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Arts > Music > Soul > USA > Sam & Dave
Sam Moore (1935-2025) and Dave Prater (1937-1988)
Sam & Dave
Mr. Moore and Dave Prater stormed the R&B and pop charts with indelible hits like “Soul Man” and “Hold On, I’m Comin’.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/
At the Memphis, Tennessee-based Stax Records, Moore and Prater were second only to Otis Redding.
They transformed the "call and response" of gospel music into a frenzied stage show and recorded some of soul music's most enduring hits, which also included "You Don't Know Like I Know," "When Something is Wrong With My Baby" and "I Thank You."
Most of their hits were written and produced by the team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter and featured the Stax house band Booker T. & the MGs, whose guitarist Steve Cropper received one of music's most famous shoutouts when Sam & Dave called "Play it, Steve" midway through "Soul Man."
Like many '60s soul acts, Sam & Dave faded after the 1960s.
But "Soul Man" hit the charts again in the late 1970s when the Blues Brothers, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd recorded it with many of the same musicians.
Moore had mixed feelings about the hit becoming associated with the "Saturday Night Live" stars, remembering how young people believed it originated with the Blues Brothers.
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Samuel David Moore / Sam Moore 1935-2025
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https://www.npr.org/2025/01/11/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/
https://www.npr.org/2006/12/11/
Dave Prater 1937-1988
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https://www.npr.org/2006/12/11/
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/13/
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