This week, we’re celebrating Seven Days of Sammy Obscura – spotlighting little-known moments from Sammy Davis Jr.’s extraordinary career. Day 7: Recording “Honest Queen” for Motown (1970) Sammy Davis Jr.’s brief tenure at Motown was a turbulent chapter. The label initially released an album of material he had already recorded for Reprise, and it bombed. Still, Sammy recorded new material for Hitsville U.S.A. in late 1970 to record new material. Much of it Sammy subsequently took with him to MGM,