Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs

Then we had Jody Reynolds and his track, Evil Hearted Me, Downright Evil.

Then we had The Phantom, and that was by Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs.

Followed by Twin Temple and their track, I Am a Witch.

And then, uh, that great surf cover of the Chris Isaak track, Wicked Game, to round out the second set here today.

Um, anyway, he's, um, his nickname Wally was kind of picked at random.

He, he liked the song Wooly Bully by Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs, a band all of us have forgotten, but he liked Wooly, and over the years, you know, he kinda became a Wooly, you know? It's, he worked his way into being that.

That name just fit him perfectly.

And for anybody who's interested, I had a chance to do an extensive interview with him in three parts, uh, on Vimeo.

You know, it's kind of the Wooly Bully rhythm.

It's Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs.

I have no idea how long I played the song in that rendition.

It may just have been that one afternoon.

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... by, uh, Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs.

I hadn't found what I later sort of felt was like The Byrds kind of spacing.

The song was set to a totally different motive originally.

Um, so, uh, for the period music, they reviewed Billboard's list of top 100 hits for each year from '62 through '68, considering many songs that he found that, quote, "Sometimes our dynamic range of the music was too great and we couldn't work in dialogue." So, you know, some songs where they wanted you to dialogue with the song in the background, but the song was too good, where do you cut it to talk, you know? Um, and there is a one, uh, s- uh, musical, or, uh, part at the end that's not on the list, but here we go.

It's, uh, Johnny Wright with Hello Vietnam; Dixie Cups, Chapel of Love; Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs, Wooly Bully; Chris Kenner, I Like It Like That; Nancy Sinatra, These Boots Are Made for Walkin'; The Trashmen, Surfin' Bird; Goldman Band, Marines Hymn; and The Rolling Stones, Paint It Black.

Um, again, all very good songs right there, and all very short songs.

It's not a very long soundtrack right there.

Weeks on chart, five.

Number three, "Little Red Riding Hood," Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs.

Last week, nine.

Peak position, three.