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 | Title : The Rat Pack Live at the Sands
Author : The Rat Pack
Release Date : 20011120
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $17.98
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Editorial Reviews :
'If you wanna hear me sing serious, buy an album,' Dean Martin says early in this 70-minute disc, underlining his point by deliberately mangling the last word's pronunciation. Issued to catch the wave of Steven Soderbergh's remake of the Pack's romp, Ocean's 11, Live at the Sands is the second official issue of a Martin/Frank Sinatra/Sammy Davis Jr. show. This September 1963 date, though, is nimbler and funnier than the previous year's set preserved on The Summit in Concert. Some of the same jokes are told, but this Vegas jaunt adds at least one new running gag (Dino's brief rendition of 'It's My Party'), and Sammy also gets a few racially tinged zingers off in return for those of his partners. Oh, and lest we forget, there's good music. Martin actually plays it straight on two Guys and Dolls duets with Sinatra, who also turns in a half-dozen strong performances on his own. Plenty of mystique is present, but Sands captures the trio hard at work as well. --Rickey Wright
Buyer Reviews :
DEAN MARTIN
Maybe Frank! Maybe Sammy!
On this new CD (recorded September 7th) there's no 'maybes' about it....
Dean, Frank and Sammy give a performance that sums up early 60's cocktail lounge cool...
Dino's opening (the same opening he'd been doing for years) includes 'Volare' 'On An Evening In Roma' and 'I Love Vegas (Paris)'..
Sinatra's set includes material from the 'Sinatra-Basie' and 'Concert Sinatra' albums plus a beautiful, tender rendition of 'Call Me Irresponsible' (then, as Sinatra points out, only 6 months old); interestingly Sinatra's performances of 'Only Have Eyes For You' and 'Please Be Kind' on this tape far outswing the renditions on the Basie LP.
Sammy does 'Lady Is A Tramp,' and follows with an impressions-laden 'All The Way'.
The rest of the disc is classic Rat Pack clowning laced with tons of politically incorrect one liners (Imagine ANYONE saying to Frank and Dean in those days 'Hey guys, you know some of that stuff is POLITCIALLY INCORRECT!')...
Dean: 'Did you ever see a Jew-Jitsu?'
Dean (to Sammy) 'You can sing with me..you can dance with me...you can go to the steam room with me....but just don't TOUCH me!'
Keep in mind this was just weeks after Martin Luther King's 'I Have A Dream' speech.
It's also interesting to note that this performance occurs just 2 months before the Kennedy assassination and right in the midst of the lurid Sinatra headlines surrounding Sam Giancana and the Cal Neva lodge (weeks later Sinatra would have his Gaming license lifted)...among the celebrities introduced from the audience: 'Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Sands!'
The sound quality of the disc is superb, recorded in true stereo, (Sinatra had Reprise tape it for a possible LP called 'The Summit'...the album was never released and the tapes buried).
'Live At The Sands' captures the Rat Pack's last gasp...Dallas and the subsequent turmoil of the 60's made much of their material irrelevant, but it shows the country's leading adult swingers at the peak of their powers in the town they made their playground.
The pseudo-hip liner notes are by Bill Zehme who wrote the 1998 Sinatra book 'The Way You Wear Your Hat'
(by franksoprano)
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