At Villa Venice, Chicago, Live 1962, Vol. 1 (1962)

If this were a legitimate release, this set of two CDs, featuring Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis, Jr., would have been one of Sinatra's top sellers. This bootleg is based on an apparently authorized recording, all of it professionally edited and assembled. It never saw the light of day, possibly because there wasn't quite enough of Sinatra, or there was too much joking around and not enough music, or, equally likely, because the Villa Venice was a nightclub owned by Sam Giancana, and Sinatra was already having enough ... Read More

If this were a legitimate release, this set of two CDs, featuring Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis, Jr., would have been one of Sinatra's top sellers. This bootleg is based on an apparently authorized recording, all of it professionally edited and assembled. It never saw the light of day, possibly because there wasn't quite enough of Sinatra, or there was too much joking around and not enough music, or, equally likely, because the Villa Venice was a nightclub owned by Sam Giancana, and Sinatra was already having enough trouble in the press by 1963 for his alleged mob ties. In any event, this is one of the best informal concert documents that Sinatra left behind, even if he shares a lot of the spotlight with Martin and Davis, a fact that makes this the ultimate "Rat Pack" audio document, with a priceless mix of music and comedy. Disc One begins with Dean Martin's opening of the show, doing his freewheeling drunk act, followed by a genuinely funny comedy monologue, before favoring the audience with several straightforward songs. Sinatra follows with five numbers -- he's in good voice and even better form, and very funny in his comedy monologue as well. Disc One concludes with Davis' spot, in which he sings and does a considerable amount of comedy "heckled" by Sinatra; this continues on Disc Two, which opens with Davis' impressions and a 20-minute comedy sequence by the three of them, bouncing insults (and what, today, would seem to be some racially insensitive cracks by Sinatra). The rest is all music, with Davis, Martin and/or Sinatra doing pleasing impromptu renditions of standards. Martin provides comic heckling during Sinatra's set and vice versa, but it all holds together. And Sinatra's version of "Nancy," done in response to an audience request, is one the best performances of anything that he ever recorded. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi Read Less

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