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Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, actor, comedian and dancer. At age two, Davis began his career in Vaudeville with his father Sammy Davis Sr. and the Will Mastin Trio, which toured nationally, and his film career began in 1933.
Howard M. Colbert Jr. was the tap-dance teacher of Sammy Davis Jr., who treated him much as an uncle. Colbert left the Trio in December 1941 to join the United States Army when the United States declared war on Germany during World War II. Sammy Davis Jr. was 16 years old at this time and became part of the main vaudeville act, replacing Colbert.
Left to right: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop in Las Vegas during the filming of Ocean's 11 The Rat Pack was an informal group of singers that, in its second iteration, ultimately made films and appeared together in Las Vegas casino venues.
The Sounds of '66 is a 1966 live album by Sammy Davis Jr., accompanied by Buddy Rich and a big band.. The album was recorded at the Sands Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in the early hours of two successive nights, 18th and 19th June 1966, after both artists had already performed shows earlier.
He is most known for being Sammy Davis Jr.'s long-time music director, arranger, and conductor. Rhodes made history as a black music director by being the first to work for a major network (at NBC in 1966 for The Sammy Davis Jr. Show ) and to work for a Las Vegas showroom (at the Tropicana Hotel in 1973).
Closest of Friends is a 1982 album recorded by Sammy Davis Jr. It is his 50th and last original album, [1] released 28 years after his first. Davis recorded the album in July 1981 at the Sound Emporium in Nashville, Tennessee. It was produced by Larry Butler, and was Davis' first digitally recorded album. [1]
Sammy Davis Jr.'s version appears on the Sammy Davis Jr. Now album. It became his only number-one hit, spending three weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart starting 10 June 1972, and two weeks at the top of the easy-listening chart. [4] Billboard ranked it as the No. 5 song for 1972.
Sammy Davis Jr. recorded the song in 1968 while the musical was still running on Broadway, altering the title slightly to "I've Gotta Be Me", and released it as a single late in the year. This version was a surprise hit for Davis, since "Golden Rainbow" was not among the more successful shows on Broadway that season.
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