Sammy Davis Jr. - All I Ask Of You (Reprise) ("The Phantom of the Opera" AI Recreation)

In 1988, Sammy Davis Jr. attended the opening night of "The Phantom of the Opera" on Broadway and became a massive fan. He ended up attending the show twice in New York, twice in the West End, and twice in Los Angeles before he passed away.

In late 1988, Sammy began to include "The Music of the Night" in his act as it was a role that he had great interest in playing - and behind the scenes there were talks/negotiations being made to make this happen.

The first attempt was to be a takeover of the West End production at some point in 1989, however this fell through. Next, the plan was that Sammy was actually going to open the upcoming production in Toronto as The Phantom. Unfortunately, due to Sammy's throat cancer diagnosis and eventual passing this was not to be.

Thanks to the recent AI voice-training technology, an AI has been trained in Sammy Davis Jr.'s 1985-1988 voice, and we have been able to simulate what he may have sounded like singing the closing of act one, the "All I Ask Of You (Reprise)", featuring the duo that would've been his Raoul and Christine, the late great Byron Nease, and the divine Rebecca Caine. It is a very interesting look into what could've been. Sammy's vocals were originally sung by someone singing the part with his mannerisms, and then run through the AI.

You will note the lack of falsetto which is usually used for the entire first section - Sammy did not have much of a falsetto to speak of and likely would not have attempted it here, hence the first section where it is sung an octave down, and then jumping to the written octave when it felt more dramatically appropriate for him to be singing at the volume he'd have needed to use to sing that section.