Overview

• Wink Martindale, celebrated host of game shows like 'Tic-Tac-Dough' and 'Gambit,' died at 91 after a year-long fight with lymphoma.
• Martindale's 74-year career spanned radio and television, beginning as a DJ at 17 and later becoming a prominent game show host and producer.
• He played a pivotal role in rock & roll history, facilitating Elvis Presley’s first radio interview in 1954 at WHBQ in Memphis, Tennessee.
• Martindale achieved recording success with his 1959 spoken-word hit 'Deck of Cards,' which sold over a million copies and reached the Billboard Top 10.
• He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006 and was among the first inductees into the American TV Game Show Hall of Fame.