{"id":31199,"date":"2025-01-11T18:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T18:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/sam-moore-of-sam-dave-dead-at-89\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T18:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T18:02:25","slug":"sam-moore-of-sam-dave-dead-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/sam-moore-of-sam-dave-dead-at-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Moore of Sam &amp; Dave dead at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-11\/G_sammoore_011125.jpg\" alt><figcaption>C Brandon\/Redferns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Sam Moore<\/strong>, the tenor half of the iconic soul duo <strong>Sam &amp; Dave<\/strong>, has died. He was 89.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from Moore&#8217;s rep shares that he passed away on Friday in his Florida home due to complications recovering from surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Born Oct. 12, 1935, Moore began recording music in the &#8217;50s. After meeting baritone\u00a0<strong>Dave Prater<\/strong>, they formed Sam &amp; Dave, and put out their first music in the early &#8217;60s.<\/p>\n<p>Upon being signed to the legendary label Stax Records, Sam &amp; Dave released their debut album, 1966&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Hold On, I&#8217;m Comin&#8217;<\/em>, which spawned the hit title track. Subsequent hits included the Grammy-winning &#8220;Soul Man&#8221; and &#8220;I Thank You.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sam &amp; Dave broke up in 1970 but reunited shortly thereafter, only to\u00a0split again for good after a final show on New Year&#8217;s Ever 1981. Prater died in 1988.<\/p>\n<p>In between the break-ups, Moore had recorded a solo album with producer\u00a0<strong>King Curtis<\/strong>, though it was shelved after Curtis was murdered in 1971. The record was finally released in 2002, and Moore put out another solo album,\u00a0<em>Overnight Sensational<\/em>, in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Moore was inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame as part of Sam &amp; Dave in 1992. The duo was honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C Brandon\/Redferns Sam Moore, the tenor half of the iconic soul duo Sam &amp; Dave, has died. He was 89. A statement from Moore&#8217;s rep shares that he passed away on Friday in his Florida home due to complications recovering from surgery. Born Oct. 12, 1935, Moore began recording music<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/sam-moore-of-sam-dave-dead-at-89\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,42,4,48],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}