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As a double-dose audiovisual document of the Rat Pack, this two-disc package -- one a CD, one a DVD -- more than lives up to its title. Disc one is an audio-only CD culled from performances given by Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis, Jr. at a Chicago nightclub between November 26 and December 2, 1962, over half of which is previously unreleased. Disc two, never before issued, captures about an hour and a half of a mid-1965 St. Louis performance by the same fellas on DVD, with a young Johnny Carson MCing. How much you like this sort of thing depends almost as much on how much you like the celebrity sleaze-kitsch that the Rat Pack mythology was built upon as you do the trio's estimable vocal abilities. But both parts deliver all the all-around entertainment you'd expect, particularly the DVD portion. As for the CD of the 1962 shows, much of it's devoted to solo turns by Martin, Davis, and Sinatra, each of whom delivers some of the standards deemed highlights of his repertoire. Martin trots out medleys, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," and "Volare"; Sinatra ups the swing with "Goody Goody" and "Chicago"; Davis leads off with "What Kind of Fool Am I." The individual sets are preserved in good sound, but in a way they're just the preamble to the comic sketches between Sinatra and Martin, soon expanded to include Davis as well. These bits (particularly the impressions) don't come off nearly as well on record as they do on film, which gives the DVD a considerable edge for appreciating the Rat Pack experience in all its full-dimensional, oft-corny glory. The strengths and weaknesses of the shtick are amplified on this disc, with Martin playing up his lush persona to the point of distaste, though he does manage to include his then-recent number one hit, "Everybody Loves Somebody." Davis' set perhaps comes off best, and certainly as the most versatile, though his hepcat jazz-swing moves (sometimes backed by just a drummer, not the full orchestra) might strike some true jazzbos as slumming. The Chairman of the Board's set includes some of his audience's faves: "Fly Me to the Moon," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "You Make Me Feel So Young." And though only two "tracks" featuring the entire Rat Pack are listed on the sleeve, actually these are quite extended comic routines (in which yet more impressions are trotted out) that capture the essence of the Rat Pack better than anything else here, ending with an ensemble rendition of "Birth of the Blues."
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
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Elliot Mazer, Producer - The Rat Pack, MainArtist - Matty Malneck, ComposerLyricist - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Richard Rodgers, ComposerLyricist - Lorenz Hart, ComposerLyricist - Elliot Mazer, Producer - Dean Martin, MainArtist - MARK FISHER, ComposerLyricist - Joe Goodwin, ComposerLyricist - Larry Shay, ComposerLyricist - Benjamin, Composer - Thomas Jonson, Composer - Darelid, Composer - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Douglass Cross, Author - Elliot Mazer, Producer - George Cory, Composer - Dean Martin, MainArtist - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Elliot Mazer, Producer - Dean Martin, MainArtist - Joe Young, ComposerLyricist - Fred E. Ahlert, ComposerLyricist - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Alessandro Taccani, ComposerLyricist - Elliot Mazer, Producer - Mitchell Parish, Composer - Francesco Migliacci, Composer - Dean Martin, MainArtist - Domenico Modugno, Composer - Umberto Bertini, ComposerLyricist - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Johnny Mercer, ComposerLyricist - Elliot Mazer, Producer - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Matty Malneck, ComposerLyricist - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Fred Fisher, ComposerLyricist - Elliot Mazer, Producer - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Einar Swan, Composer - Elliot Mazer, Producer - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Elliot Mazer, Producer - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Not Applicable, ComposerLyricist - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Saul I. Chaplin, Composer - Elliot Mazer, Producer - Sammy Cahn, Composer - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Elliot Mazer, Producer - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Larry Stock, Composer - RUSS MORGAN, Composer - Jamie Cullum, Composer - James Cavanagh , Composer - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Anthony Newley, ComposerLyricist - Leslie Bricusse, ComposerLyricist - Elliot Mazer, Producer - Sammy Davis Jr., MainArtist - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Johnny Mercer, ComposerLyricist - Elliot Mazer, Producer - Harold Arlen, ComposerLyricist - Sammy Davis Jr., MainArtist - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Elliot Mazer, Producer - Sammy Davis Jr., MainArtist - Neil Moret, ComposerLyricist - Richard A. Whiting, ComposerLyricist - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Elliot Mazer, Producer - Sammy Davis Jr., MainArtist - Richard Adler , ComposerLyricist - JERRY ROSS, ComposerLyricist - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Elliot Mazer, Producer - Dean Martin, MainArtist - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Not Applicable, ComposerLyricist - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Saul I. Chaplin, Composer - Jimmy Campbell, Composer - Herman Ruby, ComposerLyricist - Reg Connelly, Composer - Leonard Bernstein, ComposerLyricist - Traditional, ComposerLyricist - George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Author - Cole Porter, ComposerLyricist - Stephen Sondheim, ComposerLyricist - Richard Rodgers, ComposerLyricist - Lorenz Hart, Author - Bob Russell, ComposerLyricist - Elliot Mazer, Producer - Sammy Cahn, Composer - AL DUBIN, Composer - Mack Gordon, ComposerLyricist - Howard Dietz, ComposerLyricist - Arthur Schwartz, ComposerLyricist - Dean Martin, MainArtist - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - James V Monaco, Composer - Joseph McCarthy, Author - Harry Revel, ComposerLyricist - Harry M. Woods, Composer - JOE BURKE, Composer - DAVE DREYER, ComposerLyricist - Ary Evangelista Barroso, ComposerLyricist - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Arthur Johnston, Composer - George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Author - Johnny Mercer, ComposerLyricist - Richard Rodgers, Composer, ComposerLyricist - Lorenz Hart, Author, ComposerLyricist - Elliot Mazer, Producer - Dorothy Fields, ComposerLyricist - Johnny Burke, Author - Dean Martin, MainArtist - Jimmy McHugh, ComposerLyricist - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Richard A. Whiting, Composer - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Elliot Mazer, Producer - Sammy Davis Jr., MainArtist - Dean Martin, MainArtist - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Not Applicable, ComposerLyricist - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Elliot Mazer, Producer - Sammy Davis Jr., MainArtist - Ray Henderson, ComposerLyricist - Lew Brown, ComposerLyricist - Dean Martin, MainArtist - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Buddy DeSylva, ComposerLyricist - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Elliot Mazer, Producer - Sammy Davis Jr., MainArtist - Dean Martin, MainArtist - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Not Applicable, ComposerLyricist - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Phil Silvers, Composer - Elliot Mazer, Producer - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Jimmy Van Heusen, Composer - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Elliot Mazer, Producer - Sammy Davis Jr., MainArtist - Billy Rose, ComposerLyricist - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Al Jolson, ComposerLyricist - DAVE DREYER, ComposerLyricist - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Elliot Mazer, Producer - Sammy Davis Jr., MainArtist - Dean Martin, MainArtist - Jack Elliott, Author - Lew Quadling, Composer - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Elliot Mazer, Producer - Sammy Davis Jr., MainArtist - Ray Henderson, ComposerLyricist - Lew Brown, ComposerLyricist - Dean Martin, MainArtist - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Buddy DeSylva, ComposerLyricist - Charles Pignone, Producer - Robert Finkelstein, Producer
℗ 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC
Album review
As a double-dose audiovisual document of the Rat Pack, this two-disc package -- one a CD, one a DVD -- more than lives up to its title. Disc one is an audio-only CD culled from performances given by Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis, Jr. at a Chicago nightclub between November 26 and December 2, 1962, over half of which is previously unreleased. Disc two, never before issued, captures about an hour and a half of a mid-1965 St. Louis performance by the same fellas on DVD, with a young Johnny Carson MCing. How much you like this sort of thing depends almost as much on how much you like the celebrity sleaze-kitsch that the Rat Pack mythology was built upon as you do the trio's estimable vocal abilities. But both parts deliver all the all-around entertainment you'd expect, particularly the DVD portion. As for the CD of the 1962 shows, much of it's devoted to solo turns by Martin, Davis, and Sinatra, each of whom delivers some of the standards deemed highlights of his repertoire. Martin trots out medleys, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," and "Volare"; Sinatra ups the swing with "Goody Goody" and "Chicago"; Davis leads off with "What Kind of Fool Am I." The individual sets are preserved in good sound, but in a way they're just the preamble to the comic sketches between Sinatra and Martin, soon expanded to include Davis as well. These bits (particularly the impressions) don't come off nearly as well on record as they do on film, which gives the DVD a considerable edge for appreciating the Rat Pack experience in all its full-dimensional, oft-corny glory. The strengths and weaknesses of the shtick are amplified on this disc, with Martin playing up his lush persona to the point of distaste, though he does manage to include his then-recent number one hit, "Everybody Loves Somebody." Davis' set perhaps comes off best, and certainly as the most versatile, though his hepcat jazz-swing moves (sometimes backed by just a drummer, not the full orchestra) might strike some true jazzbos as slumming. The Chairman of the Board's set includes some of his audience's faves: "Fly Me to the Moon," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "You Make Me Feel So Young." And though only two "tracks" featuring the entire Rat Pack are listed on the sleeve, actually these are quite extended comic routines (in which yet more impressions are trotted out) that capture the essence of the Rat Pack better than anything else here, ending with an ensemble rendition of "Birth of the Blues."
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 25 track(s)
- Total length: 01:08:59
- Main artists: The Rat Pack
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Rat Pack Video - Ultimate Live
- Genre: Electronic Lounge
© 2003 Frank Sinatra Enterprises, LLC This Compilation ℗ 2014 Frank Sinatra Enterprises, LLC
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