Sam Moore and Dave Prater made for one of the most successful Soul acts of the 1960s, racking up a string of hard-grooving hits with a tag-team vocal style that owed a debt to the church music both men had grown up singing. Solo performers at the outset, the two southerners - Moore from Florida, Prater from Georgia - formed a duo in 1961, after meeting at a club in Miami. After bouncing between various labels and issuing a series of singles that received regional airplay but failed to ignite, the pair’s moment came when they were signed by Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records in 1964, and Wexler sent them to Stax Records in Memphis, to record with the writing and production team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter. In addition to supplying them with songs and pairing them with house band Booker T. and the M.Gs (as well as the Stax horn section, the Mar-Keys), Hayes loosened up the singers’ straight R&B approach, bringing to the fore a wilder, call-and-response style derived from Gospel music. From: https://teachrock.org/people/sam-and-dave/
