I've Gotta Be Me (Sammy Davis Jr. album)

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I've Gotta Be Me
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1968
Genre Traditional pop, vocal jazz
Length42:42
Label Reprise
Producer Jimmy Bowen
Sammy Davis Jr. chronology
Lonely Is the Name
(1968)
I've Gotta Be Me
(1968)
Sammy Davis Jr's Greatest Hits – The Top Twelve
(1968)
Singles from I've Gotta Be Me
  1. "I've Gotta Be Me"
    Released: October 26, 1968

I've Gotta Be Me is a 1968 studio album by Sammy Davis Jr. The album includes covers of three songs from the musical Sweet Charity . [1]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "I've Gotta Be Me" (Walter Marks) – 2:58
  2. "My Personal Property" (Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields) – 2:26
  3. "I'm Glad There Is You" (Jimmy Dorsey and Paul Mertz) – 2:30
  4. "Here I'll Stay" (Alan Jay Lerner, Kurt Weill) – 3:10
  5. "I'm a Brass Band" (Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields) – 1:35
  6. "If My Friends Could See Me Now" (Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields) – 2:42
  7. "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Cole Porter) – 2:26
  8. "Somebody" (Sid Wayne, Ben Weisman) – 2:26
  9. "She Believes in Me" (Baker Knight) – 2:55
  10. "Sweet November" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) – 2:39

Personnel

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