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As Long as She Needs Me (1961)

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The album was released in 1963, but its twelve tracks were recorded two years earlier, in June 1961.

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As Long as She Needs Me is a 1963 studio album by American singer Sammy Davis Jr.
The album was arranged by Marty Paich and Morty Stevens.
It contains twelve tracks.
The title track is credited to Lionel Bart.
The track list includes songs from The Sound of Music, The King and I, South Pacific, Two for the Seesaw and The Boys from Syracuse.
Other songs include Out of This World, Bye Bye Blackbird and Back in Your Own Back Yard.
Each track is listed with its songwriters and running time.

1	As Long as She Needs Me	3:04
2	Climb Ev’ry Mountain	3:19
3	(Love Is) The Tender Trap	2:37
4	We Kiss in a Shadow	3:18
5	There Is Nothing Like a Dame	2:36
6	A Second Chance (from Two for the Seesaw)	2:59
7	Out of This World	3:18
8	Back in Your Own Back Yard	2:48
9	Bye Bye Blackbird	2:50
10	Falling in Love With Love	2:26
11	Step Out of That Dream	2:31
12	There Was a Tavern in the Town	2:19

Began performing at age two in vaudeville with his father and Will Mastin in the Will Mastin Trio.
Started film career at seven with the musical shorts Rufus Jones for President and Seasoned Greetings.
Career breakthrough in 1951 after opening for Janis Paige at Ciro's in Hollywood.
Became the first black entertainer to headline a show in Las Vegas in 1953.
Joined the Rat Pack with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in 1960.
Debut album Starring Sammy Davis Jr. topped the Billboard pop albums chart.
Only Billboard Hot 100 number one hit: "The Candy Man" (1972). "Mr. Bojangles" became a signature song.

Known as "Mr. Entertainment"; helped break racial barriers in nightclubs, music, film and television.
Received the Spingarn Medal, a Kennedy Center Honors award in 1987, and a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.

The album debuted on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated May 25, 1963.
It peaked at No. 73 during a fifteen-week run on the chart.
The chart run is the release-period performance recorded for this album.

Billboard Top LP's: debut in the issue dated May 25, 1963.
Peak position: No. 73.
Chart duration: fifteen weeks.
The album is credited to American singer Sammy Davis Jr., with arrangements by Marty Paich and Morty Stevens.
The twelve tracks include songs from The Sound of Music, The King and I, South Pacific, Two for the Seesaw and The Boys from Syracuse.
Tracks 1 to 12 were recorded in June 1961, two years before the chart debut.
Davis is the only vocalist listed in the personnel section.

Discogs notes that the song title Falling In Lover With You is incorrect and that the correct title is Falling In Love With Love.
The track Climb Ev'ry Mountain comes from The Sound of Music.
The track We Kiss in a Shadow comes from The King and I.
The track There Is Nothin' Like a Dame comes from South Pacific.
Recording for tracks 1 to 12 took place in June 1961.