Sammy Davis Jr. - Remastered Hits Vol 2 (All Tracks Remastered 2021) '2021

Tracks list

Tracklist:

01. Out Of This World (Remaster Edition)
02. But Not For Me (Remastered 2020)
03. Do Nothin Till You Hear From Me (Remastered 2021)
04. My Funny Valentine (Remastered 2021)
05. As Long As She Needs Me (Remaster Edition)
06. It Never Entered My Mind (Remastered 2020)
07. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues (Remastered 2021)
08. We Kiss In A Shadow (Remastered Edition)
09. Someone To Watch Over Me (Remastered 2020)
10. Till Then (Remastered 2021)
11. September Song (Remastered 2021)
12. Because Of You (Remastered 2021)
13. Climb Evry Mountain (Remaster Edition)
14. Spring Is Here (Remastered 2020)
15. There Is No Greater Love (Remastered 2021)
16. Lonesome Road (Remastered 2021)
17. Bye Bye Blackbird (Remaster Edition)
18. I Cover The Waterfront (Remastered 2020)
19. The Lady Is A Tramp (Remastered 2021)
20. Glad To Be Unhappy (Remastered 2021)


 Read MoreStarring Sammy Davis Jr.In 1943, Davis joined the U.S. Army, where
he endured a constant battle with racism; upon his return from duty, the group
was renamed the Will Mastin Trio. Three years later they opened for Mickey
Rooney, who encouraged Davis to begin including his many impersonations in the
Trios act; where previously they had exclusively performed music, the addition
of comedy brought new life to the group, and by the beginning of the next
decade, they were headlining venues including New Yorks Capitol Club and Ciros
in Hollywood. In 1952, at the invitation of Sinatra, they also played the newly
integrated Copacabana. In 1954, Davis signed to Decca, topping the charts with
his debut LP Starring Sammy Davis, Jr. That same year he lost his left eye in a
much-publicized auto accident, but upon returning to the stage in early 1955 he
was greeted with even greater enthusiasm than before on the strength of a series
of hit singles including Somethings Gotta Give, Love Me or Leave Me, and That
Old Black Magic. A year later, Davis made his Broadway debut in the musical Mr.
Wonderful, starring in the show for over 400 performances and launching a hit
with the song Too Close for Comfort.

In 1958, Davis resumed his film career after a quarter-century layoff with Anna
Lucasta, followed a year later by his acclaimed turn in Porgy and Bess. Also in
1959, he became a charter member of the Rat Pack, a loose confederation of
Sinatra associates (also including Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop)
who began regularly performing together at The Sands casino in Las Vegas. In
1960, they made Oceans Eleven, the first in a series of hip and highly
self-referential Rat Pack films; although Davis inclusion in the group was
perceived in many quarters as an egalitarian move, many Black audiences felt he
was simply a token -- the butt of subtly racist jokes -- and declared him a
sell-out. His earlier conversion to Judaism had been met with considerable
controversy within the African-American community as well; still, nothing
compared to the public outcry over his 1960 marriage to Swedish actress May
Britt, which even elicited death threats. Still, Davis remained a major star,
appearing in the 1962 Rat Pack film Sergeants 3 and scoring a major hit with
What Kind of Fool Am I? Two years later he returned to Broadway in the
long-running Golden Boy, scoring a Tony nomination for his performance.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory [Original Soundtrack]In 1964, the third Rat
Pack film, Robin and the Seven Hoods, was released; two years later, in the wake
of the publication of his autobiography Yes I Can, Davis was also among a number
of musical luminaries, including Sinatra and Louis Armstrong, who co-starred in
the jazz drama A Man Called Adam. In 1968, he and Lawford teamed as Salt and
Pepper; the picture was a hit, and a sequel, One More Time, appeared in 1970. In
between the two, Davis delivered one of his most memorable screen performances
in Bob Fosses 1969 musical Sweet Charity; he also appeared in a number of
television features, including The Pigeon, The Trackers, and Poor Devil. In
1972, Davis topped the pop charts with The Candy Man, from the film Willy Wonka
and the Chocolate Factory. From 1975 to 1977, he hosted his own syndicated
variety show, Sammy and Company, and in 1978, he starred in the film Sammy Stops
the World. However, in the late 70s and through much of the 80s, Davis profile
diminished, and he was primarily confined to the casino circuit, with a 1988
comeback tour he mounted with Sinatra and Martin that proved largely
unsuccessful. His appearance in the 1989 film Tap was much acclaimed, but it was
to be his last screen performance. A life-long smoker, Davis died of cancer on
May 16, 1990. ~ Jason Ankeny

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