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Best known for his or her 1965 smash “Wooly Bully,” which helped introduce Tex-Mex rhythms to mainstream rock and roll & move, Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs were formed in Dallas by business lead vocalist Domingo Samudio, who also took the name Sam the Sham from a tale about …

Honky tonker Deryl Dodd was raised in Dallas, TX, where he preferred football more than music throughout his formative years. When a personal injury completely derailed his athletic profession, his fellow college students at Baylor College or university encouraged him to begin with carrying out his music in public areas, …

This Dallas group — too accomplished to be called a garage band in the most common sense of the word — was pretty popular within their hometown within the mid-’60s, but never made any noise in the national level. It’s ironic that a lot of their popularity rests on a …