1988 Oakland Coliseum, California
The "TOGETHER AGAIN" Tour (opening)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Other Performers: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, jr.
Dean:
1. When You're Drinking / Bourbon From Heaven
2. Everybody Loves Somebody
3. Where Or When
4. Welcome To My World
5. Here Comes My Baby Back Again
6.. Little Ol' Winemaker Me
7. That's Amore
Sammy:
8. Here I'll Stay
9. monologue
10. Another Spring
11. I've Gotta Be Me
12. Medley: Sam & Drums
13. The Candy Man
14. What Kind Of Fool Am I
15. Mr. Bojangles
Frank:
16. I've Got The World On A String
17. What Now My Love
18. Maybe This Time
19. For Once In My Life
20. This Is All I Ask
21. Mack The Knife
22. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
23. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
24. New York, Now York
Frank, Dean & Sammy:
25. comedy
26. medley: Side By Side / I've Heard That Song Before / All Or Nothing
At All / Memories Are Made Of This / Something's Gotta Give / Love
And Marriage / Volare / That Old Black Magic / Witchcraft / Bye Bye
Blackbird / I Got Plenty O'Nuttin' / Come Fly With Me / Gonna Build
A Mountain / Oh, Marie / Hava Negilah / All Of Me / You'r Nobody
Till Somebody Love You
27. The Oldest Established
UPI ARCHIVES MARCH 14, 1988'Rat Pack' reunites for nostalgic tourBy
JOHN M. LEIGHTY OAKLAND, Calif. -- 'Rat Pack' cronies Frank Sinatra, Sammy
Davis Jr., and Dean Martin kicked off a nostalgic 29-city reunion concert tour
in characteristic style -- crooning and clowning.
Sinatra, 72, Martin, 70, and Davis, 62, the hottest, wildest bunch in show
business in their heydey, each received standing ovations as they took the
stage Sunday night in the debut of their 'Together Again National Concert Tour
An adoring sold-out Oakland Coliseum Arena crowd of 15,000 is expected to be
followed by other packed houses along their 40-performance tour that will
reportedly net $500,000 a night. They open next in Vancouver B.C., March 15.
Tickets went for $30 and $40. Souvenir programs sold briskly at $10 each.
The three veteran performers -- backed by a 35-piece orchestra - sang their
favorite songs separately, then took the stage together for a well-received
finale of jokes, good-natured ribbing and medleys.
The three first appeared together 28 years ago at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas.
When Martin and Davis joined Sinatra for the close of the 2 -hour show, Davis
told Sinatra he brought him a 'Golden Age Cocktail' made of Geritol and prune
juice. 'It gets you going and keeps you going,' the 'youngster' of the trio
said.
Davis also told Sinatra, 'You're still chairman of the board,' a reference to
Sinatra's leadership in their old 'Hollywood Rat Pack,' a loosely organized
group that included Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lawford, Shirley MacLaine, Joey
Bishop, Tony Curtis and Sammy Cahn.
'I'm still chairman and we're still bored,' Sinatra joked.
Their fans, bedecked in gold chains and a smattering of minks and diamonds,
would have none of that.
'The songs they played 20 years ago are still good now,' said Millie Jasmin of
Alameda, who laughingly gave her age as 39. 'I know I get chills. I may even
cry.'
Martin opened the show and did most of the clowning around, heavy with booze
gags.
As he climbed onstage with a slow, tipsy motion, took a sip from his cocktail
glass, he looked at the audience and in a slurred tone asked: 'How long have I
been on?'
The joke brought down the house.
He then sang a series of spoofs like 'When You're Drinking' and 'Bourbon from
Heaven.'
But people began yelling 'louder, louder' after Martin's song selections turned
serious and his voice could not carry to the top of the Coliseum.
Davis said he hadn't been so nervous in 54 years of show business but provided
some of the show's strongest singing with tunes like, 'I've Gotta Be Me' and
doing a few dance steps, although he limped slightly.
Sinatra sang 10 tunes starting with 'Got the World on a String,' and ending
with what he called his national anthem, 'New York, New York.' In between, the
crooner known as Ol' Blue Eyes sang romantic oldies and belted out an
enthusiastic 'Mack the Knife' to loud applause.
The tour also goes to Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh,
Cleveland and several other stops before playing New York's Radio City Music
Hall May 6-9. The tour plays Los Angeles July 7-10 before taking a break. It
cranks up again Sept. 17 in Houston before going east to play in 11 more cities.
