Sammy : "May I thank you for coming. It's awfully nice to see so many of you who are friends. I would like to start off saying "I don't know why I am here' But it seemed like a good idea. But it is unusual to be in this kind of gear this early in the morning" (they are all wearing tuxedo's).

Frank interrupts: "Don't believe him we've come home many times in these at the same hour. Oh Jees."

Sammy : "I can only add that it's a pleasure and what is about to be announced to you, I think most of you know by now is really something that we've looked forward to doing. Dean would you..."

Dean : "Do you know I am just a straight man, I don't say any speeches. But it is a pleasure to be here with all you wonderful guys, where's that guy Mort you told me to er...the great guy who's...who did you tell me was out here. (From the audience someone says Jim Brown) Jim Brown what a football player. Great player. Go ahead Frank take it I can't talk."

Frank: "Did he say straight man. He hasn't been straight for years. Just to add my thank you to all who've come down and helped us get this thing off the ground. It's gonna be an exiting trip and we should have more fun than the audience. And er ..(turning to the promoter) When does it start. Oh!, March 13th, Oakland."

Dean: "We close March 14th."

The conference begins with questions from the audience.

Q :" How did this particular get together, get together, who initiated it, how did it come about. And secondly, Standing before us the....."

Sinatra interrupts. "You're confusing Dean now, you gotta give us time."

Dean: "Yea, just 4 or 5 words."

CNN:" How did it come together, that's fine."

Sammy: "It all started as a thought at Frank's house and er..we both got very exited about it and what I thought was just a thought, and I'm sure Dean thought the same, was a wonderful thought to be said at the time, but we never thought it would become a reality. And whenever we would see Francis, he would always mention it again."

Dean interrupts "At the time Frank didn't know about it 'cause he was cooking.We're happy to be doing this and we all love each other and we have more fun than the audience. As Frank said, and what the hell we're going to cities that er..none of those people have ever seen anything like us."

Frank : "That's one of the ideas that I thought, We never get out of Vegas or Atlantic City, so If we could get out and get around the nation they could see how bad we are."

Sammy: "And It's a good time for ...to show that there is diversification in the entertainment world and the sort of camaraderie that we feel about each other and to have it on stage and we've done benefits throughout the years. "

Dean interrupts: "diversification and camaraderie sure that's tolable."

Frank: "That's what?"

Dean:" Tollable."

Sammy: "But I think it's going to be fun and enjoyable and we'll have fun."

Q: "Do you have any future plans to release this on video or on record."

Sammy: "Well I have a number of tape machines at home. I know I'm taping it."

Dean: "We are going to tape this for HBO, we think."

Frank: "Yea I think that..."

Dean interrupts: "Home Booze Office."

Frank: "That's a foregone conclusion. Even If we hadn't made a deal with one of the outlets we would have probably taped it for our own pleasure, cause we may never see this again. Particularly him on the end, (pointing to Dean) we may never see him again."

Q: "You three guys are sometimes called the Rat Pack. How do you feel about the term, since it was first used a number of years ago, and how did it come about."

Frank : "The end of the question was a good question. I was going to bring that up anyway, before anybody was going to use that stupid phrase again. The Rat Pack was made of Humprey Bogart, he started it all and several other people that lived in the small area of Beverly hills and they decided that they would be called the Rat Pack. and then one day somewhere Sammy opened his big mouth that we were members of the Rat Pack and that's what happened and he started the whole thing.We've never discussed a term for the three of us. "

Dean: "And now it's a little mice trap. Just three guys together and Shirley Maclaine was with us and she was the only rat we knew."

Q:" So you guys don't feel that the term really does apply to you."

Sammy: "No, I don't think so."

Dean interrupts. "When you ask a question you always look at him (pointing to Frank) What the hells the matter with me , I don't look good, Do I look bad."

Frank: "For this hour of the morning you look ...fairly good."

Q: "Whose gonna sing what when?"

Sammy: "Well I sing most of the songs."

Frank interrupts "That's a good question we gotta have a meeting and figure out who does what."


Dean:" I always go out first and start them laughing and then they continue laughing when these two guys sing."

Sammy:" If you saw Frank and myself at The Greek then you got a sense of what going to happen but adding the other ingredient called Dean Martin. Now that kind of thing goes back theatrically in history for us, in 1960 for instance. But mostly we're gonna try and have a ''mitzfa'' I don't know if you understand that, judging by the look on your faces you don't understand it, but that's what were trying to create."

Dean interrupts: "You forgot to say bar."

Sammy: "That's what we're going to try and create because we don't think that happens anymore."

Dean interrupts :(handing a smoked cigarette to someone) "Can you put this in my car."

Q:" Will it be the old standards, will it be alot of new stuff."

Sammy: "I'm going to do a medley of Prince songs. I open with Purple Rain, since he's wearing my old outfits."

Dean:" I'm doing a medley of Franks old arrangements."

Sammy: "Of course we're going to do new things. Frank is always including new composers. I occasionally find something new to do. But I think basically what's made us survive has been the things which people feel, comfortable with us doing and subsequently we feel comfortable doing."

Dean: (pointing to Frank, whose lighting a cigarette) "Look he's going to do a trick."

Sammy: (sarcastically referring to Frank) "You can imagine what fun that's going to be on stage."

Frank: "Yeah my pants begin to flame."

Q:" Have any of you tried to quit smoking."

Frank: "25 times."

Sammy:" I've tried several times."

Dean: "Me, I quit every night."

Frank:" I tell you one thing, this is one of the few times I smoke in the daylight, daytime, I smoke usually after dinner or the cocktail period. Yeah, that's the time the cocktail period."

Dean:" I smoke during dinner.I do, yeah."

Q: "8 months of one night stands is really a kind of gruelling ordeal."

Dean: "Did he say 8 months, I thought it was 8 weeks."

Q: "Well it's a gruelling ordeal, what makes you want to go through it."

Dean: "Did you now when you retire, in 2 years you die."

Frank: "He's speaking for himself."

Sammy: "I think to answer your question really and truthfully, because we love the business, this is exciting because we've never done it before and for us to be together for a period of time and do the things we like and enjoying each other on stage and off and there's an audience out there that have never seen us before."

Q: "Can I go back to the smoking question..."

Sammy interrupts "Did you know you just interrupted me..Go ahead."

Q:"Do you mind that in an age when we're trying to cut smoking especially among kids, portraying that image."
Dean:" We don't care who smokes. If there's a sign that says no smoking I won't smoke, But if there isn't then I say whose spittin''"

Frank: "Actually this is a kind of loose arrangement between you and the three of us and I doubt if we would do it on stage but we hold it down to a bottom line."

Dean: "Yeah a mimimunum..."

Q: "What kind of orchestra will you have."

Sammy: "The best."

Frank: "About 35 pieces."

Q:" Frank, you talked about being on a train for this tour. Why didn't that come about."

Frank:" Why are we not going on the train. Well it's being discussed."

Dean: "We're going partly by train and partly by air, and we have to get of the train at least every two days to take a shower...Where did Frank go (noticing that he walked behind Sammy)..I thought somebody quit, again."

Q:"I would like to ask this one to Dean Martin first, but I'd like you all to respond. Since you are all great American musical artists, I'd like you to comment on the satisfaction you get from performing with one another."

Dean:"Well the satisfaction I get out of working with these two bums is that we have more laughs than the audience has. We just throw in anything, we never say the same thing night after night like a Broadway play, which I hate (he spits on the floor) You gotta say the same words every goddamn night."

Sammy:" Well I guess the Winter Garden is out...There is something that hasn't been mentioned, there is a great mutual respect that we have for each other that transcends the popular hello baby, chickie sweety kind of thing. We love each other, respect each other, we haven't always agreed with each other but the respect was always there plus the fun that is being mentioned, and I think there isn't enough people out there doing there job and having fun with it, today , but we still have it."

Frank:"Well it' s pretty much what Dean and Sammy have already said er... what helped us particularly in this move that we are making now is the fact that the Bally people came around to engaging all three of us, which helps a great deal and before this happened we were playing for different sponsors, so to speak and now that they decided to have all three of us it helps our position, it gives us a chance to do what we like to do."

Q: "Do you think this tour might lead to the three of you doing a picture gain."

Frank:" I'd like to . Got any ideas .Put them down on paper. We discussed it many times, If we could find a script, If it would fit."

Q:" If you gentlemen have a good time with this do you think you will consider taking the tour to Europe."

Frank. "Sure.Sure. "

Sammy: "Our ladies, our wives will insist that it goes to Europe."

Dean : "When you say Europe you mean different countries. You don't understand that Frank is only allowed in six more countries."

Q:"There was talk of you suing Kitty Kelly, the book she wrote about you. What I wanted to know was are you still planning to sue her."

Frank: "Oh that's not a question for here."

Q:" In what way is this concert going to be traditional to your characters."

Sammy: "He's got the trenchcoat, He's got the drink and I'm the little black Jew."

Dean: "The world has not seen us that's why we're going on tour. The world has not seen us. They've seen Rock n' Roll and all this other ******."

Q: "Will you have an opening act?"

Dean: "I'm the opening act."

Sammy: "Just us."

Q: "What's the length of the show."

Frank:"2 Hours."

Q: "Mr Davis have you had your hip operation?"

Sammy:" I'm gonna have my hip operation on December 10."

Q: "That won't affect things in any way."

Sammy: "No that won't affect my dancing."

Q: "How is American Express involved in all this."

Sammy: "They gave us all gold cards.'

Q:" I would like to ask the 3 guys does it ever frustrate you that you may not be able to perform with the stamina you had when you were 20 or 30 years old."

Sammy: "Speak for yourself."

Dean: "We still have the same stamina.I've got more stamina than anybody here."

Q: "Do any of you go to anybody else's concerts and If so whose?"

Sammy:"I've seen a couple of concerts in the last few months. I've seen Neil Diamond, back East, I went to see The Jackson's, Michael Jackson."

Dean: "Aren’t they black?"

Sammy:" Yes they are."

Frank: "All of them?.. All over."

Frank, Dean and Sammy " Thank you all".