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The Sounds of '66 is a 1966 live album by Sammy Davis Jr., accompanied by Buddy Rich and a big band. The album was recorded at the Sands Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in the early hours of two successive nights, 18th and 19th June 1966, after both artists had already performed shows earlier.
The Sounds Of ’66 is a high-water mark in Sammy Davis, Jr.’s recording career, and it is easily one of the greatest live Las Vegas albums of all time. Paired with dynamite (albeit cantakerous) drummer and long-time friend Buddy Rich and his brand new Buddy Rich Orchestra, Sammy swings this album something fierce.
Aug 23, 2017 · The Sounds of ’66 documents a 1966 show in Las Vegas, where Davis was backed by Rich’s big band.
The album was recorded at the Sands Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in the early hours of two successive nights, 18th and 19th June 1966, after both artists had already performed shows earlier.
- Swingin’ London
- The Candy Man
- Embracing Archie Bunker and Richard Nixon
- An Aging Swinger
Throughout the late 1960s, Sammy’s home-away-from-home would become London – he spent several months there in each of 1967, 1968 and 1969. In 1967, he was shooting a comedy / adventure film called Salt and Pepperalongside his friend Peter Lawford, in which the two played London nightclub owners. Sammy, 42, and Peter, 44, were swept up in the cultur...
“I’ve Gotta Be Me” aside, Sammy’s recording career at Reprise records appeared to be on the wane. His two subsequent albums, each containing some R&B material, tanked. Sammy signed with Motown Records in 1970 in a blaze of publicity, but the first album was a failure and Sammy quietly left for MGM. There he partnered with producer Mike Curb, whose ...
Even Sammy’s successes were swiftly undercut. In February 1972 he made a guest appearance as himself on the hit new show All In The Family, with Carroll O’Connor starring as the ‘loveable bigot’ Archie Bunker. The episode was ranked #13 on TV Guide’s ‘100 Greatest Episodes of All Time’. After the famous episode-ending scene in which Sammy kisses Ar...
It is not surprising then that the mid-1970s saw Davis’s heaviest period of alcohol addiction and drug abuse and included his much-reported obsession with swinging, pornography and even a brief dalliance with satanism. He became an increasingly demanding, unreliable and unstable performer on stage, being frequently drunk or stoned and susceptible t...
Mar 29, 2005 · Sammy Davis Jr./Buddy Rich: The Sounds of '66. Sammy Davis Jr. opens these after-hours Las Vegas recording sessions, remarking that even at this hour the town is still swinging. He tells listeners that any noises from the audiences are real, not canned.
May 22, 2019 · Naples, Florida-based singer and guitarist Paul Penta was a high school musician growing up in Boston when he walked into a record shop and first encountered “The Sounds of ’66.” Penta was a Sammy Davis Jr. fan but four measures of Buddy’s Rich’s drum work on the LP’s opening track turned Penta into a life-long Rich fan as well.
