Sam the Sham
Domingo "Sam" Samudio (born 6 March 1937, Dallas, Texas), better known by his stage name Sam the Sham, is a retired American rock and roll singer. Sam the Sham was known for his camp robe and turban and hauling his equipment in a 1952 Packard hearse with maroon velvet curtains. As the front man for the Pharaohs, he sang on several Top 40 hits in the mid-1960s, notably the Billboard Hot 100 runners up "Wooly Bully" and "Li'l Red Riding Hood".
Early career
Samudio, who is of Mexican American descent, made his singing debut in second grade, representing his school in a radio broadcast. Later, he took up guitar and formed a group with friends, one of whom was Trini Lopez. After graduating from high school, Samudio joined the Navy, where he was known as "Big Sam." He lived in Panama for six years, until his discharge.
Back in the States, Samudio enrolled in college, studying voice at Arlington State College, now the University of Texas at Arlington. "I was studying classical in the daytime and playing rock and roll at night", he recalled. "That lasted about two years, before I dropped out and became a carny."
Podcasts:
Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs
ALBUMS
- Li'l Red Riding Hood / Wooly Bully released: 2004
- 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs released: 2003
- Best Of released: 2001
- Pharaohization: The Best of Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs released: 1998
- The Best released: 1986
- Li'l Red Riding Hood released: 1966
- Wooly Bully released: 1965
- Greatest Hits released:
- Greatest Hits released:
Li'l Red Riding Hood / Wooly Bully
Released 2004- Lil' Red Riding Hood
- Hanky Panky
- Deputy Dog
- Green'ich Grendel
- Mary Is My Little Lamb
- Sweet Talk
- El toro de goro (The Peace Loving Bull)
- The Phantom
- Little Miss Muffet
- Pharaoh-A-Go Go
- Ring Them Bells
- Grasshopper
- Wooly Bully
- The Memphis Beat
- I Found a Love
- Go-Go-Girls
- Every Woman I Know (Crazy 'Bout an Auto)
- Haunted House
- Juimonos (Let's Went)
- Shotgun
- Sorry 'Bout That
- Gangster of Love
- Mary Lee
- Long Tall Sally
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs
Released 2003Pharaohization: The Best of Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs
Released 1998- Wooly Bully
- Ju Ju Hand
- Medicine Man
- Don't Try It
- Pharaoh-A-Go-Go
- A Long Long Way
- Green'ich Grendel
- Ring Dang Doo
- I Couldn't Spell !!*@!
- Oh That's Good, No That's Bad
- Lil' Red Riding Hood
- The Hair on My Chinny Chin Chin
- Black Sheep
- Monkey See, Monkey Do
- How Do You Catch a Girl
- Red Hot
- Sorry 'bout That
- Let Our Love Light Shine
- I Never Had No One
- Big Blue Diamonds
- (I'm in With) The Out Crowd
- Take What You Can Get
- Money's My Problem
- Banned in Boston
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Ring Dang Doo
by: Sam The ShamWell - you can have your gold and your diamonds too
All I want is a ring dang doo
Well I've been all over this great big world HEY
Looking for a ring dang doo
I've fallen in love with a thousand girls YEAH
Looking for a ring dang doo
I've got a mojo and some voodoo too
But I ain't never found a ring dang doo
Well I was down ina New Orleans
Looking for a ring dang doo
I fell in love with a girl in blue jeans
Looking for a ring dang doo
But I can't stay though my love is true
I gotta keep looking for a ring dang doo
Ring dang doo
Where are you
What are you
>From Mexico to the Philippines YEAH
Looking for a ring dang doo
Well I've drunk with peasants and I've dined with kings
Looking for a ring dang doo
But I ain't never found a single clue
I've gotta keep a-looking for a ring dang doo
Well people call me crazy every single day YEAH
Looking for a ring dang doo
But I don't care what people may say NO
Looking for a ring dang doo
I don't know what it looks like
Or what it can do
I gotta find that ring dang doo
Ring dang ring dang ring dang doo
Ring dang ring dang ring dang doo
You can have your gold and your diamonds too
All I want is a ring dang doo