Boys Night Out by Rat Pack (The) (CD, Sep-2004, Capitol/EMI Records)

Album Features
UPC:	724357089029
Artist:	Rat Pack (The)
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2004
Record Label:	Capitol/EMI Records
Genre:	Classic Pop Vocals, Pop Vocal

Track Listing
THE RATPACK: BOYS NIGHT OUT:
1. Here Goes
2. Who's Got the Action?
3. Yes I Can
4. We Open in Venice
5. You Can't Love 'Em All
6. Ol' MacDonald
7. There Is Nothin' Like a Dame
8. Grazie, Prego, Scusi
9. Boys' Night Out, The
10. Goin's Great, The
11. Guys and Dolls
12. Something's Gotta Give
13. Baby-O
14. River, Stay 'Way From My Door
15. (Love Is) The Tender Trap
16. All in a Night's Work
17. Just One of Those Things
18. Once in a Lifetime
19. Guys and Dolls - (reprise version, bonus track)

Details
Playing Time:	48 min.
Producer:	Charles Pignone (Compilation), Frank Collura (Compilation)
Distributor:	EMI Music Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
In the 1960s, for those looking for a different stylistic bent than what the booming rock world offered, the Rat Pack was the ultimate coterie of cool. That august organization's musical ambassadors, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis, Jr., would often turn up at one another's performances to sing and joke together. While there are extant live recordings of those events, BOYS NIGHT OUT is something different. Despite initial appearances, it's mostly a compilation of studio tracks featuring Sinatra, Davis, and Martin on their own. The feel is uniformly up-tempo and swinging, as the brass brays with abandon and the drums lay down a jazz-inflected beat behind each singer in turn. There are a couple of signature songs (Davis's "Yes I Can" and "The Goin's Great"), but it's mostly more esoteric fare (including, somewhat inexplicably, Sinatra's version of "Ol' MacDonald"). All three vocalists are present on one track, "We Open in Venice," while Martin and Sinatra pair up on both the "Guys and Dolls" theme and its reprise. Throughout the compilation, you can almost hear the dice rolling and the ice cubes clinking in the tumblers.