Sammy Davis Jr. & Frank Sinatra Live at Bally's Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey 1988 (audio only)
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Sammy Davis Jr. & Frank Sinatra Live at Bally's Grand Hotel and Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, December 10th, 1988. Sammy and Frank perform individual sets and then team up for a finale with guest Buddy Greco.
-Setlist Sammy Davis Jr.:
01. I Am What I Am (Jerry Herman)
02. Through The Years (Stephen Dorff, Marty Panzer)
03. The Music Of The Night (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart)
04. Fugue For Tinhorns (Frank Loesser)
05. Luck Be A Lady (Frank Loesser)
06. The Lady Is A Tramp (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
-Setlist(?) Frank Sinatra:
01. I've Got the World on a String (Cab Calloway and His Orchestra cover)
02. In the Still of the Night (Cole Porter cover)
03. They Can't Take That Away From Me (George Gershwin cover)
04. Come Rain or Come Shine (Harold Arlen cover)
05. Where or When (Rodgers & Hart cover)
06. My Heart Stood Still (Rodgers & Hart cover)
07. Die Moritat von Mackie Messer (Mack the Knife) (Kurt Weill cover)
08. Ol' Man River (Jerome Kern cover)
09. My Way (Claude François cover)
10. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) (Johnny Mercer cover)
11. Theme From New York, New York (John Kander cover)
12. Luck Be a Lady (Frank Loesser cover) (with Sammy Davis Jr. and Buddy Greco)
13. The Lady Is a Tramp (Rodgers & Hart cover) (with Sammy Davis Jr. and Buddy Greco)

Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, dancer, actor, comedian, film producer and television director.
At age three, Davis began his career in vaudeville with his father Sammy Davis Sr. and the Will Mastin Trio, which toured nationally, and his film career began in 1933. After military service, Davis returned to the trio and became an overnight sensation following a nightclub performance at Ciro's (in West Hollywood) after the 1951 Academy Awards. With the trio, he became a recording artist. In 1954, at the age of 29, he lost his left eye in a car accident. Several years later, he converted to Judaism, finding commonalities between the oppression experienced by African-American and Jewish communities. He had a starring role on Broadway in Mr. Wonderful with Chita Rivera (1956). In 1960, he appeared in the Rat Pack film Ocean's 11. He returned to the stage in 1964 in a musical adaptation of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy opposite Paula Wayne. Davis was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance. The show featured the first interracial kiss on Broadway. In 1966, he had his own TV variety show, titled The Sammy Davis Jr. Show. While Davis's career slowed in the late 1960s, his biggest hit, "The Candy Man", reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1972, and he became a star in Las Vegas, earning him the nickname "Mister Show Business". Davis's popularity helped break the race barrier of the segregated entertainment industry. He did, however, have a complex relationship with the black community and drew criticism after publicly supporting President Richard Nixon in 1972. One day on a golf course with Jack Benny, he was asked what his handicap was. "Handicap?" he asked. "Talk about handicap. I'm a one-eyed Negro who's Jewish." This was to become a signature comment, recounted in his autobiography and in many articles. After reuniting with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in 1987, Davis toured with them and Liza Minnelli internationally, before his death in 1990. He died in debt to the Internal Revenue Service, and his estate was the subject of legal battles after the death of his wife. Davis was awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for his television performances. He was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 1987, and in 2001, he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In August 1989, Davis began to develop symptoms of cancer - a tickle in his throat and an inability to taste food. Doctors found a malignant tumor in Davis' throat. He was a heavy smoker and had often smoked four packs of cigarettes a day as an adult. When told that surgery (laryngectomy) offered him the best chance of survival (as believed by oncologists at the time, but no longer the case), Davis replied he would rather keep his voice than have a part of his throat removed; he was treated with definitive radiation therapy. His larynx was later removed when his cancer recurred. He was released from the hospital on March 13, 1990. Davis died of complications from throat cancer two months later at his home in Beverly Hills, California, on May 16, 1990, at age 64. He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. On May 18, 1990, two days after his death, the neon lights of the Las Vegas Strip were darkened for ten minutes as a tribute.
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