Lonely Is the Name

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Lonely Is the Name
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Studio album by
Sammy Davis Jr.
ReleasedAugust 1968
Recorded1968
Genre Vocal jazz
Length37:02
Label Reprise
Sammy Davis Jr. chronology
Sammy Davis Jr. Sings the Complete "Dr. Dolittle"
(1967)		Lonely Is the Name
(1968)		 I've Gotta Be Me
(1968)

Lonely Is the Name is a 1968 studio album by Sammy Davis Jr. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Allmusic review by Lindsay Planer awarded the album three and a half stars and said that Davis "once again blended his interminable hipness with a batch of popular standards and fresh interpretations of selections that he had previously delivered in a distinctly different style" [1]

Track listing

  1. "Lonely Is the Name" (Bert Kaempfert, Herbert Rehbein, Carl Sigman) - 3:15
  2. "Up, Up and Away" (Jimmy Webb) - 3:28
  3. "The Good Life" (Sacha Distel, Jack Reardon) - 2:43
  4. "Shake, Shake, Shake" (Clark, Resnick) - 3:02
  5. "We'll Be Together Again" (Carl Fischer, Frankie Laine) - 2:50
  6. "Don't Take Your Time" (Roger Nichols, Tony Asher) - 2:38
  7. "Children, Children" (Ken Kaganovitch, Ron Rose) - 3:26
  8. Medley: "Uptight (Everything's Alright)"/"You've Got Your Troubles" (Stevie Wonder, Sylvia Moy, Henry Cosby)/(Roger Greenaway, Roger Cook) - 3:04
  9. "All That Jazz (From A Man Called Adam)" (Benny Carter, Al Stillman) - 2:16
  10. "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Cole Porter) - 2:34

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Lonely Is the Name". Allmusic . Retrieved February 11, 2011.
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