Sammy On Sullivan (1965)

[JSngry]

...man, this motherfucker (and all the people from his school) WORKED @ their craft - entertainment. Jive it might - or might not - have been, but there weren't no half-steppin' of vaingloriosity allowed. You took the stage, baby, you WORKED.

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2009/05...ammy-davis.html

Let us give props where props is due.

Edited May 27, 2009 by JSngry

[DukeCity]

Wow. Johnny gets a LOT of sound out of that flugelhorn!

[Dave James]

You can say what you want about Davis' show business-y, syncophantic personality, but pound for pound or by any other measure, I've long thought he may be the single most talented performer to ever set foot on a stage. He was a comic, an actor, a dancer, an impressionist and, as this video clearly illustrates, an accomplished percussionist / instrumentalist. There just wasn't a whole lot this guy couldn't do and do well. Yo! Sammy. You da man.

Up over and out.