| "What Kind of Fool Am I?" | ||||
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| Single by Sammy Davis Jr. | ||||
| from the album What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Show-Stoppers | ||||
| B-side | "Gonna Build a Mountain" | |||
| Released | 1962 | |||
| Recorded | 1962 | |||
| Genre | Easy listening, R&B | |||
| Length | 2:58 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
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| Sammy Davis Jr. singles chronology | ||||
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"What Kind of Fool Am I?" is a popular song written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley and published in 1962. It was introduced by Anthony Newley in the musical Stop the World – I Want to Get Off. It comes at the end of Act Two to close the show.[1][2] Bricusse and Newley received the 1961 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.[3] At the 1963 Grammy Awards, it won the award for Song of the Year and was the first by Britons to do so.