Sammy Davis Jr. - The Candy Man (1972) 

This comment makes me depressed

Whatever you say, champ. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

@@sludge8506 you wouldn't know humanity if it was next to you...champ. 🖕

Dead people?

1970s was a good years to sing out loud.

I'm Here doing it with cannabis man

@UncleMikeNJ his no longer alive now day’s but his voice on the video will live on just hope new people will war h this like us.

@James Robinson not all of them are not died I few but not all of them.

@Katie Trotman You're most welcome. We all use to watch TV together too. My Dad is now gone as well. Think of the happier times.

What tv show was this taping from ?

Makes me a little sad also . My Mom used to sing this to me because that's our last name. Rest in Peace Mom😇

I understand my dad passed last year and when I was a little girl we used to dance to Perry Como it’s impossible, and Engelbert raindrops the pain is pretty severe I wish you the best

My condolences.

Well yes, it happens when you're super depressed. Then you hear a song like this and you sink deeper, because you have no Candyman in your life to take away the sorrow and collect the cream.

@@nigeltrotter2886collect the cream? 🤨

@@br0th3rb82 Yeah, same meaning as the song means

Just today's society was as it was back than it's should be!!!!! I miss them days

I nominate this for the Greatest Comment on RU-vid award ❤️

Love Mr. Bojangles.

@@MrWeareone777 I agree, he was the best

Back when entertainers who had *class* were the rule, and not the exception to the rule. God rest Sammy Davis, Jr.

this is good, but primus is better

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His way long before pop music where even a thing.

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He was classy. I always wondered why he hung out with those scummy "Rat Pack" jerks.

Think its because he did vaudeville back in the late 20' and into the 30's so he was very grateful to the audience

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Despite the record's commercial success, Davis himself disliked it, telling his manager “It’s horrible. It’s a timmy-two-shoes, it’s white bread, cute-ums, there’s no romance. Blechhh!” After hastily recording it in two takes at a studio session, he also reportedly said “This record is going straight into the toilet. Not just around the rim but into the bowl, and it may just pull my whole career down with it.

It was written originally for the movie "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". Curious what someone commented about Davis disliking the song. They said he wanted to perform the role in the movie.

Oh wow! What month? Thanks for watching!

i was born at June 12th

+Denis Garcia was that around the time of the Watergate Hotel break-in? I turned 6 in Feb 1972.

Exactly weskitten! I was born at june 12th and the Watergate Hotel break-in was at june 17th if I'm not wrong

+Denis Garcia hahahaha! And I was a Freshman cheerleader that year with a cheer I still recall that dates the time specifically! It goes : Well.... a..1, 2 , 3, 4 !!! Well, Your team is as unstable as "national prices"....! you can't get ahead of the "energy crisis!" You're behind the times! And out of date ! You probably were involved in " WATERGATE !!" You're bad news! 2, 3 , 4, ! You're gonna lose 2, 3, 4 ! You're bad news! 2, 3 , 4, ! YOU'RE GONNA LOSE!!!!!! when you get to the energy crisis part we made like a locomotion movement and I know when we got to the Watergate part we did the Ole Nixon peace sign with both hands like Mr. Nixon himself !!!! lololol !

Not going to serve any Mars bars....my other brother is an astrounout....can't stand him....thinks he's God and killing off the other brother in laws

There's a candy store in Seaside Oregon that plays Candy man none stop lol from the sweet 1970s

"Absent From the Body Present with the Lord"

Roger Hurtubise

Silver Streak! Haha

Willy Wonka: the original "Candyman".

Love it still at 71. With a song as memorible as this its no wonder I'm still a child at heart! 💖💖 Thanks for the sweet memories Sammy. 🍬🍭🍧

How do you know he was coked out? He seems perfectly fine to me.

@@christinamayorga3820 notorious use so his voice and behavior seem normal but check that man jaw

I agree

Yeah now it’s mostly sh*t music.

Despite the record's commercial success, Davis himself disliked it, telling his manager “It’s horrible. It’s a timmy-two-shoes, it’s white bread, cute-ums, there’s no romance. Blechhh!” After hastily recording it in two takes at a studio session, he also reportedly said “This record is going straight into the toilet. Not just around the rim but into the bowl, and it may just pull my whole career down with it.

Thumbs up bro

lol

yea lol

Not, i'm here after seen one comment about Curtis Granderson's two homers last night on MLB.

Both of these songs probably reminded your parents of the music of the 1950's with their lollipop vibes

Oh that is great! I know it must have been fun. We sang it just running around school in the 6th Grade the year it came out. Thanks for watching!

Thanks for putting it up! It was a blast. My parents had a player piano when I was growing up and this my favorite song to play on it. To make it work, each song had a paper scroll roll with holes punched in them, you put the scroll of a particular song in the piano and the song plays, I guess it was kind of like a punch card computer. On the song roll the lyrics were printed on the right and scrolled down as the song played. So I learned the words to Candyman and other songs that way. We were a hit at the talent show, I think mainly because we threw candy into the audience at the end :) I never saw the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory until I was an adult, just somehow missed that one growing up. I was amused to learn that's where Candyman came from.

You're welcome! I remember those types of pianos. Boy that was a long time ago. LOL!

Wasn't he just the coolest guy? Love him!

Linda Nolan And he loved us Right back.;-)

@Vincenzo Ridente Oh that is great! Thanks for watching.

Sammy was a true professional.

Despite the record's commercial success, Davis himself disliked it, telling his manager “It’s horrible. It’s a timmy-two-shoes, it’s white bread, cute-ums, there’s no romance. Blechhh!” After hastily recording it in two takes at a studio session, he also reportedly said “This record is going straight into the toilet. Not just around the rim but into the bowl, and it may just pull my whole career down with it.

Oh that is great and you were lucky. Loved Sammy Davis Jr. and I love Windsor, Ontario!!! Thanks for watching.

I was 10 now im 63

@@theodoreritola7641 I loved being a kid in the 70s. Especially early to mid 70s.