Sammy knew Dean, partly through Sinatra and partly through his close friendship with Martin’s comedy partner Jerry Lewis. The truth is that by 1954 Sammy had become a big enough star to break the colour barrier in Las Vegas of his own accord.įrank and Dean Martin had known each other for years, but it was while filming Some Came Running in 1958 that the two became close. While Sinatra assisted his protégé wherever possible, there is a myth that Sinatra used his clout to enable Sammy to break the color bar in Las Vegas. To say Sammy idolised Frank would be an understatement. Sinatra heard about the incident and insisted Sammy return the following night, alone, to be let in.
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They were turned away at the door on account of Davis’s skin colour. In March 1950, Sammy went to see Frank at the Copacabana in New York with Buddy Rich. Sinatra and Davis cemented their friendship during this period – and while Davis’s role in the Trio’s generic act at the time featured him doing singing impressions of other singers, Sinatra encouraged him to sing in his own voice. Two years later, Sinatra personally requested The Will Mastin Trio open for him (instead of the Nicholas Brothers) for three weeks at the Capitol Theatre in New York in 1947. The two reconnected in 1945 when Sammy showed up at the stage door of Frank’s CBS radio show in Los Angeles. Sinatra, then 26, was the lead singer, and he and Sammy, aged 15, hit it off.
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Sammy first met Sinatra in 1941, when The Will Mastin Trio opened for Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra in Detroit.