I remember there was a guy in our high school that had a band and they used to play this song. Supposedly some guy by the name of Eddie Floyd made it a hit in 1966, but I never heard it anywhere else besides from Rod's band. Perhaps it passed from the radio station playlists before I got tuned in. This was ten years before Amii made it a hit, and boy, what a hit! There's a playlist on YouTube that has 19 versions of Amii singing this song.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Amii Stewart - Knock On Wood
I remember there was a guy in our high school that had a band and they used to play this song. Supposedly some guy by the name of Eddie Floyd made it a hit in 1966, but I never heard it anywhere else besides from Rod's band. Perhaps it passed from the radio station playlists before I got tuned in. This was ten years before Amii made it a hit, and boy, what a hit! There's a playlist on YouTube that has 19 versions of Amii singing this song.
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Growing up in the South, I was steeped in R&B, and Eddie Floyd's "Knock On Wood" -- he and guitarist Steve Cropper wrote it -- was omnipresent on the 1966 airwaves, despite a middling #28 showing on Billboard's Hot 100.
David Bowie also charted with a live version in 1974.
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