Sam The Sham and the Pharaohs - Little Red Riding Hood

[tpj1965]

Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs toured the world and scored another huge hit in 1966 called "Little Red Riding Hood".

The third LP "Li'l Red Riding Hood" ushered in a change of personnel and a change in their musical direction. Travelling through New York, Sam recruited a band called the Gypsies to be the new Pharaohs. The line-up at this time consisted of Frank Carabetta, multi- instrumentalist; Tony Gerace, bass; Billy Bennett, drummer and a guitarist named Andrew Kuha.

Record company pressures to produce another formula hit single led to a period in which the group abandoned their hard rocking sound in favour of adaptations of nursery rhymes, cartoon characters, and other juvenile topics.

Personnel changes continued, and as the Sam The Sham Revue, Louis Vilardo of the original Gypsies replaced Billy Bennett on drums, and Ronnie (Spiderman) Jacobsen played bass. The group was augmented with a trio of female backup singers, Fran Curcio, Loraine Genero, and Jane Anderson known as The Shamettes. The Shamettes released a couple singles on their own, one being a novelty response to Li'l Red Riding Hood, called "(Hey There) Big Bad Wolf". It flopped miserably.

[DudeAsInCool]

I think ' Woolly Bully' is also posted here somewhere :)

[slum_goddess]

i used to love these guys, one of the very few bands i can still stand listening to from back then and actually still enjoy them, thank you.