If Mr. Lewis , the son of show business parents from Newark , has always been '' caustic , a little loud , broad , cocksure , '' as he put it , Mr. Martin kept his own counsel , a son of the school of hard knocks from Steubenville , Ohio , who worked in a foundry , boxed under the name Kid Crochet and dealt blackjack and poker in the town 's illegal casinos before becoming a singer . ''