Sammy Davis Jr. group, she said, "You all look like a pack of rats." The nickname caught on, and they were called the Rat Pack, the name of its earlier incarnation led by Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, who originally made the remark of the "pack of rats" about the group around her husband Bogart. The group around Sinatra made several movies together, including "Ocean's 11" (1960), "Sergeants 3" (1962), and "Robin and the 7 Hoods" (1964), and they performed onstage together in Las Vegas. Davis was a headliner at The Frontier Casino in Las Vegas, but he was required (as were all
Starring Sammy Davis Jr. released five months later. The Allmusic review by William Ruhlmann awarded the album three and a half stars and said that the final track "The Birth of the Blues", "succeeded in giving the listener a sense of what Davis was like in live performance". Starring Sammy Davis Jr. Starring Sammy Davis Jr. is the debut studio album by Sammy Davis Jr., recorded in 1955. Five of the songs on "Starring Sammy Davis Jr." had been previously released as singles ("Hey There," "And This Is My Beloved," "Because of You," "Glad to Be Unhappy," and "Birth of the Blues"), one of