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"Groove Me" is a song recorded by R&B singer King Floyd. Released from his eponymous album in late 1970, it was a crossover hit, spending four non-consecutive weeks at number-one on Billboard Soul chart and peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100.[4]InCanada the song reached No. 11.[5]
| "Groove Me" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SinglebyKing Floyd | ||||
| from the album King Floyd | ||||
| A-side | "What Our Love Needs" | |||
| B-side | "Groove Me" | |||
| Released | September 1970[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1970, Malaco Records Studio Jackson, Mississippi | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 3:04 | |||
| Label | Chimneyville, Atlantic | |||
| Songwriter(s) | King Floyd | |||
| Producer(s) | Wardell Quezergue | |||
| King Floyd singles chronology | ||||
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The song was recorded and produced by Wardell QuezergueatMalaco Records' Jackson, Mississippi recording studios during the same session as another Quezergue-produced song, Jean Knight's "Mr. Big Stuff".[6] "Groove Me" was originally released as the B-side to Floyd's "What Our Love Needs" on the Malaco subsidiary Chimneyville. When New Orleans disc jockey George Vinnett started playing the B-side, the song began meriting attention, and as the record emerged as a local smash, Atlantic Records scooped up national distribution rights.[6]
No credits are listed for the Malaco studio musicians on the record. According to Rob Bowman's liner notes from the 1999 box set, The Last Soul Company: Malaco, A Thirty Year Retrospective, the musicians for this session included:
During this time at Malaco, horn lines were typically played by saxophonist Hugh Garraway and trumpeter Perry Lomax.[7]
According to Rob Bowman, Canadian professor of ethnomusicology, "Groove Me" had been inspired by a young college student who had worked about twenty feet away from Floyd at an east L.A. box factory. In Floyd's words: "She'd just watch me and smile at me all day. When I went to the water fountain, she would make it her purpose to come up to the water fountain. But, I was so shy. So, I decided one day that I was gonna write this poem and give it to her and I wrote 'Groove Me.' Believe it or not, after I finished it she never came back to work. It blew me away. So, I never gave her the poem. Man, I'd sure like to meet her one day just to thank her!"[7]