Double Dynamite Sam & Dave

• 1 You Got Me Hummin' 02:49
• 2 Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody 02:38
• 3 That's The Way It's Gotta Be 02:38
• 4 When Something Is Wrong With My Baby 03:18
• 5 Soothe Me 02:35
• 6 Just Can't Get Enough 02:04
• 7 Sweet Pains 02:36
• 8 I'm Your Puppet 03:40
• 9 Sleep Good Tonight 02:43
• 10 I Don't Need Nobody [To Tell Me 'Bout My Baby] 02:56
• 11 Home At Last 03:06
• 12 Use Me 02:33
• Total Runtime 33:36

Info zu Double Dynamite

This was the second Sam & Dave album to enjoy significant crossover appeal. The 1967 record included such hits as "Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody," "Soothe Me," and "When Something Is Wrong with My Baby." Isaac Hayes and David Porter were now rolling as songwriters, and even though the record didn't attain big pop numbers, the singles clicked with both soul and pop audiences. More importantly, Sam & Dave's teamwork and vocal interaction were establishing them as major stars.

There is never a lack of energy on a quality Sam & Dave album, and Double Dynamite is certainly no exception. And while Double Dynamite may not have all the most recognizable Sam & Dave chart-busters in its tracklist, it never lets up on the soul power that Sam & Dave practically define as a duo.

Double Dynamite (which was also the nickname for the duo of Sam & Dave) is an album that uses gripping performances in the opening few songs almost as a way to build up the listener's emotional threshold for the huge ballad "When Something is Wrong with My Baby." The song was a huge hit for the group at the time, and it's easy to see why. Sam & Dave sound so willing to drain everything the have into the song that you can't help but fall in with them. No song on Double Dynamite is given a lesser treatment, from the sincerity of "I'm Your Puppet" to the hard bop of "Soothe Me."

Sam & Dave just could go wrong during their Stax days with the Issac Hayes and David Porter songwriting team. The more Sam & Dave from this era that you can add to your collection, the better. (Ron Wynn)

Samuel Moore, vocals
Dave Prater, vocals

Digitally remastered

Sam & Dave
The greatest of all soul duos, Sam (Moore) and Dave (Prater) brought the sound of the black church to pop music with their string of call-and-response hits for Stax Records from 1965 to 1968. The pair usually worked with the songwriting and production team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter, using Booker T. and the M.G.’s as backing musicians. From these collaborations came such soulful, fevered exchanges as “You Don’t Know Like I Know,” “Hold On, I’m Comin’,” “You Got Me Hummin’,” “Soul Man” and “I Thank You.” Sam and Dave also gained renown as an electrifying live act in the Stax revues of the mid-Sixties, where they’d compete for applause with such labelmates as Otis Redding.

Prater was born in Georgia and Moore in Florida; the duo met in the latter’s hometown of Miami in 1961. Moore, a church-reared singer who sang with such gospel quartets as the Gales and the Mellionaires, once turned down an offer to replace the departing Sam Cooke in the Soul Stirrers. Prater had himself moved to Miami to sing in his brother’s gospel group, the Sensational Hummingbirds. But it was R&B that brought the two singers together onstage at Miami’s King of Hearts nightclub one fateful amateur night. Sam and Dave recorded for the Alston and Roulette labels before being discovered by Atlantic Records’ Jerry Wexler, who caught their act at the King of Hearts in 1964 and then sent them to Memphis-based Stax to record the next year.

Theirs was the perfect balance of pop melody and church feeling; moreover, the duo intuitively played off each other to great effect. Sam and Dave split up in 1970, only to reunite and part ways several more times over the years, with the Blues Brothers’ revival of “Soul Man” in 1979 instigating one of their more successful reunions. Never as close offstage as they were in performance, Sam and Dave finally called it quits after a performance in San Francisco on New Year’s Eve, 1981. Prater was killed in a 1988 auto accident. Moore, who continued singing, turned up on several tracks of Bruce Springsteen’s Human Touch album.

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