"It Ain't Necessarily So" from Porgy & Bess

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Mike Harland

Күн бұрын

Trouble brewing at the Gospel Group picnic.
Apologies for the appalling picture quality.

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@dannydoc1969 2 жыл бұрын

Someone once said, Sammy Davis Jr. was born to play this role. He was the most versatile entertainer. Super talented.

@emiliewelch9395 7 ай бұрын

This and Mr Bojangles I had the pleasure of seeing this movie when it came out. Been singing this song ever since.

@CPorter Ай бұрын

Mr Bojangles was still shitting his pants when this came out.

@barneshomestead1240 8 күн бұрын

Well he sang & danced up a storm in Robin & The Seven Hoods too!

@jmckdekalb316 4 жыл бұрын

Sammy Davis Jr should’ve gotten nominated for an Oscar or Golden Globe for this role

@hyacinthwatkins3246 4 жыл бұрын

The only problem was, the movie never made to the big screen. Black folks protested the film saying it depicted black men as weak. It was only shown on TV. I love this movie

@brucescott4261 3 жыл бұрын

@@hyacinthwatkins3246 ...That's incorrect. PORGY AND BESS did hit the big screen in July 1959.

@razorbackfilms 3 жыл бұрын

I agree.

@dasaggropop1244 3 жыл бұрын

in a world where cab calloway doesn't exist

@chestinejohnson9173 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🧡🧡

@CanvasCanary 2 жыл бұрын

Mom thought this was so important that she let us stay up late and see it when we were kids, and it was the Late Show on TV that night; all the next day we were both singing "It Ain't Necessarily So!" 😄

@ginohernandez7860 6 ай бұрын

He should’ve been nominated for the Golden Globe award or for an Oscar for this role.., because he was very much worthy of this performance in a musical film…

@charleslawrence2859 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to own a copy of this great movie with Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr. Sidney Poitier, Pear Bailey, and Diahann Carroll. This is a classic. It needs to be restored in UK/Blu Ray. Imagine what this would sound like in surround sound. A great treasure.

@willarth9186 5 ай бұрын

I've got the vinyl of this but I too would love to have the movie! It needs to be re-released!

@cymeriandesigns 4 жыл бұрын

I had the great pleasure of seeing him perform in a live play once. So much talent in one human being. I'll never forget it.

@3340steve Жыл бұрын

Definitely the best song and dance I have ever seen.

@xell5252 3 жыл бұрын

Sammy Davis Jr., Afro-Cuban brother from Harlem was a triple threat before the phrase was coined, He sang, Danced and Acted like no one else could, ABSO FUKIN LUTELY Fabulous ✊🏾✌🏾🤎

@TheMatbrown 2 жыл бұрын

One of the reasons I love the internet, I was thinking about this, and here it is, Sammy Freaking Davis Jr in his prime 💙

@sonkolyistvan Жыл бұрын

My sentiments exactly

@DavidRichardson95 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to see this film remastered (4K/UHD etc.) and aired on TCM. Watching his _American Masters_ story a few months back brought me here. And on the eve of his 95th birthday. #RIPSammyDavisJr

@janicesanders9981 2 жыл бұрын

If we were to count all the Oscar's and other awards and recognitions our people should have received that number would be staggering . .

@alanmorris7669 3 жыл бұрын

This is the hardest movie in the world to find.

@justicemonroe6122 3 жыл бұрын

So agree

@hyacinthwatkins3246 3 жыл бұрын

I've had it on dvd for years. Found it in Harlem, USA

@sarahgreen8988 3 жыл бұрын

It’s now on u- tube- watch it while you can.

@alanmorris7669 3 жыл бұрын

@@sarahgreen8988 You're right.

@thepasqu1759 2 жыл бұрын

@@sarahgreen8988 Link?

@elizabethmurphy9384 5 жыл бұрын

The role Sammy Davis was born to play. He was robbed of The right to perform on the sound track recording, a best selling album because of contract obligations. Now the film was withdrawn and has been publicly shown only rarely.

@mikeharland8640 5 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth Murphy - Along with ’The Cannonball Run”, which showed him also to be a master of comedy.

@LeptitFrantz1 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for this explaination because what is indicated on the 1963 CBS recording sleave is not very clear (Cab Calloway as Sportin' Life ?)

@carolcrowley3040 4 жыл бұрын

It's on DVD

@mikeharland8640 2 жыл бұрын

Only as a very poor quality transfer from VHS. (I have one!)

@cvfaad0704 2 жыл бұрын

I remember this from the movie. It made such an impression on me as a young adult.

@trinity9312 4 жыл бұрын

Written by George Gershwin, an American composer, Gershwin also composed "Rhapsody in Blue" in 1924. This song by Sammy Davis Jr. comes from the Gershwins' opera "Porgy and Bess" where it is sung by the character Sportin' Life, a drug dealer.

@carolynzaremba5469 4 ай бұрын

Everybody watching this knows that.

@CPorter Ай бұрын

@@carolynzaremba5469 Guarantee to you that more than half the people don't know shit about Gershwin. Only knowing him perhaps for this and other songs in this production, and likely have heard Rhapsody In Blue but don't know it's name. Not to mention that Gershwin wrote about a quarter of all hit standards of the first half of the 20th century. Schools do terrible jobs at teaching people about the history of music. Even some colleges too.

@jansumi 4 жыл бұрын

Nobody will ever match this. 💕

@sufyanah Жыл бұрын

Great Movie but I think the Gershwin family are fighting with someone so no release of the movie I’m amazed to see this on KZbin

@Hobert-x3i 3 ай бұрын

Sammy Davis maintained his physical identity throughout his intire lifetime even I could identify him from before my times!!

@veronicahaney9837 3 жыл бұрын

He killed this role. Honestly I would've watched this JUST for Sammy Davis Jr. When the dude dances, he moves like water LOL

@Astrobrant2 3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking, "Wait a minute, what about Gene Kelly?" But Sammy was a much better singer and actor, IMO. As far as dancing is concerned, I would feel foolish trying to make a choice at that level of mastery.

@herrbauer 6 ай бұрын

Because Sammy Davis was under contract to another record company, the soundtrack LP substituted the voice of Cab Calloway.

@cheeseheadfiddle 10 ай бұрын

There is a Cab Calloway performance of this song that is equally spectacular. From Ed Sullivan show.

@rkgrant 2 жыл бұрын

this film is so difficult to find...thanks for this excerpt

@jamesa.romano8500 7 ай бұрын

Sammy Davis Jr so owned this part to the point where I think some of his mannerisms have slipped into most if not all interpretations of the role since - which is all the more impressive when you realize that this movie his been off the market and inaccessible to mainstream audiences for decades.

@julieporter7805 3 жыл бұрын

The Gospel According to Sporting Life is rather colorful. When you hear that entrance music, you know there's trouble brewing in the form of a dancing con artist.

@carolynzaremba5469 4 ай бұрын

And hooray for him!

@Itisallinyourmind33 2 жыл бұрын

Goosebumps when I realized that’s Sammy! 💛

@carolynzaremba5469 4 ай бұрын

I grew up watching this film.

@veeganboy 2 жыл бұрын

Great scene! Sammy Davis Jr does an excellent job as Sportin Life, acting as the living embodiment of Temptation. Singing, dancing and swaying the crowd towards sin! With the children being the first among them to be led astray.

@carolynzaremba5469 4 ай бұрын

I'm an atheist. I don't believe in sin.

@cheritabarbuto8851 3 жыл бұрын

The ONLY BLACK DANCING JEW in Hellyweird.Sammy is a CROWD PLEASING PERFORMER even to this day cause he DiD EVERTHING,sing,dance act & knows a good pUBLICITY move when he saw IT still here during Rona lockdown in 2021 to stave off boredom

@CanvasCanary 2 жыл бұрын

The man's a MARVELOUSLY talented performer!! :)

@fullplate100 2 жыл бұрын

TALENTED KIDS ( The performers. Sammy, too!)

@Hobert-x3i 3 ай бұрын

Is that Sammy Davis Jr there? Good history in film making!!

@MabookaMabooka 9 ай бұрын

Could somebody please say what is the source of this clip? Name of the movie (I presume "Porgy and Bess" but what year / producer / director ... ) please?

@mikeharland8640 9 ай бұрын

www.imdb.com/title/tt0053182/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

@jazzywayz9773 Жыл бұрын

Oscar Peterson Trio does a beautiful version of this. Miles Davis with Gil Evans's rendition of this song is legendary.

@atheodorasurname6936 3 жыл бұрын

An angry church lady comes in to bust the party up and spoil the sinners' fun!

@Astrobrant2 3 жыл бұрын

As great as Sammy Davis was, it seems to me that Cab Calloway was born for this part -- especially this song. At 52, Maybe Calloway was too old for the part. Or maybe he wasn't a good enough actor.

@DannyKavka 2 жыл бұрын

He turned it down, but Cab was the number one choice for the movie version.

@popoppoppy 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Cab Calloway was my choice, too..

@markgillum5709 2 ай бұрын

Gershwin wrote the part with Cab in mind and he performed it in 1953. In this film version Sammy Davis Jr. played Sportin' Life in 1959.

@eb9442 2 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised that white actors and dancers weren't blackfaced in this production. But I remembered my elementary school on the 1970s showed this movie during an assembly. It was a mixed race progressive school(blacks,whites,Hispanics, and asians)

@J-sv9dp Жыл бұрын

Why are you surprised? Minstrel shows and the like were just one genre of “entertainment” among many and had all but died out by then anyway. Meanwhile, there was no shortage of renowned Black American actors at the time, several of whom had been starring in Hollywood films for decades by then. (As opposed to say, Asians and Native Americans for example, who were often played by white actors in the starring roles instead.) Porgy and Bess was a first with its exclusively black cast but it’s not as though all the black characters had been played by white people prior to that… In 1940, Paul Robeson even took the starring role in a film that was set in a Welsh mining village! (“Proud Valley”)