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Floyd is best remembered for his 1967 hit single, "Knock on Wood," co-written with legendary Stax guitarist Steve Cropper. The like-titled album is a superb entry in the Stax catalog, featuring Floyd’s soul shouts against the solid rhythm and punchy horns of the house band. Floyd landed additional singles on the R&B charts throughout the remainder of the 1960s, and crossed over to the pop chart again with an upbeat 1968 cover of Sam Cooke’s "Bring It on Home to Me." But as... MORE
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A brand new thread for all you boudoir Baudelaires of a pastier pigment - who says we white boys can't bring the lurve? Ladies and gentlemen, Hall & Oates with a song which, in my youth, I was convinced was called Cheese Scone... The Squeeze classic, from Paul Carrack's first brief tenure with the band - the only lead vocal they let him take... From Manchester, it's Sad Cafe with Every Day Hurts. Lead singer Paul Young (not that one) went on to do sin... MORE
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with Eddie Floyd in 1968 covering a Sam Cooke Classic - this was a Top 5 R & B hit back in the day
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Happy Birthday to Eddie Floyd, born on this day in 1935 in Montgomery, Alabama. Perhaps best known for his Stax Records hit "Knock On Wood," Floyd was a songwriter as well as a singer, and he penned several of the biggest soul/R&B hits of his time (many of them co-written with definitive Stax guitarist Steve Cropper): the much-covered "Knock On Wood," "634-5789 (Soulsville, USA)" (see below), "Raise Your Hand," "I've Never Found A Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)" and many ot... MORE
