The key, of course, is the trio's camaraderie, which remains a delight.
#The rat pack live at the sands series
It continued to tour America as part of the Broadway series for a subsequent four seasons. The show was renamed 'The Ratpack Live from the Sands' when it embarked on its first USA Tour in 2005. Many of the jokes are repeated from previous performances, but some are new. The Rat Pack - Live From Las Vegas is a stage musical produced by Flying Music Group Ltd. As usual, Martin begins with comic rewrites of standards, in particular a version of Cole Porter's "I Love Paris" rendered as "I Love Vegas." Sinatra follows with a straight six-song set, and then he and Martin joke it up for a while before giving way to a brief set by Davis.
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Frank, Dean and Sammy go to town with a collection of old standards and new numbers with a twist. In his liner notes, Bill Zehme quotes Bill Miller, Sinatra's accompanist, as saying that "maybe 30 percent of the act was ad libbed." Miller added, "Usually by Dean," and that sounds right. LIVE AT THE SANDS is The Rat Pack on their home turf-The Sands Hotel, Las Vegas Nevada, 1963. Find album reviews, songs, credits and award information for The Rat Pack Live At The Sands by Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra on AllMusic. This is that recording, and much of it will sound familiar to anyone who has encountered other Rat Pack shows. In September 1963, preparing for another group film, Robin and the Seven Hoods, the three got together during a Martin engagement at the Sands in Las Vegas, and Sinatra had his record label, Reprise, record the proceedings, but ultimately decided against releasing an album at the time. There is film of their performances in 1960 in Las Vegas during the making of Ocean's Eleven, a recording of their show at a nightclub near Chicago in the fall of 1962 legitimately released in 1999 as The Summit: In Concert, and a videotape of a closed-circuit benefit performance from 1965. Between 19 (and briefly in 1988), the three singers performed together off and on, and their stage act has been captured in various media.
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and this previously unreleased live recording. If you enjoy the music of Sammy, Dean and Frank you will love this performance. Marking the release of the remake of Ocean's Eleven, the 1960 Las Vegas caper film starring Frank Sinatra and members of his Rat Pack of friends, Capitol Records issued two Rat Pack albums: a compilation of studio recordings featuring Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis, Jr. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for THE RAT PACK LIVE AT THE SANDS SINATRA MARTIN SAMYY DAVIS JR.