Ken Lane

Kermit "Ken" Lane (20 December 1912 - 23 November 1996) was an American musician from Brooklyn, New York.

He was best known to audiences as Dean Martin's pianist on The Dean Martin Show in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but was already well known in the film community before that.

With Irving Taylor, Lane co-wrote "Everybody Loves Somebody" in 1949. Frank Sinatra recorded it first, followed by Dinah Washington and Peggy Lee before Martin recorded it in 1964 and took it to Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 list in August of that year. It would be Lane's biggest hit as a composer.

He composed the music for "Lucy Gets Lucky", a 1975 made-for-TV movie starring Lucille Ball.

In 1946 and 1947, he was musical arranger for "Tars and Spars", "Monsieur Beaucaire", "California", "Ladies' Man", "Champagne For Two", "Smooth Sailing" and "Paris In The Spring".

He died in 1996 of emphysema, in Lake Tahoe, California.

Lane's daughter is rock singer Robin Lane of "Robin Lane and the Chartbusters."

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* [http://cdbaby.com/cd/rlane Robin Lane biography (source for father/daughter relationship)]