You had one chance per year. If you missed it, you waited another year. They are just magical.
Dean was a genius. He NEVER rehearsed the sketches, so his reactions are always genuine. Often made it difficult for the comedy guests to keep it together - but end result was televison gold.
You're absolutely right, i heard an interview with Greg Garrison and he also said that Dean never rehearsed, he was playing golf or with his kids instead of rehearsals. Dean walked in and the Show starts.
I'm in my mid-40s now and watching this makes me think that we have lost something. I guess it's the innocence we've lost. This is just a fun thing to watch. My dad is coming over tomorrow for dinner and I've collected a few of these shows for him to watch in the coming weeks. I also saved Christmas with the Martins and the Sinatras for him. I know he will really enjoy this.
The rat race and competition in this world has accelerated a lot of problems without carefully and strategically making things better without losing that wholesome simplicity. I'm a mid-30s guy, and even growing up in the 90s, it was like the last era of simplicity until the techno-streaming-fast-paced change phase took over. Shows, even in the 90s, would get 30, 40, 50 or 60+ million viewers. There wasn't a million other channels and other media options to divert everyone's attention. I know we will never really go back, but I do hope we can return to some level of simplicity and try to use technology to increase the health and opportunity for families to have special time to spend together. I would love to see a time in the near future where all people are taken care of, they have time to sit with their families and the actual number of TV channels is reduced (it is WAY too many) and there is an understanding among people to keep it simple. Where we could all look forward to a Christmas Special variety show hosted by a charismatic, talented singer, dancer and comic with friends and musical guests and go to school or work the next day and share the common joy of having seen that together. Wishful thinking, I know. Maybe it is the time of year that has me hoping for a better world. Not going back in time but going forward, but learning from the successes of the past.
@@coolioso808 Exactly. Not going back, but moving forward with the best qualities of the past. I try to keep things simple in my own life but, generally speaking, that seems to be a lost ambition for most.
@@coolioso808 See, you think the 90s were great, but to many people's observation, life was crappy for years already. Was it? Depends on who you were and what age you were when you lived it. Every generation thinks the last generation had it better and the current world is going to pot. EVERY era there's always a group of people who think it's over. Ya think when the Roman Empire finally fell, that generation didn't think the world was over? It's just ridiculous to think that in the tiny slice of history you or I are living in is that incredibly special compared to others and if not the same, then it will negatively change the course of society. People need to get over it and allow those to live and let live.
F P I certainly don’t think the entire 90s was great. I was really just referring to an aspect of the 90s that I thought was part of a special era in time - but it wasn’t exclusive to the 90s, just the last years of it being that way. Society evolves and we don’t go back to certain things - for better or for worse sometimes. I’m sure you could find people from every generation that thinks it was the best and the future generations are screwed. However, this is a uniquely critical time in human history with mass communication, Internet, advanced machinery and technology - including the environmental damage that can be done to the plant that could never be done in times before this. In the fall of the Roman Empire they couldn’t pump mass amounts of co2 into the atmosphere and build nuclear or drone technology. Sure, let people live but those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
I have been bed ridden with sickness for 8 days & then I came across this show. Wow! What a wonderful way to put a smile on my face & laughter in my heart! ❤️❤️❤️🇨🇦
Hope you get better soon Blessings Now and always be well stay strong and to the 4% that will ever read this same thing for you no matter where you're at no matter what you're going through right now just know that everything is going to be all right God's with us all and that's how we know.
Hello Canada, during these COVID times a runny can’t put you down for a long time. A year pass and it’s almost Christmas again. Watching this show brought tears to my tears, very touching. Have a wonderful day!
When Dino opens the door and there's Bob Hope, it hit my heart and the tears came down my face. I'm 57 and hadn't seen a show like this since I was a child. Still love Bob and what he did for our servicemen and still listen to Deans music. Thanks for the memories and Merry Christmas world.
You don't know what you're missing ............. until it's gone~!~ I just hope that some of ~the young and the tasteless~ lol, will realize what real talent, morals, and love will do for the world!
Watching in 2019. I am 50. Born 357 days after this aired. I could name most of those celebrities at the end. I could not give you the names of 5 popular celebrities now in 2019.
I am younger, but me the same, i know Dean Martin and most of them by name and i know none of the new celebs. And i am not even from the States. I am from the Netherlands.
The little girl in the blue dress and blue bow,with the flute,that hugs dean first and tells the gentle Ben star that the flutes go first,,I really think she's Melissa Gilbert ( little house on the prairie,,, laura ingals ) what do you think?
OMG wasn’t it fun back in those days!!?? It would be a family event when these kinds of shows were on, we’d all gather and watch together. Just enough time to run to the bathroom during commercials. It was so exciting because you knew Santa was coming soon. We were lucky to have lived in those days.
SHARON---- yes we were-- I feel so sorry for the kids today-- they missed out on so much fun and good time during Christmas Season.. today-- it is not as much excitement as it use to be on TV.. THANK GOD FOR RE-RUNS...
I watched this as a teenager back on 1968 with my mom. Thank you so much for posting this. It takes me back to much happier times, if only for a few minutes. I'm in my 70's now, and sadly all my loved ones have passed on. And even Dean and almost all of the people on this show are gone. For many people like me, Christmas is a bittersweet time, full of happy treasured memories, but so sad that all those wonderful people are gone, and we're left with a world that I hardly recognize anymore. But I'm very grateful I experienced those times when the world seemed much nicer. Yes, I know there was also much sadness, suffering, injustice, war and pain back then as there has ALWAYS been, but somehow in spite of it all , it just seems like it was a better world then. I guess I'm just a sentimental old fool . But I do hope and pray that you who are reading this , as well as everyone on this troubled earth can find a measure of love, peace and happiness especially this Christmas. Love to all, and may God bless you🙏
A common culture with common values still in tact ..... I remember it well and it was great despite the problems that existed at home and abroad. Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year from Canada
Me too things were great kids don’t care about simple fun things anymore you can’t even watch tv as a family with kids anymore they don’t look forward to anything except expensive computer items they are materialistic and spoiled rotten
Dean Martin has passed away 22 years ago, but it feels like he has never left us. In 2018 me and my husband bought his Christmas songs CD, and I was enjoying it this Christmas season thinking of how wonderful his interpretation of Christmas songs was! It is a pity that we do not have men in toxidos singing for us on TV any more during the holiday season. It is gone, just like a snow from our winters.
Yes a very beloved Dean "Dino" Martin passed on, of all the days of the year, Christmas day. I think the good Lord loved Dino too. I'm sure he's crooning "Silent Night" beside the manger every Christmas.
My mom was pregnant with me when this aired. She passed a little over a year ago and my Dad is 90 and we're 1000 mi apart. I might see if he'll zoom with me and watch it together. This was a tough time in history with Vietnam but a much simpler time, nonetheless. Such wonderful entertainers I grew up watching. I really miss those times. The world has changed so much.
Wish I could have experienced these shows back then. Growing up in the UK we never seen these. Makes my hairs stand on end when I hear Dean Martin sing 'silent night'. Wish I was a kid during this time in America.
Sure, nobody but you and your generation get to have a good life in what they perceive is a good world. Only YOU and YOUR generation were allowed. Bunch of d-bags.
Great. Shows. We were kids , sent to bed early for mom n dad to watch . Laugh. And enjoy. Tv . The Friday nites family specials , shared around a great tv show , and a pizza ordered. Great memories. And to see the difference of what’s on tv now . And then the new laws of Biden peloski have put in place to take your Rights away ! And. More. To come . Look up for Jesus is coming SOON, he said.
I know plenty of good families who are making the best of the hard times brought about by your over consumption and greed. We are glad to have what we do and love to share. Why can't you show the Christmas spirit? Your Lord was born in a barn, not an all white suburb to rich people.
I wish we had more Dean Martins today. He was so funny & clean comedy. I used to watch his show every week. My dad used to laugh when Dean Martin came on.
If any entertainer should be remembered on Christman Day it should be Dean Martin. Even when he didnt have a weekly show, he made a point of acknowledging Christmas
I was born in 1953 and really miss all the Christmas specials from my youth. I always thought they were all in black and white. We were a late family to acquire color TV. My memories aren't any less coloful. My dad loved the Dean Martin show. "I'm gonna go to the couch now".
I guess Dean Martin was devastated when his son Dino Martin was killed in the accident. Never was the same. That’ll do it… same with my husband when his son died of ALS…
I had just turned 7 years old when this aired. I am filled with tears as it reminded me how Christmas used to be. And seeing all of those celebrities at the end was very special as well. Thanks for posting.
I was 11 years old and I'm crying watching this and remembering watching all these great Christmas specials with my family back in the day! I sure do miss those days and those times!!! Hard to belive it was 50 years ago.....
When you watch the lineup of celebrities at the end, it's pretty clear why that was one of the greatest times to be alive. And there were a bunch missing!
Why don't make great TV specials such as this anymore? Watching this nearly brought me to tears. It was funny, sweet- I loved the Dennis Weaver segment when the children were just being themselves. No scolding from the adults. Everyone just having pure fun without the pervasive profanity we see today. They just don't make shows like this anymore. Thanks for the memories, Dean.
Darren W. Alexander this show brought me to tears also. I miss these people so much, especially Dean. Sometimes I wish for a time machine to go back to these days!
I always tear up during the last part of this special. 😭 God bless Dean Martin and all the rest who helped make kids’ lives a little better back then…. 🙏❤️🎄
Looking for someone to tell me who one of the ladies is. If you can tell me all of the ladies telling kids Santa is coming, I will recognize her name. Help please
@@loribaumgarten6764If you could give me a description or tell me what organization she mentioned I'd be happy to help Lori. For some reason I have a feeling you might be asking about Barbra Feldon from Get Smart.
Its overwhelming to me to think its over 50 years i was a kid with my family watching these shows and Christmas was so magical , Just great times that was suppose to go on forever. So much has changed , I wish i could go back to that time..
My Lord, my eyes and heart are full right now watching this. This is what the world needs now. Thanks to whoever posted this. This is what Christmas is all about. Happy Holidays!
@Eva Ivy I HOPE THINGS GET BETTER FOR YOU EVA ! I LOST MY MOM ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1997 !IM SINGLE TO !SO I DONT. CELEBRATE MUCH EITHER ! IM HAPPY YOU GO TO CHURCH SO DO I FIND SOME PEACE THERE TAKE CARE !
@Eva Ivy very sorry to hear that your situation is so sad. Possibly you might try getting more involved with your church and make some friends. It's certainly worth a try.
@Eva Ivy Hi! Merry Christmas 2018! I hope you are well! I lost both of my parents and this time of year really hurts , because I used to watch tv programs like this with them. I was fortunate to find someone to love and we have a son who is now a teen. I'm trying to pass family values on to a new generation. Don't worry you'll find someone soon. Just keep trying. I hope you have a very good New Year. Just watch the ending of the movie " It's A Wonderful Life" and you'll feel better about yourself. When you find someone please send a comment to this video , because people want to hear about an uplifting chapter in your life.😄😄👍👍
@@vigilmattnyc I suppose your one of these whippersnappers who weren't around at a time when the world was a much happier, less populated, less polluted, less corrupted place. Well, my advice is to go back to your green and yellow tinted , dark depressing tv shows of today with all the murder/autopsies/materialistic themes that most people of today so like and worship.
Even though I was only a kid in the '60s, I liked watching Dean's show with my family. Dean always seemed to be having the time of his life and even as a kid I appreciated his sense of humor. I've read that Dean didn't like to rehearse because he wanted the material to be fresh and as spontaneous as possible, I don't know how true that story is, but that quality really came through in the show. Dean seemed to be hearing a lot of the material for the first time right along with the audience. '60s and '70s TV variety shows like this one, Red Skelton, Andy Williams, Carol Burnett, Ed Sullivan, etc, were a family event. It was entertaining for people of all ages.
It used to be great growing up and celebrating Christmas in the 60's! Christmas back then had a magical feeling about it that transcended all events and other holidays.
We live today in an entertainment desert compared with people like Dino and the great variety shows back then! And the cameos from all the top stars at the end naming children's homes across the country for a visit from Santa was a special treat!
These are the holiday season specials that you can watch every year and it never gets old. I'm glad that I stumbled across this Dean Martin Christmas special. Thanks Deano!
I watched this show in a dorm room at the University of Maryland, December 19, 1968. It was the Thursday before the Friday of winter break. What made it so special was the anticipation of seeing a special gal that I had met earlier in the month. We had had just one date on the Saturday before this show aired. We got on so well that our 4th date (January 1969) was an overnight trip to New York City. We returned to New York on New Year's, 1969, and stood in Times Square, watching the ball come down. Such great times, scarcely dimmed by the ravages of advancing age.
My father worked with Mr. Martin. Mr. Martin's glass contained cold tea. He was an underrated actor. I loved his television show and the first thing I remember wanting to be when I grew up, was one of his Golddiggers. Sadly, I was too young then and by the time I grew up the show was no longer in production. Watching this brought back many happy memories.
What a sad shame they don't make shows like this anymore. Yeah, Dean was a very underrated actor, and marvelous singer. So glad I grew up to see him peak.
To follow up from one year ago I would also have to point out that this Christmas special had more significance than I first thought. The US had been through a lot with two assassinations,the escalation of the war in Vietnam and an election in November. The celebrity line up announcing how various children's homes throughout the country would be benefitting from a special Santa visit was awesome. I was especially touched by the footage of Diahann Carroll as we lost her a few months ago. She was a hero of my late Mother who had closely followed her career. In spite of the adversity of 1968 people were or at least appeared to be kinder and gentler. Happy Holidays to everyone from a random guy in Western Canada.
Interesting to see what was considered funny entertainment 50 years ago. But Dean was an all around talent. Comedian, singer, actor and a true humanitarian. What a shame he died on Christmas Day- Rip Dean
It was a lovely time when you could marvel at how beautifully downtown was decorated, sing Christmas songs in school, and say "Merry Christmas" without offending anybody. I wish everyone a Christmas exactly like the ones we used to know!
Yes America used to be quite a wonderful place in a sad world. Even in more cynical times like the 70s 80s and 90s people knew the Holidays were a time of healing.
I had JUST turned 7 years old when this came on. Our family NEVER missed Dean Martin's shows. Damn he was good looking :) I also did not realize how good looking Dennis Weaver was. This is fun. Great old time memories.
I watched this in my dorm as a first year student at the University of Maryland (dorm - Cambridge B) right before school closed for winter break. The Beatles' White Album, another cultural happening, had just been released. Spent New year's Eve in Times Square, anticipating more time with a lovely coed (at another college in Baltimore) whom I met earlier that month. A year later, I returned to Times Square, lovely coed in tow. A heady time in the sweet prime of youth, a time lost forever, fleeting as youth itself.
@@anneoboyle426 No. We broke up on New Year's Eve 1970-1971. She married in 1972, and from what I see of her Facebook page, she's doing quite well. Me too, 50 years later. We're both married with kids and grand-kids. In fact, she lives w/i 10 miles of me. We last had contact (by email) in December 2001. The intensity of that memory compelled me to write a fictional short story of what might happen if we were no longer married and got back together after a romantic trip to the shore. Names changed, of course.
@@markmiller4376 How very sweet. Time...we never know what things it can bring us and how it has a peculiar way of making the past and present come full circle.
Thank you for the memories. Had tears in my eyes thinking how many of these stars have left us and there will never be a time like that again. Merry Christmas.
Thank you, Uncle Dean for this beautiful Christmas special and helping all those children back then. What class to Uncle Dean and all those in this beautiful Christmas special...
I remember this show I was,17,takes me back when the family was all together. Miss you mom and dad they were wonderful and warm. Xmas .Hope heaven is as much warmth and fun as this was . It won't be long I guess before I come to visit. Merry Christmas to you and the rest of the family up there. James jr.
Dean Martin's "unrehearsed" show still makes me smile. Especially the people behind the door, when he jumped on piano, you never knew what was going to happen. These were beautiful and funny, yet clean shows that need to start being replayed!
Brilliant to see these shows again. This is the innocent time before all the pc rubbish. Beautiful Dean and his smooth, velvet voice. I am sure if he and his co-stars were around today they would despair at the state of the world.
I remember that Christmas. We had a young son and watched this show on an old B&W television but had a great time visiting with our family. A big contrast to 2020 with no family dinners or grandchildren to enjoy.
I was just 4 years old when this first aired. Watching this took me back to a simpler time. It brought back memories of Christmas Eve at my grandparent’s house with all of my aunts, uncles and cousins. It’s brings back such a warm and happy feeling. The wonderful food, the singing, the laughing, dressing up and and all going midnight mass together, one of these Christmas shows playing on the ONE TV back in the den and of course the wonderful presents. So many of my family and these entertainers are gone now and I have a grandson of my own. My greatest hope is that I can fill his heart with as much love and happiness as my grandparents, my family, did for me. God Bless and Merry Christmas to all!!!
Thank you for the wonderful memories that brought back to my life. I grew up in a time when this was normal now you don't see things like this at all in our society. More and more people today seem like they don't love each other anymore. If they could just see the way we were back then, maybe they can see a little glimpse of what it was like to really love each other and have respect for our fellow man and how we loved our God and were not ashamed about it either. Thank you once again for this wonderful memory. It brought tears to my eyes. Merry Christmas everyone
The Pentatonix Christmas special came on tonight and I couldn't stand it so I came here to find the good stuff I grew up with and remember. Thanks for posting. Watching on the TV and its 1968 all over again
Gosh! You now have 3,000 comments left. What a tremendous trip down memory lane. I'm watching this show on December the 23rd 2023. All the Christmas gifts are wrapped so I decided to put my feet up with a huge cup of hot chocolate and a slice of Christmas cake - just had to test it before the big day! The dancers and singers were all such great fun and of course, Mr Martin's guests were fantastic. 1968 was certainly a spectacular year when it came to performers of class. Thank you for this download. It has made for a splendid evening after a rather busy day. Wishing all who read this comment, the finest of Christmas ever. May all your dreams come true and I trust that Father Christmas spoils you silly.
Wow, such a treat to see all those wonderful and truly talented stars at the end of the program announcing generous gifts to charities around the country. Thank you for posting.
I had just turned 5 when this first aired in 1968. I wish we could go back to those days! How far we have fallen from grace as a country! This show brought tears to my eyes Thanks for uploading and Merry Christmas everyone
I was born in 1952 and I wouldn't trade growing up in the 50's and 60's with ANY generation. I teach English to kids in Italy now and I try to explain how exciting it was when we would wait all year for movies like "The Wizard of Oz" and "Miracle of 34th Street", or Mary Martin in "Peter Pan" to come on television. But how do you explain the excitement and anticipation when the kids today have so many options and can watch what they want, when they want, as many times as they want. It means that NOTHING is special. It's so sad.
Amen to that! you got 1 year on me, and I sorely miss those days
I was just telling my husband yesterday how exciting the holidays were when I was a kid. We’d start planning for Thanksgiving at the beginning of November, then of course came Christmas. My grandparents just lived around the corner and we saw them all the time but it was SO exciting and fun to be all together at the holidays.
That's great! I would have loved to grow up in the 50's! Wow! I loved the 80's so I guess that's as close as I will get to normal, fun and exciting
I agree. It does seem that nothing is special to younger people these days.
So true I was just discussing this with my wife and yes we can look up any Christmas movie we want at anytime just doesn't have the same feeling of excitement or anticipation
What a great Christmas show! Sadly, nothing like this exists on TV anymore. But thanks to UA-cam, even today's kids can experience what it was like back in 1968!
Yeah, nothing exists like this on TV these days because life itself is very little like the way it was in 1968.
I loved these holiday variety shows when I was a kid. Really felt like Christmas.
He's drunk, but I loved him.
Especially all the cameos at the end. That was when Hollywood was NOT full of aholes.
They can’t show them on TV today. To celebrate the birth of Jesus is politically incorrect. God gave us humor. Some people need to get over it.
Why cant christmas be like this again. Much more festive and fun. I miss the old days.
My sentiments, exactly!🥲Those were wonderful, joyous days.❤️
I totally agree...everyone is happy and caring!...miss those days and the shows!❤🎄❤
Commercialization killed Christmas. It now begins the day after Labor Day.
Because these people were decent Americans who loved their country no matter who was president...that all changed in the 60's. We have no more superstars like them.
Sounds like my Christmases of the past except we played aggravation instead of monopoly every Xmas. My grandma liked playing it, so it was just her and I playing most of the time up until she passed. Others got tired of playing it , but she never seemed to. Christmas just hasn't been the same since. I miss the old days we were busy going from relatives and neighbors houses back and forth throughout the whole holiday season into the New Year. Fun times back then.@@providahotwater7688
Back when kids and adults could watch the same show and have fun. Such wonderful and innocent times. The way life was meant to be.
Smoking and all
@@johnp139 Freedom
got that right
I adore dea.martin
Yes, I agree. Even in the 80’s when i grew up. I still love the old classic Christmas movies.
Damn, where did the time go? Used to have a Dean Martin, Bob Hope, Perry Como, Andy Williams and other celebrities with a one hour Christmas special. Singing, dancing, laughing, got you into the Christmas spirit. Man, I miss that.
And Bing Crosby .....they died
Me too but I’m glad that it’s on UA-cam and PBS and Get Tv from thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve!
Comedy was more fun, when people didn't take themselves so damn seriously. I still miss Dom, Dean, and all the other real entertainers.
I think about that around this time of year. We didn't know it would be over so soon
Ich auch,muss weinen
I'm 57 yrs old I remember growing up watching these family clean Christmas TV special shows from the 50s 60s 70s and 80s the good old days....great memories...totally different today.
Me to
I am 71 and I remember watching all these as I was a kid
@@miahsaint-georgesif you’re talking about the so called downsides of the old fashioned stuff like this, it’s still miles better than Cardi B’s WAP, obnoxious SJWs, Slow uncaring Pot Stoners, and a treasonous self hating populace
Back when Christmas shows were really special.
When the atheist stayed quiet
@Tessmage Tessera Yep. Lived it. Common sense parenting. Loony mentality was at a minimum.
Back when CHRISTMAS (itself) was special. Did you know .. there's a HUGE 'movement' to BAN Christmas in these United States of America ?? I think it's headed by atheists.
@@kenmurphy6792 That is the Commiecrat party
@@floatsting20 Atheist don't want to take away your mythical Christmas. We just don't want you to shove you FASCIST ideology and dogma in our face. We celebrate the holiday too, the returning of the SUN in the N. hemisphere. And we never had an issue with "MERRY CHRISTMAS." Your hate conservative/evangelical media tells you that!
Miss shows like this. I remember my parents dancing to Dean Martin all the time. To this day I think he has the smoothest voice ever. And NO auto tune!!
Those were the good fun days, when most families had fun.
72 years old and I remember these shows and the better days.
Young Folks probably don't remember that when conservatives and liberals and independents alike would work together and cared about one thing Americans
Its how they were brought up and raised.
💯👀💅🏾💙
They still do, but the media covers the .003% that are radical trying to manipulate all Americans to think this is 50% of the people. They wont cover the 99% who love America
I remember but im no spring chicken..😂😂😂
At the end they named so many children’s hospitals and orphanages and didn’t forget the children. I was a baby during this year but miss these times.
We gathered as a family to watch these Christmas specials. You had one chance per year. If you missed it, you waited another year. They are just magical.
And you didn't have cell phones dividing the living room.
I miss good Christmas variety shows, I grew up watching all of them. Dean Martin, Andy Williams and the Osmond family specials. Great time to grow up
That’s so very true.
Perry Como also had great Christmas shows....also Bob Hope.
Yeah, and they were new ones every year. They didn't get recycled for 10 years like the Rita MacNeil one and others.
And The Carpenters.
I watched all of them tooo as a child and miss those days
Dean was a genius. He NEVER rehearsed the sketches, so his reactions are always genuine. Often made it difficult for the comedy guests to keep it together - but end result was televison gold.
Dean would just read the cue cards poised just beyond his skit partner's shoulder, presumably his first time seeing his lines!
Michael Muldowney always drunk 🍸🍸🍸🍸🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🥂🥂🥂
NEVER drunk. Just playing drunk.
@@MsFreedom4us Your so wrong there, Dean Martin was never drunk on any shows, also know was Oliver Reed.
You're absolutely right, i heard an interview with Greg Garrison and he also said that Dean never rehearsed, he was playing golf or with his kids instead of rehearsals. Dean walked in and the Show starts.
I was 10 when this aired. I am 62 now. I always enjoyed the various Christmas shows of various stars. Merry Christmas everyone. 😊🇨🇦
I was born in 68. I remember watching shows like this on my Grandparents 25" Zeinith console. Merry Christmas Ashliegh!
Jami Nova We had a Zenith also! First color TV my parents bought.
Same age! Memories....
Me too, I'll be 62 in March 😇 Merry Christmas
I.was just 13..in Dec..of that year..
Bob Newhart is the king of understated comedy.
Agreed!...love him!❤😂❤
Was thinking about the Vietnam veterans who couldn't come home when this aired, bless you guys and gals who served during that time.
Thank you for mentioning the Vietnam Nam veterans.
May they RIP. 🇨🇦
@@ashleighjaimaosborne3966 All 68,000 of them. And my childhood friend. Needless war.
My Uncle Joe didn't make it back, but I remember him stopping by on leave before he redeployed!
Yes, bless them all. I had classmates and a cousin who had to serve during that time.
I'm in my mid-40s now and watching this makes me think that we have lost something. I guess it's the innocence we've lost. This is just a fun thing to watch. My dad is coming over tomorrow for dinner and I've collected a few of these shows for him to watch in the coming weeks. I also saved Christmas with the Martins and the Sinatras for him. I know he will really enjoy this.
The rat race and competition in this world has accelerated a lot of problems without carefully and strategically making things better without losing that wholesome simplicity.
I'm a mid-30s guy, and even growing up in the 90s, it was like the last era of simplicity until the techno-streaming-fast-paced change phase took over. Shows, even in the 90s, would get 30, 40, 50 or 60+ million viewers. There wasn't a million other channels and other media options to divert everyone's attention.
I know we will never really go back, but I do hope we can return to some level of simplicity and try to use technology to increase the health and opportunity for families to have special time to spend together.
I would love to see a time in the near future where all people are taken care of, they have time to sit with their families and the actual number of TV channels is reduced (it is WAY too many) and there is an understanding among people to keep it simple. Where we could all look forward to a Christmas Special variety show hosted by a charismatic, talented singer, dancer and comic with friends and musical guests and go to school or work the next day and share the common joy of having seen that together. Wishful thinking, I know. Maybe it is the time of year that has me hoping for a better world. Not going back in time but going forward, but learning from the successes of the past.
@@coolioso808 Exactly. Not going back, but moving forward with the best qualities of the past. I try to keep things simple in my own life but, generally speaking, that seems to be a lost ambition for most.
@@coolioso808 See, you think the 90s were great, but to many people's observation, life was crappy for years already. Was it? Depends on who you were and what age you were when you lived it. Every generation thinks the last generation had it better and the current world is going to pot. EVERY era there's always a group of people who think it's over. Ya think when the Roman Empire finally fell, that generation didn't think the world was over? It's just ridiculous to think that in the tiny slice of history you or I are living in is that incredibly special compared to others and if not the same, then it will negatively change the course of society. People need to get over it and allow those to live and let live.
F P I certainly don’t think the entire 90s was great. I was really just referring to an aspect of the 90s that I thought was part of a special era in time - but it wasn’t exclusive to the 90s, just the last years of it being that way. Society evolves and we don’t go back to certain things - for better or for worse sometimes.
I’m sure you could find people from every generation that thinks it was the best and the future generations are screwed. However, this is a uniquely critical time in human history with mass communication, Internet, advanced machinery and technology - including the environmental damage that can be done to the plant that could never be done in times before this.
In the fall of the Roman Empire they couldn’t pump mass amounts of co2 into the atmosphere and build nuclear or drone technology.
Sure, let people live but those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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I have been bed ridden with sickness for 8 days & then I came across this show. Wow! What a wonderful way to put a smile on my face & laughter in my heart! ❤️❤️❤️🇨🇦
Hope your feeling much better now and Merry Christmas to you.
Hope you get better soon Blessings Now and always be well stay strong and to the 4% that will ever read this same thing for you no matter where you're at no matter what you're going through right now just know that everything is going to be all right God's with us all and that's how we know.
Hello Canada, during these COVID times a runny can’t put you down for a long time. A year pass and it’s almost Christmas again. Watching this show brought tears to my tears, very touching. Have a wonderful day!
Long age papi
These guys were all amazing entertainers!
When Dino opens the door and there's Bob Hope, it hit my heart and the tears came down my face. I'm 57 and hadn't seen a show like this since I was a child. Still love Bob and what he did for our servicemen and still listen to Deans music. Thanks for the memories and Merry Christmas world.
Same, I'm 53. There was a Sweetness in this show as well as so many others. We were lucky
Same I'm 59 and I'm so saddened by today's world
I remember my parents loved Dean Martin
That's when TV had a code of decency. Gone are those days as many have embraced filth, and violence in video games. Great world we have....huh???
You don't know what you're missing ............. until it's gone~!~ I just hope that some of ~the young and the tasteless~ lol, will realize what real talent, morals, and love will do for the world!
Watching in 2019. I am 50. Born 357 days after this aired. I could name most of those celebrities at the end. I could not give you the names of 5 popular celebrities now in 2019.
welchit here here!
I am younger, but me the same, i know Dean Martin and most of them by name and i know none of the new celebs.
And i am not even from the States.
I am from the Netherlands.
I was 3 months old,.. also my mom's maiden name is Welch
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The little girl in the blue dress and blue bow,with the flute,that hugs dean first and tells the gentle Ben star that the flutes go first,,I really think she's Melissa Gilbert ( little house on the prairie,,, laura ingals ) what do you think?
Wow. When they started naming all the hospitals and orphanages, I choked up !! Wish they had shows like this today!!
OMG wasn’t it fun back in those days!!?? It would be a family event when these kinds of shows were on, we’d all gather and watch together. Just enough time to run to the bathroom during commercials. It was so exciting because you knew Santa was coming soon. We were lucky to have lived in those days.
SHARON---- yes we were-- I feel so sorry for the kids today-- they missed out on so much fun and good time during Christmas Season.. today-- it is not as much excitement as it use to be on TV.. THANK GOD FOR RE-RUNS...
@@reealitychick yes I hear you! And thank God for UA-cam sometimes...
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loved those days
The greatest
There will never, ever, be another entertainer like Dean Martin!
You got that right.
Or Andy Williams, Bob Hope, Bob Newhart, and many more that have passed along.
Watching Bing Crosby on TV.
Si true
@Mike Miller You are really a douchebag.
I watched this as a teenager back on 1968 with my mom.
Thank you so much for posting this. It takes me back to much happier times, if only for a few minutes. I'm in my 70's now, and sadly all my loved ones have passed on. And even Dean and almost all of the people on this show are gone. For many people like me, Christmas is a bittersweet time, full of happy treasured memories, but so sad that all those wonderful people are gone, and we're left with a world that I hardly recognize anymore. But I'm very grateful I experienced those times when the world seemed much nicer. Yes, I know there was also much sadness, suffering, injustice, war and pain
back then as there has ALWAYS been, but somehow in spite of it all , it just seems like it was a better world then.
I guess I'm just a sentimental old fool .
But I do hope and pray that you who are reading this , as well as everyone on this troubled earth can find a measure of love, peace and happiness especially this Christmas. Love to all, and may God bless you🙏
Thank you for your kind words, true times have definitely changed,...
I'm so glad I grew up with this and others like it, unlike this era.
Me too!!
A common culture with common values still in tact ..... I remember it well and it was great despite the problems that existed at home and abroad. Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year from Canada
Me too things were great kids don’t care about simple fun things anymore you can’t even watch tv as a family with kids anymore they don’t look forward to anything except expensive computer items they are materialistic and spoiled rotten
The blonde in the green would be a reason to wake up in the morning and go out.
@Hello Paul how are you doing
My daughter sent this to me, she was 8years old and used to sit up until dean came on. Still loves him. Miss these shows
Dean Martin has passed away 22 years ago, but it feels like he has never left us. In 2018 me and my husband bought his Christmas songs CD, and I was enjoying it this Christmas season thinking of how wonderful his interpretation of Christmas songs was! It is a pity that we do not have men in toxidos singing for us on TV any more during the holiday season. It is gone, just like a snow from our winters.
Yes a very beloved Dean "Dino" Martin passed on, of all the days of the year, Christmas day. I think the good Lord loved Dino too. I'm sure he's crooning "Silent Night" beside the manger every Christmas.
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Every Christmas morning we listen to Dean Martin music!!
Christmas in 1968 had my Dad in Vietnam. It was lonely without him. But there was a sense of normalcy in watching shows like this.
I was 4 years old when this first aired. I wouldn't trade my late 60`s 70`s childhood for anything kids have today.
I was 3 1968...
I was 4 too. Agree with ya 100%!! Merry Christmas!🎄🎅
I was 3 and I couldn’t agree with you more!
I was 5 yo in 1968 and I agree wholeheartedly!
I was 5, and thank you! Me either!!!
My mom was pregnant with me when this aired. She passed a little over a year ago and my Dad is 90 and we're 1000 mi apart. I might see if he'll zoom with me and watch it together. This was a tough time in history with Vietnam but a much simpler time, nonetheless. Such wonderful entertainers I grew up watching. I really miss those times. The world has changed so much.
I'm glad I was alive back then to watch these wonderful Dean Martin shows every week. I miss those days... a lot.
me too
Wish I could have experienced these shows back then. Growing up in the UK we never seen these. Makes my hairs stand on end when I hear Dean Martin sing 'silent night'. Wish I was a kid during this time in America.
Meee toooo!!!
My awesome family in Seattle Washington watched it on TV every Christmas
When entertainment was fun and enjoyable. Oh those were the days.
W il 1968..
I was born in 1961 I can’t believe how old I am today
And boring. Not funny at all.
@@johnp139 these were the best times ever the programmes we have today are rubbish and that goes for the so called talented of today
Dean Martin was one of the greatest baritone pop crooners, and his TV variety series for NBC was a classic.
Those were the days, my friend. We thought they'd never end. (But they did. And now we have this sick world.)
Sure, nobody but you and your generation get to have a good life in what they perceive is a good world. Only YOU and YOUR generation were allowed. Bunch of d-bags.
Pffftt.
Great. Shows. We were kids , sent to bed early for mom n dad to watch . Laugh. And enjoy. Tv . The Friday nites family specials , shared around a great tv show , and a pizza ordered. Great memories. And to see the difference of what’s on tv now . And then the new laws of Biden peloski have put in place to take your Rights away ! And. More. To come . Look up for Jesus is coming SOON, he said.
@@fp5495 you’re the douchebag mate
I know plenty of good families who are making the best of the hard times brought about by your over consumption and greed. We are glad to have what we do and love to share. Why can't you show the Christmas spirit? Your Lord was born in a barn, not an all white suburb to rich people.
I wish we had more Dean Martins today. He was so funny & clean comedy. I used to watch his show every week. My dad used to laugh when Dean Martin came on.
I remember watching these shows with my mom when I was just a kid. Mom passed away in 2004 but I still think of her every day. I was blessed.
If I could travel back in time, it would be this Era... stay there and NEVER come back
How about it
Amen to that!
So true
Yep, me too
Fun Fact: 1968 was the start of the Hong Kong Flu Pandemic. Do you all remember there being people in masks around this time?
I am now 54 and was 5 when this came on NBC in 1968 !! * I have tears in my eyes !! ...beautiful..God bless Dean who died on Christmas day....*
Nicky Depaola I was 15. I remember these shows really added to the season’s joy.
I was 25 in 1968; sad to think of the passing of time and the people who passed on since 1968!
If any entertainer should be remembered on Christman Day it should be Dean Martin. Even when he didnt have a weekly show, he made a point of acknowledging Christmas
Betty Joe Gentry And Andy Williams
Dean is one class act.
I was born in 1953 and really miss all the Christmas specials from my youth. I always thought they were all in black and white. We were a late family to acquire color TV. My memories aren't any less coloful. My dad loved the Dean Martin show. "I'm gonna go to the couch now".
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What a lovely man. I know he was a devoted father to his own children and helped so many more children all over. RIP Dean
Joyleen Poortier When Dean’s son died in a plane crash, he just fell apart. They had been very close.
There's nobody that can replace Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra they were the best
May he R.I.P.
I guess Dean Martin was devastated when his son Dino Martin was killed in the accident. Never was the same. That’ll do it… same with my husband when his son died of ALS…
I had just turned 7 years old when this aired. I am filled with tears as it reminded me how Christmas used to be. And seeing all of those celebrities at the end was very special as well. Thanks for posting.
I was 11 years old and I'm crying watching this and remembering watching all these great Christmas specials with my family back in the day!
I sure do miss those days and those times!!!
Hard to belive it was 50 years ago.....
Those were real Celebrities who loved this country and were real entertainers.
Me too - 7 years old!! Such fun, nostalgic memories!!
NBC now says Thanksgiving is a 'white supremacy' holiday...Christmas will be under attack in a month.
@@rogerquintanilla863 very well said.xx
When you watch the lineup of celebrities at the end, it's pretty clear why that was one of the greatest times to be alive. And there were a bunch missing!
Why don't make great TV specials such as this anymore? Watching this nearly brought me to tears. It was funny, sweet- I loved the Dennis Weaver segment when the children were just being themselves. No scolding from the adults. Everyone just having pure fun without the pervasive profanity we see today.
They just don't make shows like this anymore. Thanks for the memories, Dean.
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Darren W. Alexander this show brought me to tears also. I miss these people so much, especially Dean. Sometimes I wish for a time machine to go back to these days!
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@@pce-sz1gi Let me know if you ever find that time machine...I'll be happy to go!
Was a time when you and your family watched these treasured Christmas specials together. Different world now.
I always tear up during the last part of this special. 😭 God bless Dean Martin and all the rest who helped make kids’ lives a little better back then…. 🙏❤️🎄
u wont find anymore legendary entertainers like these anymore
Looking for someone to tell me who one of the ladies is. If you can tell me all of the ladies telling kids Santa is coming, I will recognize her name. Help please
@@loribaumgarten6764If you could give me a description or tell me what organization she mentioned I'd be happy to help Lori. For some reason I have a feeling you might be asking about Barbra Feldon from Get Smart.
i know i was living with my grandmom and her and i were watching this that night, great memories
Two years later and you brought tears to my eyes I lived with my Grandma too and I miss her so ❤
Its overwhelming to me to think its over 50 years i was a kid with my family watching these shows and Christmas was so magical , Just great times that was suppose to go on forever. So much has changed , I wish i could go back to that time..
My Lord, my eyes and heart are full right now watching this. This is what the world needs now. Thanks to whoever posted this. This is what Christmas is all about. Happy Holidays!
I want to wish everyone watching this video, 🎁🎄🎅🏻
A Merry Christmas &
A Blessed Wonderful New Year.
You too Dan
YOU TOO DAN !HAPPY HOLIDAYS ! TO YOU AND YOURS !
@Eva Ivy
I HOPE THINGS GET BETTER FOR YOU EVA ! I LOST MY MOM ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1997 !IM SINGLE TO !SO I DONT. CELEBRATE MUCH EITHER ! IM HAPPY YOU GO TO CHURCH SO DO I FIND SOME PEACE THERE TAKE CARE !
@Eva Ivy very sorry to hear that your situation is so sad. Possibly you might try getting more involved with your church and make some friends. It's certainly worth a try.
@Eva Ivy Hi! Merry Christmas 2018! I hope you are well! I lost both of my parents and this time of year really hurts , because I used to watch tv programs like this with them. I was fortunate to find someone to love and we have a son who is now a teen. I'm trying to pass family values on to a new generation. Don't worry you'll find someone soon. Just keep trying. I hope you have a very good New Year. Just watch the ending of the movie " It's A Wonderful Life" and you'll feel better about yourself. When you find someone please send a comment to this video , because people want to hear about an uplifting chapter in your life.😄😄👍👍
Man we could use a Dean Martin today! World's gone to shit!
Your age has imbettered you . Its not the times
Very well said...
@@vigilmattnyc I suppose your one of these whippersnappers who weren't around at a time when the world was a much happier, less populated, less polluted, less corrupted place. Well, my advice is to go back to your green and yellow tinted , dark depressing tv shows of today with all the murder/autopsies/materialistic themes that most people of today so like and worship.
Anyone over 40 back in '68 said "the world's gone to shit."
This was a great memory. Today it's nothing but commercial and I love my childhood.
Merry Christmas🎅🎅🎅🎅
Even though I was only a kid in the '60s, I liked watching Dean's show with my family. Dean always seemed to be having the time of his life and even as a kid I appreciated his sense of humor. I've read that Dean didn't like to rehearse because he wanted the material to be fresh and as spontaneous as possible, I don't know how true that story is, but that quality really came through in the show. Dean seemed to be hearing a lot of the material for the first time right along with the audience. '60s and '70s TV variety shows like this one, Red Skelton, Andy Williams, Carol Burnett, Ed Sullivan, etc, were a family event. It was entertaining for people of all ages.
It used to be great growing up and celebrating Christmas in the 60's! Christmas back then had a magical feeling about it that transcended all events and other holidays.
They don't make shows like this anymore....nice to stroll down memory lane
We live today in an entertainment desert compared with people like Dino and the great variety shows back then! And the cameos from all the top stars at the end naming children's homes across the country for a visit from Santa was a special treat!
These are the holiday season specials that you can watch every year and it never gets old. I'm glad that I stumbled across this Dean Martin Christmas special. Thanks Deano!
Dean not rehearsing the show was wonderful ... his laughing is natural & it makes the guests laugh as well ...
I watched this show in a dorm room at the University of Maryland, December 19, 1968. It was the Thursday before the Friday of winter break. What made it so special was the anticipation of seeing a special gal that I had met earlier in the month. We had had just one date on the Saturday before this show aired. We got on so well that our 4th date (January 1969) was an overnight trip to New York City. We returned to New York on New Year's, 1969, and stood in Times Square, watching the ball come down. Such great times, scarcely dimmed by the ravages of advancing age.
Thanks for sharing your story, I too miss those days now more than ever before. A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family 🙏🎄🎉🥂
@@frankrizzo4460 thank you
My father worked with Mr. Martin. Mr. Martin's glass contained cold tea. He was an underrated actor. I loved his television show and the first thing I remember wanting to be when I grew up, was one of his Golddiggers. Sadly, I was too young then and by the time I grew up the show was no longer in production. Watching this brought back many happy memories.
What a sad shame they don't make shows like this anymore. Yeah, Dean was a very underrated actor, and marvelous singer. So glad I grew up to see him peak.
@@OdeeOz Yes it is a shame
go-go boots 💫
To follow up from one year ago I would also have to point out that this Christmas special had more significance than I first thought. The US had been through a lot with two assassinations,the escalation of the war in Vietnam and an election in November. The celebrity line up announcing how various children's homes throughout the country would be benefitting from a special Santa visit was awesome. I was especially touched by the footage of Diahann Carroll as we lost her a few months ago. She was a hero of my late Mother who had closely followed her career. In spite of the adversity of 1968 people were or at least appeared to be kinder and gentler. Happy Holidays to everyone from a random guy in Western Canada.
Merry Christmas sir.🙏🙏🙏🎅🤶🍭🎄❄☃️⛄🌲
Merry Christmas to you both, from San Diego.❤❤
We'll never see entertainment as classy & good as this again. Thank god for the rerun!
Interesting to see what was considered funny entertainment 50 years ago. But Dean was an all around talent. Comedian, singer, actor and a true humanitarian. What a shame he died on Christmas Day- Rip Dean
I think it was blessing......he give us so much sweet christmas sounds for next 100years.
Best regards from Croatia.🎅🎅🎅🤶🤶🤶🎄🎄🎄
Dean showed what Christmas really meant back in 1968. It meant family and friends and good feelings. God bless you Dean.
It still does. Don't let the more visible mayhem in the world tell you otherwise.
Especially since 1968 was a very turbulent year. I bet something like this was exactly what America needed.
AMEN
What was Christmas without Dean Martin growing up, this brings tears to my eyes
There,s no one can fill his shoes,a smile from ear to ear when deans on,miss you deano
When they all sang "Joy to the World" I got chills and tears.
It was a lovely time when you could marvel at how beautifully downtown was decorated, sing Christmas songs in school, and say "Merry Christmas" without offending anybody.
I wish everyone a Christmas exactly like the ones we used to know!
Yes America used to be quite a wonderful place in a sad world. Even in more cynical times like the 70s 80s and 90s people knew the Holidays were a time of healing.
Happy Kwanzaa !
And best of all-no mass shootings!
We could even get a group together from our church to walk through the neighborhoods singing christmas carols with no fears.
@@FarmersAreDummies about as important as festivus.
Wow! I'm 57 and was just 7 years old when I saw this first broadcast. Haven't seen it since. I miss Dean and the gang.
I had JUST turned 7 years old when this came on. Our family NEVER missed Dean Martin's shows. Damn he was good looking :) I also did not realize how good looking Dennis Weaver was. This is fun. Great old time memories.
I'm 59 & always thought he was goodlooking!
“What can you give a guy who’s got everything”😂
Dean Martin was the greatest.
A much simpler time in our country’s history. I want to wish everyone watching this video a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
Well as much as we like to think 1968 was a simpler time the fact is thst it was notwww.history.com/topics/1960s/1968-events
As long as you weren’t black or in Vietnam.
@@johnp139- You can’t possibly be this ignorant.
Same to you!!
@catholic faith. As troubled a year as 1968 was----far superior to the hellish society that exists now.
Here I am, 37, and loving these old shows my grandparents watched. Where have the good times gone? Next up, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby Christmas!
The 50's,60's,70's,80's we're the best! The world started down the path we are in today from the 90's on! Best decades for creativity in our history!
The Clinton's, and thier corruption
I watched this in my dorm as a first year student at the University of Maryland (dorm - Cambridge B) right before school closed for winter break. The Beatles' White Album, another cultural happening, had just been released. Spent New year's Eve in Times Square, anticipating more time with a lovely coed (at another college in Baltimore) whom I met earlier that month. A year later, I returned to Times Square, lovely coed in tow. A heady time in the sweet prime of youth, a time lost forever, fleeting as youth itself.
Bitter sweet memories for me too, Mark. Those times are lost 4ever. When did those good times go?😢😢😢
That is an awesome memory, mark miller! Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas!
Did you marry the lovely co-ed?
@@anneoboyle426 No. We broke up on New Year's Eve 1970-1971. She married in 1972, and from what I see of her Facebook page, she's doing quite well. Me too, 50 years later. We're both married with kids and grand-kids. In fact, she lives w/i 10 miles of me. We last had contact (by email) in December 2001. The intensity of that memory compelled me to write a fictional short story of what might happen if we were no longer married and got back together after a romantic trip to the shore. Names changed, of course.
@@markmiller4376 How very sweet. Time...we never know what things it can bring us and how it has a peculiar way of making the past and present come full circle.
Truly the Golden Age of Television...
I'm 43year old man and this is the best Christmas song ever happy Xmas folks and happy new year 🍻👍
Dean Martin singing "Marshmallow World" with a cigarette in one hand and a dame on each arm.
That was classic!!!
Would never be allowed today. To many triggers.
@@michaelcap9550 Too bad , those were the days.......the best of days
Would be politically incorrect today.
@Frances Van Siclen Libtards are offended by everything everyday 24/7. Too bad for them.
Listening to Dean Martin's Christmas albums over the past 15 years brought me here.
Thank you for the memories. Had tears in my eyes thinking how many of these stars have left us and there will never be a time like that again. Merry Christmas.
Thank you, Uncle Dean for this beautiful Christmas special and helping all those children back then. What class to Uncle Dean and all those in this beautiful Christmas special...
I remember this show I was,17,takes me back when the family was all together. Miss you mom and dad they were wonderful and warm. Xmas .Hope heaven is as much warmth and fun as this was . It won't be long I guess before I come to visit.
Merry Christmas to you and the rest of the family up there.
James jr.
Watching in 2020 I was a 3yr old girl at this time, such a great time to be alive enjoying quality TV like this. RIP Dean Martin,✝️✳️👑🕊️
Dean Martin always seemed so fun and happy. You can tell how much fun he had on these shows.
Dean Martin's "unrehearsed" show still makes me smile. Especially the people behind the door, when he jumped on piano, you never knew what was going to happen. These were beautiful and funny, yet clean shows that need to start being replayed!
I was 13! Loved shows like this then and great to see again. Still love Dean Martin. So hard to believe this was fifty plus years ago.
Brilliant to see these shows again. This is the innocent time before all the pc rubbish. Beautiful Dean and his smooth, velvet voice. I am sure if he and his co-stars were around today they would despair at the state of the world.
Its not Christmas in my home without playing his songs,thank God i lived when he was part of our lives,left a hole that will never be filled.
@Hello How are you doing dear
I want a time machine to go back to this time...
May I go too? :)
I'll go with you
Save me a place, Maggie.........I wanna go too! I was 3 when this aired.
@@kelleyhavens7932 👍 😊
I remember that Christmas. We had a young son and watched this show on an old B&W television but had a great time visiting with our family. A big contrast to 2020 with no family dinners or grandchildren to enjoy.
Those were precious times to grow up in and I miss them very much. We were fortunate to live in these very special times. Thank you. I love this.
I was just 4 years old when this first aired. Watching this took me back to a simpler time. It brought back memories of Christmas Eve at my grandparent’s house with all of my aunts, uncles and cousins. It’s brings back such a warm and happy feeling. The wonderful food, the singing, the laughing, dressing up and and all going midnight mass together, one of these Christmas shows playing on the ONE TV back in the den and of course the wonderful presents. So many of my family and these entertainers are gone now and I have a grandson of my own. My greatest hope is that I can fill his heart with as much love and happiness as my grandparents, my family, did for me. God Bless and Merry Christmas to all!!!
Thank you for the wonderful memories that brought back to my life. I grew up in a time when this was normal now you don't see things like this at all in our society. More and more people today seem like they don't love each other anymore. If they could just see the way we were back then, maybe they can see a little glimpse of what it was like to really love each other and have respect for our fellow man and how we loved our God and were not ashamed about it either. Thank you once again for this wonderful memory. It brought tears to my eyes. Merry Christmas everyone
yes
Merry CHRISTMAS to all ✝️❤️
The Pentatonix Christmas special came on tonight and I couldn't stand it so I came here to find the good stuff I grew up with and remember. Thanks for posting. Watching on the TV and its 1968 all over again
Todd G years I miss badly
Pentatonix is talented and everything (I'm not personally a fan, but I guess I get the appeal) but I agree-- nothing beats the classics! 😊🙌
Incredible family memories- all of us together watching these special shows. Thank you for the memories!
I remember this show when I was little.. Thank you Dean Martin rip for all the blessings you gave.
I love Mr Dean Martin
I was 14 when it aired...The world is much different place now..Love the memories...
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What a tremendous trip down memory lane. I'm watching this show on December the 23rd 2023. All the Christmas gifts are wrapped so I decided to put my feet up with a huge cup of hot chocolate and a slice of Christmas cake - just had to test it before the big day!
The dancers and singers were all such great fun and of course, Mr Martin's guests were fantastic. 1968 was certainly a spectacular year when it came to performers of class. Thank you for this download. It has made for a splendid evening after a rather busy day. Wishing all who read this comment, the finest of Christmas ever. May all your dreams come true and I trust that Father Christmas spoils you silly.
What a lovely man he was! We all miss him! My grandmother loved him so much.!
I am sitting here crying. Watching a by gone era.never to be seen again. R I p Dean
There was NOTHING BETTER to watch than DEAN and ANDY during the Holidays.
Wow, such a treat to see all those wonderful and truly talented stars at the end of the program announcing generous gifts to charities around the country. Thank you for posting.
I had just turned 5 when this first aired in 1968. I wish we could go back to those days! How far we have fallen from grace as a country! This show brought tears to my eyes Thanks for uploading and Merry Christmas everyone
I feel the same.
I knew Orange County when there were miles and miles of orange groves!
Amen!!!
So you want the hippie days of 1968 back? Well okay then! Let's move into a commune together and never work for the man again!