Dean Martin man, Martin spent a lot of time with his family; as second wife Jeanne put it, prior to the couple's divorce, "He was home every night for dinner." As Martin's solo career grew, he and Frank Sinatra became friends. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Martin and Sinatra, along with friends Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, and Sammy Davis, Jr. formed the Rat Pack, so-called after an earlier group of social friends, the Holmby Hills Rat Pack centered on Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, of which Sinatra had been a member (The Martin-Sinatra-Davis-Lawford-Bishop group referred to themselves as "The Summit"
The Sammy Davis Jr. All-Star Spectacular infectious sense of humor". The Sammy Davis Jr. All-Star Spectacular The Sammy Davis Jr. All-Star Spectacular is a 1962 studio album by Sammy Davis Jr. arranged by Morty Stevens. The first half of the album features Davis' impersonations of popular entertainers and celebrities. Lindsay Planer on Allmusic.com gave the album four stars out of five. Planer commented that Davis had been recorded like never before, both as a dynamic vocalist and as an actor of equally impressive proficiency. Planer described "All-Star Spectacular" as a unique album, capitalising on Davis' sizable talents as a "seminal master of melody and allowing for