The Rat Pack - Live Village Vanguard Chigaco 1961 2CD TQMP

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 Brought to you by TQMP. (The Quality Music Project) In this project me and my fellow pirates share only quality items out of our CD collections in lossless FLAC and include covers, especially for those who like to burn and print and put it in a nice and shiny jewelcase. Well, you all know the drill :) Ripped by Exact Audio Copy V0.99 from 01-23-2008, encoded to FLAC with 1024kb/s Get Your Free Copy of the EAC and FLAC suite at: http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/resources/download/ Please feel free to join the TQMP project! The "rules" are simple: Rip your CD (no 1980's cassettetapes or vinylrips please!) in lossless format AND include artwork. Include cue- and logfiles for the purists and the TQMP searchtag in your title, so it can easily be found. (Yes, on Google as well..) You can find all TQMP uploads at: www.thepiratebay.se (Simply use the TQMP searchtag :) Contact: [email protected] /* */ Greetings to ya'all from the Breezin Dutchman! d:)

udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80
udp://open.demonii.com:1337
udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969
udp://exodus.desync.com:6969

Cowgill (2008-12-27)

Thanks for sharing...

music60 (2009-01-08)

Thank you very much!

Oblivilot (2012-06-24)

This stuff is brilliant! I had a copy of this all tracked out at some point. Was just searching for it. Will keep the seed up, enjoy~

Oblivilot (2012-06-27)

Even though the tracker (to me) isn't showing any seeds, it has been seeding out from my copy since I jumped on. In the next couple days, I will take these WAV files and divide them up into tracks resembling the indicated song list. I used to have a version like that, all divided up, not sure if this is from the same source, or what. Will put up a link on this comment section for the new torrent when I get it sectioned into tracks/songs.

Oblivilot (2012-07-11)

Ok, this is actually all set for you to track out at home, I finally figured it out. You have a source audio file for each disk, and a .cue file for each disk. the .cue files contain the song title and track timing info. Just get "Foobar", a free piece of software that allows one to extract these disk image files into the tracks, a .wav, .flac, .mp3, etc.