The Phat Pack The Phat Pack The Phat Pack is the third studio album by the jazz ensemble Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band. Goodwin received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Instrumental Arrangement for the song "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes". The title is a parody of the Rat Pack, a group of friends and performers during the 1960s which included Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. Goodwin arranged cover versions of two songs that were associated with the Rat Pack, "Too Close for Comfort" and "It Was a Very Good Year", and a hit from the 1970s, "Play That Funky Music". Soloists
Frank Sinatra Jr. a reputation for rigorous rehearsals and demanding standards for his musicians. Sinatra appeared in the Sammy Davis Jr. drama "A Man Called Adam" in 1966. Sinatra also played a deputy district attorney, named Gino Bardi, on the television crime drama "Adam-12", in the episode titled "Clinic on 18th Street" (originally broadcast on March 13, 1974). His other acting credits included roles in "Aru heishi no kake" (1970) with Dale Robertson, "Code Name Zebra" (1987) opposite James Mitchum, and "Hollywood Homicide" (2003) with Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett. The National Archives now houses a 15-minute song and monologue composed by Sinatra