Soul Men (album)

Soul Men
Studio album by Sam & Dave
Released	October 26, 1967
Recorded	August 10 and October 4, 1967
Genre	R&B, soul
Length	28:56
Label	Stax/Atlantic Stax 725
Producer	Isaac Hayes David Porter
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Sam & Dave chronology
Double Dynamite (album) (1967) Soul Men (1967) I Thank You (1968)

Soul Men, released in 1967, was the third album by R&B duo Sam & Dave. The album reached #5 on the Billboard "Black Album" chart in 1967 and #62 on the "Pop Album" chart in 1968. It launched the hit single "Soul Man" which ranked #1 on the "Black Singles" charts and #2 on the Pop Singles charts. The song won Sam & Dave a Grammy in 1967 for "Best R&B Group, Vocal Or Instrumental".

Track listing

Side one

1. "Soul Man" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) – 2:36
2. "May I Baby" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) – 2:38
3. "Broke Down Piece of Man" – (Steve Cropper, Joe Shamwell) – 2:46
4. "Let It Be Me" (Gilbert Bécaud, Mann Curtis, Pierre Delanoé) – 2:45
5. "Hold It Baby" (Bonnie "Mack" Rice) – 2:35
6. "I'm With You" (Lowman Pauling) – 2:50

Side two

1. "Don't Knock It" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) – 2:28
2. "Just Keep Holding On" (Alvertis Isbell, Booker T. Jones) – 2:52
3. "The Good Runs the Bad Away" (Wayne Jackson, Andrew Love) – 2:15
4. "Rich Kind of Poverty" (Isaac Hayes, Paul Selph) – 2:13
5. "I've Seen What Loneliness Can Do" (Homer Banks, Allen Jones) – 2:58

Personnel

• Sam Moore – vocals
• Dave Prater – vocals
• Booker T. & the MG's and the Mar-Key Horns – instrumentation:
  • Booker T. Jones – keyboards
  • Steve Cropper – guitar
  • Donald "Duck" Dunn – bass guitar
  • Al Jackson, Jr. – drums
  • Charles "Packy" Axton – tenor saxophone
  • Don Nix – saxophone
  • Wayne Jackson – trombone, trumpet
  • Isaac Hayes – organ
• Loring Eutemey – design
• Jean-Pierre Leloir – photography