Friday, July 17, 2026

8 Days of Sam Moore: “Soul Man” Legend Turns 80 Next Week (Video)

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Getting ready for the 80th birthday of Sam Moore, the lead and surviving member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame duo Sam & Dave. Sam turns 8o on October 12th. Listen to Arthur Conley’s classic “Sweet Soul Music” written by Sam Cooke and Otis Redding. Sam is the only one of the shouted-out singers not only still alive, but working like crazy. A few days after his birthday, on October 17th, he’ll be inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame. The next day he’s performing at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC as part of Eddie Murphy’s Mark Twain Prize. And that’s just a little bit of his schedule!

Here’s today’s clip of Sam, filmed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus for our film “Only the Strong Survive”:

 

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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