Songfacts®:

• "Just Kissed My Baby" is a song by The Meters that was released on their 1974 album Rejuvenation. It's a funk track with a catchy melody and a simple but effective meaning: feeling good after kissing your girl.
• The song originated with guitarist Leo Nocentelli's guitar riff, then Ziggy Modeliste started singing over the top and came up with a melody and lyrics.
• Little Feat's Lowell George guested on slide guitar.
• Public Enemy sampled this on two of their 1987 Yo! Bum Rush the Show tracks: "Timebomb" and "Terminator X Speaks With His Hands."
  
  "From Public Enemy on, everyone has sampled that!" guitarist Leo Nocentelli told Uncut magazine. "I think it's because we left so much space, so it was easy to clip out the guitar riff, or the bass line."
• The Meters recorded Rejuvenation at Sea-Saint Recording Studio in New Orleans with Allen Toussaint producing. "Allen Toussaint was always our producer, but he was often just a producer in name," Nocentelli told Uncut. "By this stage he was barely in the studio. He wrote some horn and string arrangements and stuff, but generally he left us to it. I don't mean that disrespectfully - I say that to commend him. If you see that the music is being better without you being there, and you have their balls to believe that, the right thing is to back off a bit in the studio. He got us in a zone and left us to it."
• Rolling Stone ranked Rejuvenation #139 on their 2012 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.