Eddie Floyd – Big Bird

I just heard this song this morning for the first time. It kind of caught me off guard because it has more of a rock feel than anything coming out of Stax records at that time. It reached number 132 on Billboards pop chart.

From Wikipedia,

The song “Big Bird” (featuring Booker T. Jones on organ and guitar, Al Jackson, Jr. on drums, and Donald “Duck” Dunn on bass) was written while Floyd waited in a London airport for a plane back to the United States for Otis Redding’s funeral. Although not a US hit, it became an underground favorite, was later covered by Alex Chilton, The Jam, and several others, sampled by Transglobal Underground in the track “Jatayu,” and was featured on the video game Test Drive Unlimited.

Big Bird