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Lonely Is the Name

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Released
  
August 1968

Length
  
37:02

Release date
  
August 1968

Genre
  
Vocal jazz

Recorded
  
1968

Artist
  
Sammy Davis Jr.

Label
  
Reprise Records

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Lonely Is the Name (1968)
  
I've Gotta Be Me (1968)

Similar
  
Sammy Davis Jr albums, Vocal jazz albums

Lonely Is the Name is a 1968 studio album by Sammy Davis, Jr.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Lindsay Planer awarded the album three and a half stars and said that Davis "once again blended his interminable hipness with a batch of popular standards and fresh interpretations of selections that he had previously delivered in a distinctly different style"

Track listing

  1. "Lonely Is the Name" (Bert Kaempfert, Rehbin, Carl Sigman) - 3:15
  2. "Up, Up and Away" (Jimmy Webb) - 3:28
  3. "The Good Life" (Sacha Distel, Jack Reardon) - 2:43
  4. "Shake, Shake, Shake" (Clark, Resnick) - 3:02
  5. "We'll Be Together Again" (Carl Fischer, Frankie Laine) - 2:50
  6. "Don't Take Your Time" (Roger Nichols, Tony Asher) - 2:38
  7. "Children, Children" (Ken Kaganovitch, Ron Rose) - 3:26
  8. Medley: "Uptight (Everything's Alright)"/"You've Got Your Troubles" (Stevie Wonder, Sylvia Moy, Henry Cosby)/(Roger Greenaway, Roger Cook) - 3:04
  9. "All That Jazz (From A Man Called Adam)" (Benny Carter, Al Stillman) - 2:16
  10. "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Cole Porter) - 2:34

Personnel

  • Sammy Davis, Jr. - vocals
  • Songs

    1Lonely Is the Name3:15
    2Up - Up and Away3:29
    3The Good Life2:43

    References

    Lonely Is the Name Wikipedia