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OT: RIP Sam Moore
Posted by: bye bye johnny ()
Date: January 11, 2025 15:16


May 7, 2006 at New Orleans Fair Grounds in New Orleans, LA. Skip Bolen/WireImage

Sam Moore, Soul Man Who Scored Hits With Sam and Dave, Dead at 89

Powerful vocalist behind "Hold On! I'm Comin'" helped Stax Records become massively influential and revered soul music label

By David Browne
January 10, 2025

[www.rollingstone.com]

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Sam & Dave in Norway on the 1967 Stax Volt Tour




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Rest easy, Sam.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2025-01-14 16:27 by bye bye johnny.

Re: OT: RIP Sam Moore
Posted by: crholmstrom ()
Date: January 11, 2025 15:36

RIP

Re: OT: RIP Sam Moore
Posted by: Glimmerest ()
Date: January 11, 2025 15:56

RIP. At least 89 is a good age for anyone. Hope his loved ones find comfort.

Re: OT: RIP Sam Moore
Posted by: Big Al ()
Date: January 11, 2025 17:44

Rest in peace, Sam Moore

Hold On, I'm Comin'… what a song!

Re: OT: RIP Sam Moore
Posted by: SomeTorontoGirl ()
Date: January 11, 2025 17:50

Soul Man singer Sam Moore dies aged 89 from surgery complications

Half of 1960s duo Sam & Dave is also remembered for the hit Hold On, I’m Comin’

Sam Moore – the surviving half and higher voice of the 1960s duo Sam & Dave that was known for such definitive hits of the era as Soul Man and Hold On, I’m Comin’ – has died aged 89.

Publicist Jeremy Westby said Moore died on Friday morning in Coral Gables, Florida, due to complications while recovering from surgery. No additional details were immediately available.

Moore, who influenced musicians including Michael Jackson, Al Green and Bruce Springsteen, was inducted with Dave Prater into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.

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 soul acts of their era, 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.

In 2008, the movie Soul Men depicted a pair of ageing, estranged singers who bore more than a little resemblance to Sam & Dave. Moore lost a lawsuit claiming the resemblance was too close.

He also spent years suing Prater after Prater hired a substitute and toured as the New Sam & Dave. Prater died in a 1988 car crash in Georgia.

Moore also pressed legal claims that the record industry had cheated him out of retirement benefits. Moore and other artists sued multiple record companies and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists in 1993.

Moore told the Associated Press in 1994 that he joined the legal effort after learning, despite his million-selling records, that his pension amounted to just $2,285, which he could take as a lump sum or in payments of $73 monthly.

“Two thousand dollars for my lifetime?” Moore said then. “If you’re making a profit off of me, give me some too. Don’t give me cornbread and tell me it’s biscuits.”

Moore wrote the song Dole Man, modelled on Soul Man, for Republican Bob Dole’s presidential campaign in 1996. In 2017, he was among the few entertainers who performed for Donald Trump’s inaugural festivities. Eight years earlier, Moore had objected when Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign used the song Hold On, I’m Comin’.

Moore was born on 12 October 1935 in Miami and got his start singing in church.

He and Prater performed in soul and R&B clubs in the 1950s, but did not meet until 1961 in Miami. Moore helped coach Prater on the lyrics of a song and they quickly became a popular local duo. In 1965, after signing with Atlantic Records, producer Jerry Wexler sent them to the label’s Stax subsidiary in Memphis.

Moore and Prater argued often and Moore told the AP in 2006 that a drug habit, which he kicked in 1981, played a part in the band’s troubles and later made entertainment executives leery of giving him a fresh start. The duo broke up in 1970 and neither had another major hit.

He married his wife, Joyce, in 1982, and she helped him get treatment for his addiction that he credited with saving his life.

“I did a lot of cruise ships, I did a lot of oldies shows,” during those struggles, he said, adding that he once opened for a group of Elvis impersonators.

“That’s funny to think back to it now. And I did a lot of shows where if I did a show with an oldie show, I had to actually audition,” he said. “But you know what? You keep your mouth shut and you get up there and you sing as hard and perform as hard as you can, and get the little money and go on about your business and try and pay those bills. I’m laughing about it now, but at that time, man, it was really serious.”

Moore kept recording and singing. He was a frequent performer at the Kennedy Center Honors and performed for presidents including Obama.

Moore is survived by his wife, Joyce, daughter, Michell, and two grandchildren.

[www.theguardian.com]


Re: OT: RIP Sam Moore
Posted by: HollywoodStone ()
Date: January 11, 2025 18:15

RIP Legend!

Re: OT: RIP Sam Moore
Posted by: dmay ()
Date: January 11, 2025 19:53

Love(d) Sam and Dave in their hey day, still dig them to this day. Hold On I'm Coming is one of my all time fave songs, something to be cranked loud and danced and sang along to. The Memphis sound from back in the day is my thing soul music wise. RIP, Mister Moore. You and Dave will be playing here today.

Re: OT: RIP Sam Moore
Posted by: loog droog ()
Date: January 11, 2025 20:08

RIP Sam Moore.

Re: OT: RIP Sam Moore
Posted by: Elmo Lewis ()
Date: January 12, 2025 14:39

Local guys to me. Sam and Dave were from Ocilla and Ashburn/Sycamore, GA - both about 25 minutes from my home.

I always loved their music and they seemed like a great guys.

Re: OT: RIP Sam Moore
Posted by: switchblade1975 ()
Date: January 12, 2025 14:48

sad news, r.i.p.

Re: OT: RIP Sam Moore
Posted by: djgab ()
Date: January 13, 2025 17:53

The song "hold on I'm coming" was in the first Blues Brothers movie.

In the second one, Sam Moore appears along with James Brown in gospel scene.

Very good, if you ask me.

Rest in Peace, Sam.





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Re: OT: RIP Sam Moore
Posted by: downagain ()
Date: January 13, 2025 23:02

I came along past the Sam and Dave days but was lucky enough to see Sam with The Funk Brothers, a couple decades ago. He still had pipes then! RIP.

Re: OT: RIP Sam Moore
Posted by: MadMax ()
Date: January 14, 2025 13:22

I had the priveliege to attend a gig of his in Nice 2003, amazing show!
Rest in Peace Mr Moore

Re: OT: RIP Sam Moore
Date: January 14, 2025 18:40

Absolute legend. RIP!

Re: OT: RIP Sam Moore
Posted by: Donnebr ()
Date: January 17, 2025 05:37

RIP

Re: OT: RIP Sam Moore
Posted by: gustavobala ()
Date: January 17, 2025 06:15

Rip sam moore


Love so much from duo dynamite



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