The Ultimate Rat Pack Collection: Live & Swingin' The Ultimate Rat Pack Collection: Live & Swingin' The Ultimate Rat Pack Collection: Live & Swingin' is a 2003 album compiling songs by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis, Jr. Disc one is a compact disc is a compilation of live performances at a Chicago nightclub between November 26 and December 2, 1962 (over half of which was previously unreleased). Disc two is a 90-minute DVD featuring never-before-issued footage of a St. Louis performance from the mid-1960s with a young Johnny Carson emceeing. The Allmusic review by Richie Unterberger awarded the album four and a half stars. "How much
Son of the Velvet Rat Son of the Velvet Rat Son of the Velvet Rat is an Austrian band. As well as founders singer Georg Altziebler and accordionist Heike Binder, the band includes Albrecht Klinger (bass), Michael Willmann (drums) and Kolja Radenkovic (git, trump). Son of the Velvet Rat was founded in 2003 by European songwriter Georg Altziebler and his wife, organist and accordionist Heike Binder. The band started out with sparsely instrumented releases such as "Spare some sugar [for the rat]" and "By my Side" on Starfish Records, a small California-based label. In 2006 they were signed by Vienna-based indie label "monkey." The same