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* ValuesDissonance: PlayedForLaughs. The Rat Pack's seemingly off-the-cuff remarks about Davis's race and religion (and him playing along) were scripted bits that went a long way to getting over the segregation barrier with audiences (and, in part, turning Las Vegas into the first truly integrated city in America).

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* ValuesDissonance: PlayedForLaughs. The Rat Pack's seemingly off-the-cuff remarks about Davis's race and religion (and him playing along) were scripted bits that went a long way to getting over the segregation barrier with audiences (and, in part, turning Las Vegas UsefulNotes/LasVegas into the first truly integrated city in America).
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* ValuesDissonance: PlayedForLaughs. The Rat Pack's seemingly off-the-cuff remarks about Davis' race and religion (and him playing along) were scripted bits that went a long way to getting over the segregation barrier with audiences (and, in part, turning Las Vegas into the first truly integrated city in America).

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* ValuesDissonance: PlayedForLaughs. The Rat Pack's seemingly off-the-cuff remarks about Davis' Davis's race and religion (and him playing along) were scripted bits that went a long way to getting over the segregation barrier with audiences (and, in part, turning Las Vegas into the first truly integrated city in America).
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: His version of "Rock-a-bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" from ''Live at the Cocoanut Grove'', in which he takes a song dripping with stereotypes about TheDeepSouth and brutally [[PlayedForLaughs plays it for laughs]] with a series of razor-sharp impressions of other performers -- Music/LouisArmstrong, Music/NatKingCole, Billy Eckstine, Tony Bennett, Creator/DeanMartin, Creator/JerryLewis [[note]](who, believe it or not, had a top 10 hit with the same song in 1956)[[/note]], Creator/JamesStewart, Creator/HumphreyBogart ...
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: His version of "Rock-a-bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" from ''Live at the Cocoanut Grove'', in which he takes a song dripping with stereotypes about TheDeepSouth and brutally [[PlayedForLaughs plays it for laughs]] with a series of razor-sharp impressions of other performers -- Music/LouisArmstrong, Music/NatKingCole, Billy Eckstine, Tony Bennett, Creator/DeanMartin, Creator/JerryLewis, Creator/JamesStewart, Creator/HumphreyBogart ...

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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: His version of "Rock-a-bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" from ''Live at the Cocoanut Grove'', in which he takes a song dripping with stereotypes about TheDeepSouth and brutally [[PlayedForLaughs plays it for laughs]] with a series of razor-sharp impressions of other performers -- Music/LouisArmstrong, Music/NatKingCole, Billy Eckstine, Tony Bennett, Creator/DeanMartin, Creator/JerryLewis, Creator/JerryLewis [[note]](who, believe it or not, had a top 10 hit with the same song in 1956)[[/note]], Creator/JamesStewart, Creator/HumphreyBogart ...
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* ValuesDissonance: PlayedForLaughs. The Rat Pack's seemingly off-the-cuff remarks about Davis' race and religion (and him playing along) were scripted bits that went a long way to getting over the segregation barrier with audiences (and, in part, turning Las Vegas into the first truly integrated city in America.

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* ValuesDissonance: PlayedForLaughs. The Rat Pack's seemingly off-the-cuff remarks about Davis' race and religion (and him playing along) were scripted bits that went a long way to getting over the segregation barrier with audiences (and, in part, turning Las Vegas into the first truly integrated city in America.America).
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: His version of "Rock-a-bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" from ''Live at the Cocoanut Grove'', in which he takes a song dripping with stereotypes about TheDeepSouth and brutally [[PlayedForLaughs plays it for laughs]] with a series of razor-sharp impressions of other performers -- LouisArmstrong, NatKingCole, Billy Eckstine, Tony Bennett, DeanMartin, JerryLewis, JamesStewart, HumphreyBogart ...

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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: His version of "Rock-a-bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" from ''Live at the Cocoanut Grove'', in which he takes a song dripping with stereotypes about TheDeepSouth and brutally [[PlayedForLaughs plays it for laughs]] with a series of razor-sharp impressions of other performers -- LouisArmstrong, NatKingCole, Music/LouisArmstrong, Music/NatKingCole, Billy Eckstine, Tony Bennett, DeanMartin, JerryLewis, JamesStewart, HumphreyBogart ...Creator/DeanMartin, Creator/JerryLewis, Creator/JamesStewart, Creator/HumphreyBogart ...
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: His version of "Rock-a-bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" from ''Live at the Cocoanut Grove'', in which he takes a song dripping with stereotypes about TheDeepSouth and brutally [[PlayedForLaughs plays it for laughs]] with a series of razor-sharp impressions of other performers -- LouisArmstrong, NatKingCole, Billy Eckstine, Tony Bennett, DeanMartin, JerryLewis, JamesStewart, HumphreyBogart ...
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* SignatureSong: His cover version of "The Candy Man", from ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory''.
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* ValuesDissonance: PlayedForLaughs. The Rat Pack's seemingly off-the-cuff remarks about Davis' race and religion (and him playing along) were scripted bits that went a long way to getting over the segregation barrier with audiences (and, in part, turning Las Vegas into the first truly integrated city in America.
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