SAMMY DAVIS JR. "SAMMY & FRIENDS" 2000 RHINO STILL SEALED

Description: NOTE: LOTS OF TIMES THE PHOTO I CHOOSE TO USE FIRST SHOWS ALL OF THE ELEMENTS OF THE CD I AM SELLING, THE COVER/BOOKLET/FOLDOUT+THE DISC+THE BACK TRAY INSERT, JUST AN F.Y.I. NOTE: INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING IS BACK TO EBAY's GLOBAL SHIPPING WHICH MEANS I CAN NOT COMBINE ITEMS! SO PLEASE BE AWARE OF THAT, AND MAKE SURE I DO SHIP TO YOUR COUNTRY. THIS CD COMES FROM MY TIME AT A NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK WHERE I WAS THE MUSIC AND PROMOTIONS DIRECTOR FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS. A RECENT FIND FROM A BOX IN MY STORAGE UNIT.THIS IS A PHOTO OF THE ACTUAL ITEM FOR SALE, SORRY IF THE PICTURE(S) ARE A BIT BLURRY. I HAVE OTHER ITEMS FOR SALE, CHECK OUT MY OTHER AUCTIONS, THANKS! AS I MENTIONED ABOVE FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS I WAS THE MUSIC & PROMOTIONS CORDINATOR FOR A MAJOR NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK.... ALL CD'S COME IN A JEWEL CASE UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE. NOTE: eBay HAS TAKEN IT UPON THEMSELVES TO REMOVE WHAT THEY CALL “OUTSIDE” LINKS, THESE ARE IN THE HTML DESCRIPTION, AND CAN'T EVEN BE SEEN IN MY ITEM DESCRIPTION, SO FROM NOW ON IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE ITEM &/OR ARTIST LOOK 'EM UP, ON WIKI & DISCOGS, ETC. NOTE: I DO COMBINE SHIPPING. RECENTLY DUG THROUGH SOME OF THE BOXES IN MY STORAGE UNIT AND FOUND THESE CD's ... NOTE I DO COMBINE SHIPPING THANKS FOR LOOKING! BOB ARTIST: SAMMY DAVIS JR. TITLE: “SAMMY & FRIENDS” (INCLUDES FRANK SINATRA DEAN MARTIN, SAM BUTERA, BING CROSBY & BUDDY RICH) TRACK LISTING (SEE PHOTOS & BELOW): 1 Ain't That A Kick In The Head? 2 Birth Of The Blues 3 Eee-O Eleven 4 The Ballad Of Johnny Cool 5 Me And My Shadow 6 Salt And Pepper 7 Sam's Song 8 Don't Be A Do-Badder (Finale) 9 Bang! Bang! 10 Too Close For Comfort 11 What Kind Of Fool Am I? (Live) 12 Ain't That A Kick In The Head 13 I Want To Be Wanted 14 Too Darn Hot 15 Straighten Up And Fly Right 16 Bee-Bom 17 The Goin's Great 18 Begin The Beguine 19 I Should Care 20 The Birth Of The Blues (Live) Product Description This release delivers 20 swinging showstoppers from the Rat Pack's 1960-1968 heyday, interspersed with choice bits of hilarious dialogue. Designed in part to tap into year-2000 hipsters' Rat Pack loyalties, Sammy & Friends indeed plays like a well-informed collector's mix tape. Swinging through 20 tracks unencumbered by the likes of "The Candy Man" and "I've Gotta Be Me," the CD captures a number of kickin' solo performances as well as collaborations with Frank,Dean,Bing , and others. (By the way, how about a full reissue of the 1965 LP Davis cut with Louis Prima sidekick Sam Butera and his Witnesses?) Note that "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?" is included in full versions by both Sammy and Dino--and that it and "Eee-O Eleven" are among the few really good things to emerge from the Pack's undernourished cult flick Ocean's 11. --Rickey Wright LABLE: RHINO RECORDS CAT.#: R2 75934 YEAR: 2000 CONDITION: THIS IS STILL SEALED IN IT'S ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP. THE TINY “NOTCH CUT” DONE BY THE LABEL BEFORE MAILING OUT TO THE RADIO NETWORK ALSO “HYPE” STICKER (SEE PHOTOS) MORE INFO: THIS CD IS OUT OF PRINT. THIS CD IS FROM THE MUSIC LIBRARY OF A NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK. MORE INFO: SAMMY DAVIS JR. BIO/INFO- Dates: 1925-1990 Birth Date: Dec 8, 1925 Death Date: May 16, 1990 Place of Birth: Harlem, New York Place of Death: Beverly Hills, California Sammy Davis, Jr., singer, dancer, actor, and musician (who played vibraphone trumpet, and drums), was born into a musically artistic family. His mother, the Puerto-Rican-born Elvera "Baby" Sanchez, was a tap dancer; his father, Sammy Davis, Sr., was an African-American vaudevillian who was the lead dancer with Will Mastin's Holiday in Dixieland. As an infant, he was raised by his paternal grandmother, Rosa B. ("Mama") Davis, in an apartment on 140th Street and Eighth Avenue in New York City. When he was three years-old his parents separated and his father, not wanting to lose custody of his son, took him on tour. As a child, "little Sammy" learned to dance from his father and his adopted "Uncle" Will, who led the dance troupe his father worked for. In 1929 at the age of four, Davis joined the act, which was renamed the Will Mastin Trio, and toured the vaudeville circuit, accompanying his elders with flash tap dance routines. Called "Poppa" by his father and "Mose Gastin" by Uncle Will, he traveled and performed with the Mastin troupe, taking time off to make his motion picture debut in Rufus Jones for President (1933), a black short subject two-reeler filmed at Brooklyn's Warner studios, in which he played a little boy who falls asleep in the lap of his mother (Ethel Waters) and dreams of being elected President of the United States. Small and slightly built, he was dubbed "Silent Sam, the Dancing Midget" and became phenomenally popular with audiences. He was reportedly tutored by his idol Bill Robinson, from whom he took tap dance lessons. In short time, the act was renamed Will Mastin's Gang, Featuring Little Sammy; and still later, The Will Mastin Trio, Featuring Sammy Davis Jr." In 1942 at age eighteen, Davis was drafted into the Army where he encountered, he says for the first time, blatant racial prejudice, which he countered with his fists. "Overnight the world looked different," he wrote. "It wasn't one color anymore. I could see the protection I'd gotten all my life from my father and Will. I appreciated their loving hope that I'd never need to know about prejudice and hate, but they were wrong. It was as if I'd walked through a swinging door for eighteen years, a door which they had always secretly held open." He was subsequently transferred to Special Services where he performed in army camps across the country, "gorging" himself on "the joy of being liked," as he wrote in his 1965 autobiography, Yes I Can. He would comb every audience for "haters," and when he spotted one he would give his performance an extra burst of strength and energy because he "had to get those guys," to neutralize them and make them acknowledge him. "My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight," he wrote. "It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking." In 1946, upon being discharged from the Army, he rejoined the Will Mastin Trio and perfected his performance by doing flash-styled tap dancing and impressions of popular screen stars and singers, playing trumpet and drums, and singing to the accompaniment of Sammy Sr. and Uncle Will's soft-shoe and tap as background. He also recorded some songs for Capitol Records. One of them, a rendition of "The Way You Look Tonight," was chosen the 1946 Record of the Year by Metronome magazine, which also named him the year's "Most Outstanding New Personality." The addition of comedy and tap dancing brought new life to the group, so by the beginning of the next decade they were headlining venues including New York's Capitol Club and Ciro's in Hollywood. It was in this period that Davis met Frank Sinatra, who was then with Tommy Dorsey's band, and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. The popular "Mr. Bojangles" tune, written by Jerry Jeff Walker and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, later became a standard song in Davis' act. By 1952, at the invitation of Frank Sinatra, the group played the newly integrated Copacabana Club in New York. In 1954, Davis signed a recording contract with Decca Records, topping the charts with his debut LP Starring Sammy Davis, Jr., and another LP, Just for Lovers. After recovering from the loss of an eye in a car accident, he continued to score a series of hit singles including "Something's Gotta Give," "Love Me or Leave Me," and "That Old Black Magic," and "Too Close for Comfort." After a succession of successful club appearances, Davis he made his Broadway debut in 1956, with Sam Sr. and Will, in Mr. Wonderful, a musical comedy that was created just for him. He made his solo debut on television on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and did some serious acting in episodes of the "General Electric Theatre" and "The Dick Powell Show." In 1965 on the "Patty Duke Show" he played himself in "Will the Real Sammy Davis Please Stand Up?" Meanwhile, his recordings were making records--"Hey There," "Birth of the Blues," The Lady Is a Tramp," "Candy Man," "Gonna Build a Mountain," and "Who Can I Turn To?" In 1958 he played the role of a jive-talking sailor in the film Anna Lucasta, and in 1959 he played the mischievous Sportin' Life in the screen version of Porgy and Bess. In the 1960s Davis became an official member of the so-called Rat Pack, a loose confederation of actors, comedians, and singers that included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford. They appeared together in several movies, including Robin and the Seven Hoods and the original Ocean's Eleven. After achieving success by refusing to work at venues that upheld racial segregation, his demands expanded and eventually led to the integration of Miami Beach nightclubs and Las Vegas casinos, though he continued to press the racial buttons. In 1960, when he married the Swedish-born actress May Britt, interracial marriages were forbidden by law in 31 US states out of 50 (it was not until 1967 that those laws were abolished by the US Supreme Court). The couple had one daughter and adopted two sons. In 1966, he was given the role of a television series host in The Sammy Davis, Jr. Show. After divorcing in 1968, Davis began dating Altovise Gore, a young and talented dancer in one of his shows. They were wed in 1970 by the Reverend Jesse Jackson and remained married until Davis' death. While he remained a multi talented performer, Davis was revered as a proponent and popularizer of tap dance, performing in his own shows, such as Sammy and Company (1975) and Sammy Davis, Jr. the Golden Years (1980). In 1988, he co-starred with Gregory Hines as the patriarchal master of tap dance in the movie Tap! Hines, who worshipped Davis, paid homage to him in the television special Sammy Davis Jr. 60th Anniversary Show (1990), in a tap solo after which he called onto the stage to dance and trade steps, and in the end, bent down and kissed Davis's feet. Davis died soon after in Beverly Hills, California from complications due to throat cancer, a result of his many years of smoking. Davis will be remembered throughout his career as one of the world's greatest entertainers, as a remarkably popular and versatile performer equally adept at acting, singing, dancing and impersonations -- in short, a variety artist in the classic tradition. He is among the very first African-American performers to find favor with audiences on both sides of the color barrier, and remains a perennial icon of cool, which could also be said of his tap dancing-- quick-fired with crystal clarity and rhythmically swinging flourishes of flash. 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