Topics include the book ; Tom Jones urging him to perform his now signature song "Mr. Bojangles" and his initial resistance to doing so; the mutual respect that he and his wife Altovise had for each other as performers; the public's perceptions of the stages in a performer's career and life.

Topics include his salary, personal and business expenses, taxes and assets (such as his luxury cars: Corvette, Ferrari, Jaguar, Mercedes Benz and Stutz Blackhawk).

Topics include entertaining the American troops in Vietnam; his feelings about the Vietnam War; health issues, such as arthritis and "dancer's hip."

Topics include starring on a television soap opera; Altovise and her television show; struggles with alcoholism and drug abuse; Edward Kennedy; John McEnroe; "The NBC Follies."

Topics include the Broadway production of ; critic Elliot Norton meeting with book author Bill Gibson and producer Hillard Elkins; replacing director Peter Coe with Arthur Penn; the negative backlash against a love scene between Davis and white actress Paula Wayne.

Topics include Jerry Lewis; the movie and his experience in London during the film's production; Satanism.

Topics include his struggles with alcohol and drugs; the Richard Nixon administration; his stays at the White House; his two marriage ceremonies with Altovise; his relationships with Howard Hughes, Marilyn Chambers, Loretta Young, Lucille Ball, Will Mastin, Joe Grant (his bodyguard), Sy Marsh (his agent), Molly Marsh and Bill Cosby; aging and death.

Topics include his friendships with Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Linda Evans, Joan Collins; his clothing style; assassination of John F. Kennedy; George Hamilton and Robert Mitchum in the film ; his relationship with Harry Belafonte; drug use; Peter Lawford.

Topics include previous titles to ; his marriages to May Britt and Altovise; fatherhood; the secrets to his success and how he has become accustomed to it; Michael Silver; his relationship with and the death of George Rhodes (his conductor and musical director).

Topics include his friendship with Jesse Jackson; Jesse Jackson's Operation PUSH organization; working on the Richard Nixon campaign; negative backlash he received after hugging Richard Nixon; interview with Eddie Peterson, who was Sammy Davis' business manager for nineteen years.

Topics include his inadequacies as a father; fashion trendsetting; favorite retail stores in Paris; prejudice against Blacks in the entertainment business and in general; financial troubles; his relationships with Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.

Topics include performing at the Desert Inn; how to portray genuine emotion and personality during a performance; nightclub audiences; gambling; salaries; being introduced to the song "Mr. Bojangles" by Tom Jones; Jerry Lewis; Danny Kaye; having confidence as a performer; the nature of show business; his and Johnny Carson's failed investment in the DeLorean car company.

Topics include financial troubles; Frank Sinatra's domestic life and home; the Hotel de Paris in France; health problems; hip surgery; partying; what it's like to be the boss of his staff; racism; alcoholism; drug abuse; his relationships with Nancy (Davis) Reagan and Johnny Carson; the ghosts of Dolly Madison and Abraham Lincoln in the White House; performance techniques.

Topics include photographs of himself, Elvis, bullfighter Carlos Arruza, the Vietnam War and the cast of movies; his gun collection; his friendship with Frank Sinatra; Dick Powell; Rosa B. (his maternal grandmother); Colton Dinner Theater; doing benefits; the Black American experience in the 1960s and 1970s; ; the Broadway production of ; the Johnny Carson Show; feeding lines to actors; the conflict between Jackie Garfinkel and Altovise.

Topics include Mel Tormé; his relationship with the black and white American communities; the Vietnam War; his expectations for the sequel to ; his career and getting older; womanizing; his friendships with Ruby Rosa and Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari, who was the Princess of Iran; White Elephant Club in London and owner Stella Richman; Paris; parties in Las Vegas; Israel and the Jewish people; Bill Cosby; Jenny Jones; entertainers ending their careers at their peak.

Topics include hip surgery; medicine and doctors; his wish to be an entertainment spokesperson for Harrod’s (Holiday Inn); his neglect of Altovise's alcholism; the death of George Rhodes (his conductor and musical director); smoking; unknown content on Side B (tape requires repair).

Topics include his enduring popularity; being an older entertainer and reuniting with former colleagues for projects; movies; Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra; Shirley MacLaine; Burt Reynolds; Bill Robinson and the song "Mr. Bojangles"; alcoholism; the quality of a good joke; the 1975 show ; his hair and hair care; Side B is blank.

Topics include how entertainers must maintain a broad appeal; analyzing audiences; his friendships with Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and Burt Reynolds; movies; how he prepares for performances.

Topics include Clint and Maggie Eastwood; separating from May Britt and meeting Altovise; his friendship with Jesse Jackson; allowing his house to be used for meetings during America's Civil Rights movement by Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Black Panthers.

Topics include meeting John F. Kennedy via Peter Lawford; campaigning for John and Robert Kennedy; Black Americans rejecting him after the "Nixon hug"; Altovise's alcoholism.

Topics include hip surgery; brainstorming about the book title for the sequel to ; Linda Lovelace; Marilyn Chambers; Chuck Traynor; pornographic films; his love affairs; friendships with women; Lisa Hartman; life in Reno, Nevada; self-esteem problems in his youth; ambition; Count Basie; Walter Winchell; Nat King Cole.

Topics include movie budgets; his desire to produce a film about Blacks in World War II and another about the story of Haiti; the movie ; his desire to play the lead role of a hit man like that of Alan Ladd's character in ; performing in Vietnam during the war; race relations during the Vietnam War; engaging in ménage à trois relationships; double standard in relation to the sexes; his marriage with Altovise; drug abuse; "male menopause" and aging in general.

Topics include his enduring career; drugs; the maintenance of friendships; people's perceptions of him; friendships with Burt Reynolds, Ricardo Montalbán and his wife Georgiana Belzer; movies; aging and death; his relationships with his three children Tracey, Mark and Jeff; collaborating with Jerry Lewis; the difference between being married to a white woman as opposed to a black woman; race relations during his lifetime; Satanism and Anton Lavey (the High Priest of the Church of Satan); the Hellfire Club; his intellect; sex practices.

Topics include the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem; performing; friendships with Jack Haley Sr. and Jr.; being an established performer; playing golf; the dynamics between Liza Minnelli and her sister Lorna Luft; colloquialisms within the black and white communities; the live audience; falling in the bathtub; Jack Entratter and the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas; his professional relationship with long-time manager Shirley Rhodes; dietary habits; performing at the White House; classical music favorites; ; book reviews; cooking secrets and techniques; cooking for Sinatra; horticulture.

Topics include toy collecting; Frank Sinatra's train collection; collecting as a hobby; photography; money and happiness; philanthropy; the 1964 film ; American movie sets versus European; White House dinner invitation; the production of an anti-drug special; the disappearance of black-and-white films; Richard Pryor; Eddie Murphy.

Topics include his meeting and marriage to Altovise; Altovise's introduction to drugs and alcohol by Sammy; their Broadway experiences; Altovise's studies with Katherine Dunham; Altovise at the audition for ; his former girlfriend Lola Falana; involvement with the major racial events of the 1960s and 1970s; Altovise's two car accidents; friendships with Bill Cosby and Barbara Sinatra; his drug abuse and the rift that it created in his friendship with Frank Sinatra; how supportive his friends were during Altovise's alcoholism; going to London to film ; partying; his fascination with evil; Jay Sebring and Charles Manson murders.

Radio waves were picked up during the recording of this interview session

Topics include the harmony that must exist between a performer and his staff; the definition of the word "freaky"; what it feels like to be a legend; rehabilitation for substance abuse; his busy schedule; remaining focused while on stage; gossip; the end of his marriage to May Britt; interracial relations; marriage of daughter Tracey; his frequent worries; changes in the entertainment industry over the years; how audiences determine your level of stardom.

Topics include working for Robert Kennedy's campaign; his friendships with Robert and Ethel Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.; John Kennedy's lack of enthusiasm for the Rat Pack; being on the White supremacists' hit list; being harassed by American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell; playing a concert in Tupelo, Mississippi during a Civil Rights rally; his security guard Joe Grant; his relationships with Sy and Molly Marsh, Ben and Jackie Garfinkel; Bob Brown of Richard Nixon’s staff; how many of his friendships ended because of his support for Richard Nixon; performing in Vietnam during the war; going on the Johnny Carson Show the day that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated; the assassination of Malcolm X and how Alex Haley had once arranged for Davis to meet him; hanging out with "Mama" Cass Elliot and Jimi Hendrix.

Topics include his attitude towards marriage; the definition of "decadence"; his avoidance of personal problems through performing; having confidence as a performer; auditioning for the 1986 film ; Ralph Macchio; his adopted children Mark, Jeff and Manny; the Betty Ford Center.

Altovise’s interview: the circumstances under which she met Sammy Davis, Jr., while starring in the musical ; her lack of interest in Davis at first because she wanted to marry the doctor that she was dating; her desire to attend nursing school; her motive for auditioning for and starring in it as Davis' sister; how their first conversation lasted for ten hours.

Topics include the 1960s Civil Rights period; Robert Kennedy; Harry Belafonte; Sidney Poitier; Atlanta and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; fashion; pantomiming "Mr. Bojangles" on several occasions before finally singing it; how audiences changed over twenty-five years; American race relations between Blacks and Whites; billing for movies; leaving a legacy; Mel Tormé; Bobby Darin; Ruby Rosa; philanthropy; "soul food"; trying LSD; the White Elephant Club in London; the rift that his drug abuse created between him and Frank Sinatra and their eventual reconciliation.

Topics include Milton Greene; Janet Suzman; Lauren Bacall; remaining mysterious; the movie ; the deaths of his mother Rita Wade Davis, Cary Grant, and George Rhodes; Tom Smothers (of the Smothers Brothers); having rapport with an audience; standing ovations; acting your age as a performer; aging and the entertainment business; European women; the king of Sweden coming to Las Vegas to see him perform; being a womanizer; being humble about winning awards; the film ; Aaron Spelling; doing benefits for UNICEF.

Altovise’s interview: comments on the trendsetting fashion sense of Sammy Davis, Jr.; becoming a member of the Share Happily and Reap Endlessly charity; designing their current home; the first friends she made within her husband's inner circle; her friendship with Lucille Ball.

This cassette was marked "backup" and contains much of the same information found on tape 18

Topics include his enduring popularity; the essence of the Rat Pack; Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly as tap dancers; problems with his hip; movies and working with Dean Martin, Burt Reynolds, Shirley MacLaine and Frank Sinatra; the song "Bojangles" and Bill Robinson; what the sequel to will be; alcoholism; his hair and hair care. Side B contains a radio program about Windsor, England.

Audio problems occur halfway through side A

Topics include Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death and aftermath; appearing on the after King’s assassination; campaigning for Robert Kennedy. Side B is blank.

Topics include being a performer in America versus Europe; attending a ceremony commemorating John F. Kennedy's death; attending various meetings with and the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.; the atmosphere in Chicago during the 1960s Civil Rights movement; Billy Rose (his publicist); relationship with Altovise; the lack of modesty in contemporary society; the murder of Sharon Tate; being recruited by Richard Nixon and the problems that caused; his impressions of Richard Nixon; his relationship with Ronald and Nancy Reagan; public perceptions of the Civil Rights era; the slow progress in the Black community since the 1960s; keeping one's private life private; Marlene Dietrich.

Topics include the inner strength that it takes to overcome substance abuse; how a crisis shows you who your real friends are; knowing when to end your career as a performer; fashion; his Motown album; modern music in Europe; Michael Jackson's crotch-grabbing; doing six symphony concerts; defining himself as an entertainer; winning "Entertainer of the Year" award in Las Vegas for four consecutive years; Ann Jillian; being a tap dancer with a hip problem; hip replacement surgeries; how some of his jokes during his performances fell flat; America's smoking laws.