Awesome / Sammy Davis Jr.

• His version of "Rock-a-bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" from Sammy Davis Jr. at the Cocoanut Grove, in which he takes a song dripping with stereotypes about The Deep South and brutally plays it for laughs with a series of razor-sharp impressions of other performers — Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Billy Eckstine, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis ^note (who, believe it or not, had a top 10 hit with the same song in 1956), James Stewart, Humphrey Bogart ...

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