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Sam Moore, Half of Sam & Dave Duo That Rose to Fame With ‘Soul Man’ and ‘Hold On I’m Comin’,’ Dies at 89
Sam Moore, who sang 'Soul Man' and 'Hold On I'm Comin' as half of the '60s soul duo Sam & Dave, died Friday at 89.
The dynamic, hard-working pair was among the most potent live acts of their day; during the celebrated Stax/Volt Revue tour of Europe in 1967, Sam & Dave came close to upstaging the trek’s billed headliner, Otis Redding. Moore later told soul historian Dave Booth, “The next thing I knew, I got caught up into the drug scene and stayed with that for close to 15 years.” He recorded a solo album for Atlantic with saxophonist King Curtis, and the label released a pair of unsuccessful singles — covers of Howard Tate’s “Stop” and the Miracles’ “Shop Around” — from the project. Their album “Back at ‘Cha,” produced for United Artists in 1975 by guitarist Steve Cropper of Booker T. & the MG’s, went nowhere commercially, and a pair of 1981 sets of soul covers for Odyssey Records similarly flopped.
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