One of my regular readers signs himself as "Wooly Bully." Well as a tribute to Wooly and to let you younger readers know what we're talking about, here is my salute to "Wooly Bully" and Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs. Sam's real name is Domingo “Sam” Samudio from Dallas, Texas. Sam was a little "different." He and his group had a string of hit records in the mid to late 60's. Their biggest hit was Wooly Bully. The song sold more than 3 million copies, was on the Billboard Charts for 18 weeks in the USA where it peaked at #2! If you were alive in '65 - you knew this song! My mother thought that "Wooly Bully" was a song about an Afro Haircut......moms!
Here are the words:
Wooly Bully
Uno, dos, one, two, tres, quatro
Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw.
Had two big horns and a wooly jaw.
Wooly bully, wooly bully.
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
Hatty told Matty, "Let's don't take no chance.
Let's not be L-seven, come and learn to dance."
Wooly bully, wooly bully
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
Matty told Hatty, "That's the thing to do.
Get you someone really to pull the wool with you."
Wooly bully, wooly bully.
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
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The reference to "Let's not be L seven" (or L7) means "Let's not be square."
Sam is still "with us" and at 71 he has his own website: www.samthesham.com
Here's a link to Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs on You Tube singing Wooly Bully.
