Live and Swingin': The Ultimate Rat Pack Collection

Disc 1
1	Fanfare & Introduction 0:43
2	Medley: Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes/When You're Smiling/The ... 3:52
3	I Left My Heart in San Francisco 3:18
4	I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (And Write Myself a Letter) 1:46
5	Medley: Volare/On an Evening in Roma 2:30
6	Goody Goody 1:34
7	Chicago 2:08
8	When Your Lover Has Gone 2:35
9	Monologue 1:16
10	Please Be Kind 2:45
11	You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You 3:13
12	What Kind of Fool Am I? 3:01
13	Out of This World 3:36
14	She's Funny That Way 1:56
15	Hey There 1:46
16	Comedy 4:09
17	Medley 1: Brazil/You Are Too Beautiful/Cecilia (Does Your Mother ...) 5:09
18	Medley 2: I Can't Give You Anything But Love/Too Marvelous for Words 8:35
19	Impressions 2:15
20	Birth of the Blues 2:22
21	Danny Thomas Introduction 1:03
22	Nancy (With the Laughing Face) 2:29
23	Me and My Shadow 2:30
24	Sam's Song 2:43
25	Birth of the Blues (Reprise) 1:30
Disc 2
1	Johnny Carson Monologue DVD
2	Send Me the Pillow You Dream On DVD
3	King of the Road DVD
4	Everybody Loves Somebody DVD
5	Medley: Volare/On an Evening in Roma DVD
6	You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
7	My Shining Hour DVD
8	Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) DVD
9	I've Got You Under My Skin DVD
10	You Came a Long Way from St. Louis DVD
11	You Are My Sunshine DVD
12	Bee-Bom DVD
13	One for My Baby DVD
14	Get Me to the Church on Time DVD
15	Fly Me to the Moon DVD
16	Luck Be a Lady DVD
17	I Only Have Eyes for You DVD
18	I've Got You Under My Skin DVD
19	Please Be Kind DVD
20	You Make Me Feel So Young DVD
21	My Kind of Town DVD
22	Happy Birthday DVD
23	Birth of the Blues DVD

Barnes & Noble

Boys will be boys, particularly when you put them onstage in front of an adoring audience as ready for a good time as the performers surely are. The Rat Pack thrived in the Las Vegas spotlight, and this exuberant time capsule recording captures all the good-natured mirth and off-color fun that Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. could muster when performing together. The jokes and good-natured clowning around come fast and furious, but the excellence of the singing never seems to suffer, because these guys never played for a laugh at the expense of their inherent artistry. Sinatra and company -- Frankie is of course the top dog, although the others acquit themselves with high honors -- here display the solid professionalism that made them legends in their own time, and beyond. William Pearl

All Music Guide

As a double-dose audiovisual document of the Rat Pack, this two-disc package -- one a CD, one a DVD -- more than lives up to its title. Disc one is an audio-only CD culled from performances given by Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis, Jr. at a Chicago nightclub between November 26 and December 2, 1962, over half of which is previously unreleased. Disc two, never before issued, captures about an hour and a half of a mid-1965 St. Louis performance by the same fellas on DVD, with a young Johnny Carson MCing. 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. But both parts deliver all the all-around entertainment you'd expect, particularly the DVD portion. As for the CD of the 1962 shows, much of it's devoted to solo turns by Martin, Davis, and Sinatra, each of whom delivers some of the standards deemed highlights of his repertoire. Martin trots out medleys, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," and "Volare"; Sinatra ups the swing with "Goody Goody" and "Chicago"; Davis leads off with "What Kind of Fool Am I." The individual sets are preserved in good sound, but in a way they're just the preamble to the comic sketches between Sinatra and Martin, soon expanded to include Davis as well. These bits (particularly the impressions) don't come off nearly as well on record as they do on film, which gives the DVD a considerable edge for appreciating the Rat Pack experience in all its full-dimensional, oft-corny glory. The strengths and weaknesses of the shtick are amplified on this disc, with Martin playing up his lush persona to the point of distaste, though he does manage to include his then-recent number one hit, "Everybody Loves Somebody." Davis' set perhaps comes off best, and certainly as the most versatile, though his hepcat jazz-swing moves (sometimes backed by just a drummer, not the full orchestra) might strike some true jazzbos as slumming. The Chairman of the Board's set includes some of his audience's faves: "Fly Me to the Moon," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "You Make Me Feel So Young." And though only two "tracks" featuring the entire Rat Pack are listed on the sleeve, actually these are quite extended comic routines (in which yet more impressions are trotted out) that capture the essence of the Rat Pack better than anything else here, ending with an ensemble rendition of "Birth of the Blues." Richie Unterberger