"Groove Me" (King Floyd)

It's not really fair to call New Orleans native King Floyd a one-hit-wonder.  He actually released a couple of singles that charted.  But none had the staying power of "Groove Me."
As music historian Rob Bowman recounts in the liner notes of the 1999 boxed set Malaco Records: The Last Soul Company, Floyd was living in LA in 1969.  He'd recently recorded an album that had flopped and was working in a factory to make ends meet. 
One day while working on the factory floor, a young co-worker caught his eye.  She smiled.  He smiled.  And on it went like that for some time.  
Despite the obvious mutual interest, he could never muster up the courage to talk to her.  So he put his feelings into a poem, which he intended to personally deliver to her at work.  Only hitch was, the day he finally finished the poem, she never returned to work at the factory.  The poem never got delivered to her in person.  But it became the basis for the lyrics of "Groove Me" (1970).
To be honest, though, the lyrics are kind of secondary.  The track succeeds because of Floyd's spirited scotch-and-soda delivery over that lowdown backing track.  Personally, my favorite touch is the subtle doubling of the bassline between the electric bass and organ; it's an element that's felt almost more than it's heard.