Tommy Walton was guitarist from Alabama who played for a sessions band called the Vikings. “We stayed with the popular stuff, we did some Beach Boys…we could do the Hollies…We ended up playing this gig with Sam the Sham at Jacksonville State University. We were sound checking and he was supposed to show up and he never showed. I mean, like we were freaking out. Everyone is pacing the floor and like twenty minutes before the gig he comes strutting in there. Sam came knocking and its just ‘Guys! Settle down! Look at this shit: it’s just three chords.’ So he showed us all his material in twenty minutes. He said, ‘Just watch me’ and we did! We were freaking out, but he came on and took all the money and left! I said, ‘Mmm, so that is how that works’” (A. J. Millard, Magic City Nights: Birmingham’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Years, 2017).
Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs “Wooly Bully”
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