The MGM Singles

by Sam The Sham & Pharaohs

Overview

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

Product Details

Release Date:	03/22/2011
Label:	Sundazed
UPC:	0090771121929

Tracks

1. Wooly Bully
2. Ain't Gonna Move
3. Ju Ju Hand
4. Big City Lights
5. Ring Dang Doo
6. Don't Try It
7. Red Hot
8. A Long Long Way
9. Li'l 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

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs   Primary Artist
The Sam the Sham Revue   Primary Artist
Billy Bennett   Drums,Percussion
Jerry Patterson   Drums
Butch Gibson   Saxophone
Jane Anderson   Featured Artist
Dave Martin   Bass
Samuel Domingo   Vocals,Keyboards
Andy Kuha   Guitar,Vocals
Fran Curcio   Featured Artist
Frankie Carabetta   Vocals,Keyboards,Saxophone
Ray Stinnett   Guitar
Lorraine Gennaro   Featured Artist
Tony "Butch" Gerace   Bass,Vocals

Technical Credits

Paul Gibson   Composer,Composer
Scott Schinder   Annotation,Liner Notes
Domingo "Sam" Samudio   Composer,Producer
Ronald Blackwell   Composer
Robert Tubert   Composer
Tim Livingston   Project Manager
Bill Dhalle   Design
Anthony Gerace   Composer
Robert Lee McDill   Composer
Brendan Ford   Project Manager
John Morier   Composer
DeWayne Blackwell   Composer
Ethan Daniel Davidson   Composer
Deadric Malone   Composer
Joy Byers   Composer
Val Valentin   Engineer
Jerry Leiber   Composer
Mike Stoller   Composer
William Emerson   Composer
Bill Levenson   Compilation Producer
Gary Gibson   Composer
Dallas Frazier   Composer
Robert Kruse   Photography
Stacy Davidson   Composer
Bob Tubert   Composer
Wayne Carson   Composer
Stan Kesler   Composer,Producer
Stephanie Kennedy   Production Coordination
Bob Irwin   Mastering,Compilation Producer
Billy "The Kid" Emerson   Composer
Bob McDill   Composer