Sam & Dave - Soul Man -- #2 Hot 100 chart hit (3:42 min)_

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[virgil283]

Sam Moore & Dave Prater had a #2 Hot 100 chart hit with, "Soul Man," written by Isaac Hayes and Dave Prater. The song won a Grammy for Best R&B Group Performance, Vocal or Instrumental...

[virgil283]

great band...good music with good memories

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Do you have a Ping List? I’m a TOTAL music FREAK! :)

[PROCON]

Great song, love it!

[berdie]

Back in the day, when I was young and still cute, I went to a local dance program called Sumthin Else.

Sam & Dave were the guest artists that day. I had no idea they would end up being iconic. Hey!!! I was on tv!! Who cared who was singing?

[virgil283]

Thanks Di me too

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[Diana in Wisconsin]

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[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

For a lot of people this is associated with an instrumental piece, “Time is Tight”, by Booker T. & The MG’s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50xx1_CbJTI

[virgil283]

" Hey!!! I was on tv!!".....uR STIIL cute

We went to the Nat Guard Armory on Sat nites to hear a local band grind out cover songs....look at girls that we were too afraid of to ask to dance...ha

[lee martell]

Another good party song of that time was ‘Tighten Up!” by Archie Bell & The Drells. Never found out what a ‘drell’ was.

[virgil283]

“Time is Tight”

Hammond B-3 & The Leslie...Wonderful I could listen all night

[discostu]

I watched The Wrecking Crew yesterday. They didn’t actually mention Sam & Dave, but I wouldn’t be surprised.

[dfwgator]

Another good party song of that time was ‘Tighten Up!” by Archie Bell & The Drells

From Houston, Texas.

[virgil283]

http://beta.playback.fm/rock/1969/2/the-rolling-stones/honky-tonk-women<p.

Di you might like this. Some FR posted this site where you can select decade and style of music....its good.

[Chode]

back when black music really WAS music...

[Rufii]

I saw Sam Moore perform in the early 1980’s, singing all the hits he had with Dave. He was backed by an all-white soul band that sounded as though it came right out of the Stax-Volt diskery where they waxed their biggest hits.

[bigbob]

Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn....

[Rufii]

In 1996, when he was running for president, Senator Bob Dole wanted to use “Soul Man” as his campaign song, with the lyrics altered to “I’m a Dole man.” However, the owner of the song—Michael Jackson, if I remember correctly—wouldn’t allow it.

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[Rufii]

That site claims that 1965 is the first year of rock. I beg to disagree.

Here's a rocker from before that year.

• Rock the Joint--Jimmy Preston & His Prestonians (1949)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wikipedia—The exclamation “Play it, Steve” heard in the song [Soul Man] refers to guitarist Steve Cropper of Booker T. & the M.G.’s, the house band who provided the instrumentation for this and many other Sam and Dave singles. Cropper provided guitar for both the original Sam and Dave recording as well as the live and studio covers by the Blues Brothers.

I was entering my junior year of HS when the song came out and living in the burbs west of St. Louis. I was never a big fan of soul music probably because of all the inner city riots in that period that were shown on the news every night. Detroit had just burned in the five days of rioting and the song was a response to the riots — kind of a black power thing.