SAM & DAVE
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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 competed for applause with such labelmates as Otis Redding.
Dave Prater was born on May 9, 1937 in Ocilla, Georgia, and Sam Moore was born on October 12, 1935 in Miami, Florida. The duo met in the latter’s hometown in 1961. Moore, a church-reared singer
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