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Neil Daniels served as an assistant to Mort Werner (Former Vice President of NBC Television) and J. Sommers (Associate Production Director) during the middle 1960's starting at age thirteen, when child-labor laws were not strictly enforced.
During NBC's tenure, many shows were developed and taped at their Burbank facilities including; Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in, The Mac Davis Show, Sanford and Son, The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson, The Midnight Special, The Andy Williams Show, Hollywood Squares, and more.
Also productions at the Burbank studios included Bob Hope's many specials, as well as a variety of other major stars including Elvis Presley's Comeback Special. While Werner ran operations from New York, Daniels acted as liaison from the west coast, often providing an easy flow of communication between the various suppliers of material from other studios and organizations.
One of the shows produced in co-operation with NBC starting in 1965 was The Dean Martin Show, which ran for nine years before morphing into The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts and was succeeded by various Celebrity Roast and Christmas Specials all produced by Dean's original variety series producer, Greg Garrison, and Special Materials person, Lee Hale.
Mr. Daniels often describes the special memories he has of hanging around Dean's show in particular. "It was variety show at it's best. Not only was Dean like a kid in a grown-up candy store... the others who worked on the show had a special bond in developing a concept that kept Dean happy, and the show in the top ten for many years."
Years after the show's demise, Neil Daniels successfully began a so-called "Fan Center" for entertainer Dean Martin, as a way to honor not only those golden years of Variety television and anchor TV personalities, but as a tribute to Dean Martin whom Daniels recalls, "... not only changed my life, but thousand and thousands of others as well. It's a tribute to a legend". Neil Daniels has been considered one of the definitive authorities on television history during the 1960's through the early 1980's, and also a historian on entertainer Dean Martin with one of the largest Dean Martin memorabilia collections in the world.
Neil Daniels' credits include: Producing four separate box-set CD's covering the entire recorded history of Dean Martin's works for The Bear Family Record Company. Appearing as a guest on numerous radio talk shows and TV documentaries including A&E's Biography for Dean Martin, E! Entertainment's Spotlight documentary on Martin, PBS's Dean Martin Specials and PAX-TV's Treasures in Your Home closeup on Dean Martin. His numerous consulting includes PBS' "That's Amore" Special, The many Guthy-Renker Infomercials for both the Celebrity Roasts and Variety Series, and many other various productions. Daniels is mentioned in many books relating to Dean Martin: "Backstage at The Dean Martin Show" by Lee Hale, "Memories Are Made of This" by daughter Deana Martin,"With Malice Towards Some" by Bob Sidney, and "Dean and Me - A Love Story" by Jerry Lewis to list a few.
As an author himself, Neil Daniels recently (2006) penned "Cherry's Jubilee - Singin' and Swingin' Through Life With Dino & Frank, Arnie & Jack", a 300 page hardcover book (Triumph Publishers) written with golfer/singer Don Cherry (Cherry's biography - Cherry was one of Dean Martin's best friends, including best man at Don's wedding).
As an on-going effort, the non-profit fan organization for Dean Martin is one of the most successful fan based clubs for any single performer alive or deceased. Their award winning newsletter/magazine in produced by Neil Daniels with passion and devotion for a man and an era gone by.
Daniels also managed to major in Mechanical Design and Engineering, and was instrumental in major developments around the state of California including; The San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant, in Carlsbad, Doheny Eye Center and St. Johns Hospital in Santa Monica, The Petersen Automotive Museum in Beverly Hills, One-Concord Plaza in San Francisco, and the Fox Towers (The building used in Bruce Willis' Die Hard) in Century City.
Links:
www.deanmartinfancenter.com www.originalgolddiggers.com
[edit] Sources
Book: Cherry's Jubilee by Neil Daniels and Don Cherry
Book: Backstage at the Dean Martin Show by Lee Hale
Book: Dean and Me A Love Story by Jerry Lewis
Book: The History of Broadcast Networks by A.E. Stillerman
Website: DeanMartinFanCenter.com
A&E Biography: Dean Martin
Television Episode: Treasures In Your Home (Dean Martin episode)
Executive Producer: Four CD Box Sets : Bear Family Company
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