(Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File) Host Wink Martindale looks at a card during game show, May 22, 1997. (AP ...

the genial host of such hit game shows as “Gambit” and “Tic-Tac-Dough” who also did one of the first recorded television interviews with a young Elvis Presley, has died. He was 91.

the genial host of such hit game shows as “Gambit” and “Tic-Tac-Dough” who also did one of the first recorded television interviews with a young Elvis Presley, has died. He was 91.

Martindale was in the studio, although not working on-air that night, when the first Presley record “That ... with a cover version of “Deck of Cards,” which sold over 1 million copies.

Wink Martindale, the genial host of such hit game shows as "Gambit" and "Tic-Tac-Dough" who also did one of the first recorded television interviews with a young Elvis Presley, has died.

He has signed a contract with Elvis Presley Enterprises and will be going ... nobody had that on their bingo card 5 big things that disappear after you retire in Canada – Are you prepared?