SAMMY
Composer:
Various
Lyricist: Various
Opened: April 23, 1974,
Uris Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 14
Note: Only recordings of songs performed by original cast members are noted below.
Another Spring (M: Robin Beaumont; L: Leslie Bricusse):
1. If I Ruled The World, Reprise
R-6159 (Sammy Davis, Jr.) [reissued as CD/Collectors' Choice Music 454]
2.
That's All, Reprise 2RS 6237 (Sammy Davis, Jr.) [reissued as CD/Rhino 74278]
Band Of Gold (M/L: Ronald Dunbar; Eddie
Wayne):
1. Band Of Gold, Invictus ST 7301
(Freda Payne) [reissued as CD/ZYX Music 4960]
2. An Evening With Freda
Payne: Live In Concert, CD/Varese Sarabande 6067 (Freda Payne)
Birth Of The Blues (M: Ray Henderson; L:
Buddy G. DeSylva; Lew Brown) (originally used in GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS OF
1926):
1. Starring Sammy Davis Jr.,
Decca 8118 (Sammy Davis, Jr.) [reissued as CD/Collectors' Choice Music 749]
2. At The Cocoanut Grove, Reprise 6063 (Sammy Davis, Jr.) [reissued as
CD/Rhino 74277]
3. The Sammy Davis Jr. Show, Reprise RS-6188 (Sammy Davis,
Jr.) [reissued as CD/Collectors' Choice Music 492]
4. Sammy, MGM (S) SE
4914 (Sammy Davis, Jr. with orchestra conducted by George Rhodes and Jack
Parnell) [reissued on The Best Of Sammy Davis, Jr.: The Millenium Collection,
CD/Universal 065083]
5. That's All, Reprise 2RS 6237 (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
[reissued as CD/Rhino 74278]
6. Summitt: In Concert, CD/Artanis
Entertainment Group 102 (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
7. Live At The Villa Venice,
CD/Reprise 73965 (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
The Candy Man (M/L: Leslie
Bricusse; Anthony Newley) (originally used in the film WILLY WONKA AND THE
CHOCOLATE FACTORY):
1. Sammy Davis Jr. Now, MGM 4832
(Sammy Davis Jr.) [reissued on The Best Of Sammy Davis, Jr.: The Millenium
Collection, CD/Universal 065083]
For Once
In My Life (M: Orlando Murden; L: Ronald Miller):
1. Sammy, MGM (S) SE 4914 (Sammy
Davis, Jr. with orchestra conducted by George Rhodes and Jack Parnell)
[reissued on The Best Of Sammy Davis, Jr.: The Millenium Collection,
CD/Universal 065083]
2. Something For Everyone, Motown 710 (Sammy Davis,
Jr.)
Gonna Build A Mountain (M/L: Leslie
Bricusse; Anthony Newley) (originally used in STOP THE WORLD - I WANT TO GET
OFF):
1. What Kind Of Fool Am I And
Other Show Stoppers, Reprise RS-6051 (Sammy Davis, Jr.) [reissued as
Collectors' Choice Music 447]
2. The Sammy Davis Jr. Show, Reprise RS-6188
(Sammy Davis, Jr.) [reissued as CD/Collectors' Choice Music 492]
3. That's
All, Reprise 2RS 6237 (Sammy Davis, Jr.) [reissued as CD/Rhino 74278]
4.
Stop The World - I Want To Get Off, Warner Bros. HS-3214 (Sammy Davis, Jr. with
orchestra conducted by George Rhodes)
I've
Gotta Be Me (M/L: Walter Marks) (originally used in GOLDEN
RAINBOW):
1. I've Gotta Be Me, Reprise
R-6324 (Sammy Davis, Jr.) [reissued as CD/Collectors' Choice Music 497]
2.
Sammy, MGM (S) SE 4914 (Sammy Davis, Jr. with orchestra conducted by George
Rhodes and Jack Parnell)
The Impossible
Dream (M: Mitch Leigh; L: Joe Darion) (originally used in MAN OF LA
MANCHA):
1. The Goin's Great, Reprise
R-6339 (Sammy Davis, Jr.) [reissued as CD/Collectors' Choice Music
498]
The Lady Is A Tramp (M: Richard
Rodgers; L: Lorenz Hart) (originally used in BABES IN
ARMS):
1. It's All Over But The
Swingin', Decca DL-8641 (Sammy Davis, Jr.) [reissued as CD/MCA MCLD-19384]
2. The Rat Pat At Villa Venice, Chicago, Live 1962, Vol. 2, CD/Jazz Hour
1034 (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
3. The Rat Pat Live At The Sands, CD/Capitol 36615
(Sammy Davis, Jr.)
Mama En Quero
(originally used in DOWN ARGENTINE WAY):
1. 78/Polydor 580055 (The
Nicholas Brothers) (part of medley from DOWN ARGENTINE AWAY, TIN PAN ALLEY, and
ZIEGFELD FOLLIES)
Mr. Bojangles (M/L: Jerry
Jeff Walker):
1. Sammy, MGM (S) SE 4914 (Sammy
Davis, Jr. with orchestra conducted by George Rhodes and Jack Parnell)
[reissued on The Best Of Sammy Davis, Jr.: The Millenium Collection,
CD/Universal 065083]
(I Did It) My Way (M: Caliude Revaux; Claude
Francois; L: Paul Anka):
1. Something For Everyone, Motown
710 (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
2. My Name Is Sammy Davis, CD/Pazzazz 2PAZZ018
(Sammy Davis, Jr.)
Once In A Lifetime
(M/L: Leslie Bricusse; Anthony Newley) (originally used in STOP THE WORLD - I
WANT TO GET OFF):
1. What Kind Of Fool Am I And
Other Show Stoppers, Reprise RS-6051 (Sammy Davis, Jr.) [reissued as
Collectors' Choice Music 447]
2. At The Cocoanut Grove, Reprise 6063 (Sammy
Davis, Jr.) [reissued as CD/Rhino 74277]
3. Stop The World - I Want To Get
Off, Warner Bros. HS-3214 (Sammy Davis, Jr. with orchestra conducted by George
Rhodes)
What Kind Of Fool Am I? (M/L:
Leslie Bricusse; Anthony Newley) (originally used in STOP THE WORLD - I WANT TO
GET OFF):
1. At The Cocoanut Grove,
Reprise 6063 (Sammy Davis, Jr.) [reissued as CD/Rhino 74277]
2. The Sammy
Davis Jr. Show, Reprise RS-6188 (Sammy Davis, Jr.) [reissued as CD/Collectors'
Choice Music 492]
3. That's All, Reprise 2RS 6237 (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
[reissued as CD/Rhino 74278]
4. The Sounds Of '66, Reprise (S) 6214 (Sammy
Davis, Jr.) [reissued as CD/Collectors' Choice Music 493]
5. Stop The World
- I Want To Get Off, Warner Bros. HS-3214 (Sammy Davis, Jr. with orchestra
conducted by George Rhodes)
6. The Rat Pat At Villa Venice, Chicago, Live
1962, Vol. 2, CD/Jazz Hour 1034 (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
Who Can I Turn To? (M/L: Leslie Bricusse; Anthony Newley)
(originally used in STOP THE WORLD - I WANT TO GET OFF):
1. If I Ruled The World, Reprise
R-6159 (Sammy Davis, Jr.) [reissued as CD/Collectors' Choice Music 454]
2.
Live And Swingin': The Ultimate Rat Pack Collection, CD/Reprise 73922 (Sammy
Davis, Jr.)
Other
Material:
Carousel (M/L: Jacques Brel)
(originally used in JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS)
Come Fly With Me (M: James Van Heusen; L: Sammy Cahn) (from the film COME
FLY WITH ME)
Come On, Baby
Cool Blues
Goldfinger (M: John Barry; L:
Leslie Bricusse; Anthony Newley) (originally used in the film GOLDFINGER)
I'll Never Smile Again (M/L: Ruth Lowe)
Ol' Man River (M: Jerome Kern;
L: Oscar Hammerstein II) (originally used in SHOW BOAT)
The Man I Love (M:
George Gershwin; L: Ira Gershwin) (originally written for but cut from LADY, BE
GOOD; cut from ROSALIE; used in STRIKE UP THE BAND (1927))
What A Little
Moonlight Can Do (M/L: Harry Woods) (originally used in the film ROADHOUSE
NIGHTS)
Witchcraft (M: Cy Coleman; L: Carolyn Leigh)
Ya Got Trouble
(M/L: Meredith Wilson) (originally used in THE MUSIC MAN)