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The Very Best of Sam & Dave | 
 enlarge | Artist: Sam & Dave
Label: Rhino Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 10469
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 398908
UPC: 081227994327
EAN: 0081227994327
ASIN: B0012PJZQW
Release Date: February 26, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Hold On! I'm a Comin' | | • | You Don't Know Like I Know | | • | I Take What I Want | | • | Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody | | • | You Got Me Hummin' | | • | When Something Is Wrong with My Baby | | • | Small Portion of Your Love | | • | Soothe Me - Sam & Dave, Cooke, Sam | | • | I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down - Sam & Dave, Banks, Homer | | • | Soul Man | | • | I Thank You | | • | Wrap It Up | | • | You Don't Know What You Mean to Me - Sam & Dave, Cropper, Steve | | • | Can't You Find Another Way (Of Doing It) - Sam & Dave, Banks, Homer | | • | Everybody Got to Believe in Somebody | | • | Soul Sister, Brown Sugar |
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Product Description
As the legendary duo Sam & Dave, Sam Moore and Dave Prater
were principal pioneers and architects of golden era American soul music in the 60s and 70s. Their seminal recordings for Stax and
Atlantic repopularized by the Blues Brothers films in the 80s
produced landmark songs including Soul Man, a Billboard #1
R&B/#2 pop single, and other crossoversmashes including Hold On! I'm A Comin , I Thank You, and When
Something Is Wrong With My Baby.
These classics and more make Rhino's
essential 16-song, single-disc overview oftheir best tracks some of the sweetestsoul music ever.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 GREAT MUSIC! August 24, 2007
Anyone who enjoys the Motown sound needs to have the CD as part of their collection. My husband love the harmony and the music. Just outstanding!
 So Very Close To Being A Complete "Very Best Of" August 12, 2007
This 1995 release from Rhino comes so very very close to being a complete "very best of" anthology, giving us 12 of the 13 Billboard Pop Hot 100 singles the duo registered from 1966 to 1969 for the Stax and Atlantic labels. The only one missing is their last, Born Again, which hit # 92 in April 1969 [and # 27 R&B].
Sam Moore, born in October 1935 in Miami, started out singing with a gospel group known as The Melionaires, while David Prater, born in May 1937 in Ocilla, Georgia, began performing as a solo act. They met in 1961 and cut their first records together in 1962 for the small Alston label without success. Signed to Stax, their first few releases there also failed to dent the charts, including one of the tracks presented here [3].
In 1966 they broke through, sort of, when You Don't Know Like I Know peaked at # 7 R&B/# 90 Hot 100 early that spring. The follow-up Hold On! I'm A Comin' did much better, hitting # 1 R&B and # 21 Hot 100 in June, followed by Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody which topped out at # 8 R&B/# 64 Hot 100 in November.
Their next three hits - You Got Me Hummin', When Something Is Wrong With My Baby, and Soothe Me [written by Sam Cooke], also failed to climb high on the Hot 100, reaching # 77, 42, and 56 respectively, although each did very well on the R&B charts [# 7, 2, and 16]. But in the fall of 1967 they struck real gold when Soul Man charged to # 1 R&B [where it stayed for 7 weeks] and # 2 Hot 100, kept from the top spot only by The Letter by The Box Tops, and To Sir With Love by Lulu. I Thank You also did very well, reaching # 4 R&B and # 9 Hot 100 early in 1968, but after that they would never have another Hot 100 Top 40.
The only other hits they had which are not included here was the 1971 # 36 R&B cover of the Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds hit Don't Pull Your Love, which also "bubbled under" at # 102 on the Hot 100 for Atlantic, another R&B hit in 1974 - A Little Bit Of Good (Cures A Whole Lot Of Love)- which hit # 89 for United Artists, and The Sam & Dave Medley billed to Stars On 45 featuring Sam & Dave, a # 92 R&B in 1985 for the 21 Records label.
In retrospect, it would have been better had Rhino perhaps omitted tracks 3, 7 [the uncharted B-side to When Something Is Wrong With My Baby in early 1967], and 12 [the uncharted B-side to I Thank You in early 1968] and, instead, included three of the missing hits. Either that, or extended the compilation to 20 tracks in the first place.
With the insert are 4 pages of liner notes written by Eugene Holley, Jr., the text of which contains chart details where applicable, but no label information. The sound reproduction is excellent as are most, if not all, of Rhino releases.
David Prater died in a car crash on April 9, 1988 at age 50. In 1992 the duo was inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame.
Beyond the Blues Brothers May 12, 2007
If you loved "Hold on, I'm Commin'" in the movie "The Blues Brothers" but know little else about Sam & Dave, buy this CD. The quality of the sound is great and the selection even better. The energy of the singers is contagious and the arrangements on the album are superb. As one of their songs has it, "Wrap it up, I'll take it!"
Wow! This is an amazing cd! March 17, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I was not really into Sam & Dave before I bought this cd. I must say it is excellent. Their interaction with each other is amazing. They really define the 'gospel' based side of RnB which is called, of course, Soul Music. The intense vocal theatrics they exude are truly astonishing. And even better this cd has all of the original singles not the ones that were re-sung by the duo, which still sounded good but were no where near as intense and raw as the originals. The remastering is excellent, job very, very well done. After I heard the 'real' version of "Hold On! I'm Comin'" I was hooked. But the energy and excitement dont end there, they also were exceptional at heavy ballads. Two of the three ballads here are heavy and they really dig into them. It's almost too much to listen to them because the emotion they put forth is earthshattering. It is also very fun to listen to. While listening close to some of the lyrics on some of the songs I laughed a little at what they were talking about,case in point "I take what I want." This is very, very enjoyable and it has made me a Sam & Dave fan for life. I now plan on getting all of their studio albums with Stax. Enjoy!!!
Southern fried soul! SIZZLIN' June 14, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
there was some footage and stuff about these two guys on Soul Deep, the program that followed the evoloution of soul music.
One show was on the Southern Soul sensation and Staxx records.
Basically, Sam and Dave were components, along with Otis, Wilson Pickett and others, that put the raw, unpolished, and dirty sound of Memphis on the map. The band to give em all the rough and sharp edge was Booker T and the MG's. Steve Cropper has become something of a Legend to me over the last few informative years. His guitar can be heard on all of the aforementioned, and characterizes the sound with that chink style and raw licks he manipulated to a new level.
That sound was the perfect tool for Sam and Dave, who were having trouble breaking the scene. The ever resourcful Jerry wexler did what he did with Pickett and gave the boys the Staxx treatment. essentially, if you can't move to this, then your paralized! The one-upmanship is eveident in the chemistry the experience. Seeing them perform is another thing entirely!
Nice sound on the remaster, and ALL the grooves are here for the licking!
Soul at it's funkiest.
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