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Sam & Dave toured within the United States, Europe and Turkey, however their drug abuse had begun to take its toll. Their downward spiral was briefly slowed when John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, because the Blues Brothers, recorded successful model of “Soul Man” in late Seventies, bringing new consideration to the unique.
Sam Moore and Dave Prater carried out collectively for the final time on New Year’s Eve 1981 in San Francisco. After strolling offstage, they by no means spoke to one another once more. Mr. Prater recruited a brand new associate, Sam Daniels, and so they labored collectively, billed as Sam & Dave or the New Sam & Dave Revue — over Mr. Moore’s objections — till Mr. Prater died in a automotive accident in 1988.
Act III opened the yr after that closing present, when Mr. Moore married Joyce McRae, a self-described “upper-middle-class Jewish woman from Chicago” who had first seen him carry out in 1967. She helped him get sober, took over managing his profession and guided him by way of a productive skilled twilight.
Sam & Dave had been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and obtained a lifetime achievement Grammy Award in 2019.
Mr. Moore’s solo album “Plenty Good Lovin’,” which he recorded in 1970 however Atlantic, for quite a lot of causes, had declined to launch, lastly arrived to glowing opinions in 2002. He carried out for presidents and recorded with Bruce Springsteen, Conway Twitty, Lou Reed and different singers. He additionally labored to assist safe different performers’ and songwriters’ long-overdue copyrights and royalties.
A whole checklist of survivors was not instantly out there.
“It’s been a roller-coaster trip, however principally an excellent one,” Joyce Moore stated in an interview in 2014. “The single most painful half has been realizing how abused and mistreated Sam and his friends had been — and nonetheless are. Most of them have by no means gotten their due. But we’ve been blessed.”
Hank Sanders contributed reporting.
