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The Sammy Davis Jr. Show (album)

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Released
  
February 1966

Length
  
33:55

Release date
  
February 1966

Genre
  
Vocal jazz

Recorded
  
1961-1966

Artist
  
Sammy Davis Jr.

Label
  
Collectors' Choice Music


The Sammy Davis Jr. Show (1966)
  
The Sounds of '66 (1966)

Similar
  
Sammy Davis Jr albums, Vocal jazz albums

The Sammy Davis Jr. Show is a 1966 studio album by Sammy Davis Jr., released to coincide with his television show of the same name.

Contents

The album is collated from five studio sessions from 1961-1966, "We Open in Venice" had previously appeared on Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre (1963).

Reception

The Allmusic review by Lindsay Planer awarded the album four stars and said that the album "emphasizes Davis' innate affinity and apt interpretations of show tunes from the small screen".

Track listing

  1. "Hey There" (Richard Adler, Jerry Ross) - 2:56
  2. "My Mother the Car" (Paul Hampton) - 2:03
  3. "We Open in Venice" (Cole Porter) - 2:14 (with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin)
  4. "More Than One Way" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 3:14
  5. "Feeling Good" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) - 3:03
  6. "Paris Is at Her Best in May" (Charles Aznavour, Gene Lees, Pierre Roche) - 2:56
  7. "Love at Last You Have Found Me" (Aznavour, Worth) - 2:59
  8. "Sam's Song" (Jack Elliott, Lew Quadling) - 2:45 (with Dean Martin)
  9. "If You Want This Love of Mine" (Baker Knight) - 2:41
  10. "No One Can Live Forever" (Charles Tobias) - 2:39
  11. "This Dream" (Bricusse, Newley) - 2:56
  12. "What Kind of Fool Am I" (Bricusse, Newley) - 3:22

Personnel

  • Sammy Davis Jr. – vocals
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Dean Martin
  • Songs

    1Hey There2:56
    2My Mother the Car2:03
    3We Open in Venice2:14

    References

    The Sammy Davis Jr. Show (album) Wikipedia