Sam anD DAVE

< Class of 1992

YEAR

1992

INDUCTED BY

Billy Joel

Performers

This soul duo was a force of nature.

Sam and Dave’s work with producer Isaac Hayes and backing band Booker T and the M.G.’s made them a formidable team. Their hit “Soul Man” endures today as an R&B smash and a unifying force between black and white audiences.

Sam Moore

Dave Prater

Billy Joel Inducts Sam & Dave

Sam Moore Acceptance Speech

"When Something Is Wrong With My Baby"

"Soul Man"

"Hold On, I'm Comin'"

"When Something Is Wrong With My Baby"

HALL OF FAME
ESSAY

By Andy Schwartz

In the summer of 1964, Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records was attending a DJ convention in Miami. Florida record man Henry Stone suggested he stop in at a nightclub called the King of Hearts to check out a local singing duo known as Sam & Dave.

“It was like 165 degrees,” Wexler later told writer Rob Bowman. “It was hot and they were hot…When I heard them there that night, that was all she wrote. I signed them up immediately.”