http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asEEwMnW2PY&feature=related
sammy's production of goldern boy!! i dont think its particularly easy to find these... yay!!
Saturday 1 March 2008
Monday 11 February 2008
Friday 8 February 2008
The actual FBI files for the Kefauver Hearings...
Hey guys this link leads to the files from the hearings that the FBI held with regard to the goings-on of the Mafia, Frank is called before them... the link works really slowely on my computer so i haven't been able to check it out fully but it should prove very helpful, and interesting, if you are doing about the Mafia!
Follow this Link:
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/sinatra.htm
Follow this Link:
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/sinatra.htm
Sunday 20 January 2008
Tuesday 15 January 2008
Tuesday 8 January 2008
Hi People,
Just wondered if anyone could help or had any ideas?.... I am researching the role that the mafia had on the rat pack and I have loads of info as a genral overview but finding it hard to come up with individual connections with Mafia and Sammy, Peter and Joey. If anyone has any ideas let me know, thanks x
Just wondered if anyone could help or had any ideas?.... I am researching the role that the mafia had on the rat pack and I have loads of info as a genral overview but finding it hard to come up with individual connections with Mafia and Sammy, Peter and Joey. If anyone has any ideas let me know, thanks x
Saturday 5 January 2008
Friday 4 January 2008
reply from the musical director of rat pack live at las vegas
hi guys as i said before i wrote ot the muscial director of the west end show about the birellie sisters. follows is the email i sent him and then is his reply:
To Mr Robinson,
I am a third year drama student at the University of Huddersfield and as part of my degree I am involved in a module titled 'disecting the Rat Pack.'
I have seen on your resume that you were the musical director of the Rat Pack show at The Strand theatre and wondered if you could help me (and my classmates) with a question that we have.
We recently watched the touring Christmas show in Bradford (I can't remember the exact title... something like 'Christmas with the Rat Pack' I think!) And, although we enjoyed it we did wonder who the three female backing singers are supposed to be? From the research I have done I have not found any reference to women on stage with them at the summit performances. We have thought perhaps that they are supposed to represent certain women from their personal and public lives (Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe etc..) but apart from that we were a little confused. Also to my knowledge there was not an act called the Berelli Sisters and therefore I am confused.
If you could give me any help at all it would be most useful! thank you so much.
Yours,
Hannah Freeman
so then he said...
Dear Hannah
Many thanks for your email and what a great subject you have picked for studying for your degree!
In answer to your question, you are absolutely right, the Berelli Sisters did not exist nor did they represent any other group or females at the time. In fact Frank Sinatra in particular abhored production and I know that when he was in Monte Carlo,later in life, typically the one year I did not do,they rehearsed an opening number for him with 20 girl dancers and he just said he didn't want it! So certainly would not have wanted any girls as part of "The Rat Pack" which epitomized testosterone gone mad!
The Berelli sisters in the Rat Pack show are just a generic group of girls that are really there as a vehicle for the choreographer . Personally, I never particularly found their contribution that pertinent to the Rat Pack show. There were a couple of girl groups around at the time one of which was the Mcgovern sisters I think, of which one of them was having an affair with "Giancana', who know doubt you have discovered was a big mafia boss and pal of Frank Sinatra. That's about as tenuous as any links to female groups go.
I am sure you are well on the case, but 2 good books about the Rat Pack are Shawn Levy " Rat Pack Confidential" and Lawrence J Quirk and William Schoell "The Rat Pack" Neon Lights With The Kings Of Cool.
I do hope this is of some help and wish you well with your studies, if I can be of further assistance let me know and well done for choosing such an excellent subject matter.
Best Wishes and Happy New Year.
Barry
Barry Robinson
Director
Bazza Music Ltd
(+44) 01923 679679(o)
(+44) 07860 152121(m)
bazzamusic@mac.com
To Mr Robinson,
I am a third year drama student at the University of Huddersfield and as part of my degree I am involved in a module titled 'disecting the Rat Pack.'
I have seen on your resume that you were the musical director of the Rat Pack show at The Strand theatre and wondered if you could help me (and my classmates) with a question that we have.
We recently watched the touring Christmas show in Bradford (I can't remember the exact title... something like 'Christmas with the Rat Pack' I think!) And, although we enjoyed it we did wonder who the three female backing singers are supposed to be? From the research I have done I have not found any reference to women on stage with them at the summit performances. We have thought perhaps that they are supposed to represent certain women from their personal and public lives (Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe etc..) but apart from that we were a little confused. Also to my knowledge there was not an act called the Berelli Sisters and therefore I am confused.
If you could give me any help at all it would be most useful! thank you so much.
Yours,
Hannah Freeman
so then he said...
Dear Hannah
Many thanks for your email and what a great subject you have picked for studying for your degree!
In answer to your question, you are absolutely right, the Berelli Sisters did not exist nor did they represent any other group or females at the time. In fact Frank Sinatra in particular abhored production and I know that when he was in Monte Carlo,later in life, typically the one year I did not do,they rehearsed an opening number for him with 20 girl dancers and he just said he didn't want it! So certainly would not have wanted any girls as part of "The Rat Pack" which epitomized testosterone gone mad!
The Berelli sisters in the Rat Pack show are just a generic group of girls that are really there as a vehicle for the choreographer . Personally, I never particularly found their contribution that pertinent to the Rat Pack show. There were a couple of girl groups around at the time one of which was the Mcgovern sisters I think, of which one of them was having an affair with "Giancana', who know doubt you have discovered was a big mafia boss and pal of Frank Sinatra. That's about as tenuous as any links to female groups go.
I am sure you are well on the case, but 2 good books about the Rat Pack are Shawn Levy " Rat Pack Confidential" and Lawrence J Quirk and William Schoell "The Rat Pack" Neon Lights With The Kings Of Cool.
I do hope this is of some help and wish you well with your studies, if I can be of further assistance let me know and well done for choosing such an excellent subject matter.
Best Wishes and Happy New Year.
Barry
Barry Robinson
Director
Bazza Music Ltd
(+44) 01923 679679(o)
(+44) 07860 152121(m)
bazzamusic@mac.com
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