Sam & Dave Sam And Dave self-titled 1966 Original 1st Roulette SR25323 Stereo EX

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Sam & Dave ~ Sam & Dave
1966 Original 1st pressing
Roulette Records - SR 25323  Stereo
Vinyl; EX
  looks ex      light marks.
  plays ex     light background faint crackle/click low between tracks       & in some quiet passages.

Labels; EX to Mint-    minor imperfections.
Cover; VG to VG+, mostly VG+  intact seams. shrink is partially attached.     stains, marker & other imperfections
Original inner-sleeve;    4" seam-split bottom-edge.

Note: ex = vg++

Vinyl in Audiophile inner-sleeves

VPI Machine Cleaned

Shipping; double boxed. cardboard pads. cardboard corner/edge support

usps tracking posted on ebay

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Roulette didn't release this album until 1966 -- two years after Sam & Dave's last Roulette single. (They had become a household name via Stax Records when this hit the market.) It is definitive Roulette, containing both sides of their six singles for the label. Roulette featured Dave Prater's baritone/tenor more prominently than Sam Moore's vibrant gospel tenor -- Stax featured Moore. They recorded "I Got a Thing Going On," "I Need Love," "No Pain," and "Keep Walkin'" at Criterion Studios in Miami for Henry Stone. And according to Moore, they first dropped on either Marlin or TK Records (the Rolling Stones' labels)."...". According to Moore, "Jackie Wilson hung around the studio and sings background (uncredited) on many of these tracks."..."Roulette released the charmer again in 1966 to ride the wave of their Stax hits."

"Perhaps no act epitomized soul music as the secularization of gospel more than Sam & Dave. The original pairing of Sam Moore and Dave Prater met in Florida in 1961, and they recorded unsuccessfully for several years before being signed to Atlantic Records in 1965. Atlantic persuaded their Memphis affiliate Stax Records to produce them, and in December that year the writing and production team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter delivered the crisply soulful "You Don't Know Like I Know." Hayes and Porter became the éminence grises behind Sam & Dave, much as Holland-Dozier-Holland pulled the strings behind the Supremes. They wrote, they produced -- and the result was a string of hits, including "Soul Man," "Hold On! I'm Comin'," and "I Thank You," songs that survive as the very epitome of Southern soul. Certainly, Sam & Dave's hits are among the most soulful ever to crack the Hot 100. Their albums often bore the hallmarks of hasty execution, though. The dissolution of the partnership between Stax and Atlantic virtually sealed the fate of Sam & Dave; there were a few more hits (and, later, a revival of interest thanks to the Blues Brothers), but the glory days were over.

Samuel Moore and David Prater were both raised in the South, where they sang in church as children. During the '50s, they performed in soul and R&B clubs before meeting each other in at the King of Hearts club in Miami in 1961. Moore was hosting an amateur-night contest where Prater was singing. Once Dave forgot the lyrics to Jackie Wilson's "Doggin' Around," Sam coached him through the song. Following that night, the singers became a duo and soon became a popular local Miami act and signed with Roulette Records, releasing a handful of singles. In 1965, they signed with Atlantic Records, but producer Jerry Wexler moved the band to the label's Stax subsidiary."...