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.
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| Released | February 1966 | |||
| Recorded | 1961–1966 | |||
| Genre | Vocal jazz | |||
| Length | 33:55 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
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The album is collated from five studio sessions from 1961 to 1966. "We Open in Venice" had previously appeared on Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre (1963).[1]
Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Record Mirror | [2] |
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".[1]
Track listing
edit- "Hey There" (Richard Adler, Jerry Ross) - 2:56
- "My Mother the Car" (Paul Hampton) - 2:03
- "We Open in Venice" (Cole Porter) - 2:14 (with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin)
- "More Than One Way" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 3:14
- "Feeling Good" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) - 3:03
- "Paris Is at Her Best in May" (Charles Aznavour, Gene Lees, Pierre Roche) - 2:56
- "Love at Last You Have Found Me" (Aznavour, Johnny Worth) - 2:59
- "Sam's Song" (Jack Elliott, Lew Quadling) - 2:45 (with Dean Martin)
- "If You Want This Love of Mine" (Sonny Knight) - 2:41
- "No One Can Live Forever" (Charles Tobias) - 2:39
- "This Dream" (Bricusse, Newley) - 2:56
- "What Kind of Fool Am I" (Bricusse, Newley) - 3:22
Personnel
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "The Sammy Davis Jr. Show". Allmusic. Retrieved February 8, 2011.
- ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (25 June 1966). "Sammy Davis: The Sammy Davis Jnr. Show" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 276. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2022.