There he joined in 56 a gospel group called The Falcons, where he met Wilson Pickett and Sir Mack Rice. After some success at 61, the band split. Eddie Floyd was working with Al Bell, who runs a small production company in Washington, Safic. When it goes to work at Stax 65-Eddie Floyd followed him to Memphis.
After starting at Stax as a composer and producer (including Carla Thomas and William Bell), he wrote and recorded "Knock on Wood" in 65, in collaboration with Steve Crooper. The song, released in 66, is a resounding success, which is also awarded an R & B Award. This is a turning point both for him and for Stax, which is where the foundation of what will be the "Stax Sound" during the following years.
This talented "songwriter" sign after many successes, including Wilson Pickett ("Ninety-Nine And A Half" and "635-5789", again with Steve Crooper) or for Otis Redding ("Do not Mess With Cupid ").
He gets up several hits in the '70s, with songs like "Raise Your Hand" by 67 "Big Bird" (a tribute to Otis Redding died shortly before) in 68, "Bring It On Home to Me "(cover of a song by Sam Cooke) or" I've Never Found a Girl "at 72 (co-written with Booker T. Jones), always at Stax, where he remained faithful until the disappearance of business mythical in 75.
Some of his songs are truly standard, such as "Knock on Wood" which was interpreted by artists as diverse as Otis Redding, David Bowie, James Taylor and Ella Fitzgerald.
Still very active, it frequently takes the role of "Guest Star" tour in the Blues Brothers and other Stax Magazines, or during occasional reformations of Booker T. & The MG's. And it is obviously in the movie "Blues Brothers 2000" which he interprets "634-5789" with his former fellow Falcons, Wilson Pickett.
Source: Jean-Do Sallaberry 1998 - Soulmen.net
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