Sammy Davis Jr. was easily America's greatest and most versatile entertainer in the TV era. And the swinging-est. In the 1960s and '70s, as his style of pop faded, he sang one theme for a TV sitcom—Chico and the Man—and covered a bunch of others on a couple of albums. One of those LPs was The Song and Dance Man, in 1976. It's surprising more TV shows di…
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