King Floyd — “Together We Can Do Anything”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — August 22, 2023

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD

931) King Floyd — “Together We Can Do Anything”

This is no “Groove Me”, but a sweet love song from “The Soulful Highness[‘s]”* first album.

As Jason Ankeny tells us:

New Orleans soul singer King Floyd . . . . began singing on street corners while in his early teens, befriending local musicians . . . . With the aid of New Orleans blues legend Mr. Google Eyes, Floyd landed his first paying gig at the Bourbon Street club Sho-Bar in 1961, although his fledgling career was soon put on hold by military duty. Following his army discharge in late 1963, Floyd migrated to New York City, signing with booking agents Shaw Artists and regularly performing throughout Manhattan. He also began writing songs . . . . After about a year he resettled in Los Angeles . . . . [T]he Original Sound label . . . in 1965 issued his debut single, “Walkin’ and Talkin’.” Floyd’s debut LP . . . followed . . . in 1967; the album went nowhere, and as he was barely making ends meet as a songwriter, he finally returned to New Orleans in 1969. Now a family man, Floyd accepted a post office job upon returning home, but within a month he ran into producer Wardell Quezerque, then a staffer at Malaco Records. . . . [T]hey . . . cut “Groove Me,” recorded in just one take . . . . Floyd wrote “Groove Me” while working in an East L.A. box factory in honor of a young college girl on staff. . . . With Quezerque’s assistance, he transformed the song into a deeply funky, percolating jam . . . . “Groove Me” went on to top the Billboard R&B charts and hit number six on the pop charts, going gold on Christmas Day of 1970. Needless to say, Floyd quit his civil service gig and went on a national tour, returning to the R&B Top Ten early in 1971 with the follow-up “Got to Have Your Love[.]” Creative differences quickly undermined Floyd’s relationship with Quezerque, however, and subsequent efforts . . . attracted little attention.

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/king-floyd-mn0000090169

* “because of his high, occasionally raspy, tenor voice” (Pierre Perrone, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/king-floyd-6103528.html)

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