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.
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
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.
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.
FWIW, Jim Henson also died the very same day.
This photo shows some of the terror and confusion involved in the President's early attempt to perform his own umbrella duties, after this event the Secret Service gave training to the President, but eventually decided that it was best to just keep umbrellas from him for the duration of his Presidency.
A real loss.
You know, I watched Sammy Davis a year or two ago in “Robin and the Seven Hoods” (a really forgettable movie, in general) and he got to have one knock-your-socks-off number where he was shooting up a bar while he danced ... and it was just amazing. In another era, he would have been the lead in every movie he was in. Just a massively talented performer.
Gee whiz, no bias in this article, no, sir. Davis endorsed Nixon in '72 because he well remembered which party's candidate was embarrassed and worried his marriage to Mai Britt might cost him votes in the 1960 election (hint: it wasn't Nixon). Interesting that little fact was left out so as to take a cheap shot at Sammy for not going with the misguided herd.
I remember the late Sammy Davis Jr. when he graced the Travelers Golf Tournament (Greater Hartford (CT) Open) back in the 1980’s with his name.