Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs "The MGM Singles 1965-1973"

Formed in Dallas and led by a dynamic turban-wearing lead singer and organist named Domingo Samudio, Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs were a garage bar band gone huge (it has been long rumored that they could play six hours straight without repeating a tune), and by mixing blues, R&B, and Tex-Mex together with a loopy sense of humor and sly lyrics, they stomped into pop history with the iconic party anthem “Wooly Bully,” which hit the number two spot on the pop charts right in the middle of the British Invasion in 1965……Aside from that record, though, and “Li’l Red Riding Hood” a year later in 1966, the group wouldn’t have that kind of chart success again, and Samudio and his band went down into most people’s annals as a one-hit wonder. This irresistible set, which collects all of the Pharaohs’ singles and B-sides for MGM Records between 1965 and 1968, plus Samudio's 1973 comeback single for the label (he had left MGM for Atlantic in 1970, only to return for that one release), proves there was a lot more to the story. Tracks like “Ju Ju Hand” (from 1965), “(I’m in With) The Out Crowd” (also 1966), “Banned in Boston” (1967), and “Old MacDonald Had a Boogaloo Farm” (1968) all display a delightfully subversive joy in being wryly silly, and they don’t get in the way of dancing, either. Oh, and then there's the wonderful kiss-off single "I Couldn't Spell !!*@!" from 1968 -- no, Sam the Sham was far from being a one-hit wonder and the romping, stomping proof of that is collected here.(Steve Leggett, Allmusic)trax:
01 Wooly Bully 02 Ain't Gonna Move 03 Ju Ju Hand 04 Big City Lights 05 Ring Dang Doo 06 Don't Try It 07 Red Hot 08 A Long Long Way 09 Lil' Red Riding Hood 10 Love Me Like Before 11 The Hair On My Chinny Chin Chin 12 (I'm In With) The Out Crowd 13 How Do You Catch A Girl 14 The Love You Left Behind 15 Oh That's Good, No That's Bad 16 Take What You Can Get 17 Black Sheep 18 My Day's Gonna Come 19 Banned In Boston 20 Money's My Problem 21 Yakety Yak 22 Let Our Love Light Shine 23 Old MacDonald Had A Boogaloo Farm 24 I never Had No One 25 I Couldn't Spell !!_@! 26 The Down Home Strut 27 Fate 28 Oh Lo
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