Sam & Dave News

Booker T & The MGs, the band behind 100s of hit songs, has been honored with an induction into the Musician's Hall of Fame.

Artist Biography: Sam & Dave By Stephen Thomas Erlewine Perhaps no act epitomized soul music as the secularization of gospel more than Sam & Dave .

SOUL music is second nature to 17-year-old singer and guitarist Singa Bromfield.

He played the Duke in Escape From New York . He recorded a ten-minute disco-funk epic about threesomes.

At a quarter-century past Eliminator , ZZ Top still cruises along like it's 1983.

“He is really good, Guy Sebastian”

When Stax Records, the famed Memphis soul label, needed a bassist to accompany one of its A-list artists, it called on local musician Donald "Duck" Dunn. via Arizona Daily Star

“Have some respect and be professional.... Give us the choice of saying yes or no. They didn't do that, so guess what? No.”

Legendary R&B singer Sam Moore recently asked Sen. Barack Obama 's campaign to stop using his song "Hold On, I'm Comin." Now Sam has signed on to help Sen. via The Tennessean

The fruitful years of musical collaboration in the southern US before the death of Martin Luther King in 1968. via The Age

“I don't want to get graphic with this, but how do you take a song about getting girls and turn it into a political thing? Somebody's really desperate!”

Here's an interesting item from today's "Reliable Source" column in the Washington Post: Barack Obama is the latest presidential contender to feel the wrath of a crooner - Sam Moore of the legendary R&B duo Sam ... via Extreme Mortman

“Why do I want you to be president? Have we met yet? Am I honored that my song was selected to be so important to Obama for President Campaign?”

Sir Elton John is psyched about his own Oscar party tomorrow night at the Pacific Design Center, which looks like it's going to be, as Clive Davis likes to say, "off the hook." The guest list is a Who's Who, ... via Fox News

“Her ebullient dancing and R&B growl would fit right in beside Otis Redding or Sam and Dave on a Stax tour of the 1960s.”

Herbie Hancock , Peter Tork , Alan Jackson and bootleg concert videos in News. Carrie Underwood , Linkin Park and Miranda Lambert in Views. via Pollstar News

“The song is like, a sex song. How do you take a sex song and make it political”

Hold On: Stop using my song. That's the message to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama from soul singer Sam Moore of Sam & Dave fame. via The Associated Press

Grant Butler The mezzanine over the lobby of the Paramount Hotel offered a perfect vantage point for catching David Ornette Cherry's eclectic set. via OregonLive.com

“Spartacus"), when they had only recorded a few demos. "If we love what's coming out, then we'll do another record; if we don't love it the way we loved [ St. Elsewhere ], well, then we won't do it.”

Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Tony Randall and Jack Klugman. And now, Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton and Thomas "Cee-Lo Green" Callaway. via VH1 News

Oscar Peterson Concert Hall Concordia University Department of Music presents: Craig Morrison and the Momentz The 11th Annual Roots of Rock and Roll Concert - Great Balls of Fire: Memphis Blues, Country, Rock ... via News@Concordia

“He was well aware that Cleveland was the first market outside of his hometown of San Francisco to like his music”

Eddie Money will be sh-sh-sh-shakin' at House of Blues. Way back in 1978, Eddie Money recorded a song called "Can't Keep a Good Man Down" on his second album, Life for the Taking . via Scene Weekly

This morning I took 3 of the kids to the local high school to see and hear Presidential candidate Bararck Obama. via Sun Bloggers

Written by the songwriting team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter. Sam Moore and Dave Prater released this song in March 1966. via MilkandCookies

“In the '80s, it got better. Things improved as the communist regime was losing its power, with the exception of three or four years when rock musicians such as Vladimr Mik and Prazsk Vber were banned again.”

Michal Prokop and Framus Five When: Thursday, Dec. 20 at 8 Where: Divadlo Archa Tickets: 290 Kc, available at the venue Michal Prokop bears the distinction of being the founder of the Czech Republic's most ... via Prague Post

Stax/Volt Revue: 'Live in Norway 1967' Dec 19, 2007 12:03 PM, By Blair Jackson Polls Past Results Mix Anniversary! Survey From the same folks who brought you the Jazz Icons series comes another fine example of ... via Mix