Winston Conrad "Wink" Martindale (1933-) is an American disc jockey, radio personality, game show host, and television producer. The Jackson, Tennessee native became a disc jockey at the age of seventeen earning $25 a week. While a college student at Memphis State University, he hosted mornings at WHBQ in Memphis. Martindale's rendition of the spoken-word song Deck of Cards went to No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and sold over a million copies in 1959.
Martindale's first break into television was at WHBQ-TV in Memphis, as the host of Mars Patrol, a science-fiction-themed children's television program. His first game-show hosting was on the show What's This Song? In his six-decade career, he is best known for hosting Gambit from 1972 to 1976 (and again from 1980 to 1981), famously for Tic-Tac-Dough from 1978 to 1985, High Rollers from 1987 to 1988, and Debt from 1996 to 1998. in 2021, Martindale began hosting the nationally and internationally syndicated The History of Rock 'n' Roll, a two-hour weekend look back at music from the 60s, 70s and 80s.
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