Lonely Is the Name

Lonely Is the Name
Studio album by Sammy Davis Jr.
Released	August 1968
Recorded	1968
Genre	Vocal jazz
Length	37:02
Label	Reprise
Sammy Davis Jr. chronology
Sammy Davis Jr. Sings the Complete "Dr. Dolittle" (1967) Lonely Is the Name (1968) I've Gotta Be Me (1968)

Lonely Is the Name is a 1968 studio album by Sammy Davis Jr. ^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

The Allmusic review by Lindsay Planer awarded the album three and a half stars and said that Davis "once again blended his interminable hipness with a batch of popular standards and fresh interpretations of selections that he had previously delivered in a distinctly different style"^[1]

Track listing

1. "Lonely Is the Name" (Bert Kaempfert, Herbert Rehbein, Carl Sigman) - 3:15
2. "Up, Up and Away" (Jimmy Webb) - 3:28
3. "The Good Life" (Sacha Distel, Jack Reardon) - 2:43
4. "Shake, Shake, Shake" (Clark, Resnick) - 3:02
5. "We'll Be Together Again" (Carl Fischer, Frankie Laine) - 2:50
6. "Don't Take Your Time" (Roger Nichols, Tony Asher) - 2:38
7. "Children, Children" (Ken Kaganovitch, Ron Rose) - 3:26
8. Medley: "Uptight (Everything's Alright)"/"You've Got Your Troubles" (Stevie Wonder, Sylvia Moy, Henry Cosby)/(Roger Greenaway, Roger Cook) - 3:04
9. "All That Jazz (From A Man Called Adam)" (Benny Carter, Al Stillman) - 2:16
10. "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Cole Porter) - 2:34

Personnel

• Sammy Davis Jr. - vocals

References