What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Show-Stoppers

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What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Show-Stoppers
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1962 (1962-10)
Genre
Length37:43
Label Reprise
Sammy Davis Jr. chronology
The Sammy Davis Jr. All-Star Spectacular
(1962)
What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Show-Stoppers
(1962)
Sammy Davis Jr. at the Cocoanut Grove
(1963)
Singles from What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Show-Stoppers
  1. "What Kind of Fool Am I?"
    Released: August 19, 1962
  2. "Someone Nice Like You"
    Released: May 18, 1962

What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Show-Stoppers is a 1962 studio album by Sammy Davis Jr. [1]

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Reception

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Riding off the success of the title single which was at No. 18 on the Billboard Hot 100 after 8 weeks on the chart, the album entered the Billboard Top LPs chart at No. 82 in the end of October 1962. [3] It peaked at No. 14, staying on the chart for 22 weeks, the last of which was the week Davis' 1963 live album Sammy Davis Jr. at the Cocoanut Grove entered the Top LPs chart. [4]

Lindsay Planer on AllMusic praised the album for "accentuating [Davis'] undeniable talent and presence," and noted that it was one of the most well-received albums he released during the 1960s. [5]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)MusicalLength
1."What Kind of Fool Am I?" Newley, Bricusse from Stop the World - I Want to Get Off 3:24
2."Once in a Lifetime" Newley, Bricusse from Stop the World - I Want to Get Off 2:11
3."A Lot of Livin' to Do" Charles Strouse, Lee Adams from Bye Bye Birdie 2:47
4."Begin the Beguine" Cole Porter from Jubilee 4:32
5."Can't We Be Friends?"Kay Smith, Paul James from The Little Show 3:00
6."Something's Coming" Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim from West Side Story 2:51
7."Gonna Build a Mountain" Newley, Bricusse from Stop the World - I Want to Get Off 2:25
8."Someone Nice Like You" Newley, Bricusse from Stop the World - I Want to Get Off 2:26
9."Too Close for Comfort" Jerry Bock, George David Weiss, Larry Holofcener from Mr. Wonderful 3:03
10."My Romance" Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart from Jumbo 3:34
11."Thou Swell" Rodgers, Hart from A Connecticut Yankee 3:04
12."Lost in the Stars" Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson from Lost in the Stars 4:26

Personnel

References

  1. What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Show-Stoppers at AllMusic
  2. Allmusic review
  3. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. October 20, 1962.
  4. "Billboard Top LP's". Billboard. March 16, 1963. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
  5. Allmusic review