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FLOYD ROBINSON

“Makin’ Love”

(FLOYD ROBINSON)

 RCA 7529

#20    September 28, 1959

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Floyd was born in 1936 and raised around and about the Nashville area.  From the littlest on he knew

in his little pea pickin’ heart that he was gonna grow up to be a music-makin’ man.  Before puberty set in

Floyd and his boys had a group called the Eagle Rangers. They would work the pre-teen hops, parties and

local radio programs. While in his high school years, Robinson and his Rangers had regular programs

broadcast on WLAC and WSM-Nastwille.  When school days were through, Floyd made money and a name

for himself providing backup instrumentation to touring country artists.

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On the side-line Floyd wrote up tunes flnd tried his best to get somebody to record them.  Fellow “One-Hit

Wonder” and unsung rockabilly personage JESSE LEE TURNER cut a rendition on Robinson’s silly but

satisfying extraterrestriak love lyric, “The Little Space Girl”  (#20 Februory 9, 1959).  The gigantic sales

success of  such loony tunes as Betty Johnson’s “Little Blue Man,” David Seville’s “Witch Doctor” and SHEB

WOOLEY’s “Purple People Eater” had created a nutty-novelty craze, so RCA ordered their scouts to find the

“Little Space Girl’s” creator.  Asked if he had anymore silly songs, Floyd song “My Girl,” a darlin dinky

about the love of a strange boy and his emotionally damaged girlfriend.  Chet Atkins and the big boys at RCA

liked it, waxed it and put something called “Makin’ Love” on the “B” side.  Someone with some musical

sense about him discovered the “B” side–with it’s not much hidden sexual implications–and Floyd got

himself on to the charts for his first and only time.

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A self-titled album and many more teen-orientated singles were issued.  Some were quite interesting like the

Everly Brother-influenced “Why Can’t It Go On” and the hillbilly surfer tune.. “Sidewalk Surfboard”.

Nothing sold well.  But not being one to quit easily, Floyd worked as an engineer on Duane Eddy sessions

and continued to cut silly singles well into the ’60s for Jamie, Dot, Groove and United Artist.