It’s an opportunity to catch three of America’s greatest showmen in their tigerish prime (with Carson along for the ride), before they became total legends and turned into leather. It has the glamorous wham of a championship prizefight. (A two-volume compact disc exists of the Rat Pack performing at the Villa Venice club in Chicago in 1962-a gig they were strong-armed into doing by the mobster Sam Giancana.) The Rat Pack kine-scope, found in a closet at the Dismas House, is more than a historical curio. The edited 90-minute version of the benefit-featuring Frank, Dino, Sammy, and Johnny-represents the only known full-length video of the Rat Pack in performance. A recently discovered kinescope of this bash-under the new title, The Rat Pack Captured-will be screened this month at the Museum of Television & Radio in New York and at the Los Angeles branch, and will also be broadcast later this year on “Nick at Nite”’s cable channel. Joey Bishop was listed on the original program, but had to bow out when he “slipped a disk backing out of Frank’s presence,” according to Carson, his replacement, who was only three years into his tenure as host of The Tonight Show.
Sinatra said, “Be there,” and they were there-Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Trini Lopez, Kaye Stevens, and an amalgamation of two different bands, including members of the Count Basie Orchestra, conducted by a lean cat named Quincy Jones. The year is 1965 the event, billed as a “Frank Sinatra Spectacular” and broadcast on closed circuit to theaters across the country, is a benefit for Father Dismas Clark’s Half-Way House for excons. ” With these words of mock homage, an astonishingly young and lanky Johnny Carson introduces Frank Sinatra to the stage of the Kiel Opera House in St.
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No matter which tribute artist is performing you can be guaranteed that Feeney has full confidence in the various impersonators dedication to be the best The Rat Pack Is Back! tribute show.‘I present our hoodlum singer. Guests can also indulge in a three course price-fix meal option at the Garden Café which includes cuisine selections for vegetarians and meat lovers. The intimate feeling within the showroom is superb and will remind guests of returning to the Sands in the 1960s to listen to the Rat Pack. The Copa Showroom is the perfect venue for such a tribute concert of such great artists. Patrons will have fond memories of the evening as the tribute artists roll through such hits as guests are leaving the Copa Showroom. Dean was famous for years for his off color liquor jokes and if you are lucky there might be an appearance by Joey Bishop who can add to the tom foolery. Everything seems to work in this tribute show. Dean points out that he is on a whiskey diet and that he has lost four days this week. Sammy likes to point out that he is part Puerto Rican, Jewish and of course black. The show includes a steady inflow of off the collar jokes by many of the tribute artists. Guests can also expect the tribute artists to reunite on the stage for their finale, where they might sing a snappy rendition of Luck Be a Lady, New York New York or Lady is a Tramp. Sammy and Frank have been known to perform a stirring duo of Me and My Shadow or guests can expect a Sammy and Dean duet of What Kind of Fool Am I or perhaps That Old Black Magic. Frank likes to get in the act with versions of Fly Me to the Moon and My Way.
Don’t be surprised if Dean wows the women with That’s Amore, Drink to Me with Thine Eyes and Ain’t That a Kick in the Head. As the show progresses each Rat Pack tribute artist of the evening has a solo portion of the show that includes several songs. Suddenly the stage explodes into excitement when a twelve piece orchestra starts up with some lively music. All the time the janitor is sweeping, he is talking about the good old days of Las Vegas entertainment. The Rat Pack is Back! begins with a custodian appearing on stage with a broom.
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