The 25th anniversary of the death of Sammy Davis Jr. passed without fanfare on Saturday. “Mr. Bojangles” should have been blaring over loud speakers up and down Las Vegas Boulevard.

LEAD: Sammy Davis Sr., a vaudeville performer and the father of the entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., died Saturday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 87 years old.

On Sammy Davis Jr.’s farewell tour with his old buddies Frank Sinatra and Liza Minelli in 1988-89, he mixed a little dancing into his act. It was a short interlude, a few basic steps, but it was ...

New York (AP) -- Auditions will be held in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles next month by producers casting a new musical about the life of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. The show will be called "Mr ...

Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-90) was known as "Mr. Entertainment," a dynamic performer who knew how to utilize music, movement and gesture onstage, and no one captured much of his acrobatic flair ...

One of the best showbiz biographies in a long while happens to be about Mr. Show Business himself, Sammy Davis, Jr. “In Black and White” does splendid justice to its subject while brilliantly ...

Once the tax liability was settled in 1997, Davis set about restoring her husband’s legacy. She helped organize a musical touring show called “Mr. Bojangles: The Ultimate Entertainer” in 2006.

Mr. Travalena, a comedian and singer, was known for a range of impressions of celebrities like Bugs Bunny, Ted Koppel and singers like Sammy Davis Jr. and Bobby Darin.