Soul Men is an album by the R&B duo Sam & Dave, released in 1967. It reached No. 5 on the Billboard Top R&B LPs chart and No. 62 on the Top LPs chart. The album launched the hit single "Soul Man", which peaked at No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart and No. 2 on the Hot 100 chart. The song won Sam & Dave the Grammy Award for Best R&B Group, Vocal or Instrumental at the 10th Annual Grammy Awards in 1968.
Track listing Side one "Soul Man" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) - 2:39 "May I Baby" (Hayes, Porter) - 2:38 "Broke Down Piece of Man" (Steve Cropper, Joe Shamwell) - 2:46 "Let It Be Me" (Gilbert Bécaud, Mann Curtis, Pierre Delanoé) - 2:45 "Hold It Baby" (Bonnie "Mack" Rice) - 2:35 "I'm With You" (Lowman Pauling) - 2:50
Side two "Don't Knock It" (Hayes, Porter) - 2:28 "Just Keep Holding On" (Alvertis Isbell, Booker T. Jones) - 2:52 "The Good Runs the Bad Away" (Wayne Jackson, Andrew Love) - 2:15 "Rich Kind of Poverty" (Hayes, Paul Selph) - 2:13 "I've Seen What Loneliness Can Do" (Homer Banks, Allen Jones) - 2:58
Personnel Sam Moore - vocals Dave Prater - vocals Booker T. & the MG's and the Mar-Key Horns - instrumentation: Booker T. Jones - keyboards Isaac Hayes - Hammond organ Steve Cropper - guitar Donald Dunn - bass guitar Al Jackson Jr. - drums Wayne Jackson - trombone, trumpet Charles "Packy" Axton - tenor saxophone Don Nix - baritone saxophone Technical Loring Eutemey - design Jean-Pierre Leloir - photography
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