Sam Moore, who scored hits in soul duo Sam and Dave with 'Soul Man' and 'Hold On, i'm Comin',' has died at age 89.
, one half of beloved soul duo Sam and Dave, died Friday morning at his home in Coral Gables, Fla. at the age of 89. Moore’s wife and manager, Joyce Moore, confirmed the singer’s death to Rolling Stone. Moore had had unspecified surgery earlier in the week, but Moore said the cause of her husband’s death had yet to be determined.
Samuel David Moore was born in Miami on Oct. 12, 1935. The son of a preacher, he began singing in his family’s backyard. But he also later confessed that his early life wasn’t so pure, claiming he’d earned something of a living from pimping. “I was a local hero, not a big star. Women like you? Let them pay you. That’s how things were done on my side of the street. I was surrounded by that kind of behavior; it was accepted. But I didn’t make much money from it.
The notion paid off. That label released its first Sam and Dave single, “You Don’t Know Like I Know,” in the fall of 1965, and their string of hits began. Working with songwriters Isaac Hayes and David Porter and often with Booker T. and the MG’s as their backup band, Sam and Dave soon became one of Stax’s powerhouses; Moore was the gregarious showman, while Prater took a secondary, low-key role.
Moore had another shot in the limelight in 1978, when John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd remade “Soul Man” as part of their Blues Brothers project. Moore admitted that he had mixed feelings about the remake. “On one hand, ‘Soul Man’ was good for us,” Moore told RS in 2024. “On the other hand, it’s an albatross around Sam Moore’s neck. Hopefully, one day I can hear somebody say, ‘It was Sam and Dave singing, not John and Danny.’ I don’t know.”Jimmy Carter, U.S.
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