Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs - Li'l Red Riding Hood & Wooly Bully (2004)
Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs - Li'l Red Riding Hood & Wooly Bully (2004)
1. Li'l Red Riding Hood
2. Hanky Panky
3. Deputy Dog
4. Green'ich Grendel
5. Mary Is My Little Lamb play
6. Sweet Talk
7. Toro de Goro, El (The Peace Loving Bull)
8. Phantom, The
9. Little Miss Muffet
10. Pharaoh-A-Go-Go
11. Ring Them Bells
12. Grasshopper
13. Wooly Bully
14. Memphis Beat, The
15. I Found a Love
16. Go-Go Girls
17. Every Woman I Know (Crazy 'Bout an Auto)
18. Haunted House
19. Juimonos (Let's Went)
20. Shotgun
21. Sorry 'Bout That
22. Gangster of Love
23. Mary Lee
24. Long Tall Sally play
This disc conveniently contains the first two albums by Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs, all you need (and practically all there is) from these zany Texas rockers. Domingo "Sam" Samudio and his merry men scored a smash in 1965 with the garage-rock classic "Wooly Bully," from the debut album of the same name. Curiously, WOOLY BULLY and its successor LI'L RED RIDING HOOD are presented here in reverse chronological order, but who cares? This is a generous helping of good-time rock & roll, completely free of pretense. Perennial party favorites, Sam & the Pharaohs worked up a zesty mix of R&B, Tex-Mex, and humorously unhinged frat-rock, spiced with an unabashed dollop of novelty appeal. What they lacked in originality ("Sorry 'Bout That" and "Pharaoh-A-Go-Go" are essentially "Wooly Bully" with different--or no--words, and "Little Miss Muffet" is "Li'l Red Riding Hood" with a different storybook setting) they more than made up for in exuberance, winning charm, and sheer rock & roll elbow grease.
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