Doug was a wonderful father. I worked with his daughter at Tom's Ribs in the 90's and she was a sweet, lady devoted to her entire family. He would come in to eat lunch with her and was the nicest man you can imagine. I was blessed to have the opportunity to mourn him at his funeral in 1999. He left a beautiful legacy. Rest in Peace, Doug....
I know what You're sayin' -- I saw Her there all the time -- i live right here in Castle Hills and I'd stop in and sit with Her at the Back Bar and We'd talk about anything & everything while I Slam Dunked a coupla Beers prior to goin' out to perform Gunfighter shows at all the Ranches 'round these parts -- What a Precious Lady...
Augie Meyer wrote that song in 1964, Doug Sahm was a great singer and person. Never got the full respect he deserved! Rest In Piece Sir Doug of Sahm!!!!!
Sadly one of the most under appreciated bands during the period 😪! A group of extraordinary talent and an excellent range of musical prowess and ability 👌
Helluva a nice guy. Met him once in Philadelphia. We opened for Waylon (refused to meet us), Willie Nelson ( great guy), Eddie Rabbitt (excellent), and others but this about DOUG SAHM, and he is 1 of the most under-rated artists in history! Miss him bunches!
Happy 82nd Birthday August Meyers - May 31, 1940. San Antonio, Texas Founding member of the Texas Tornados and the Sir Douglas Quintet. He's a Texas legend.. Many more "Augie"..
I saw him about a year before he died. he blew in one night at the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar about 10:00, cowboy hat, leather duster, sunglasses and all. He still looked the same as he did in the mid 70's. He was a skinny little guy with an electric personality.
I remember seeing Doug and his band in around 67 or so on the Playboy show hosted by the originator of it. He played She's about a mover. I am sad to see gifted people like Doug along with many others leave the earth along with their talents. God Bless, Doug Salm. Amen. Robert Elder, Toronto, Canada.
I was only in my single digit years, yet I can easily remember when this was a hit and all over the radio. Good music will always be good music, no matter when it was popular. They broke the mold after Sir Doug. An immeasurable, powerful influence in music across multiple genres.
Hey...this song was heavy metal to us Texas kids back in the '60's...show some respect whippersnappers :-) This song and 96 tears are like a peanut butter and jelly sammich...
I remember finding the album that Doug did with Bob Dylan. I found 10 copies in a local music store. I purchased 3 copies and I had the manager put on the turntable one of my copies. He sold the other 7 copies within 10 minutes. Is anyone going to San Antoine, Cocaine blues. The Entire album is magic. There's something about the charm of Doug that remains even today. RC Thanks so much for this video
Love it! Sometimes keepin' things real simple is the best way to produce rock'n'roll. Like the way Augie Meyers just keeps playing that same organ riff over and over, even when Doug Sahm calls on him for a solo! Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Love ya, Doug, and still miss ya.
Some of my family members live in or around Austin ,,,,what a most splendid place to visit ,,,,Every thing you want is within walking distance , its cultures are wonderful , its a complete utter playground ,,,,, i adore this guy hes specila lol from south yorks England ,,ps hopefully i will be in Austin in november ???
what a awesome song!!! they don't make them like this anymore. what a beat!!!!!!! And what a great voice, and I love the organ part, it sounds so cool. I grew up listening to this.
played bass with Doug in 1961 after Joey Long went another route. Doug taught us Luis Prima New Orleans Jass and we played a lot of his tunes. Just a Jigaloo, Oh Marie and others fit us well with Vernon on tenor sax and me on trombone. We had a blast. Doug was a super talent for all kinds of music!
He was an awesome singer and will always be one , my husband and myself fell in love with this song ( A Year Ago Today ) WOW he's come a long way , may he ( R. I. P. ) Gone but never Forgotten
What a fantastic performance! I've always loved this song since I first heard it on AM rock radio in about 65. I think it was songs like this at a young age that formed my preference for blues-based rock and folk music.
He sold his band as an English Invasion band... The Sir Douglas Quintet... Fooled everybody. Playing Texas blues in English Revolutionary War uniforms... WTF??!!
I met Doug Sahm in San Antonio in '63 when he played at the Purple Onion --it was the hottest spot down by the river then--don't think he was "Sir" Doug yet. We had fun ... but I was so young, blonde and strung out then. Saw him again in Hollywood about 7 years later crossing Sunset in front of the Whisky but he wouldn't believe it was me because I was a redhead and making a movie. The last time I saw him he was playing at a club in Long Beach. After the show we sat outside and talked about the old days ... it was kinda hard to remember them ... but I could never forget Doug. RIP
Ahh...the Purple Onion which the Hilton Placio del Rio took out for Hemisfair. I would kill for any photos of it especially interior shots if anyone has any please hit me up.
Anyone out there go to the concert at Les Halles, Paris, 1981? I moved from Austin to Europe in '80 and was living in Paris with a fellow Tejano who'd been there for several years. He asked me what I missed most from Texas and after the usual reply of Shiner Bock, Trudi's after midnight (when the chef leaves and the vatos start to cook real food), etc. Doug Sahm came up. I sighed, looked up, and there was a poster for a Dough Sahm concert the next night! One of the best gigs he ever played, too!
Only some folks in Texas imagine Texas is "the music capital of the world." Ya sure. Outside of Texas, people know it as the execution capital of America.
I met Doug Sahm one night sometime during the hippie period in Hollywood right after his first hit. We hung out at some kind or bar something similar exchanging stories. This guy is awesome and I wish I could meet him again!!! XO Baby!
Doug and Augie, Two San Antonio east-side boys who absorbed that east-side soul along with a smattering of West-side soul. These boys had it and Augie is stilll kicking it.
Love this classic song, I remember this from my child hood over 30 yrs ago. My gramps use to play it on his 8 track tape on his 53' Dodge in the Hill country
It's beautiful, to see/hear these guys playing simplistically well. Augie Meyer on the organ - just the important notes, if you please. This is the one that got them on American Bandstand, redone later, with better sound/video. Live in Austin, like it oughtta be.
Migod, the memories! When this song first came out I was in college in Southern California. One guy taped the record, made a whole pile of copies and spliced them end to end for about two hours of music. You can bet we grooved mightily, partying to this one!
Just foundout who doug was.last week in my foray into cosmic country awesomeness and wow. Gives me the chills when he introduces the band and goes back into the verse in the same rythmn.
My older brother sat in with Doug when on leave in '70. BTW....Augie played it with the extra note then.... RIP JOEY AND DOUG, and rock on AUGIE! Jan Chiodo Wilhelm six nation's NY. Myahoche no hatade. (No music brings wonder.)
GREAT!!! Man, I was not born when this song came out...but my dad worked in the music biz for a while...he has a DEMO cut of mendocino....We wore the friggin grooves off that plate when I was a teenager!
For many years I thought this song went "bitta botta boo baa". Made perfect sense to me. "Wooly Booly"...."Bitta Botta Boo Baa". Both hits around the same time.
I have his The Tracker on a single from the 60s. He was big in Sweden for a while. I heard this song on Radio Luxemburg in the mid 1960s. Probably 1965. It was still Music in those days.
This guy was great, I never met him but I had a good friend named John Gordon that was best friends with him - I really didn't know much about him until Gordon told me - and he was in a movie with Chris Kristofferson - called Cisco Pike - the guy is great a true Texas legend. When he died - Gordon was so upset - my friend even wore hats like they did back then - Austin has changed , back then it was Tex Mex beat - now its all rap and crazzy weird crap
I agree. I lived there and played in a country rock dance band there in1980. It was full of good music back then. saw Stevie Ray Vaughn at the continental club just before his rise to fame. It was a very different and vibrant music city back then.
@alpha18412 That was Donald Sutherland, Kiefer's dad, in one of my fave movies. I go all the way back to the Rome Inn at 35th and Guadalupe in Austin for my first of many Doug Sahm concerts. This bring back some really good memories. RIP, Doug.
I don't know what you're talking about, but to understand my point see the Beatles' She's a Woman. It's written in the same style but it has musical invention and it sustains interest the whole time.
The Sir Douglas Quintet, like some other bands at the time, took English sounding names as a way to take advantage of the popularity of the "English Invasion" of the '60s'. My favorite song of theirs is Mendocino, with one of the best Vox Continental Organ riffs of the genre.
If you play out, do yourself a favor and learn this song and make it swing and you'll get a crowd rocking, whether they know the song or not. And you can ring it out for as long as you want ( or people stop dancing).
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Doug was a wonderful father. I worked with his daughter at Tom's Ribs in the 90's and she was a sweet, lady devoted to her entire family. He would come in to eat lunch with her and was the nicest man you can imagine. I was blessed to have the opportunity to mourn him at his funeral in 1999. He left a beautiful legacy. Rest in Peace, Doug....
RogerAndLorrie Garcia said
Roger nice story about Doug . Saw the. band in Boston late 60’s fun days
RogerAndLorrie Garcia Very, very nice eulogy, and an insight into his off stage personality. Thank you.
GODBLESS TEXAS AMERICA AND GOD...COMING SOON!!!!!
I know what You're sayin' -- I saw Her there all the time -- i live right here in Castle Hills and I'd stop in and sit with Her at the Back Bar and We'd talk about anything & everything
while I Slam Dunked a coupla Beers prior to goin' out to perform Gunfighter shows at all the Ranches 'round these parts -- What a Precious Lady...
Augie Meyer wrote that song in 1964, Doug Sahm was a great singer and person. Never got the full respect he deserved! Rest In Piece Sir Doug of Sahm!!!!!
The Sir Douglass Quintet was the very best of the British Invasion to ever come out of Texas. Hehehehe. Yeeeooowww.
That's right
Sadly one of the most under appreciated bands during the period 😪! A group of extraordinary talent and an excellent range of musical prowess and ability 👌
Helluva a nice guy. Met him once in Philadelphia. We opened for Waylon (refused to meet us), Willie Nelson ( great guy), Eddie Rabbitt (excellent), and others but this about DOUG SAHM, and he is 1 of the most under-rated artists in history! Miss him bunches!
Waylon did the same to my Uncle's band and the drummer of the band told Jennings to "fuck off" LOLOLOL. 1973, Houston Texas.
Got the original on Tribe Records, still plays!
Happy 82nd Birthday August Meyers - May 31, 1940. San Antonio, Texas
Founding member of the Texas Tornados and the Sir Douglas Quintet.
He's a Texas legend.. Many more "Augie"..
I saw him about a year before he died. he blew in one night at the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar about 10:00, cowboy hat, leather duster, sunglasses and all. He still looked the same as he did in the mid 70's. He was a skinny little guy with an electric personality.
I remember seeing Doug and his band in around 67 or so on the Playboy show hosted by the originator of it. He played She's about a mover. I am sad to see gifted people like Doug along with many others leave the earth along with their talents. God Bless, Doug Salm. Amen. Robert Elder, Toronto, Canada.
One of those fantastic '60's songs that just sticks in your head forever... like.Sam the Sham's Wooly Bully
Still a favorite of mine even after 57 years.
I was only in my single digit years, yet I can easily remember when this was a hit and all over the radio. Good music will always be good music, no matter when it was popular. They broke the mold after Sir Doug. An immeasurable, powerful influence in music across multiple genres.
Definitely on our set list. Can't get enough of this song!!
Hey...this song was heavy metal to us Texas kids back in the '60's...show some respect whippersnappers :-) This song and 96 tears are like a peanut butter and jelly sammich...
I remember finding the album that Doug did with Bob Dylan. I found 10 copies in a local music store. I purchased 3 copies and I had the manager put on the turntable one of my copies. He sold the other 7 copies within 10 minutes. Is anyone going to San Antoine, Cocaine blues. The Entire album is magic. There's something about the charm of Doug that remains even today. RC Thanks so much for this video
You are right or correct
this is one of those tunes that just fires on all 8 cylinders and has not had a misfire in 58 years , R.I.P. Mr Sahm
Love it! Sometimes keepin' things real simple is the best way to produce rock'n'roll. Like the way Augie Meyers just keeps playing that same organ riff over and over, even when Doug Sahm calls on him for a solo! Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Love ya, Doug, and still miss ya.
get this guy in the r&r hall of fame
Gets better every time I hear it!
Such a classic
Love this song! Steve Earle's version of this is flipping amazing as well. Both boys rock!
Those ladies in front were real body movers...bless them!
this one song crosses so many genres...unique timeless... great to see it performed live
Doug Sahm and dancing Austin hippie chicks, it don't get any better than that !!
This is as good as it gets.
I love this guy's There music was and is the best RIP Doug and Freddy
Some of my family members live in or around Austin ,,,,what a most splendid place to visit ,,,,Every thing you want is within walking distance , its cultures are wonderful , its a complete utter playground ,,,,, i adore this guy hes specila lol from south yorks England ,,ps hopefully i will be in Austin in november ???
Great live version!
Doug Sahm was the defintion of soul.
Love Doug Sahms music, great sounds to dance to..a great talent...
what a awesome song!!! they don't make them like this anymore. what a beat!!!!!!!
And what a great voice, and I love the organ part, it sounds so cool. I grew up listening to this.
me too, my favorite song in high school.
RIP Doug. You so had IT. We cherish you, Ogie, Flaco, all your collaborators.
Six gorgeous women dancing and everyone else just sitting there. Hmph. Thanks ladies!!!
+B. Frost Yeah - Eddie made the same observation !
Ladies and Gentlemen our good friend Dough Sahm
played bass with Doug in 1961 after Joey Long went another route. Doug taught us Luis Prima New Orleans Jass and we played a lot of his tunes. Just a Jigaloo, Oh Marie and others fit us well with Vernon on tenor sax and me on trombone. We had a blast. Doug was a super talent for all kinds of music!
That's a cool story. Doug was a student of great songs.
He was an awesome singer and will always be one , my husband and myself fell in love with this song ( A Year Ago Today ) WOW he's come a long way , may he ( R. I. P. ) Gone but never Forgotten
Liked your son's vid also cause he has a great taste his music Thank you dad!
Long live Doug and his music. Long live rock 'n roll!
i love him.... i can't get enough of him... God i wish he could come back and start over and give us more music
What a fantastic performance! I've always loved this song since I first heard it on AM rock radio in about 65. I think it was songs like this at a young age that formed my preference for blues-based rock and folk music.
Nobody like Doug. So unique.
This gadgey is unreal .
Came across him by chance ,
I've never heard of him over here in England .
San antone is class the way he performs it
He sold his band as an English Invasion band... The Sir Douglas Quintet... Fooled everybody. Playing Texas blues in English Revolutionary War uniforms... WTF??!!
I met Doug Sahm in San Antonio in '63 when he played at the Purple Onion --it was the hottest spot down by the river then--don't think he was "Sir" Doug yet. We had fun ... but I was so young, blonde and strung out then. Saw him again in Hollywood about 7 years later crossing Sunset in front of the Whisky but he wouldn't believe it was me because I was a redhead and making a movie. The last time I saw him he was playing at a club in Long Beach. After the show we sat outside and talked about the old days ... it was kinda hard to remember them ... but I could never forget Doug. RIP
great story and conveying some nice images
Ahh...the Purple Onion which the Hilton Placio del Rio took out for Hemisfair. I would kill for any photos of it especially interior shots if anyone has any please hit me up.
COOL STORY
all the cool girls are dancing + all the square girls are sittin down! this is the ultimate dance music
Certainly as good as it geets. Love Doug Saham. Keep it up.
I'm a n American girl who will love Doug Sahm forever.
Anyone out there go to the concert at Les Halles, Paris, 1981? I moved from Austin to Europe in '80 and was living in Paris with a fellow Tejano who'd been there for several years. He asked me what I missed most from Texas and after the usual reply of Shiner Bock, Trudi's after midnight (when the chef leaves and the vatos start to cook real food), etc. Doug Sahm came up. I sighed, looked up, and there was a poster for a Dough Sahm concert the next night! One of the best gigs he ever played, too!
Aww, I'm so sorry he's gone. What a musician, what a performer! Thank you, LFAT, for letting us see this.
Cannot beat this. What a combo. And that bass is just kickin' it with Doug. Thank you for posting this.
The greatest record of 1965!!!
Doug was a great musician, a cooler than cool guy -- and one reason Texas is the music capital of the world.
Miss ya, Doug. RIP
Only some folks in Texas imagine Texas is "the music capital of the world." Ya sure. Outside of Texas, people know it as the execution capital of America.
Doug Sahm is a fantastic artist and musician! Thanks for a great clip!
I met Doug Sahm one night sometime during the hippie period in Hollywood right after his first hit. We hung out at some kind or bar something similar exchanging stories. This guy is awesome and I wish I could meet him again!!! XO Baby!
Doug and Augie, Two San Antonio east-side boys who absorbed that east-side soul along with a smattering of West-side soul. These boys had it and Augie is stilll kicking it.
Love this classic song, I remember this from my child hood over 30 yrs ago. My gramps use to play it on his 8 track tape on his 53' Dodge in the Hill country
It's beautiful, to see/hear these guys playing simplistically well. Augie Meyer on the organ - just the important notes, if you please. This is the one that got them on American Bandstand, redone later, with better sound/video. Live in Austin, like it oughtta be.
One of the best shows I ever went to was a Doug Sahm show.
R.I.P. You musical genius
Never got to see him but this is a good live performance, rock on.
Auggie and his Vox Continental. Love it!
/Jaguar.
,.Doug gave us some great music RIP Doug the best
Kay Hartas //_ " Groovers Paradise Album .....WOW....!!! Country Swing
I met Doug and the band backstage in Columbus GA. back about '65. Great band, very nice.
Sahm is alive in his music to this day.
Migod, the memories! When this song first came out I was in college in Southern California. One guy taped the record, made a whole pile of copies and spliced them end to end for about two hours of music. You can bet we grooved mightily, partying to this one!
This clip absolutely ROCKS....
Just foundout who doug was.last week in my foray into cosmic country awesomeness and wow. Gives me the chills when he introduces the band and goes back into the verse in the same rythmn.
Yeah, havin a few flashbacks right now. I saw the SDQ in NYC around 79-80. They jammed to 96 Tears. What a great feeling.
I saw ? and the Mysterians in 65. My dad said "man, catchy tune but those guys are weird".
I remember Doug from the early days,"KTSA",550 AM radio, with Ricky Ware & Bruce Hathaway, in San Antonio, Texas.
Styx playing at St Augustine Amphitheatre in April? Day & Prices
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This is as cool as possible. I feel high just watching it!
This song was the anthem of
/for fiesta/rodeo &yearly carnival week in San Antonio,Texas ;back in late 60s/early 70s! Good times;
Truly good times!
I watched Doug many nights at Antones "on the drag" Most likely more than I remember. RIP Doug
My older brother sat in with Doug when on leave in '70. BTW....Augie played it with the extra note then.... RIP JOEY AND DOUG, and rock on AUGIE! Jan Chiodo Wilhelm six nation's NY. Myahoche no hatade. (No music brings wonder.)
A Presence truly Formidable....
Texas Pride!
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06:15 cool augie meyer on the Vox Continental combo organ
brilliant..one of the greatest ever pop songs of all time
I used to love this song when I was younger I used to love the song Mendocino too
Wow... a true, true player... God bless you both.
GREAT!!! Man, I was not born when this song came out...but my dad worked in the music biz for a while...he has a DEMO cut of mendocino....We wore the friggin grooves off that plate when I was a teenager!
I love these guys They are the best RIP DOUG AND FREDDY I HOPE I GET TO SEE THEM IN PERSON WITH SHAWN
For many years I thought this song went "bitta botta boo baa". Made perfect sense to me. "Wooly Booly"...."Bitta Botta Boo Baa". Both hits around the same time.
As unique and special as Leon. The highest compliment I can give.
I have his The Tracker on a single from the 60s. He was big in Sweden for a while. I heard this song on Radio Luxemburg in the mid 1960s. Probably 1965. It was still Music in those days.
Great song - great performance.
Flaco, Augie and the boys..along w/ Shawn Sahm and Ernie Durawa will be @ Antones on. Nov. 6 for Doug Sahm day!!!!!!!
Amazing! To hear him do it in later years!
I saw Doug with the Texas Tornados at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis in the 90's - loved him since 65'
Don't rush it says Doug!!! featuring my old roommate Harry Hess on guitar and Steel guitar..
this here is magical ! ! ! thank you my brother
I grew up to this music in San Antonio!
This guy was great, I never met him but I had a good friend named John Gordon that was best friends with him - I really didn't know much about him until Gordon told me - and he was in a movie with Chris Kristofferson - called Cisco Pike - the guy is great a true Texas legend. When he died - Gordon was so upset - my friend even wore hats like they did back then - Austin has changed , back then it was Tex Mex beat - now its all rap and crazzy weird crap
I agree. I lived there and played in a country rock dance band there in1980.
It was full of good music back then. saw Stevie Ray Vaughn at the continental club just before his rise to fame. It was a very different and vibrant music city back then.
Somebody write a book about this guy.
Look for Texas Tornado The Times and Music of Doug Sahm by Jan Reid with Sham. U. of Texas Press 2010
make a film?
Love these guys (Im from Fredericksburg)! Love the girl with the red top and blue skirt!!!
@alpha18412 That was Donald Sutherland, Kiefer's dad, in one of my fave movies. I go all the way back to the Rome Inn at 35th and Guadalupe in Austin for my first of many Doug Sahm concerts. This bring back some really good memories. RIP, Doug.
I don't know what you're talking about, but to understand my point see the Beatles' She's a Woman. It's written in the same style but it has musical invention and it sustains interest the whole time.
The Sir Douglas Quintet, like some other bands at the time, took English sounding names as a way to take advantage of the popularity of the "English Invasion" of the '60s'. My favorite song of theirs is Mendocino, with one of the best Vox Continental Organ riffs of the genre.
Hard to feel sorry for one's self while listening to this stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is part of austin city limits...check it all out....doug was a great musician and singer....get this dude in the rock and roll hall of fame.....
what's the obsession with rhof.I don't need a bunch of corporate dick weeds to confirm greatness.
Abso fucking lutely!! the rrhof is run by idiots and losers!!
Doug Sahm at his finest! Yeah Baby!
What a startling metamorphosis!!!!!!!!!!!
If you play out, do yourself a favor and learn this song and make it swing and you'll get a crowd rocking, whether they know the song or not. And you can ring it out for as long as you want ( or people stop dancing).
I worked with Harry Hess & The Hurricanes when he lived on the East Coast.
Great guy and missed.