The Best of Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs [Import]

1. Wooly Bully

2. Ju Ju Hand

3. Ring Dang Doo

4. Red Hot

5. Lil' Red Riding Hood

6. Hair on My Chinny Chin Chin

7. How Do You Catch a Girl

8. Oh That's Good, No That's Bad

9. Struttin'

10. I'm Not a Lover Any More

11. Leave My Kitten Alone

12. Wanted Dead or Alive

13. You Can't Turn Me Off

14. Cockfight

15. Let It Eat

16. Big City Lights

17. Groovin'

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The Best of Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs [Import]

Average customer rating: Memory Lane A dozen tracks from the two-hit wonders, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs More like Sam the Sham & the awsome

20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Sam the Sham & the Pharao Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs Manufacturer: Island / Mercury ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Oldies & Retro | Rock | Styles | Music Garage Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Louie Louie: The Very Best of The Kingsmen Hang on Sloopy: The Best of the McCoys Rev-Up: The Best of Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels Tommy Roe - Greatest Hits [MCA] Retrospective ASIN: B00008J2KG Release Date: 2003-03-04

Tracks:

1. Wooly Bully
2. Lil' Red Riding Hood
3. Ju Ju Hand
4. Red Hot
5. Ring Dang Doo
6. Big Blue Diamonds
7. Pharaoh A-Go-Go
8. The Hair On My Chinny Chin Chin
9. (I'm In With) The Out Crowd
10. How Do You Catch A Girl
11. I Couldn't Spell !!*@!
12. Oh That's Good, No That's Bad

Customer Reviews:

Memory Lane.......2006-11-18

Haven't rec'd. this CD yet, but I grew up with this music and have been looking to add it to my collection. Although the music tracks do mimic each other, there are alot of great memories associated with them. I've found that not to many people have ever heard of the Sam, they're missing out!

A dozen tracks from the two-hit wonders, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs.......2005-08-05

The thing about listening to the best of Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs is that you have done that by the time you get to the third track on this Millennium Collection done for the 20th Century Masters series. "Wooly Bully" made it to #2 on the Billboard singles chart in 1965 and the next year "Li'l Red Riding Hood" did the same. Although the group had another seven songs that made it to the charts (six of which are included in this twelve-track collection), none of them made it to the Top 20. "Ju Ju Hand" got to #26 and "Ring Dang Doo" to #33 in 1965, while in 1966 "Red Hot" came in at #82 and "The Hair on My Chinny Chin Chin" made it all the way to #22. In 1967, "Black Sheep" (the missing one) went to #68, "How Do You Catch a Girl" topped out at #27, and "Oh That's Good, No That's Bad" went to #54. I am surprised that when you have such a limited number of songs that can be labeled hits that one would be missing, but there is no reason to believe it is any great loss. The only songs that reek of desperation is "Pharaoh A Go-Go," which is a blatant effort to sound as much like "Wooly Bully" as musically possible, the same way "The Hair on My Chinny Chin Chin" echoes "Li'l Red Riding Hood." Still, for a two-hit wonder, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs certainly stake out their territory and stick to it and if you remember that we are talking the mid-1960s and think of them more as competition for the likes of the Dave Clark Five and the Troggs instead of the Beatles and the Beach Boys you can have a better appreciation of their music.

Sam the Sham was really Domingo Samudio, who got the name because because of doubts about his abilities to be a lead singer in a rock group. Formed in Dallas, the Pharaohs consisted of Ray Stinnet on guitar, David Martin on bass, Butch Gibson playing saxophone, and Jerry Patterson on drums. In terms of music history the group has a small claim to fame in that "Wooly Bully," written about Samudio's cat, introduced Tex-Mex rhythms to popular rock 'n' roll. The problem was that their two big hits defined them as a novelty act (which was certainly reinforced by songs like "I Couldn't Spell !! *@!"), and despite the name that did not set well with Sam the Sham, who broke up the group in 1967 and tried unsuccessfully to find musical legitimacy on his own. In retrospect "Wooly Bully" is one of those rock classics where everything wrong comes out right, and if that is your musical legacy you are ahead of the game. The only concern here is whether you already have those first two tracks, because if you do that decreases the need for picking up this collection. But if you like the fun aspects of rock and roll that emerged in the American response to the British Invasion, not to mention music where the beat drives the songs, then Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs are a Sixties garage band worth listening to again.

More like Sam the Sham & the awsome.......2004-10-03

I was looking for a Sam the Sham and the Pharaos CD high and low about a year before this CD came out. I finally found one and listened to it all the time. There were about thirty songs and after a while I would just skip through the CD to the good ones. This 20th Century Masters CD has all the good songs without any of the songs that are just okay. Plus it's allot less money.

Average customer rating: Big City Lights Non-Brit. Rock'n'roll Mayhem! not bad compilation

The Best of Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs Manufacturer: Umvd Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Garage Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Oldies & Retro | Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Louie Louie: The Very Best of The Kingsmen Hang on Sloopy: The Best of the McCoys Wooly Bully/Li'l Red Riding Hood Rev-Up: The Best of Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Sam the Sham & the Pharao ASIN: B0000256GZ Release Date: 2001-08-02

Tracks:

1. Wooly Bully
2. Ju Ju Hand
3. Ring Dang Doo
4. Red Hot
5. Lil' Red Riding Hood
6. Hair on My Chinny Chin Chin
7. How Do You Catch a Girl
8. Oh That's Good, No That's Bad
9. Struttin'
10. I'm Not a Lover Anymore
11. Leave My Kitten Alone
12. Wanted Dead or Alive
13. You Can't Turn Me Off
14. Cockfight
15. Let It Eat
16. Big City Lights
17. Groovin'

Customer Reviews:

Big City Lights.......2004-12-03

Yeah, I know. Billboard says "Wooly Bully" was the #1 song of 1965. And dear Mom sent me a few records (45s) including "Little Red Riding Hood" (thanks Mom) when I was a GI in Germany. But although I just liked everything the group did, I got a special feeling from sitting in a gasthaus swilling good German beer (chilled for us Amerikaners) and often hearing "Big City Lights" on the jukebox. The sound could be better (No master tapes? Recorded off the 45s?) but if I look to another compilation, will I find "Big City Lights"? Won't risk it. As for "Sam", he had a bad jones for narcotics and when he beat the habit became a Memphis street preacher to thank God for saving him and resisted all efforts to be lured back into the business at which he, perhaps only half-jokingly, called himself a "sham".

Non-Brit. Rock'n'roll Mayhem!.......2004-07-12

Yikes!I know AM radio can make a great song sound weak by playing the s#@t out of a hit record but, Little Red Riding Hood is really a great rock'n'roll tune! I'd go as far as to say Litte Red Riding Hood is even kind of cool in a sinister way. Sam the Sham and his turban-wearing rockers rampaged all over the charts with hits like Wooly Bully and Little Red Riding Hood while the British invasion was in full swing. This is fun, crazy and pure american rock'n'roll in the garage rock and frat tradition. Gee, these guys even drove around in a hearse! How cool is that?

not bad compilation.......2002-02-15

Sound of this is moderate to ok,But lil red riding hood sounds like a record vynl,you could hear the crackling if you listen closely.

Average customer rating: Party 'til you're done partying (which is never)!!! How you listen to this matters a great deal It's the same song 2 dozen times! A Little Too Complete This is a good CD, but...

Pharaohization! The Best Of Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Oldies & Retro | Rock | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Garage Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Rev-Up: The Best of Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels The Shirelles - 25 All-Time Greatest Hits Louie Louie: The Very Best of The Kingsmen ASIN: B00000C41H Release Date: 1998-10-06

Tracks:

1. Wooly Bully
2. Ju Ju Hand
3. Medicine Man
4. Don't Try It
5. Pharoah-A-Go-Go
6. A Long Long Way
7. Green'ich Grendel
8. Ring Dang Doo
9. I Couldn't Spell !!*@!
10. Oh That's Good, No That's Bad
11. Lil' Red Riding Hood
12. The Hair On My Chinny Chin Chin
13. Black Sheep
14. Monkey See, Monkey Do
15. How Do You Catch A Girl
16. Red Hot
17. Sorry 'Bout That
18. Let Our Love Light Shine
19. I Never Had No One
20. Big Blue Diamonds
21. (I'm In With) The Out Crowd
22. Take What You Can Get
23. Money's My Problem
24. Banned In Boston

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The parade of one-hit wonders who populated large chunks of the pop charts in the 1960s and '70s could usually be categorized two ways: marginal talents overly burnished with slick production and the best studio chops money could buy, or hard-rocking garage gods who finally caught a break. Come to think of it, things haven't changed much! Dallas's Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs fell firmly into the latter category, scoring big in '65 with the novelty song "Wooly Bully" and following it with the lesser hit "Little Red Riding Hood." Like ? and the Mysterians and the Sir Douglas Quintet, Sam (Domingo Samudio; "the Sham" a self-deprecating jab at his vocal talents) and the Pharaohs pioneered fusing the sounds and rhythms of Tex-Mex border music into pop, though it would take critics a decade or two to catch on. To contemporary listeners, they were just a monster party band--one that this generous, well-chosen collection puts in better perspective. Their initial novelty status kept proceedings decidedly on the loopy side, as tracks like "Pharaoh-a-Go-Go" and "Ring Dang Doo" attest. Still, there's a raw, rootsy rock & roll frenzy here that's as infectious as it is unhinged. Hail Sam and the Pharaohs, garage rock royalty! --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

Party 'til you're done partying (which is never)!!!.......2007-07-26

If it's even possible, Sam the Sham's music is even more heroically stupid than the Ramones'. After all, those four boys from Brooklyn wrote coherent songs, with different melodies and lyrics about cars and girls and hamburgers. The Pharoahs, on the other hand, didn't even try. Not only did all of their best songs sound the same (I mean, literally, the friggin' same), but seriously, what hell was "Wooly Bully" supposed to be about? Or "Ring Dang Do?" Or "Ju Ju Hand?" The answer, of course, is who cares?! If you actually find yourelf looking for deeper meaning in songs "Monkey See Monkey Do," "Red Hot," or "Sorry 'bout That," you're probably wearing a tin foil hat. And as for the songs sounding the same, again, who cares? Why mess with a winning formula.

And it is a winning formula. See, unlike the Ramones, the Pharaohs actually managed to hit the charts. Twice! Just goes to show ya that record buyers in the 60s had waaaaaaaaaay better taste than the kid o' the 70s. The first hit was the now world famous "Wooly Bully," a pounding dumb-dumb anthem with a ludicrously catchy vocal, a hypnotic pounding drumline (it seriously sounds like some guy was just hitting a snare drum over and over again), and a hypno-riffic organ (played by Sam himself, who, as legend has it, only knew five chords!). The only thing more incredible than the idea that anyone that that this would work is that it actually does- it's so damn infectious that you won't believe it. It also sets the template for a buncha the group's other songs- "Medicine Man," "Ju Ju Hand," "Sorry 'Bout That," "Ring Dang Do," "Don't Try It," and others are all barely noticable alterations of the same template, and they also rock. The group's other hit was "Little Red Riding Hood," which is closer to "serious" rock n roll (but only in the same sense that a bicycle resembles a Ferarri more so than does a cow), but it's still a really, really cool song, with a great creeping guitar line and vocals that produce actual tension. It doesn't really set a template for the other songs to follow, but "The Hair On My Chinny Chin Chin" sounds like "Wooly Bully" meets "Little Red Riding Hood." And then there are gut-butsingly funny sing-alongs like "Oh That's Good, No That's Bad" and a wonky juke-joint isntrumental called "Pharaoh A Go Go," and a bunch of other mas-durr-pieces on that level. There's enough grease-coated rock n roll here to keep you busy until you turn uncool. Rock out!

How you listen to this matters a great deal.......2006-07-01

Rhino as usual has compiled a generous dollop of the works of Domingo "Sam the Sham" Samudio and his band the Pharoahs and it's difficult to argue with very many of the cuts as being outright "bad". The problem (as with much of this vintage) is there's not enough distinction cut to cut.

Add just about anything here to a mix CD of oldies and someone will ask you "What's that song? I like it!"

But play this front to back and the same person will say "Didn't you just play that one?!?" (i.e. Most of these really DO sound like "Wooly Bully")

HIGHLIGHTS:
The biggest singles are the best: party perrennial "Wooly Bully", a hipster 'goosing' of children's fables in "L'il Red Riding Hood", and ahead-of-my-time lament "(I'm in with) The Out Crowd". Outside of those, "Sorry 'bout that" berates an ex-lover hoping to reconnect, anti-fad "Monkey See,Monkey Do", and the age old question for pubescent boys everywhere: "How Do you Catch a Girl?" "Black Sheep" hides some clever social commentary within it and also is one of the few here that doesn't cop too much musically from "Wooly..". "Banned in Boston" reprises the outsider sentiment. ("I'm weird and bearded,baby/Wild and wooly/Can't you see?")

LOWS:
"Pharoah-a-Go-Go" is a pretty undistinguished instrumental. "Oh That's Bad, No That's Good" is somewhat amusing but its hard luck tale doesn't wear well with repeat listenings once you know the punchline is coming.

BOTTOM LINE:
Out of all the single disc comps available, this is the best bet despite some of the filler found here because the better tracks include stuff that's just not found elsewhere. (MILLENNIUM's not bad but you miss out on "Black Sheep","Banned",and "How Do you Catch..". If you know more than "Wooly Bully", this is the one to get.

Burn your own CD-R minus the mush and add the best of the Rhino Mitch Ryder comp (which suffers the same 50-50 fate), sprinkle a few other tunes in (perhaps "Double Shot of my Baby's Love" and "Quarter to Three"?) and you'll have a killer oldies party soundtrack.

It's the same song 2 dozen times!.......2006-01-21

But it's a damn great song! Yep, "Wooly Bully' and 23 variations of that theme.
The surprising thing is the social commentary of some of these songs: "Black Sheep", "Monkey See, Monkey Do", "Green'ich Grendel", "The Out Crowd". Unlike Bob Dylan's stuff, you can actually dance to these songs (always a plus).
This disc is a great example of garage rock, but... buyer beware! You really have to love this type of music to get through this disc. I've played it for people who have begged me to shut it off because... it IS the same song over and over. I can't stress that enough. If two dozen songs sound like too much I recommend MCA's 20th Century Collection... 12 songs and it goes down in 28 minutes. I bought that one first but 12 songs was not enough... so I picked up 'Phaorahization'. I'm very glad I did!

A Little Too Complete.......2004-10-03

This CD has everything your looking for in a Sam the Sham and the Pharaos CD. If you've only heard Wooly Bully you are missing out. The problem is there are so many songs that you can't just listen to the whole thing right through. Indiviually they may all be great but together they start sounding the same. I have this CD and am happy with it. But I'd recomend just getting the 20th Century - Millenium collection Sam the Sham and the Pharaos CD. I has all of the good songs.

This is a good CD, but..........2004-03-16

This is a great CD, but there is one problem. Several tracks are given the wrong name. Well, they were on my CD. That is true, except for the tracks Wooly Bully and Li'l Red Riding Hood. Even Ju Ju Hand has it's name wrong. In the CD, it is titled Medicine Man. This CD should be re-issued with the names attributing to the proper songs.

Average customer rating: Worth every Penny!

The Best of Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Oldies & Retro | Rock | Styles | Music Garage Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000008KDS Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Wooly Bully
2. Red Hot
3. Standing Ovation
4. Mystery Train
5. Ju Ju Hand
6. Ready Or Not
7. The Hair On My Chinny Chin Chin
8. El Toro De Goro (The Peace Loving Bull)
9. (I'm In With) The Out Crowd
10. I Wish It Were Me
11. Ring Dang Doo
12. Li'l Red Riding Hood

Customer Reviews:

Worth every Penny!.......2005-11-04

While in High School (1969)I was at a friends house going through his LPs and ran across this very album that opened like a book. Being a huge Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs fan I asked him how much he would want to sell the record for. He told me to just take it because it belonged to his older brother and nobody listeded to that stuff anymore (wrong answer)! Next to Western Swing ane Bluegrass this old rock stuff along with all the treasures from the 50's was all I wanted to hear. Keep in mind that this was during the dawning of groups like Crosby,Stills,Nash and Young,Led Zepplen and the Who. I was no more interested in that garbage hippie trash then the man in the moon. I almost wore this album out. In 1979 my wife and I had a flood in the basement of our first apartment and the record jacket was ruined but the record was still playable. What a break to find this on a CD. Everysong is "Great"!If you were around when these songs first came out in the mid 60's like I was then you can really apperciate this collection or if your younger and just discovering Sam the Sham from Texas your in for a real treat. Sam was the first Rock n Roller to introduce the Tex-Mex sound (I know those of you who are right now saying,"But what about Lydia Mendosa"? well I'm now talking about Rock n Roll).It was 40 years ago when I heard "Little Red Riding Hood" on the old WCAO AM radio station in Baltimore, man, that was when they really knew how to spin them tunes!

"Enjoy" Joe Kopeck / Parkville,MD

Average customer rating:

Greatest Hits Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs Manufacturer: Duchesse ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000TQ4AWY

Product Description

1990 release on the Duchesse label. Track list: 01. Wooly Bully 02. Li'l Red Riding Hood 03. The Hair Of My Chinny Chin Chin 04. Red Hot 05. El Toro De Goro (The Peace Loving Bull) 06. (I'm In With) The Out Crowd 07. Ju Ju Hand 08. Standing Ovation 09. Mystery Train 10. Ready Or Not 11. Ring Dang Doo 12. I Wish It Were Me

Average customer rating:

Best of Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs Manufacturer: Rock In Box Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000JQPGUO

Product Description

Simply the best Sam the Sham collection on a single disc, ever. 32 tracks filling the CD to capacity, all original recordings, all the hits ("Woolly Bully," "Lil' Red Riding Hood") and much more.

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