# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-the-sham
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:05:19.201Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-the-sham"
name: "Sam the Sham"
slug: "sam-the-sham"
description: "Domingo Samudio, better known by his stage name Sam the Sham, is a retired American rock and roll singer. Sam the Sham is known for his camp robe and turban and hauling his equipment in a 1952 Packard hearse with maroon velvet curtains. As the front man for the Pharaohs, he sang on several Top 40 hits in the mid-1960s; \"Wooly Bully\" by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs was the number one song of 1965 according to Billboard magazine's year-end Hot 100.\nHowever, the song never reached number one on the weekly charts. \"Li'l Red Riding Hood\" was another charting song for Samudio."
tagline: "American rock and roll singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_the_sham_1965.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1937-02-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.54
  momentum:             8.474546952410035
  historical:           8.637605333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1870655/"
    handle:    "nm1870655"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/745062"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_the_Sham"
    title: "Sam the Sham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_the_Sham"
    title: "Sam the Sham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_the_Sham"
    title: "Sam the Sham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_the_Sham"
    title: "Sam the Sham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_the_Sham"
    title: "Sam the Sham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%83%98_%EC%83%88%EB%AE%A4%EB%94%94%EC%98%A4"
    title: "샘 새뮤디오"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BC_%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%BC"
    title: "Сем Шем"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AF%DB%8C_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "سام دی شام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5fa6a620-6ffd-4207-8f5e-8cd4950283bd"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1971786"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump