We saw him do a fund raiser for a local college in 1979 in Chicago. Frank Sinatra was supposed to be with him, but was a no show. It also happened to be on the same day the Pope was doing a big mass downtown.
But that isn’t my interesting story about him. In the earlier ‘70s Mr G worked in a screening room in Cleveland.... where there was a screening for Deep Throat for a trial to determine if it was pornographic or not. While it was in the possession of this studio, a brand new color video recorder with a film chain was delivered from Japan, and a copy was made. It was then driven by the Ohio Highway patrol to the border of the state, where it was transferred to the next state patrol, etc, etc, until it was finally delivered to Mr Davis in California.
Apparently he had quite a collection.
I recommend treading carefully, but if anyone has the hutzpah, Google “Sammy Davis, Jr.” and “Linda Lovelace” for the story of how he acted on his obsession of that film.