Posted on 05/17/2013 8:39:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yes7zGJyesY
Sammy at age 6. But it looks a little like Obama explaining his role in the Benghazi incident.
Wow. You can recognize him.
Jerry Lewis Telethon was never the same. Sammy was a great man.
I remember it well; I took he day off work to watch his funeral on television.
The court’s in session now,
Here come the judge, here come the judge...
I saw his performance in person one time. He was mesmerizing.
Sammy Davis What Kind of Fool Am I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jg7wFHWXT4
I know my uncle thought he was the best performer he had seen - better than Elvis.
He was a performer in the tradition of vaudeville, where you perfected your art by performing relentlessly onstage day after day, year after year.
There is one story about him where he arrived at a gig alone because his band travelled separately. They got lost and never showed up. His manager decided to go out to the audience and cancel the show, but Sammy said, "If I can't entertain this crowd with just me and a comb harmonica I am not half the entertainer I think I am." He fashioned a comb harmonica with a comb and tissue paper, went out onstage, and performed an improvised act for two hours. The audience loved it and didn't even notice that the show was supposed to have a had a band behind him. How many entertainers today would even try that if their lip sync machines broke down?
Great entertainer and great human being. One of the old good ones. He’s missed.
Funny how media writes his conversion to Judaism was seen to “get rid” of his black roots, but show me one story where the media writes about a black that converts to islam and how that is abandoning his/her black roots. Africans and African Americans are hardly native muslims. They were all converts, it’s not a native african religion.
My mother’s cousin was a bandleader who knew him.
Cu Cu ca Choo, babe.
When I heard of his death I pulled over off the road and just thought. Talent in so many ways. I wish I could have met him and Dean.
He was married to Mai Britt first, before Altovise. They had a child or maybe even two.
Wow. They left out so much it practically wasn’t worth reading. That was the skimmiest skim-over I have ever read.
He didn’t even KNOW Altovese. He was forced to marry her after he picked her out of a chorus line because if he didn’t, they were going to kill him.
God bless the Candyman.
So?
Obama stole the title of his autobiography, Yes I Can. I think his glass eye story is in it. Without Sammy, there would’ve been no Michael Jackson. A true pioneer.
Your uncle was right. He was a full-service performer. Singing, dancing, stories...
1954: Sammy Davis Jr. was driving his Cadillac down Route 66, headed from Las Vegas to Los Angeles to record the soundtrack for the film Six Bridges to Cross. At 8 a.m., near San Bernardino, Calif., a 72-year-old woman backed her car out of a driveway into Davis’ path. The impact of the crash drove his face into the pointed center of the steering column, breaking his nose and effectively destroying his left eye. Davis, 28, was rushed to San Bernardino Community Hospital, where he was informed that he would lose his damaged eye and have it replaced with a plastic one.
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