Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs - Lil' Red Riding Hood (short)

[hotstuffandicecream]

The way we were. The way I wish we still were and we have songs like this to prove it.

[YvonneBloodgood]

Love the dancing caged women! haha

[Montery12]

Rock your brains out. Sam was up there with the heavyweights in the 1960s. Mystique or not, he and his boys made you feel good as you were going to work, when there was employment to be had in those days. Thank you Sam.

[theoriginaldopeman]

this is weird when i heard this in the movie striking distance it seemed like such a creepy song but seeing it in a different context it seems like an innocent song

[tornmask1]

WOW! this is the very first time in my history life witnessing this incredible song! thx "SixiesPopGold" for loading this Shammy Phroh song! AhWoo! x0]

[AkiroXKE]

Wolfman Jack had a terrible time trying to convince people that he wasn't Sam the Sham!

[krisydb]

Like if you got here from the Grimm commmercial. (:



[mrflashfromthepast]

WHAT HAPPEND TO THE ARAB COUSTUMES

[mrdmm0999]

Hey look a beatnick! LOL CLassic song

[wdr217]

I'm thinking that they probably added the soundtrack to the video due to quality reasons. wouldnt be the first time i've seen that

[capchassuck]

this song was in the sound track of a zombie movie, one of those night of the living dead sequels !!!

[badmoonryzn]

The cage dancers stole the show on this one! Look at them go. They must be sync dancing to some other song.

[roxanne1616]

where were you in the sixties.nothing was off limits

[alaincharnier1971]

They gave him a full minute. Maybe much too controversial for the 60s.

[iceheater99]

Excellent...my favorite song from the daze

[emrgncy]

the sound track is off from the video its not them

[TheJaguarKnight]

I wonder if they were lip sincing without the aid of the audio track because even the drummer looks out of rhythm to the song.

[marilyn1166]

no fair lol 1 its too short and 2 the lip sinc sucks. lol

[SixtiesPopGold]

@marilyn1166 I know, I was so mad when they faded it.

[henrynevins]

Sam does a lousy job at lip sincing

[mistyaqua]

@henrynevins I think the audio is just off.

[whatevrhappened138]

@henrynevins i think the audio is off from the video clip.

[CountryTeenQueen]

Love this song!!! =)

[kingjameswww]

thanks for posting ...

[MsMombie]

@SixtiesPopGold: Thanks for the clip! Sam is so cooooool - even in abbreviated form!

[rikkisogazgf]

Didn't The Stones do a cover of these song?

[gymnastix]

@rikkisogazgf No, but one could easily hear Mick Jagger singing this song.

[gymnastix]

@rikkisogazgf Another, common misconception is the song was recorded by The Animals, as Newcastle rocker Eric Burdon's band did, in fact, appear (as "The Wolf Pack") in a 1965 ABC-TV Christmas special titled "The Dangerous Christmas Of Red Riding Hood (Oh Wolf! Poor Wolf!)," which starred a then-rising performer named Liza Minnelli, as well theatrical legend Cyril Ritchard (best known as "Captain Hook" in the (continued)

[gymnastix]

@rikkisogazgf (Cont'd, from previous post): Broadway musical "Peter Pan," that starred Mary Martin, and which became a semi-annual TV special in the 1960s and '70s) as "The Wolf," and singer Vic Damone as the woodsman.

[gymnastix]

@rikkisogazgf To add to the confusion, The Animals also recorded a few versions of The Stones' classic "Paint It Black," one version some nine minutes in length. So there was definitely a similarity of sound & style among some of these 1960s rock & roll bands. The faux-sinister sound of The Pharaohs on "Riding Hood" is evocative of The Animals and Stones' lecherous and leering tones on some of their darker-themed tunes.

[gymnastix]

@rikkisogazgf I hope I have explained this well enough for you.

I did so because, as a boy, I recognized the similarities of these bands' sounds, abd originally thought was The Animals singing "Lil' Red Riding Hood" (a terrific song unto itself, by the way), until the record came into our home when my sister bought the single.

[gymnastix]

@rikkisogazgf By the way, the "Pharaohs" who appear on "Lil' Red Riding Hood" are not Sam's original line-up, but the self-contained group Tony Gee & The Gypsies, discovered by Sam's manager at New York's Metropole Cafe in Times Square, when the original band (that appeared on "Wooly Bully") left in a contract dispute.

[gymnastix]

@rikkisogazgf Of course, I may now distinguish between Burdon, Jagger, and Domingo “Sam” Samudio (the "Sam" of Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs), having had many more years to learn about and listen to rock & roll, to the degree I became a music journalist, and eventually lead vocalist/songwriter of my own band.

[paleblue498]

Wow, what a rip-off! They only got to do a minute of the song, and it's lip-synced to boot!