The Rat Pack - Live at Villa Venice Chicago 1961 2CD TQMP torrent

Review taken from Sinatraguide.com

This release is one of the first full concerts of the Rat Pack that ever made it to CD. A trimmed-down version was released by Artanis Entertainment, but this is the only set that contains the full, nearly 104 minute show. Currently available as part of a CD/DVD combo Live and Swingin', this pair of CD's is nonetheless an important document of the Rat Pack in action. First off, if you've never heard a show by the Rat Pack, then it's an experience where you leave feeling like you had to be there. Some of the jokes are purely physical, so that the laughs of the audience and the stars are incomprehensible to the listener. Also, the humor is
very topical, from Sinatra: "Shut up, Sam, and sit in the back of the bus!" Davis: "Jewish people don't sit in the back of the bus!" Sinatra: "Jewish people own the bus!" - to Dean's trademark drunken humor, much of the time the audience is laughing only because they're drunk themselves. Nevertheless, the affection that these three friends have for one another is palpable, and even if the skits aren't as off-the-cuff as they seem, it still sounds like they're having a great time. Vocally, Sammy comes off the best, with burn-down-the-house renditions of "What Kind Of Fool Am I?" and "Birth Of The Blues" - Frank on the other hand, seems much more casual in his numbers, almost throwing away songs like "Goody Goody" and "Please Be Kind."

Disc One

Dean Martin
1. Parody on: When your Smiling/The Lady is a Tramp
2. Comedy Monologue
3. I Left My Heart in San Francisco
4. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
5. Medley: Volare/An Evening in Roma

Frank Sinatra
6. Goody Goody
7. Chicago
8. When Your Lover has Gone
9. Comedy Monologue
10. Please Be Kind
11. You're Nobody Until Somebody Loves You

Sammy Davis Jr.
12. What Kind of Fool am I
13. Out of This World
14. She's Funny That Way
15. Hey There

Disc Two
1. Sammy Doing Impressions
2. Comedy with All 3
3. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
4. Too Marvelous for Words
5. Pennies From Heaven
6. A Foggy Day
7. Comedy
8. Embraceable You
9. The Lady is a Tramp
10. Where or When
11. Impressions by all 3
12. Birth of the Blues
13. Nancy
14. Me and My Shadow
15. Sam's Song
16. Birth of the Blues Closing by all 3

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