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Our Shining Hour - Sammy Davis/Count Basie
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  1. My Shining Hour
  2. Teach Me Tonight
  3. Work Song
  4. Why Try to Change Me Now?
  5. Blues for Mr. Charlie
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  1. My Shining Hour
  2. Teach Me Tonight
  3. Work Song
  4. Why Try to Change Me Now?
  5. Blues for Mr. Charlie
  6. April in Paris
  7. New York City Blues
  8. You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
  9. She's a Woman (W-O-M-A-N)
  10. The Girl from Ipanema
  11. Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
  12. Bill Basie Won't You Please Come Home
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This is one of popular entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr's best jazz-oriented albums, featuring Davis with the Count Basie Orchestra performing arrangements by Quincy Jones. Unfortunately, the personnel of the Basie band is not given, but the orchestra mostly acts as a prop behind Davis much of the time anyway. The singer is heard in top form on "Teach Me Tonight," "Work Song," and "Keepin' Out of Mischief Now" and adding a bit of tap dancing to a lighthearted "Bill Basie Won't You Please Come Home." Some of the more poppish ...

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Our Shining Hour 1994, PolyGram

UPC: 042283744622

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