Sammy Davis, Jr. on Late Night: "I Can't Get Started" - YouTube
I was
perusing tables of contents and noticed in the Library of America’s anthology
of twentieth-century poetry, lyricists are included, and Ira Gershwin’s lyrics
to the song “I Can’t Get Started” is one of the entries. (Vernon Duke wrote the
music.) Coincidently, my friend Neil Novello
and I had been sharing some video clips and comments featuring Sammy Davis,
Jr., and one of the clips is Sammy singing “I Can’t Get Started,” from David
Letterman’s show in 1989. Click
here. Wow.
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I'm the one mentioned in this post. No not Davis! And Not Letterman. The other guy. In a recent documentary about Sinatra, there's detail information about the relationship of Sinatra and Davis, about the racism in Vegas. Davis and Sinatra were part of one era and never gave up when the new eras came along. Davis overcame addition and was stronger for it. The proof is the vocals. Thanks for posting.
ReplyDeleteI mean, addiction not addition. Sorry about that.
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