The Rat Pack
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr.
1962-11-26
Villa Venice
Northbrook, IL
Soundboard Recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included
Dean Martin
01. Parody on: When your Smiling > The Lady is a Tramp
02. Comedy Monologue
03. I Left My Heart in San Francisco
04. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
05. Medley: Volare > An Evening in Roma
Frank Sinatra
06. Goody Goody
07. Chicago
08. When Your Lover has Gone
09. Comedy Monologue
10. Please Be Kind
11. You're Nobody Until Somebody Loves You
Sammy Davis Jr.
12. What Kind of Fool am I
13. Out of This World
14. She's Funny That Way
15. Hey There
16. Sammy Doing Impressions
The Rat Pack
17. Comedy with All 3
18. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
19. Too Marvelous for Words
20. Pennies From Heaven
21. A Foggy Day
22. Comedy
23. Embraceable You
24. The Lady is a Tramp
25. Where or When
26. Impressions by all 3
27. Birth of the Blues
28. Nancy
29. Me and My Shadow
30. Sam's Song
31. Birth of the Blues Closing by all 3
Review taken from Sinatraguide.com
First off, if you've never heard a show by the Rat Pack, then it's an experience where
you leave feeling like you had to be there. Some of the jokes are purely physical, so that the
laughs of the audience and the stars are incomprehensible to the listener. Also, the humor is
very topical, from Sinatra: "Shut up, Sam, and sit in the back of the bus!" Davis: "Jewish people
don't sit in the back of the bus!" Sinatra: "Jewish people own the bus!" - to Dean's trademark
drunken humor, much of the time the audience is laughing only because they're drunk themselves.
Nevertheless, the affection that these three friends have for one another is palpable, and even
if the skits aren't as off-the-cuff as they seem, it still sounds like they're having a great time.
Vocally, Sammy comes off the best, with burn-down-the-house renditions of "What Kind Of Fool Am I?"
and "Birth Of The Blues" - Frank on the other hand, seems much more casual in his numbers,
almost throwing away songs like "Goody Goody" and "Please Be Kind."
Not that it's a bad performance, but it sounds uninvolved. Dean is also very funny, slurring
his words, and letting loose with cunning malapropisms every chance he gets. We also get to hear
Sammy's infamous impersonations, although again, the sketch suffers from not being able to see
his performance. If you can find these discs, I consider them superior to the Summit recording
due to their completeness and perfectly clear sound.