Sam Moore and Dave Prater did their share of paying dues. The soul males from Florida and Georgia respectively met in 1961 and reduce two singles for the Marlin label in Miami, then half a dozen for Roulette in New York, none of which troubled the charts.
However within the first week of 1966, Sam & Dave arrived on the nationwide US scene with what grew to become the primary in a collection of traditional singles for Stax, “You Don’t Know Like I Know.” Throughout their apprenticeship, the duo had honed their abilities as a dynamic performing act, and after signing with Atlantic in 1964, producer-executive Jerry Wexler put them with the Stax label and its crack in-house staff of musicians and writers.
That didn’t produce quick returns, even with the presence of writers Isaac Hayes and David Porter. However when that pair joined forces to provide you with “You Don’t Know Like I Know,” Sam & Dave turned it into soul dynamite. The track made a assured debut on Billboard’s High Promoting Rhythm & Blues Singles, the best on the countdown for January 1, 1966, at No.29. It was in good firm, arriving the identical week as Stevie Marvel’s “Uptight” and the Miracles’ “Going To A Go Go.”
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The Sam & Dave track made solely a minor dent within the pop market, reaching No.90 on the Sizzling 100, however climbed as excessive at No.7 on the soul chart in February 1967. Simply two months later, the duo adopted it with the track that basically made their identify as soon as and for all, “Hold On! I’m Comin’.” In the meantime, a 12 months after the duo’s Stax breakthrough, Hayes was providing his personal model of the track he co-wrote. He included “You Don’t Know Like I Know” on his debut solo album Presenting Isaac Hayes, recorded at Stax and launched in February 1968.
Purchase or stream “You Don’t Know Like I Know” on the 3-CD Soulsville USA compilation.
