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   Colonel Tom Parker, Presley’s manager, “would never speak to me after that   
   because he wanted to be paid for everything. We had no budget. They hardly   
   paid me, for Pete’s sake,” Martindale told The Times in 2010.   
      
   Because of Martindale’s local popularity with his “Top Ten Dance Party,”   
   a   
   small Memphis record company, OJ Records, signed him to a recording   
   contract.   
      
   His recording of “Thought It was Moonlove” led to his signing with Dot   
   Records, for which he recorded well into the `1960s.   
      
   Martindale, who had a pleasant but not memorable singing voice, also   
   played himself as the host of a teen TV dance show in the low-budget 1958   
   movie “Let’s Rock!,” in which he sang the mildly rocking “All Love   
   Broke   
   Loose.”   
      
   While working on radio and TV in Memphis, Martindale graduated from what   
   is now the University of Memphis, where he majored in speech and drama.   
      
   In 1959, he moved to Los Angeles to become the morning DJ on radio station   
   KHJ.   
      
   That same year, he scored a surprise hit in “Deck of Cards,” which reached   
   No. 7 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart and No. 11 on its Hot Country Songs   
   chart. Martindale, who received a gold record for the recording, performed   
   the piece on Ed Sullivan’s popular Sunday-night variety show.   
      
   While working at KHJ Radio in 1959, he began hosting “The Wink Martindale   
   Dance Party” on KHJ-TV on Saturdays. The popular show, broadcast from a   
   studio, also began airing weekdays, live from Pacific Ocean Park in Santa   
   Monica.   
      
   Over the years, in addition to KHJ, Martindale worked at Los Angeles radio   
   stations KRLA, KFWB, KMPC, and KGIL.   
      
   In 2006, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A year later,   
   he became one of the first inductees into the American TV Game Show Hall   
   of Fame in Las Vegas.   
      
   “I always loved games,” he said in his Television Academy Foundation   
   interview. “Once I got into the world of games, I just seemed to glide   
   from one to the other….I never looked down upon the idea that I was   
   branded as a game-show host, because most people like games.”   
      
   He is survived by his wife Sandra; sister Geraldine; his daughters Lisa,   
   Lyn and Laura; and several grandchildren and great grandchildren.   
      
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