Two smoking Sammy Davis Jr. clips

[darkstar]

W/ Count Basie in '65:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI_1HmgM6js

W/ Doc and the Tonight Show band, what, maybe 10 years later? If truly "improv-ed," staggeringly cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUDdS7iIIgk

[livetohike]

1. He was amazing

Thanks for posting these :-). Got to love those platform shoes and bellbottoms.

[trof]

2. As Sammy said:

"For a one-eyed Jew nigger, I ain't doin' so bad."
How so much raw talent could be crammed into such a diminutive person is just...I don't know...truly phenomenal.

I hadn't thought about him in a while.
Thanks for the reminder.
:-)

[whistler162]

3. In one of his shows, St. Louis, now on DVD....

he said he was Black(father), Jewish, and Puerto Rican(mother) and that property values of any neighborhood he moved into went down dramatically.

Sad, but too much truth in the statement.

[trof]

4. True, but he could sure deal with it.

[Deja Q]

5. Here comes the judge!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hIcKkKID8k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AukF8m5if8Y&feature=related

[Haole Girl]

6. Actually saw him on a flight many years ago

He was in first class and I was in coach. The flight attendant announced as we landed how honored they were he was on board. As we deplaned he and his entourage walked right in front of me down the concourse (in LAX) and onto the escalator. God, I feel old telling this! lol Anyway, he was an extremely little guy... shorter than I am (and I am 5'1"). That was my brush with fame with Sammy Davis Jr.

Don't know why I felt like sharing that. Guess I'm feeling nostalgic tonight.

:cry:

[darkstar]

7. Thanks!

Great story. I love the guy in a non-ironic way.
:hi: