Dean Martin man, Martin spent a lot of time with his family; as second wife Jeanne put it, prior to the couple's divorce, "He was home every night for dinner." As Martin's solo career grew, he and Frank Sinatra became friends. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Martin and Sinatra, along with friends Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, and Sammy Davis, Jr. formed the Rat Pack, so-called after an earlier group of social friends, the Holmby Hills Rat Pack centered on Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, of which Sinatra had been a member (The Martin-Sinatra-Davis-Lawford-Bishop group referred to themselves as "The Summit"
My Kind of Girl records were awarded a gold disc. "My Kind of Girl" also lent its name to an album of the same name, also released in 1961. Frank Sinatra covered the song for his 1962 album "". This version was released as a single, and spent six weeks on the UK's "Record Retailer" chart, reaching No. 35. To commemorate what would have been Sinatra's hundredth birthday, The Official Charts Company compiled a list of the top forty highest selling records by Sinatra; "My Kind of Girl" came in at number 38. Sammy Davis Jr. released a version of the song on his