Sam the Sham
Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs was an American Tex- Mex band of the 1960s.
Sam and the Pharaohs
" Sam the Sham " is the stage name of Domingo Samudio Texan ( born March 6, 1939 in Dallas, Texas). During his school years he sang and represented his school at a live radio show. He later learned to play guitar and started with a few friends, including Trini Lopez was a high school band.
The first " Pharaohs " emerged after his time in the army in 1961 in Dallas. Hardly visited appearances and an unsuccessful single, however, led to the fact that the end of 1962 was over again. Samudio followed the ex- Pharaoh Vincent Lopez in May 1963 Andy And The Night Riders, the house band of the Congo Club in Louisiana. While he was employed as an organist, which he mastered not very good, but he was a singer becoming increasingly important for the band.
The band went on to Memphis, but a few months later they broke up, as the head of Andy Anderson and Lopez went back to Louisiana or Texas. The remaining Night Riders Samudio and David A. Martin then founded together with Jerry Patterson and Ray Stinnett Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs, which shortly afterwards joined Butch Gibson.
First, they pressed up panels to make them even offer shops and radio stations, while they were touring through the clubs. In May 1964, she took on Haunted House for Dingo Records ( D- 001). Then they got a record deal by Stan Kesler XL Records, which maintained a distribution contract with MGM Records with its sister label Pen Records. Here emerged as another single Juimonos (Let's Went ) / The Signifying Monkey ( XL # 905) without any hit parade resonance. The next single was then an original composition of Samudio entitled Hully Gully. The text, in any case, a nonsense text that has been changed to the nickname of Sam's cat and as Wooly Bully ( about: tyrannical ball of wool ), the song was so successful that the MGM label took the Pharaohs and they brought out the world. The song was upon its release in March 1965 worldwide hit. In the U.S., the single reached as a million seller Platz 2, as well as in Germany.
Two more Top 40 hits with similar titles, namely Ju Ju Hand and Ring Dang Doo before them in 1966 with a nonsense song about Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf scored a second big hit. Lil 'Red Riding Hood was another million-seller in USA and also reached # 2 International they could but the first success not continue.
Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs latched seamlessly onto in their stage shows at the image that is reflected in their songs. According to your name they often wore Arab garments and Sam's trademark was a turban with feather headdress and robe or glitter jacket and a foreign- trimmed beard.
The second success was followed by two more Top 40 hits, before the success waned in the United States. The band changed and eventually broke up completely and Samudio sought a solo career.
Sam's solo career
Shortly after the separation appeared a solo album by Sam the Sham, which continued the band time and consisted of many cover versions. Great success was him so but not granted.
In the next few years followed by a complete change in image. From the " Sham " Samudio Sam, the turban has disappeared from the Arab -Stutz beard became a full beard and on his 1970 album he poses in Easy Rider - style on the bike. The rock album called Hard and Heavy and it worked with, among others, with Duane Allman. At the Grammy Awards in 1972 Samudio even got a Grammy for it, but for the album accompanying text.
From 1974 he was back with band go. In 1982 he is listed as a film composer in the Jack Nicholson movie border patrol alongside Ry Cooder. Two songs he contributed to the soundtrack. Then it was quiet around him, and it is shrouded in rumors about its activities; since the mid- 1990s he has to give it back as a musician on the road and has one or the other plate recorded.
Wooly Bully
- Music / Lyrics: Domingo Samudio
- Awards Record of the Year by Billboard Magazine in 1965
- Gold record for one million copies sold in the U.S. ( over three million worldwide)
- Included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 's 500 Songs did Shaped Rock and Roll
- Splash - A Virgin on the hook (1984 )
- Full Metal Jacket (1987 )
- Night and the City (also: Peeling, 1992)
- Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran (2003)
Band Members
Original cast of Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs:
- Domingo 'Sam' Samudio ( born March 6, 1939 in Dallas, Texas), singer and keyboardist
- David A. Martin ( born March 20, 1941 in Memphis, Tennessee; † 2 August 1987), bassist
- Ray Stinnett ( born February 18, 1944 in Memphis, Tennessee), guitarist
- Jerry Patterson ( born November 30, 1941 in Memphis, Tennessee), drums
- Butch Gibson ( born October 2, 1940 in Corinth ), Saxophone
Discography
Singles
- Haunted House / How Does A Cheating Woman Feel ( XL # 505), May 1964
- Juimonos (Let's Went ) / The Signifying Monkey ( XL # 905), July 1964
- Wooly Bully / Is not Gonna Move ( MGM K 13322 ), February 1965
- Ju Ju Hand / Big City Lights (MGM K 13364 ), July 1965
- Ring Dang Doo / Do not Try It Again (MGM K 13397 ), September 1965
- Red Hot / A Long, Long Way ( MGM K 13452 ), January 1966
- Lil 'Red Riding Hood / Love Me Like Before ( MGM K 13506 ), April 1966
- The Hair on My Chinny Chin Chin / (I'm in with The) Out Crowd ( MGM K 13581 ), September 1966
- How Do You Catch a Girl? / The Love You Left Behind ( MGM K 13649 ), December 1966
- Oh That 's Good, No That's Bad / Take What You Can Get (MGM K 13713 ), February 1967
- Black Sheep / My Day's Gonna Come (MGM K 13747 ), May 1967
- Banned In Boston / Money's My Problem (MGM K 13803 ), August 1967
- Yakety Yak / Let Our Love Light Shine ( MGM K 13863 ), November 1967
- Old MacDonald Had A Boogaloo Farm / I Never Had No One (MGM K 13920 ), March 1968
- I Could not Spell! #! / The Down Home Spirit (MGM K 13972 ), August 1968
Albums
- Wooly Bully ( 1965)
- Their Second Album (1965 )
- On Tour (1966 )
- Lil 'Red Riding Hood (1966 )
- Nefertiti (The Sam the Sham Revue ) ( 1966)
Solo albums by Sam the Sham
- Ten of Pentacles (1967 )
- Hard and Heavy (1970, as Sam Samudio )
- Will not Be Long ( 1995)
- Ballads & Troubadours (2000, as Sam the Sham Zamudio )
- Rambler (The Country Album ) (2003 )