[2] In his junior year of high school, he did an afternoon Cajun music show as a part-time job with KVPI radio in Ville Platte.
With the financial help of a friend, Ed Manuel (a juke box operator from Mamou, Louisiana), who wanted new French records for his juke boxes, Floyd released his first record on the Big Mamou label by artists Austin Pitre and Milton Molitor.
In addition to records, and eventually cassettes and CDs, the shop carried books, musical instruments, souvenirs, and photography supplies, and even developed film.
1958 saw the beginning of Jin Records with artists such as Clint West, Tommy McLain & the Boogie Kings, Lil' Bob & The Lollipops, Warren Storm, Skip Stewart, Rockin' Sidney, Rod Bernard, Johnny Allan and others making significant contributions to what was the, then, controversial swamp pop music.
In 1988, a writer for Billboard estimated that Flat Town Music labels were responsible for about 75% of Cajun and zydeco titles in print at the time.