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Jr. Sammy Davis
What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Show-Stoppers
Genres: Pop, Broadway & Vocalists

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. What Kind Of Fool Am I
2. A Lot Of Livin' To Do
3. Can't We Be Friends
4. Gonna Build A Mountain
5. Too Close For Comfort
6. Thou Swell
7. Once In A Lifetime
8. Begin The Beguine
9. Something's Coming
10. Someone Nice Like You
11. My Romance
12. Lost In The Stars

CD Details

All Artists: Jr. Sammy Davis
Title: What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Show-Stoppers
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Collector's Choice
Release Date: 8/10/2004
Genres: Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Easy Listening, Oldies, Vocal Pop, Traditional Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 617742044720, 0617742044720, 603497058365

Synopsis

Album Description

Sammy joined forces with arranger Marty Paich for this 1962 album of Broadway standards, and the result was a #14-charting album and a hit ('What Kind of Fool Am I') that became a signature song in Sammy's repertoire. A classic album, a 'Collectors' Choice Music' exclusive! Includes 'Once in a Lifetime; A Lot of Livin' to Do; Begin the Beguine; Can't We Be Friends; Something's Coming; Gonna Build a Mountain; Someone Nice Like You; Too Close for Comfort; My Romance; Thou Swell; Lost in the Stars', and the title tune.

CD Reviews

Not Sammy's First Reprise Recording

Brad Hoffman | 04/05/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"As stated in the liner notes of this CD, there were two albums prior to this: "The Wham Of Sam", and "Sammy Davis Belts Out the Best Of Broadway", both from 1961. However this was the first commercially successful album that Davis had while at Reprise. Since the first two albums were virtually invisible to the record buying public by this time, they were quickly phased out of print, and the tracks (minus a few) were redistributed as filler in several later Sammy albums. This one was obviously a hasty attempt to cash in on the '62 hit "What Kind Of Fool Am I". The rest of the tracks are a 50/50 split of the previously mentioned albums. Because of this, Collector's Choice felt that Wham Of Sam, and Best Of Broadway weren't integral in representing Sammy's recording career at Reprise. Also missing from the CCM series is the "Golden Treasury Of Hits" from 1963, and "Sammy Steps Out" from 1970."

Some voice

Ronald P. Shears | 08/12/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Few singers can match this man's voice. You can count 'em on two hands. This man is on the first set of five fingers. I regret never going to see him at The Palladium. But thank you Mr. Davis for recordings that are up there with the best in the business. Ron Shears."