If you’re going to be known for just one song, then you might as well make it a great one. Like King Floyd’s solitary hit Groove Me.
That’s certainly true of this Southern soul classic by King Floyd – recorded at the same session, on the same day in 1971, as Mr Big Stuff.

A soul singer from New Orleans Floyd spent most of the Sixties trying his luck on one coast, then the other, after a spell of Army service.

He didn’t make it in New York or Los Angeles, despite his first album featuring songs written with New Orleans legend Dr John, and went back to the Big Easy and took a job in the Post Office.

He had written this song back in California, about a girl who caught his eye while working a factory job in East LA… only for her to leave the job on the very same day he was going to give her the lyrics as a declaration of his love.

Hopefully she heard it after he got around to recording it at the same session in Malaco Studio in Jackson, Mississippi, that spawned Jean Knight’s hit.

Both songs share the same syncopated groove, built around a funky off-beat bassline, recorded in a single take by veteran NOLA producer Wardell Quezergue, working as the studio’s house producer.

It’s another of those songs that started life as a B-side, for another great number (What Our Love Needs) but became a huge hit when it was flipped over by a radio DJ, allowing Floyd to quit his job and embark on his first national tour.