- Singing and dancing troupe closely associated with Dean Martin and The Dean Martin Show (1965), consisting, at various times, of eight to thirteen girls. Members from the initial 1968-1973 era included Pauline Antony, Wanda Bailey, Glenda Blacker, Nancy Bonetti, Patty Booth-Julius, Karen Cavanaugh, Suzy Cadham, Jimmi McCarter, Loyita Chapel, Jackie Chidsey, Paula Cinko, Rosie Cox Gitlin, Lee Crawford, Lezlie Dalton, Michelle DellaFave, Tanya DellaFave, Karen Dolin, Lynn Dolin Mann, Wendy Douglas, Merry Elkins, Patty Gegenheimer, Peggy Hansen, Joy Hawkins, Sandra Hunt, Rebecca Jones, Suzannah Jordan, Liz Kelley, Tara Leigh, Julie Levin, Susie Ewing, Nancy Maier, Sheila Allan, Cheryl Masterson, Debi McFarland, Micki McGlone, Francie Mendenhall, Patricia Mickey, Marilyn Faye O'Leary, Darlina Olsen, Cindy Pickett, Barbara Sanders Joiner, Jeanne Sheffield, Nancy Sinclair, Holly Smith, Sheryl Ullman, Janice Whitby, and Mary Beth Williams.
- Peggy Hansen was one of the original Golddiggers from 1968 - 1969. Cathy Lee Crosby was a Golddigger in 1968.
- The Golddiggers troupe was the brainchild of Greg Garrison, producer of The Dean Martin Show (1965) and later Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers (1968) and Chevrolet Presents the Golddiggers (1971). Garrison recruited amateur and semi-professional young women from across the United States for the singing and dancing ensemble. The group's musical director was Lee Hale, and Garrison and Hale formed Domino Productions for the troupe in 1968.
- Actress Cindy Pickett toured as a member of The Golddiggers in the summer of 1970.
- Six of the Golddiggers from various seasons of The Dean Martin Show (1965) or Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers (1968) united/reunited in the 2000s to tour and perform as The Original Golddiggers. The lineup included Sheila Allan, Suzy Cadham, Jackie Chidsey, Susie Ewing, Rosie Cox Gitlin, and Nancy Sinclair.
- While the Golddiggers troupe was a specific group of singers/dancers that appeared on TV and on tour starting in 1968, their association with The Dean Martin Show (1965) has led to some confusion, with other female cast members on the long-running show sometimes erroneously referred to as "Golddiggers".
- The first Golddiggers lineup was assembled in 1968 for the summer replacement show Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers (1968). The success of the show launched the popular Golddiggers troupe as a touring company. Starting in the fall of 1968, the group would appear as guest performers on TV variety and talk shows, including The Dean Martin Show (1965), and when they weren't taping television performances, the Golddiggers toured venues around the United States and accompanied Bob Hope on his U.S.O. Christmas tours in the Far East. The Golddiggers' summer show aired for three seasons (ending in 1970), and the Golddiggers joined "The Dean Martin Show" as regular cast members for the 1970-1971 season, before landing their own syndicated series, Chevrolet Presents the Golddiggers (1971), which lasted two years. The roster would evolve from year to year and from tour to tour, and the original Golddiggers group disbanded in 1973.
- The Dingaling Sisters, the singing/dancing quartet from The Dean Martin Show (1965), was spun-off from the Golddiggers when they joined the show as regulars for the 1970-1971 season. The Ding-A-Ling Sisters would remain an integral part of the program for three years, until the show was retooled as "The Dean Martin Comedy Hour" for its final season in 1973-1974. The initial four Ding-A-Ling Sisters were members of the larger Golddiggers troupe at the time, but the groups diverged once the Golddiggers moved to their own syndicated show, Chevrolet Presents the Golddiggers (1971).
- The "Golddiggers" name was meant to evoke the streetwise chorus girls of the 1930s Warner Bros. "Gold Diggers" musicals - Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935), Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936), and Gold Diggers in Paris (1938) - and other musicals of their ilk (often featuring similar casts of Warner Bros. contract players and iconic choreography by Busby Berkeley), like 42nd Street (1933), Footlight Parade (1933), and Dames (1934). As originally conceived for their 1968 summer series Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers (1968), the Golddiggers troupe was styled in a retro 1930s aesthetic, performing Depression-era songs. By 1970 the group had dropped the throwback style and become more contemporary.
- As part of the group's publicity, producer Greg Garrison nicknamed each of the twelve members of the Fall 1968 troupe, based on their personalities - "Brandy" (Pamela Beth of Los Angeles, CA), "Muchaklutz" (Nancy Bonetti of San Jose, CA), "Coca" (Kathi Brimer of Titusville, FL), "Misfit" (Lezlie Dalton of Boston, MA), "Sparky" (Peggy Hansen of St. Louis, MO), "Donut" (Diana Gaye Liekhus of San Bernardino, CA), "Poopsie" (Susie Ewing of Houston, TX), "Spooky" (Debi McFarland of El Monte, CA), "Pussycat" (Brenda Powell of Claremont, NH), "Bubbles" (Lynn Steiner-Mallein of Portland, OR), "Boo-Boo" (Debbie Teare of Beaumont, TX), and "Sugar" (Kathy Wright Gipson of Stuttgart, AR). Keeping with the early Golddiggers branding, Garrison was affectionately known as the group's "Sugar Daddy".
- Of the 1968-1973 Golddiggers, the longest continuously tenured member was Jackie Chidsey, who joined the group in 1969 for the second season of Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers (1968) and remained with the group through the end of the second season of Chevrolet Presents the Golddiggers (1971) in 1973. Another longtime member with the final 1973 squad, Susie Ewing, actually had a lengthier Golddigger career, having initially joined the group in the fall of 1968, but her tenure was interrupted for stretches along the way.
- After the original group disbanded, a new incarnation of Golddiggers was launched in 1973 to accompany Dean Martin both on his re-formatted "Dean Martin Comedy Hour" on TV and at his Las Vegas shows. This new Golddiggers troupe would endure through the end of Martin's career, performing in support of Martin, Frank Sinatra, the Rat Pack, and other A-list entertainers on TV and on tour from the 1970s to the 1990s. The "second-generation" Golddiggers ensemble started with eight performers and would eventually contract to a group of six and then four at a time. Golddiggers during this latter era included Darlene Alberici Cianci, Linda Alberici (Eichberg), Maria Elena Alberici (Maria Lauren), Theresa Bishop, Patty Booth-Julius, Susan Buckner, Joyce Garro, Peggy Gohl, Patti Gribow, Julia Hannibal, Robin Hoctor, Wendy Kimball, Colleen Kincaid, Lee Nolting, Marie Halton Peck, Deborah Pratt, Linda Snook Bott, Melody Walczuk, and Robyn Whatley.
- Producer Greg Garrison got the inspiration for the nostalgic Golddiggers ensemble from a psychedelically-painted phonograph horn he received as a birthday gift.
- In the early years, the Golddiggers were required to sign a lengthy contract limiting their social activity in order to preserve the public image of the group. Notably, producer Greg Garrison expected the Golddiggers performers to remain unmarried, and many of the young women who left the group over the years did so in order to marry, with some leaving show business for good.
- Members of the Golddiggers "sorority" meet up for regular reunion events, which bring together former Golddiggers from different years who may have never crossed paths during the group's heyday. With the rise of social media, more Golddiggers than ever before have been able to keep in touch with their "sisters" and participate in the reunions.
- Patty Booth-Julius has the distinction of being the only Golddigger to be a member of both the first-generation ("original") troupe as well as the second-generation (post-1973) group, serving separate stints from 1970-1971 and 1974-1976.
- The "original" Golddiggers squad quit en masse in 1972, after completing the second season of their syndicated series Chevrolet Presents the Golddiggers (1971), due to behind-the-scenes frustrations with the group's management. In one incident, kept under wraps at the time, the Golddiggers were stuck in Mexico without access to their passports (after performing a show across the border) and couldn't re-enter the United States.
- Among the 1973-1990s "second generation" Golddiggers, Linda Alberici, Patti Gribow, Maria Lauren, Peggy Gohl, Robyn Whatley, Marie Halton Peck, and Linda Snook Bott were all associated with the group for over a decade.
- Lee Hale was the Golddiggers' longtime musical director, spanning many iterations of the group over two decades. Hale's influence connected the "original" 1968-1973 Golddiggers enterprise with the revamped second-generation Golddiggers of the later 1970s and 1980s.
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