Rat Pack: Live at the Sands
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Free Music Review: How can you go wrong?
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the RATPACK on the home turf Las Vegas with a nice orchestra INCLUDING strings which add especially on the ballads.
The set is tightly paced throughout and though a few jokes are dated a bit perhaps, I think they hold up well.
Sammy doesn't get to sing a whole lot and he gets picked on the most - some people may be offended and consider that racist. Just the opposite - the whole objective of those jokes was to POKE FUN and RIDICULE racism which back then was still more prevalent. How many doors were opened to black entertainers by the RAT PACK is obvious.......
But back to the show......this is probably the best set that they did together and the sound quality is AMAZING albeit a bit dry (lacking reverb) for my tastes. What was nice is that Sinatra sang a lot of songs which he had (at the time) recently recorded e.g. CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE, PLEASE BE KIND etc. Keep in mind this was yrs before MY WAY and NEW YORK.
So put this CD on, close your eyes and let yourself be transported back into cool land!
Free Music Review: It's your world Frank, I'm just livin' in it."
Hit: 5 Stars
LIVE AT THE SANDS is The Rat Pack on their home turf---The Sands Hotel, Las Vegas Nevada, 1963. Frank, Dean and Sammy go to town with a collection of old standards and new numbers with a twist.
Always humorous, The Rat Pack's soooooo un-PC banter about women, drink, race, sexual orientation and religion doesn't suit the keepers of the morals nowadays (it even gets edited by Amazon.com when written into a review {...}!), but that is precisely what makes it priceless. Topical and yet still timely, The Rat Pack will shock and delight you with their "Ring-a-ding-ding," an unselfconscious world of bourbon, cocktail waitresses, cigarettes, tuxedos and smooth arrangements, all punctuated by man talk. No Clydes allowed.
Although some of this material is reprised from LIVE & SWINGIN' and other collections, the performance in LIVE AT THE SANDS has a vigor and sparkle that can only be gotten from the home-field advantage.
For anyone wishing to experience The Rat Pack at their best, LIVE AT THE SANDS is it, baby!
Free Music Review: It's a swinger! A humdinger!
Hit: 5 Stars
I just really started to listen to Frank Sinatra, and am already a huge fan. However, I wanted to find something by the Rat Pack that I could listen too as well. I bought this CD yesterday, and I don't regret it. The music is intermingled with great comedic monologues between Frank, Dean, and Sammy. They didn't just sing well, they were really funny, too. For example:DEAN: "Joe E. Lewis once said you're not drunk if you can lay on the floor without hangin' on."
The gems of the disk, though; are when Dean sings "I love Vegas(Paris)", and when Sammy sings a great version of "The Lady is a Tramp" that I had never heard before(but it's quickly becoming my favorite version). My only regret is that Sammy didn't get to sing more, because he did a great job. By this CD! You won't regret it.
Free Music Review: A Wonerful Melodic and Humorus experience
Hit: 5 Stars
The singing is great and historical, the songs are pithy and memorable, but the dialogues! Wow! These dialogues are not for those who are rigid in their concepts of political correctness, but for those with a genuine sense of humor and a love of the singers and their days in history, and some rebellion about today's insistence of being "politically Corredt" this CD will have you roaring with laughter. The moral is this: The three men truly are humann and love each other so their digs at each other come through with rhis glow of love, not meanness. There is a historical difference between the humor of today and the humor of the Rat Pacck. They could laugh at themselves and love each other while doing it; today. much of the humor is disguised anger with demeaning the other as its goal. Love and laugh with this CDFree Music Review: Unique and Unforgettable Transport to A Special Time
Hit: 5 Stars
The special friendship between Sinatra,Martin, and Davis tranforms their Rat Pack performances into a unique and quintescentially American experience. The Sands and other Rat Pack venues defined the glitzy night club era in the US in the 60s, and this CD transports you back to that time and place. Musicianship is superb, all the performers revel in the height of their powers. Listening to this CD you soon come to believe that the trio are having at least as much fun as the audience and would put on the show just for their own fun if they could! A truly high-quality audio recording contributes to the uncanny realism and "you are there" fun. Slip a 10 spot to the matre'd and see you at table 12!