Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Junior were among several entertainers given what collective nickname?
Dean Martin Sings Songs from "The Silencers" Rat Pack members Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr., with Bing Crosby. William Ruhlmann on Allmusic.com gave the album two and a half stars out of five. Ruhlmann commented on the "bravura treatment" given to the songs by Ernie Freeman and Gene Page's arrangements, but added that as a film tie-in, the album "deservedly didn't attract much attention, although Martin's popularity assured it would spend several weeks in the charts." Dean Martin Sings Songs from "The Silencers" Dean Martin Sings Songs from "The Silencers" is a 1966 studio album by Dean Martin of songs that featured in his film "The
Sammy Davis Jr. became a star in Las Vegas, earning him the nickname "Mister Show Business". Davis had a complex relationship with the black community, and drew criticism after publicly supporting President Richard Nixon in 1972. One day on a golf course with Jack Benny, he was asked what his handicap was. "Handicap?" he asked. "Talk about handicap. I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew." This was to become a signature comment, recounted in his autobiography and in countless articles. After reuniting with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in 1987, Davis toured with them and Liza Minnelli internationally, before his death from throat cancer in