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The Shelter Of Your Arms

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Sammy Davis Jr. was always an excellent singer during his Decca years in the fifties but became a really great singer when he signed to close friend Frank Sinatra's Reprise Records...this great collection is one of the very finest from this awesome period and Sammy's recording career has been vastly underrated and sadly overlooked until these long overdue reissues have finally seen the light of day and show Mr. Sammy Davis Jr. as one of the finest of the great legendary singers over the past fifty or so years!!!
Opening with the jazzy great rhythm cooker "Bee-Bom", Sammy hits his stride with a loose vocal where he scats around and pulls the listener along for a great ride...every varied performance is winning and arrangements are first-rate.
"The Shelter Of Your Arms" is one of Sammy's finest classic performances and this great vocal is full and passionate making this a huge and well-deserved hit that I remember well as it sounded majestic over the airwaves and sounds still wonderful today in this great set...a real timeless classic!
Anyone who wants to experience Sammy at his peak do not miss this masterpiece...thank you Sammy Davis Jr. for leaving us with these wonderful gems to enjoy over and over and you are really missed!!!

A must for all Sammy Davis Jnr fans! Classic songs from a golden era, the young Sammy Davis is superb in this early collection of standards. Compositions from legendary songwriters enable Sam to shine supreme. Unbelievably good!

As time goes by, Sammy Davis Jr. might be better known for a few of his top hits that got the radio play - Mr. Bojangles, and The Candy Man. But Davis was at his peak in the mid-sixties, and this is a terrific selection of music of the era.

The arrangements display a classic sixties styling, and so do his interpretations. It's a great mix of uptempo songs and ballads. For good songs, sung with style and verve, it's tough to beat this album.

Good material, served up right!

This is Sammy's greatest album. The songs are wonderful, and Sammy's interpretations are fantastic. Take this album to work, and you'll find yourself playing it 3 or 4 hours at a stretch, 3 or 4 days a week, for months on end.

If you think Sammy Davis Junior is nothing more than "Mr. Bojangles", you really ought to get the Jerry Jeff Walker recording of that song; he's the one who wrote the song, and his is the greatest recording of it.

I wouldn't recommend buying a copy of this album. Buy two, because you'll want to give a copy to a friend.