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Soul Men (album)

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Released
  
October 26, 1967

Double Dynamite (1967)
  
Soul Men (1967)

Artist
  
Sam & Dave

Label
  
Stax

Length
  
28:56

Soul Men (1967)
  
I Thank You (1968)

Release date
  
26 October 1967

Producers
  
Isaac Hayes, David Porter

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Recorded
  
August 10, October 4, 1967

Genres
  
Soul music, Rhythm and blues

Similar
  
Sam & Dave albums, Soul music albums

Soul Men is the third album by R&B duo Sam & Dave, released in 1967. It reached #5 on the Billboard "Black Album" chart in 1967 and #62 on the "Pop Album" chart in 1968. The album launched the hit single "Soul Man" which ranked #1 on the "Black Singles" charts and #2 on the Pop Singles charts. The song won Sam & Dave a Grammy in 1967 for Best R&B Group, Vocal or Instrumental.

Contents

Side one

  1. "Soul Man" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) - 2:36
  2. "May I Baby" (Hayes, Porter) - 2:38
  3. "Broke Down Piece of Man" (Steve Cropper, Joe Shamwell) - 2:46
  4. "Let It Be Me" (Gilbert Bécaud, Mann Curtis, Pierre Delanoé) - 2:45
  5. "Hold It Baby" (Bonnie "Mack" Rice) - 2:35
  6. "I'm With You" (Lowman Pauling) - 2:50

Side two

  1. "Don't Knock It" (Hayes, Porter) - 2:28
  2. "Just Keep Holding On" (Alvertis Isbell, Booker T. Jones) - 2:52
  3. "The Good Runs the Bad Away" (Wayne Jackson, Andrew Love) - 2:15
  4. "Rich Kind of Poverty" (Hayes, Paul Selph) - 2:13
  5. "I've Seen What Loneliness Can Do" (Homer Banks, Allen Jones) - 2:58

Personnel

  • Sam Moore - vocals
  • Dave Prater - vocals
  • Booker T. & the MG's and the Mar-Key Horns - instrumentation:
  • Booker T. Jones - keyboards
  • Steve Cropper - guitar
  • Donald "Duck" Dunn - bass guitar
  • Al Jackson, Jr. - drums
  • Charles "Packy" Axton - tenor saxophone
  • Don Nix - saxophone
  • Wayne Jackson - trombone, trumpet
  • Isaac Hayes - organ
  • Loring Eutemey - design
  • Jean-Pierre Leloir - photography
  • Songs

    1Soul Man2:39
    2May I Baby2:38
    3Broke Down Piece of a Man2:46

    References

    Soul Men (album) Wikipedia