In this case, the Candy Man is Josh Elliott, a 59-year-old Las Vegas native who has been on a one-man quest to name a two-mile stretch of Industrial Road after Sammy Davis Jr., that famous singer ...

Sammy Davis Jr. on set of the show ‘Poor Devil ... In one of their secret adventures in Las Vegas, the friends romped with Marilyn Chambers and vied to see the other in flagrante.

Newly relocated Vegas entertainer Obba Babatunde joined the discussion and the improptu performance. But Sammy Davis Jr. was also in the room, if in spirit, Wednesday night at The Stirling Club.

By the turn of the 1960s, Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and others in their orbit were beginning to gain a reputation on the Las Vegas strip for their wild performances and ...

In the mid-1960s, Sammy Davis Jr. ranked behind only Martin Luther King ... But when Davis is at center stage on the Vegas Strip and in Hollywood in the 1950s, the book really takes off.

Sammy Davis Jr. opens these after-hours Las Vegas recording sessions, remarking that even at this hour the town is still swinging. He tells listeners that any noises from the audiences are real, not ...

Sammy Davis Jr.'s career was groundbreaking ... Davis's career evolved from vaudeville performances to starring roles in Las Vegas nightclubs, Hollywood TV shows, films, and Broadway musicals ...

Sammy Davis Jr. was a short and skinny Black man with ... In a live skit at the Sands in Las Vegas in 1963, Dean Martin physically lifted Davis up (he weighed a mere 120 pounds) and said ...

Kim Novak and Sammy Davis Jr.'s relationship endangered both of their careers. Alamy/Illustration by Shaylyn Esposito In 1957, Sammy Davis Jr. was a rising star. He’d just completed an acclaimed ...

1960 comedy about a Las Vegas heist gone wrong that starred fabled Rat Pack--Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr and Peter Lawford, and movie based on life of singer-actor Bobby Darin ...

The Sammy Davis Jr. Show. Davis's career slowed in the late sixties, but he had a hit record with "The Candy Man", in 1972, and became a star in Las Vegas. As an African American, Davis was the ...