The MGM Singles (2011)

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 ... Read More

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, Rovi Read Less

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