- Soul Men
Infobox Album
Name = Soul Men
Type = studio
Artist =Sam & Dave
Released =October 26 ,1967
Recorded =
Genre = R&B, soul
Length = 28:56
Label = Stax/Atlantic
Stax 725
Producer =Isaac Hayes
David Porter
Reviews =Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://wc03.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:w9fpxqy5ldke link]
Last album = "Double Dynamite "
(1967)
This album = "Soul Men"
(1967)
Next album = "I Thank You"
(1968)"Soul Men", released in 1967, was the third album by R&B duo
Sam & Dave . The album reached #5 on theBillboard "Black Album" chart in 1967 and #62 on the "Pop Album" chart in 1968. It 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 aGrammy in 1967 for "Best R&B Group, Vocal Or Instrumental".Track listing
ide one
#"Soul Man" (
Isaac Hayes ,David Porter ) – 2:36
#"May I Baby" (Isaac Hayes ,David Porter ) – 2:38
#"Broke Down Piece of Man" – (Steve Cropper ,Joe Shamwell ) – 2:46
#"Let It Be Me" (Gilbert Bécaud ,Mann Curtis ,Pierre Delanoé ) – 2:45
#"Hold It Baby" (Bonnie "Mack" Rice) – 2:35
#"I'm With You" (Lowman Pauling ) – 2:50ide two
#"Don't Knock It" (
Isaac Hayes ,David Porter ) – 2:28
#"Just Keep Holding On" (Alvertis Isbell ,Booker T. Jones ) – 2:52
#"The Good Runs the Bad Away" (Wayne Jackson, Andrew Love) – 2:15
#"Rich Kind of Poverty" (Isaac Hayes ,Paul Selph ) – 2:13
#"I've Seen What Loneliness Can Do" (Homer Banks ,Allen Jones ) – 2:58Personnel
*
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
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