December 8 movie: Most Famous Hits: The Rat Pack. This poorly labeled DVD from Netflix was actually concert footage from a benefit show Frank, Dean and Sammy did in St. Louis in 1965. Georg recognized it because Johnny Carson was MCing the show instead of Joey Bishop.
The DVD cut most of the banter & kept just the songs. Great songs, too. Count Basie Orchestra backed up Frank and Sammy, which was fantastic.
One caveat about the DVD: it starts with a "table of contents" of sorts, where they showed the first 5-10 seconds of each song to come. Just when you start to get into a song, they'd switch to the next one. There wasn't any explanation and we thought at first that was all we were going to see. We were prepared to be pissed off, and then the concert started for real.
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