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

Yes, there IS a clip of this classic, but unfortunately it's much too short!

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[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.

[badmoonryzn]

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

[henrynevins]

Sam does a lousy job at lip sincing

[hotstuffandicecream]

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

[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.

[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 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 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 (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 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 No, but one could easily hear Mick Jagger singing this song.

[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.