THE RAT PACK SONG PLUS FULL ORCHESTRA

The Rat Pack Song Plus Full Orchestra

I By rights - or at least according to the naysayers - Williams should have quietly gone his way when, in 1996, he was ousted from Take That, the boy band that spawned countless imitations. 02:21 Access the complete album info (20 songs) 10TEN MEDIA 03-11-2017 Best Of. Duetting with an actress who can sing (Jane Horrocks), an actor who can't (Jon Lovitz) and a singer who just happens to be his best mate (Jonathan Wilkes, now playing Jesus at a Godspell near you so much for the pop career, then).Back by popular demand and following sell-out performances across the globe, The Definitive Rat Pack brings you an evening of festive classics, including ‘White Christmas’, ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’, ‘The Christmas Song’ and ‘Let It Snow’, plus all-time favourites including ‘Mack the Knife’, ‘That’s Amore’, ‘Mr Bojangles’ and ‘New York, New York’.Christmas with the Rat Pack Medley: Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow / Jingle Bells / White Christmas / Have Yourself a Merr. Yet here is Robbie Williams at London's Royal Albert Hall, pacing up and down in front of a black-tie crowd of media, celebs and well-wishers, and backed by a 50-plus full orchestra. The Rat Pack was a supergroup of actors originally centred on their leader, Humphrey Bogart, until his death in 1957.By the 1960s, it was the name used by the press and the general public to refer to a later variation of the group that called itself 'the Summit' or 'the Clan,' featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop.Listen to 100 Rat Pack Hits - The Very Best Of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & Sammy Davis Jr The Greatest 50s & 60s Ratpack Swing Classics Collection songs.BY rights, it should never have turned out this way.

Raised on a diet of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Tom Jones - whom he regards as something of a hero - he was quoted as saying more than three years ago, when he was still a rising pop star, that he aspired to the Las Vegas entertainer ethic more than anything else. Yet the gob-smacking price of the tickets (£200 a piece), allied to the fact that the show is sponsored by Lloyds TSB indicates a certain overt neediness in the financial department.Money aside, though (and let's be honest, it's fair enough not to even think about this when you're an invited guest), Williams seems to be donning the suit of the crooner performer for more important reasons. With the Albert Hall show being filmed for subsequent BBC broadcast and DVD/VHS release, one would have thought that was incentive enough. But he didn't he checked himself into rehab, slimmed down, released his dΘbut solo single - a symbolic cover of George Michael's Freedom - and quickly became a pop star once again, albeit on his own terms.So how does he come to be singing Sinatra/Rat Pack songs five years later in a venue that should have been specially renamed the Francis Albert Hall? And, not to put too fine a point on it, why? Williams is hardly doing it for the money, but his latest incarnation seems to smack of several things, one of which is indeed the gathering in of filthy lucre.