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  • Great stuff. Just wondering what they got paid back then.

  • You're looking at the greatest soul duo of all time with The Righteous Brothers second on that ladder. And can you imagine if Sam & Dave had not had that internal feud how many more great songs they could have possibly made, fuhgettaboudiut, at least another dozen or so god only knows, thanks foir posting, you are righteous brother, amen to you!!!!!

  • Awesome performance......The crowd was dead though! But all is well.....

  • @acromagnonman "In the Helsinki Culture House in FINLAND". Do I have to explain it? What does segregation, however horrible, have to do with this?

  • @acromagnonman You can see the whole audience? What's your point? The men on stage are hugely talented and are earning money. The audience is paying. This is show biz, not the Birmingham bus strike.

  • It was probably a bit of culture shock for some of them, but the audience looked pleased and were smiling, when we finally saw their faces at the end. Where on earth did folks get the idea they were 'grumpy?'

  • That audience must have been placed into deep freeze before the concert started.

  • The crow was seated cause dancing was not allowed at the house of culture back then. You can find a german vid from this tour that has the same thing going on.

  • The Finns got Soul!!! They were dancing on the inside man!

  • guitar player is way ahead of the beat

  • Hilarious response by the crowd! WTF!!!  My soul says "boogie", but my brain says "stay calm"!

  • U were not a lumberjack u fag

  • Used to be a lumberjack in the UK and had this blaring from our winch crane the entire summer while we worked the woods. I was 17 yo but this music is a timeless masterpiece!

  • Can't believe those people could sit still ......

  • 12 dislikes came from Finns

  • worst audience ever

  • Of course Sam and Dave are always great but I'm confused. Wasn't Booker T and The MGs the Stax house and touring band? I'm not familiar with these musicians.

  • I love their voices they gave me a lot of inspiration to do what I want

  • As someone famous once said, "Imitation is the greatest form of flattery". I have always been a big fan of Sam and Dave. Check out the songs credits: Isaac Hayes, Steve Cropper. I could never stand the Blues Brother's version. Nor could I understand everyone going nuts over their version of this great American hit. When I would introduce my friends to the original artists, they went crazy for it. Child of the sixties diggin' soul music.

  • @mariothepookster as someone who was a fan of comedy fist, and not alive when all these version were made, I like Jim and Dan singing it. but that said, this version is still great!

  • @GJediAR

    I don't think so... We've got a band like this too, but there are too many saxophones :(. It still sounds kinda nice ^^. I think music like this sounds good anyway XD

  • 12 people who viewed this are obviously Finns...

  • The Finns don't look grumpy to me. Maybe they are wondering why the band has 5 saxophones. Seems a bit excessive.

  • @yankeespy3

    You can never have enough Saxophones, being one myself XD

  • As I recall, these two guys were not members of each other's fan club.

  • These are the real Soul Men.

    The Blues Brothers just stole their act.

  • @StevenC32

    No, my friend. The BluesBrothers were a carefully constructed act meant to honor and memorialize the great music of the sixties. Much like Eric Clapton's intense reverence for the blues, bringing recognition to obscure artists who would have never seen a peep of fame otherwise.

    Good stuff amigo.

  • @pasodiufwen no, they weren't obscure to Black people. You meant he popularized the band with the white audience.

  • Love this! .... Am afraid to say I had never heard of Sam & Dave until the other night on an episode of Eli Stone!! They sounded good, so decided to give them a listen on youtube.

  • Damn, the audience looks positively sedated.

  • Must...not.....show...emotion

  • how in gods name could the audience just sit and watch this...this is music you have to dance to!! XD

  • @FatCatMedia I played in Germany in the early 90s. Same thing there. As soon as we took a break there they all got up to dance. After talking with them, some said they were paying attention out of respect and some didn't hear live music that often, so they wanted to appreciate it. They all enjoyed it, just not all countries were/are conditioned to respond the same.

  • @Cessquill ahhh that would explain it :)

  • RIP Brett Flournoy. A true 'Soul Man'

  • I once asked a Finnish lady why they all look so deadly serious when they dance the tango. She said something like, 'you wouldn't want everyone around you to think you were having a better time than they were, would you?" No I guess not.

  • Drake N Josh are better

  • Pekka ja Pätkä neekereinä kävi toteen.

  • I've been to a lot of sit-down concerts. They started around here (Louisville area) after The Who tragedy in Cincinnati. But I still either chair dance or stand up and dance in my spot.  I am amazed and bummed that the Finnish audience just sat there, not even bobbing their heads, especially at a Sam and Dave concert. Oh well, to each his own. That was the 60's...Hopefully they move to the music today.

  • HA! loved the part where one of the guys accidentally spits in the other guys face and they play it off towards the end. u can tell that the guy who got spat on is pissed and the other dude is like "aw,shit not again" lol

  • 9 folks need a soul transplant....LOVE this for all time.

  • How could you sit down at a gig like this?

  • This vid really captures the stage vibe

  • 9 people have no soul

  • HAHAHAHA Typical Finnish people!!!!

  • I love this. Laura

  • Brilliant performers of their time. Respect to them, and you for posting.

  • This is SOUL MUSIC!!!!

  • Where is Steve Cropper?

  • the drake and josh version has about 6 times as many views as this one, please vote this comment down because that is just sad

  • read an article from ny times of music royalties when dealing with music downloads:

    “This is life-changing,” said Joyce Moore, the wife of Sam Moore of Sam & Dave, the duo that had hits in the 1960s like “Soul Man.” “If we were being paid a nickel a download, as opposed to 35 cents — that’s a huge amount of money for a guy that is on a fixed income or has to run up and down the road at 75 years old.”

  • Its like seeing the Good Humor man or Mr.Softee and not losing your mind MusicEd

    

  • Man I was like in the sixth or seventh grade we would go beserk in the basement with our parents upstairs all the kids on the block would have these get togethers...oh what a time! I dfon't see how these people could sit there with stick up their butts NO SOUL!

  • @normallawrence Enough said. lol You're right. Nothing but soul. : )

  • I was hoping it'd be the MG's backing them up here, but then they were very busy guys back then with all the studio work they did, and with their own stuff, too. This band totally tears it up, though. It's a shame modern soul music has gotten so smooth. It could get so firey and rocking back then!

  • look also richard goze

  • "coz you aint seen nothing yet"

    fantastic music.

  • Hang on - I think I saw some movement in the front row there!!. Oh dear, it was just a woman dropping her handkerchief. Sigh.

  • screw that tv show that tried to copy this ,and didn't give any recognition to S&D

  • I´am so proud to be Finnish when I'am watching audition ( or not)

  • I guess in 1967 English language wasn´t widely understood in Finland and soul music was a new phenomenom. That show simply didn´t hit becouse it was not understood.

  • @ToughIceMan A whole 12?

  • c'moon.. they're just fucking stoned!

  • Maybe they hadn't defrosted...think climate? but then i would a been up there shakin ma tail feather like there's no tomorrow and i'm from chilly Scotland...love sam and dave xxx

  • well ! at least they clapped though not in a chinese way

  • Damn "strat63", I would gladly have watched just one of these guys perform ...

  • I went to Marshall University in 1968 and we had Sam and Dave booked for our Homecoming Concert, but only Sam showed up!

    How are you going to sing 2 part harmony with only one guy!

    We all walked out of the Keith Albee Theatre, it was really poor, I believe we didn't pay them.

  • Why does the Blue's Brothers version have almost 3M views, while this has only .5M? A crime.

  • Finns clearly dont have souls haha

  • The guy on the right looks a little like bernie mac........

  • I think the Finns are in shock, or they have just never seen that many black people at once.

  • @57goldtoplespaul Hahahaha nice

  • @57goldtoplespaul only seated places. that was the way to watch music here those days. the same was with the ramones:D

  • @57goldtoplespaul No they were still under cold war and fear that if you show emotion then would cccp get you in siberia...;)

  • @PsD14JR That would be a legit fear.

  • lol grumpy finns indeed...i've never such a dead reaction to a soul concert!!

  • Romantising the James Bond role model...

  • Danas malo soula.

  • sam & dave know how to do it....

  • its the chairs they are too damn comfy to get up

  • the crowd doesn't move because they are all WHITE PEOPLE IN THE 60'S. I bet the REAL PEOPLE right outside that building went crazy when they heard that ground-shaking sound.

  • Are the audience dead?

  • I know its cold in Finnland but they shouldn`t be cold!:P

  • this music is supposed to be for the soul, not for the body (audiences point of view?) No?

  • Audience consisted from dead people. I am officially ashamed to be finn... But we were then (1967) still unofficial satellite of the soviets so it is kind a like Sam & Dave performing in Red Square.

  • @HonkeyDolemite Good point HonkeyDolemite, but you of course don't have to be ashamed to be of your culture! You should be proud that your country asked Sam & Dave to come perform back in the day.

  • I am Soul Man!!!

  • Where was this...at the Grande ole opre?

  • "I'm a snowman."

  • wish the bruddas would bring back their fros again....

  • James brown having a crap moves better than these two chancers

  • My mom would be sooooo upset from me rambling through her 45's & Albums, LOL!But it wasn't til I was a little older when I really appreciated Sam& Dave, they put on one heck of a show, thank goodness for "OLDIES"

  • This is a really stupid question, but did they write this?

  • @RobertELee01 ....

    Heyes baby... A true brother of soul.

  • aleluia!!!!!!!!!! mano que floow!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I killed my girlfriend watching this.

  • Haha, I've seen sculpture with more signs of life than that crowd.

  • How can you not dance to this?

  • Happy 75th Birthday Samuel David Moore (12 Oct 2010 :-)

  • I'm sad that the black youth of today only sing in one particular style.

  • @joneshugh That's an extremely dumb, ignorant and arrogant statement.

  • The shiznat

  • Are the Finnish aware of the brilliance that is stood before them?

  • Good stuff

  • I think the crowd is high on LSD...or maybe they didn't know the blues brothers copied the act from Sam & Dave.

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  • Great duo and song, but a throwaway performance for an audience who wouldn't know the difference. If this was from Detroit, it would have been SMOKIN'! I'm 61 and can attest that with the great R & B groups, the sweat was rolling and the audience was cooking! I feel sorry for the younger generation that is fed commercial pap.

  • Seated !!! polite applause !!!!, the audience have to be on mind contracting drugs...durn those trendy sixties !!!!1

  • Watch the films again, the Blues Brothers weren't a tribute band. They were out and out evangelists for the underpinnings of popular American music. They preached blues, swing and R 'n' B and helped bring their heroes to a fresh audience. Personally they opened my eyes, at a tender age, to the towering collosus of talent that was the late, great Cab Calloway.

  • @MGDriver99 fuck yea, couldnt agree more man

  • Come on guys, don't be so L7.

  • satisfactory video

  • straight up nasty

  • real soul !

  • i love this song its a great song, not like all the weird techno-rap today

  • 大学時代 飲んで帰って 二口さんちで 夜食の「そーめん」をこのレコード聴きながら

    作ってた・・・・・ 懐かしい ガッタ ガッタ

  • the guitar part really sounds like shit when steve cropper isn't playin it!

  • trumpet at 0:39 haha holy crap

  • This was such a great twosome and well listened to song. FAVORITE

  • WOW!!! Sam & Dave, Nuff Said..

  • what a tune nothin better sunny day bit of weed few drinks and sam and dave what more could you ask for in life!!!!

  • it kinda sux how the blues brothers got most of the credit =(

  • @demipokeguin  nonsense.where do the blues brothers get the credit?every one knows theyre a tribute band.

  • @babzc well, out of the many people who know this song, probably less than half knows its originally by Sam & Dave

  • @demipokeguin if they love the song then they read a liner note or two. if not they are the people that the four four beat bubblegum music was made for and gosh , there is plenty of room for them to love their music their way ,,,,i burned myself a cd with eleven different versions of take me to the river,,,,

  • thats so rude they don't even dance or anything.

  • this is my favorite Sam & Dave tune

  • i am a soul man

  • What you have to understand is it's 1967 and Europeans, even today, are very polite at public events. No talking during movies, no standing in from of you purpose in a concert hall, etc...

  • @JWTripleThreat Not all true. Take a look at Little Richard's show on YouTube (in Paris, 1966), you'll see the crowd is somewhat out of control (yes, it's not the hugest crowd excitement ever, but it's the beginning of that in the 60's, and at least, most French people would get off their seat to dance or move just like American audiences, but they like to sit too BTW ;-))

    Also, this is Finland, one of the most respectful northern european countries.

  • Ca c'est de la musique,j'adore...Quel punch

  • i like how they leave on the others verse

    thats pretty cool how they let each other get their own little solo even though they r a group

  • Finns are the usual pieces of ice.

  • are these real people, or manequins?? You have got to be kidding me! No human, could sit through a Sam and Dave performance back then,and not move.... crazy!

  • @skydancer1x, some people depending on the cultures just didn't move, it was normal for them. But still it's hard to believe they didn't move anything on their body. oh well............

  • @skydancer1x , some Finish fucks could

  • @skydancer1x seriously.

  • i remember watching the blues brothers movie and seeing 'the best of sam and dave' in their cassette player but having NO clue who they were.

    this is great

  • you kiddin me right, those Finnish people didn't even understand what they were seein' .....they're all confused

  • I'm guessing they paid to get in, so my guess is that they knew what they were getting into, what do you expect a crowd to do in a seated venue?

  • Dance...

    at least i know that what i did at every phish show i've been to...even the ones in seated venues.

  • look at the audience ! how can you sit still with those two masters of ceremony ?

  • wonderful song

  • Audience, are you kidding me?! I would be out of my mind dancing and singing. There as stiff as wood planks.

  • Love the horns !!!

  • Great stuff from S&D. Saw them in Detroit back then and they always gave a great show. But what's with that audience? Those Finns must have a hole in their soul - no reaction and tepid applause at the end.

  • They are Fins. There is kind of a reason why Finland is now the home of dark metal ;).

  • @zzbin f**K! I love thrash metal and I love this f**king groove!

  • No joke... there isn't even a bobbing head. How do they do it? I would be going crazy.

  • Great Song by talented guys! How true, the Blues Brothers would never have exsisted....

  • Our school sax band is doing this song, such a tune

  • What's going on with Dave at 1:44?

  • he turned his face into the mike!

  • He's pretending that he caught some of Sam's spit. They are play acting, of course, though really they didn't interact off-stage much.

  • Someone needs to remind the audience that they are in fact still alive!

  • theyre in Finland

  • Absolute classic. only found out bout dis song a week ago. What a find

  • Oh how I wish there were more productions like this....so great.

  • Great showmanship- the whole band. Great rocking song. Their voices are so versitile & just bounce of eachother so well. I love it <3

  • This is Finland man, people there are that way.

    Glad I moved away from Scandinavia! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

  • Is there an ongoing joke between them about spitting in each other's eyes? Check out Sam at 1.32 and Dave at 1.44.

  • NoobGames101,

    Read the information, this concert was in freakin' Finland. They are lucky they have a pulse...LOL

  • without this song, the blues bros. might not have existed.

  • The crowd is on FIRE!!

  • @BonScottAC lol yeah dancing in the rafters.

  • @BonScottAC Haha, stiff finns in the 60s. Fortunately things have changes since then.

  • @BonScottAC ...LOL!!