Zero to 180 – Three Minute Magic

Discoveries of a Pop Music Archaeologist

“Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead”: Sammy & Buddy, United in Battle

Sammy Davis, Jr. and Buddy Rich emerge triumphant a mere one minute and forty-five seconds into this classic confrontation between good and evil:

Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead

Sammy Davis, Jr. & Buddy Rich (1966)

Ernie Freeman, Arranger

George Rhodes, Conductor

Jimmy Bowen, Producer.

Sammy Davis & Buddy Rich LP

Thanks to SammyDavisJr.info for pointing out that Jay Corre‘s tenor sax solo quotes from “The Surrey With The Fringe On The Top.”

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Amazing But True

Buddy Rich and his orchestra once played a concert at my high school in the late 70s – and I didn’t go.

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