Back in the late 70's, I was working for an oil well exploration contractor out of Galveston. I was on a crew boat and the guy next to me said something like, "That Dude driving the boat looks familiar". I said, "Like some you worked with in the past?" He said "No.....wait... then tapped the guy on the shoulder and said, "Hey, aren't you Sam from Sam The Sham and the Pharaoh's?" The guy turned to him and nodded, but said, "Yea, but keep it to yourself, I don't want to make a big deal out of it". That was it, he seemed like he was a good guy, we chatted about work and the weather and driving boats and oil wells, but that was it. Then I never saw him again after that.
I am 71 and have a four level back fusion. I hear this, I am 18, limber and a bad a#s on the dance floor (at least in my mind),,,,ha! Just absolutely great.
yes ,you are right, Domingo Samudio who plays the organ right here ,he is Mexican American, from mexican descent, like Ritchie Valens who sings" La bamba ", and Rudy Martinez ,who sings "96 tears " from the band Question mark and The Mysterians, and Danny Flores who plays the sax on " Tequila" with The Champs, and Carlos Santana who plays the guitar with Santana Band...Chicano rock...
My mom lived nextdoor, to Danny Flores, when she lived in Santa Paula. A couple of years later, he came over my house with one of the Beach Boys, Mike Love.
Indeed--I was quite refreshingly and pleasantly surprised to see that they're actually playing live, as opposed to miming/lipsyncing to playback of their studio recording of it (which IMO is such a tacky practice--the Ed Sullivan Show was blatantly guilty of such fakey practices back then, kudos to Mike Douglas here for keeping it real on his show).
@@thomasboogie734 A lot of Ed Sullivan was live music for bands that could actually play. Bill Haley and the Comets, Elvis, Buddy Holly, the Beach Boys, Beatles, Stones, the Doors and many others were absolutely live. Many had live vocals to a recording background but Ed made sure his audiences (live and TV) got their money's worth.
@@newerafrican Agreed, I saw many of those acts on Sullivan, and it's fairly easy to tell when they're lip syncing- many didn't take it seriously and they barely went through the motions- and of course no amps and guitars without cords were a dead giveaway. Mike Douglas was also noted for featuring live performances by his guest acts
About 12 when I heard it on the radio. A week later watched it live on a cheesy b/w portable TV. Raw and alive. Nearly 60 years later, straight out of sci-fi "The Song that Refused to Die".
Saw them in 1965 at the Carousal Theater in Covina California with Tommy James & the Shondells, The Association, and one other act which escapes me today
@@hiroehayes593 Mike was owned buy His network but always was thankfull god look what we have now no salary could ever replace the common sense of the 1960s . You never heard mike say a bad word.
This was a 60's song like, "Louie, Louie", with some- what undecipherable lyrics, that made it all the more palpable in the hidden meaning genre. Rock on with your "bad turban selves".
DAMN IS HE GOOD 👍😄 SAM THE SHAM GREAT TUNES 👍 PICTURE THIS YOU DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD GETTING INTO IT WITH THIS MUSIC YOU'LL TURN THE RADIO UP AND SMILE IT WILL TAKE THE STRESS AWAY FROM YOU AFTER WORK 😄😄👍
My mother owned a nightclub in Birmingham, Al. in the mid 1960's. If you flip this 45rpm that song is "The Pussycat A-Go-Go". That was my mom's club. One of the first integrated clubs in Birmingham and Sam the Sham launched this song there.
That sax! That Sam! That everybody! That everything! I grew up with this song in the time of the 1960s. I found the video on youtube of them all dressed up in Pharoah clothes. SO so wonderful. I have been reading about Sam. It's SO interesting. I am so thrilled these great talents can be being honored in 2023! Sam the Sham is lit from within. That Sax is lit from without - on fire! Singer keyboardist Domingo "Sam" Samudio is his name. Wikipedia says he's of Mexican-American Basque Apache decent. SO interesting.
I ran across an old broadcast of KXOK 630 from the '60s with Johnny Rabbitt and in it was "How Do You Catch a Girl" by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. So a quick search and I found most of their songs for a real blast back to the past, but the Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs topic channel has no comments for some reason. Who would comment negatively on these? Most simply want to add how much they enjoy hearing these sounds again or remembering where they were or how old they were when these were on the radio. But this one, a live performance, this is definitely in the cool side of things.
..the first rock n roll song I heard...riding home in my friend Rich Wien's Buick rsgtop from college in 1967...couldn't listen to that music st home...I'm 73 now...
I absolutely love seeing this, I can remember the day rock and roll took over my life. I was at a wedding and they were playing Wooly Bully on the jukebox and I could feel the devil jump right into me LOL
Growing up was always fun when the records were being played @ our house. This was a SONG that my Parents Loved to dance to. This was their song for sure. "WOOLY BULLY"
I sure loved singing and dancing to this in my teens. I thought this was socool...still doo cuz it's totally original! ((1970's for my teen years!!) Yeah....here it comes!!
Summer of '65. Heard this song 1,000,000,000,000,000 times at the city pool. Everyone love it!! Good times! Really kicked up the energy level on those hot summer days.
I saw this band entered in a battle of the bands competition for a record contract back in the 60s in a place called West view Park. It was an amusement park about 20 minutes north of Pittsburgh pa that had been there for decades. They had an inside wooden dance land that the Rolling Stones actually played in before they were known in the usa.. there was also an outside amphitheater. I was there very often. this band, Sam the Sham won the Battle of the bands competition that was advertised on the radio and it was a semi big deal. They brought a big crowd back in the 60s. I was in garage bands at the time in high school.., it was so obvious that there was another band, The children of stone that was so much better. They were like the Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin. but they didn’t win even though they were by far the crowd favorite. The crowd was so upset, that they started spitting on the 3 older judges and throwing things at them sitting there in their suits .. i was surprised that the judges got out of there without getting beat up. It really was almost a riot .. The other man had everything, so tight, the sound, their appearance, they had stage presence, and the music was good …one of the songs they played was the animals, don’t Bring me down.. it sounded better than the animals version. It was on the radio at the time all over the world. .. Meanwhile, Sam, the sham Standing there with his turban on, and a red coat, like in the video that you would see the doorman at a casino in Las Vegas wearing was playing Lala lolly pop songs like Herman’s Hermits. bubblegum music ..They were polished and wore the matching clothes. it was obvious that the fix was in.. they needed to get out there and get exposure, and have a history of winning battles of the bands for their résumé.. Those three judges look like CEOs of the record company that was backing sam and his band in a public relation’s exposure farce.. I don’t have anything against Sam, the sham and his band for trying to get ahead, but the other band was so much better, and everybody there knew it..
I remember this song when I was 10 years old.This was a different sound than the British invasion or the other popular music at the time. The band wore strange Egyptian outfits.They had several good catchy hits that I liked very much.I found out later they weren't really Egyptian & Sam was Spanish.🤣
Man, I love hearing these guys playing live. Always been a HUGE Sam The Sham fan- bought all his albums as a kid- replaced most of 'em due to wear n tear. Got the CD box set with lots of rare singles that never made it to albums. I wish they'd release a full concert CD / LP from any live show they might have recorded between '65 and '68 or so. The solo album he released on Atlantic: SAM: Hard and Heavy, featured Duane Allman playing slide on Sam's version of "Goin' Upstairs " a classic John Lee Hooker tune. Great record if you can find a copy...
@@ghengiscant538 honestly, I don't believe there's a connection, though if there is it'd be the script writers from the movie borrowing the name from Sam The Sham, as he and the Pharoahs predated the American Graffiti movie by at least 10 years. On the other hand, " car clubs" were a large part of southern California's car culture of the 1950s and 60s so it's also possible there was a car club with that name as well though if so, it wouldn't be related to Sam and his band. Hope that helps...
Sam. Became. A. Offshore. Boat. Captain. And my. Momma met him. Going to work on a. Drilling.Rig and 4 years. Later I met. Him. Going offshore to a drilling rig also. He is. Such a. Nice person
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that guy SHREDDED that sax
dam
you want to hear a wild SAX listen to little Richards Oh My soul the LP version on Specialty records with the extended SAX SOLO...its amazing
That’s Butch Gibson on the saxophone
Back in the late 70's, I was working for an oil well exploration contractor out of Galveston. I was on a crew boat and the guy next to me said something like, "That Dude driving the boat looks familiar". I said, "Like some you worked with in the past?" He said "No.....wait... then tapped the guy on the shoulder and said, "Hey, aren't you Sam from Sam The Sham and the Pharaoh's?" The guy turned to him and nodded, but said, "Yea, but keep it to yourself, I don't want to make a big deal out of it". That was it, he seemed like he was a good guy, we chatted about work and the weather and driving boats and oil wells, but that was it. Then I never saw him again after that.
Live, raw talent, dude ripped the sax. No lip sync garbage, these guys were the real deal
...yeah I noticed the actual live performance...nice lip syncing...he's old now...I'M.old now..73
The drummer's part sucked, though
@@cbroz7492 Sam is from Memphis, I'm from Memphis. I'm old too.
@@mobydick3895 They didn't know how to mic drums back then.
I am 71 and have a four level back fusion. I hear this, I am 18, limber and a bad a#s on the dance floor (at least in my mind),,,,ha! Just absolutely great.
Sam is still alive living a great life at 86 12-15-23
If this song doesn't put a smile on your face, you are broken.
Read this comment while watching the video and realised I had a expressionless face. I'm broken.
I was smiling reading this comment!!
Yes but it's got to be loud real f****** loud!!
Got that right!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Broken? You might be dead! Sam is the Man
Sixty years later and I still can't get enough of the "" Woolly boolly", alright!
58 for me and I STILL love it. Nothing like it. Raw and energetic......
1965 ese año nací
As a small child, maybe 8 yrs old, I named a puppy Wooly Bully. Even as a child I loved that sax!
yes ,you are right, Domingo Samudio who plays the organ right here ,he is Mexican American, from mexican descent, like Ritchie Valens who sings" La bamba ", and Rudy Martinez ,who sings "96 tears " from the band Question mark and The Mysterians, and Danny Flores who plays the sax on " Tequila" with The Champs, and Carlos Santana who plays the guitar with Santana Band...Chicano rock...
All chingones
Ajua!
tejano❤❤❤ n proud. .que mas quires😊❤
My mom lived nextdoor, to Danny Flores, when she lived in Santa Paula.
A couple of years later, he came over my house with one of the Beach Boys, Mike Love.
@@DS-gg1pb Mike Love claims to be the only white boy at his high school.
I love how he smiles when he sings...
I bought that record and couldn't stop playing it. My family got tired of me playing it so much.
😂!!!❤❤❤
Playing live on TV during this era was a rarity
Indeed--I was quite refreshingly and pleasantly surprised to see that they're actually playing live, as opposed to miming/lipsyncing to playback of their studio recording of it (which IMO is such a tacky practice--the Ed Sullivan Show was blatantly guilty of such fakey practices back then, kudos to Mike Douglas here for keeping it real on his show).
Except on the Ed Sullivan Show, you're right.
@@RyanSchweitzer77 American Bandstand and any other Dick Clark production were the worst.
@@thomasboogie734 A lot of Ed Sullivan was live music for bands that could actually play. Bill Haley and the Comets, Elvis, Buddy Holly, the Beach Boys, Beatles, Stones, the Doors and many others were absolutely live. Many had live vocals to a recording background but Ed made sure his audiences (live and TV) got their money's worth.
@@newerafrican Agreed, I saw many of those acts on Sullivan, and it's fairly easy to tell when they're lip syncing- many didn't take it seriously and they barely went through the motions- and of course no amps and guitars without cords were a dead giveaway. Mike Douglas was also noted for featuring live performances by his guest acts
Now that's r n r....rough and raw.....no lip synch....no smooth mix...just pure energy .
This is my kind of music
@@jeancartrer6871 Faking it to a record like everyone else. Nothing was live back then.
@@itjustlookslikethis
Bullshit 🙄
Still one of my favorite 60's jams. Thanks Sam Samudio!
Thanks Mike Douglas for bringing a live band onto the stage!💪🏻
Is this from The Mike Douglas Show? I thought it was from The Smothers Brothers Show.
@3069mark ,this is from the Mike Douglas show
About 12 when I heard it on the radio. A week later watched it live on a cheesy b/w portable TV. Raw and alive.
Nearly 60 years later,
straight out of sci-fi "The Song that Refused to Die".
Recorded 1964 at Sam Phillips’ Sun Records studio in Memphis!
Saw them in 1965 at the Carousal Theater in Covina California with Tommy James & the Shondells, The Association, and one other act which escapes me today
The Syndicate of Sound??
Thank you! Correct.
My band just performed this song with original guitarist Ray Stinnett last Saturday. What a blast!
No way!!! Awesome. Saw Sam yrs ago solo in Lubbock TX
@@tcsmith9924 j
Ray Stinnett is the name
@@JStrummer1 Whoops, forgot to proofread. Fixed it.
Wow! 😘😘😘
Sam still lives in Memphis. He's so underrated! Great song.
I was stationed at Camp LeJune in 65 and this song was a favorite in the squad bay. 👍🏻🇺🇸
Mike Douglas was probably the best of the daytime talk/variety show hosts of the period.
Pretty corny, though.
Yes. Mike's show was great. Should put all his shows highlights in DVD or something !
@@hiroehayes593 Mike was owned buy His network but always was thankfull god look what we have now no salary could ever replace
the common sense of the 1960s . You never heard mike say a bad word.
Those low slung guitars…crashing drums…wild sax..pummelling keys..decibels overloading the studio mics..What’s not to love !!
The Drums !! Yes Crashing, indeed ! So Fun !!
The way the band are holding and playing their instruments - free and loose! Nice like the usual 1965 way. So cool! Wish we had that now!
Even though I am 80’s kid this sings brings back memories of when both my parents were alive❤this was my dads jam
I love this song! Gotta love that sax too!
This was a 60's song like, "Louie, Louie", with some- what undecipherable lyrics, that made it all the more palpable in the hidden meaning genre. Rock on with your "bad turban selves".
Those where the good Days!
I turned 5 in September of ‘65. I loved this song as a child!
I was six at the church picnics in San Antonio. Sam was all the rage! Karl
THE DRUMMING ON THIS IS NOTHING SHORT OF SPECTACULAR.
2.2K
Is this said ironically?
Yeah he's a regular Danny Carey!
S O G R E A T
One of the great songs from summer of 1965..
WoW serious walk down memory lane with this one!! 👏
It's rare to see a live band performance from an era in which it would have been more convenient to lip-sync. Very good!
I LOVE how the guitarist plays the ES 335 so low slung man! Ultra cool 😎
Sam the Sham, AND Mike Douglas!
🤩🤩🤩
You could tell he was a genuinely good person. He interviewed everyone with true respect.
Great song to dance to! No wonder it sold over 2 million copies!
Loved this song as a kid. Sam also had a hit with Little Red Riding Hood another gem.
Takes me back to Montebello hs in 1966. Wooley Bulley for ever.
DAMN IS HE GOOD 👍😄 SAM THE SHAM GREAT TUNES 👍
PICTURE THIS YOU DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD GETTING INTO IT WITH THIS MUSIC YOU'LL TURN THE RADIO UP AND SMILE IT WILL TAKE THE STRESS AWAY FROM YOU AFTER WORK 😄😄👍
That's when it was an art form , raw and simple !
Spicolli singing this w/band @ school dance in Fast Times... Another good memory of this awesome song! ROCK ON!!! ✌️🤘
These guys were the ultimate party band
This is the first time I've ever seen a live version of "Wooly Bully". They did a really great job playing it.
Wenn ich mal nicht so gut drauf bin höre ich in voller Lautstärke diesen super Song und es geht mir gleich besser💖
Love this version! It's so Raw,,, especially the dude on the sax.🎷
Anyone who posts a live performance from Sam in his prime deserves a subscription!
My mother owned a nightclub in Birmingham, Al. in the mid 1960's. If you flip this 45rpm that song is "The Pussycat A-Go-Go". That was my mom's club. One of the first integrated clubs in Birmingham and Sam the Sham launched this song there.
That sax! That Sam! That everybody! That everything! I grew up with this song in the time of the 1960s. I found the video on youtube of them all dressed up in Pharoah clothes. SO so wonderful. I have been reading about Sam. It's SO interesting. I am so thrilled these great talents can be being honored in 2023! Sam the Sham is lit from within. That Sax is lit from without - on fire! Singer keyboardist Domingo "Sam" Samudio is his name. Wikipedia says he's of Mexican-American Basque Apache decent. SO interesting.
It's great hearing the original version live not lip synched. We were blessed to grow up in the Rock 'n Roll era.
I ran across an old broadcast of KXOK 630 from the '60s with Johnny Rabbitt and in it was "How Do You Catch a Girl" by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. So a quick search and I found most of their songs for a real blast back to the past, but the Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs topic channel has no comments for some reason. Who would comment negatively on these? Most simply want to add how much they enjoy hearing these sounds again or remembering where they were or how old they were when these were on the radio.
But this one, a live performance, this is definitely in the cool side of things.
OK this is really really cool you get to see Sam the Sham Playing live
I was 8 grew up listening to there music back in the 60’s this must be the First band members, before splitting up .
In later appearances all the band guys were "pharoahs". So great to see a super feel good entertainment.
we are lucky to get to see and hear these live performances.
..the first rock n roll song I heard...riding home in my friend Rich Wien's Buick rsgtop from college in 1967...couldn't listen to that music st home...I'm 73 now...
It must have felt illegal lol
I absolutely love seeing this, I can remember the day rock and roll took over my life. I was at a wedding and they were playing Wooly Bully on the jukebox and I could feel the devil jump right into me LOL
I love that they are not lip syncing.
Growing up was always fun when the records were being played @ our house. This was a SONG that my Parents Loved to dance to. This was their song for sure. "WOOLY BULLY"
I sure loved singing and dancing to this in my teens. I thought this was socool...still doo cuz it's totally original! ((1970's for my teen years!!) Yeah....here it comes!!
Summer of '65. Heard this song 1,000,000,000,000,000 times at the city pool. Everyone love it!! Good times! Really kicked up the energy level on those hot summer days.
j’avais 18 ans et j’adorais cette chanson.😊😊😊😊😊
Still dance to this at 56 ❤
First drummer to stand up!
I saw this band entered in a battle of the bands competition for a record contract back in the 60s in a place called West view Park. It was an amusement park about 20 minutes north of Pittsburgh pa that had been there for decades. They had an inside wooden dance land that the Rolling Stones actually played in before they were known in the usa.. there was also an outside amphitheater.
I was there very often.
this band, Sam the Sham won the Battle of the bands competition that was advertised on the radio and it was a semi big deal. They brought a big crowd back in the 60s. I was in garage bands at the time in high school.., it was so obvious that there was another band, The children of stone that was so much better. They were like the Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin. but they didn’t win even though they were by far the crowd favorite. The crowd was so upset, that they started spitting on the 3 older judges and throwing things at them sitting there in their suits .. i was surprised that the judges got out of there without getting beat up. It really was almost a riot .. The other man had everything, so tight, the sound, their appearance, they had stage presence, and the music was good …one of the songs they played was the animals, don’t Bring me down.. it sounded better than the animals version. It was on the radio at the time all over the world. ..
Meanwhile, Sam, the sham Standing there with his turban on, and a red coat, like in the video that you would see the doorman at a casino in Las Vegas wearing was playing Lala lolly pop songs like Herman’s Hermits. bubblegum music ..They were polished and wore the matching clothes. it was obvious that the fix was in.. they needed to get out there and get exposure, and have a history of winning battles of the bands for their résumé.. Those three judges look like CEOs of the record company that was backing sam and his band in a public relation’s exposure farce..
I don’t have anything against Sam, the sham and his band for trying to get ahead, but the other band was so much better, and everybody there knew it..
Sam sounds great here. A perfect novelty record. Light-hearted and fun.
A realHAPPY 86th Birthday to Mr. Domingo Samudio and really ALL the best to him ... (2023-0228)
A classic...
Yes, I totally remember this song. I was Ten years old in 5th grade. Great Fun times !!
I remember this song when I was 10 years old.This was a different sound than the British invasion or the other popular music at the time.
The band wore strange Egyptian outfits.They had several good catchy hits that I liked very much.I found out later they weren't really Egyptian & Sam was Spanish.🤣
No, he was American from TX.
@@wendykelly4624 Yes, he was a Hispanic American, Domingo "Sam" Samudio from Dallas,TX
It was all a Sham!
He is of Mexican descent
who gives a shit where he came from that is just one brilliant rocking tune
DOMINGO SAMUDIO, SINGER , MEXICAN AMERICAN ...CHICANO ROCKING...
Great memories . I Even had the Pleasure of meeting one early Member Back in the 70’s
Big Man Lopez . 🙏
Me parece que era argentino
Man, I love hearing these guys playing live. Always been a HUGE Sam The Sham fan- bought all his albums as a kid- replaced most of 'em due to wear n tear. Got the CD box set with lots of rare singles that never made it to albums. I wish they'd release a full concert CD / LP from any live show they might have recorded between '65 and '68 or so. The solo album he released on Atlantic: SAM: Hard and Heavy, featured Duane Allman playing slide on Sam's version of "Goin' Upstairs " a classic John Lee Hooker tune. Great record if you can find a copy...
Did the Pharaohs in the movie " American Graffiti " take their name from the band ? Or the other way round . A Brit just asking .
@@ghengiscant538 honestly, I don't believe there's a connection, though if there is it'd be the script writers from the movie borrowing the name from Sam The Sham, as he and the Pharoahs predated the American Graffiti movie by at least 10 years. On the other hand, " car clubs" were a large part of southern California's car culture of the 1950s and 60s so it's also possible there was a car club with that name as well though if so, it wouldn't be related to Sam and his band. Hope that helps...
I was 13 when this hit, great then great now!
Der Hit hat was ❤
That was excellent
Excellent, very energetic song.
💜 🕊 MuchLove!!!
Помню ставил магнитофон на подоконник и на всю катушку-кайф!молодость!72года по сей день от нее балдею!
Я тоже но 1968г здесь в Болгарии.
Great music with no social media and technology craps.
This was a great favorite at Molineux during Steve Bull's time
Yeah, grew up with this. Don't hear it no more.
Rockin live version !
What saxophonist. Brilliant. ❤❤
Love classic Rock!
Sam. Became. A. Offshore. Boat. Captain. And my. Momma met him. Going to work on a. Drilling.Rig and 4 years. Later I met. Him. Going offshore to a drilling rig also. He is. Such a. Nice person
When talented people born.
And created real musical masterpieces.
Absolutely fantastic! A true classic.
Love it! ❤
I love this song 😎👍
Wow, actually LIVE!
Super grotee hits van dde jaaren 60,spitting dat die groep niet Meer bestaan
Miss the day. Beautiful
hitting those preamps hard! Rock on!
The most fun song, ever!😊
A 60s classic hit!!
I remember walking through the entrance of the NY World's Fair in 1965 and this song was blaring on the loud speakers.
That tux jacket he’s wearing is awesome!
I give it a 80. It's got rhythm, a beat, and easy to dance to. Play it again, Sam.
Look how they holdin the guitars,drummer standing up
Wow he can actually play the instruments he has band that is fantastic
My Baby Brother
great voice, simple songs. and a lot of song in a just under 3 minutes...too bad they dont make great songs like this anymore.
They do, just stopped listening
@@nullvoid244
Nonsense
What a show, Outstanding!
Tinha um vinil que minha mãe comprou na época e ficava escutando ❤