Samuel Moore (born July 17, 1939),[2] who performs and records as Ironing Board Sam,[3] is an American electric blues keyboardist, singer and songwriter, who has released a small number of singles and albums.
"[4] One commentator, describing Ironing Board Sam's 1996 album, Human Touch, noted that he "has a surprisingly smooth and effective croon and his piano playing, while subdued, is still remarkable.
[7] While concentrating initially on boogie-woogie and gospel music, he learned the electronic organ before graduating to playing the blues in Miami, Florida.
After relocating to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1959,[3] he formed a band and got his stage name from his practice of strapping his legless keyboard to an ironing board for performances.
He moved around the United States trying to get a recording contract, eventually issuing a handful of singles for Atlantic, Styletone and Holiday Inn in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Rudimentary electronics gave him a three-pronged sound, which he used primarily when billed as the "Eighth Wonder of the World" while performing as a duo with the drummer Kerry Brown.
By 1982, when he had moved back to New Orleans,[3] he had developed the idea of performing as a "human jukebox", playing only when people inserted coins into his jukebox-styled costume.