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Boys will be boys, particularly when you put them onstage in front of an adoring audience as ready for a good time as the performers surely are. The Rat Pack thrived in the Las Vegas spotlight, and this exuberant time capsule recording captures all the good-natured mirth and off-color fun that Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. could muster when performing together. The jokes and good-natured clowning around come fast and furious, but the excellence of the singing never seems to suffer, because these guys never played for a laugh at the expense of their inherent artistry. Sinatra and company -- Frankie is of course the top dog, although the others acquit themselves with high honors -- here display the solid professionalism that made them legends in their own time, and beyond.