Recordings

November, 1966

Sammy Davis, Jr. / Buddy Rich / The Sounds of '66 (Reprise), recorded live in Las Vegas, is a pressure cooker from start to finish, with drummer Rich and his band pushing Davis to the outer limits. The high point of the session is a riotous rendition of I Know a Place, which Davis converts into a Ray Charlesian blues shout of the first order. Close behind it in joie de vivre are What the World Needs Now Is Love and a dilly of a Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead.•Taking as its motto "If at first y...