
Sammy and Dino Episode 2: Martin and Lewis, Sammy and Mickey and Frank
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Sammy Runey's Theme Song, Dance and Joke
Sammy davis junior worked so hard to perfect his impressions of white performers like sonatra, jimmy cagney and al jolson. Sammy was willing to do wha he had to do to get to that fantasized realm of super fame in which his race wouldn't matter. The easy answer is that davis pretended to be white stars because he wanted to be a white star. Near the end of his life, on the arseneo hall show, sammy talked fielding this accusation from white people and black people. And the guy said to me, and i was to her, but by my own people, he wants to be white. I don't want to
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