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Eddie Floyd

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Soul singer/songwriter Eddie Floyd scored one of the defining hits of the Memphis soul sound with 'Knock on Wood,' a number one R&B smash that typified the Stax house style at its grittiest. Floyd was born in Montgomery, AL, in 1935, but grew up in Detroit, where his uncle Robert West owned a couple ...

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