The Ultimate Rat Pack Collection: Live & Swingin' | |
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Released | October 14, 2003 |
Recorded | Various Dates |
Genre | Vocal jazz, pop |
Length | 68:44 |
Label | Reprise Records |
The Ultimate Rat Pack Collection: Live & Swingin' is a 2003 album compiling songs by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis, Jr.
Disc one is a compact disc compiling live performances at a Chicago nightclub between November 26 and December 2, 1962 (over half of which was previously unreleased). Disc two is a 90-minute DVD featuring never-before-issued footage of a St. Louis performance from the mid-1960s with a young Johnny Carson emceeing. [1]
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The Allmusic review by Richie Unterberger awarded the album four and a half stars. "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," Unterberger states, "But both parts deliver all the all-around entertainment you'd expect." [1]
Dean Martin was an American actor, singer and comedian. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the mid-20th century, Martin was nicknamed "The King of Cool" for his seemingly effortless charisma and self-assurance.
The Rat Pack was an informal group of entertainers centered on the Las Vegas casino venue. They originated as a group of friends who met at the Los Angeles home of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. In the 1960s, the group featured Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop among others. They appeared together on stage and in films in the early 1960s, including the movies Ocean's 11, Sergeants 3, and Robin and the 7 Hoods. Sinatra, Martin, and Davis were regarded as the group's lead members after Bogart's death.
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