Sammy Davis jr start of the blues

Q: What was Sammy Davis Jr biggest hit song?

While Daviss 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.

Oh... they say some people along ago
Where lookin' for a different tune
One that they could coon
As only they can
They only had the rhythm
So, they started swingin' to and fro
They didn't know just what to use
But this is how the blues
Really began

This is the way the blues began

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What was Sammy Davis Jr biggest hit song?
Did Sammy Davis have a glass eye?
Who composed the birth of the blues?

They... heard... the breeze
Through the trees
Singing weird melodies
And they named that
Just the start of the blues

Then from a jail
There came a wail
From a down-heart frail
And they played that
As a part of the blues

Now from a whippoorwill
Sittin' high on a hill

They took a new note
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And they pushed it through a horn
Until it was worn into a blue note

And they nursed it
Yeah, rehearsed it
And then gave out the news
That the South Land
Really gave birth to the blues

From a whippoorwill
High on a hill
They grabbed a new note
And they pushed it through a horn
Until it was worn into a blue note

And then they nursed it
Oh, rehearsed it
And then gave out the news
That the South Land
Gave birth to the blues

Everybody they nursed it
Rehearsed it
And gave out the news
That, that old South Land
Gave birth, birth to the blues

What was Sammy Davis Jr biggest hit song?

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".

Did Sammy Davis have a glass eye?

The only time he forgot it, one night in 1954, he crashed his car on a way to a gig in California. Davis' face hit the steering wheel, fracturing the bones in his face and leaving his left eye dangling from his socket. He was forced to get an artificial eye and learn how to find his balance on stage again.