That line has been used in a mock-serious tone to promote Nick at Nite's recycled classics. ''Together presenting our television heritage,'' the tag line reads. This show, 90 minutes long and in black and white, is preceded by a logo crediting the museum and the cable television's Nick at Nite, which have joined in a project to reclaim lost programs. Eventually, everyone sings together, even Mr. On ''I've Got You Under My Skin,'' he changes ''Don't you know you fool/You never can win,'' into ''You ain't never gonna win.'' During those moments it is impossible not to hear Phil Hartman on ''Saturday Night Live'' doing his dead-on Sinatra impression, with hundreds of other caricatures echoing behind it. And he does that thing where he switches lyrics in the hokiest way. His voice was still strong, but music doesn't get in the way of the Vegas-style joking with his pals. This was a Sinatra spectacular, and he performs last. He says he's black, Jewish and Puerto Rican when he moves into a neighborhood he can clear it out instantly. He makes racial jokes that would never be made today. To move an annotation to different lyrics in the song, use the. ''I would like to do a saloon song for you, if I may,'' he says. Martin’s second song was King Of The Road, followed by more one-liners based around his heavy drinking. He sprinkles his patter with overly polite phrases that would soon seem unctuous. He dances the monkey, the jerk and the swim, demonstrating these newfangled steps for an audience of formally dressed couples. But it is impossible to forget this is 1965. Sammy Davis, with Count Basie's orchestra behind him, is the strongest musically. He was still honing the I-can-hardly-stand-up drunken act, which became more comic and winking as time went on. Carson says, sounding the Sinatra-as-godfather theme.ĭean Martin performs first, doing some badly dated songs including ''King of the Road.'' Eventually he gets to the song that had recently become his signature, ''Everybody Loves Somebody.'' Here is a less energetic version of his television persona. ''Joey slipped a disk backing out in Frank's presence,'' Mr. Johnny Carson, then early in his tenure on the ''Tonight'' show, played host as a last-minute substitute for Joey Bishop, who had hurt his back. Louis to benefit a halfway house for ex-convicts and was broadcast on closed-circuit television around the country. Those styles have been clouded by years of parodies here is a chance to see a straightforward original.Ĭalled ''The Frank Sinatra Spectacular,'' the show was staged in St. In 1965 you can see the mannerisms and routines that would become exaggerated signatures. Sinatra made ''My Way'' his boastful theme and begin to build his legend. Three months later, Dean Martin began his long-running television variety show. The show, the only complete performance of these three known to exist, will be screened at the Museum of Television and Radio beginning tomorrow and running through June 12.Įntertaining and revealingly dated, the program captures the Rat Pack members almost minutes before they became caricatures of themselves. are frozen in time (or as they might have put it, swingin' through time). In ''The Rat Pack Captured,'' a recently rediscovered tape of a live television performance from June 1965, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. ''Fly Me to the Moon'' is arranged with a steady laid-back rhythm rarely heard outside malls and elevators these days. ♪♪ And Marseille is charming with champagne on ice ♪♪ĭean: ♪♪ You're gay and I don't approve.They come onstage snapping their fingers, smoking cigarettes, joking about being happy drunks. ♪♪ A ding-a-ling a ching-a-chong a chinga-chong-chu ♪♪ The Rat Pack - Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette) Lyrics. All your favorite once acceptable hits like "Drunk Old Injun":įrank: ♪♪ She's got a big beautiful Jewish nose ♪♪Īnnouncer: Dean Martin singing "Chinaman's Chance" Announcer: From Time-Life Music comes a one-of-a-kind Rat Pack Collection.
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