Word: daves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James Brown and Wilson Pickett sock it to the faithful with a furious abandon that shakes the halls on college campuses and urban temples like Harlem's Apollo Theater or Chicago's Regal. Of all the R-and-B cats, nobody steams up the place like Sam & Dave...
Only soloists with galvanic energy and commanding musicianship would dare to perform against such a busy background. Sam & Dave qualify on both counts. Weaving and dancing, they gyrate through enough acrobatics to wear out more than 100 costumes a year. Their voices-Sam's higher and more cutting, Dave's huskier and darker-toned-blend robustly in mournful, harmonized wails or fervent gospel-style shouts. And their listeners respond like converts at a revival meeting. "Sing it, Sam!" they yell, or "I hear you, Dave; good God, I hear...
...years later, while Sam was singing at a Miami club called the King of Hearts, that he got to know Dave Prater. Dave, now 31, a laborer's son from Ocilla, Ga., had also sung in church. But since moving to Miami, he had supported himself as a short-order cook and baker's assistant. One night at the King of Hearts, still dressed in his baker's white outfit, he joined Sam on the stage for some "clowning around." They have been making joyful noises ever since...
Junior Royce Shaw romped to his fifth straight victory in a time of 26:54, only four seconds off his own course record. Shaw shared the early pace with captain Doug Hardin, who kept the pressure on for the first four miles. Dave Pottetti, never too far behind, moved with Shaw as Hardin fell back slightly over the last mile. Then with 300 yards to go, Shaw spotted the finish line and the spectators and jetted away from Pottetti to finish with a three second margin...
Close behind this pair should be Tom Spengler, Keith Colburn, and Dave Pottetti...