Author: Frank Sinatra

Format: Original recording remastered

Release Date: 20-11-2001

Details: Amazon.ca The Rat Pack Live at the Sands was a Sinatra project that never saw the light of day during his lifetime. Recorded in September 1963 it is as much an indictment as a celebration of a way of life that got Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr their harum-scarum reputations in the late 50s and early 60s. Sinatra's many apologists always took the side of the celebrants, but there was always a sense that the act these three men so enjoyed mounting for the benefit of Las Vegas patrons was a series of private jokes or cameos that happened to be witnessed by an audience. The audience was, essentially, superfluous for this particular circus in which there was only one ringleader--Frank Sinatra. All the comedy routines carefully tread around him, with Martin and Davis leading in self-deprecating jokes and Sinatra sticking to written repartee. All changes with the songs, where Sinatra is at once the serious artist delivering meaning from deep within him, while Martin gets hung up on impersonations and Davis is just a little too mindful of being Mr Entertainment. Perhaps that's why it didn't get released: Sinatra is so far out front of his pals that, jokes aside, it's a touch embarrassing. --Keith Shadwick

UPC: 724353661526

EAN: 0724353661526

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood