Between those two and my belly button my old man thought I was a clarinet'. 'The Tea Break' section of the album contains comic relief by Sinatra, during which he makes jokes about the drunkenness of Dean Martin and evening parties at his home in Beverly Hills, Sammy Davis Jr.'s autobiography Yes I Can and the hotel hiring him for 'four solid weeks' as a cleaner, and jokes about himself being 'so skinny my eyes were single file. In 2000 it was voted number 461 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. The album is certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.
An alternate version of the same show with a slightly different track list was released in November 2006 as part of the box set Sinatra: Vegas. The album was remixed and remastered and released in DVD-Audio in high-resolution stereo and multi-channel surround in 2003. Sinatra and Basie had previously collaborated on 1962's Sinatra-Basie and 1964's It Might As Well Be Swing, with both albums released on Sinatra's Reprise label.
It was Sinatra's first live album to be commercially released, and contains many definitive readings of the songs that are most readily associated with Sinatra. Sinatra at the Sands is a live album by Frank Sinatra accompanied by Count Basie and his orchestra, and conducted and arranged by Quincy Jones, recorded live in the Copa Room of the former Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in 1966.
