1962 Booker T & The MG’s – Green Onions (US:#3 UK:#7)
“Green Onions” is an instrumental composition recorded in 1962 by Booker T & the MG’s. One of the most popular soul songs ever, and R&B instrumentals of its era, it utilizes a twelve-bar blues progression and features a rippling Hammond M3 organ line played by frontman Booker T. Jones, who wrote it when he was 17, although the recording was largely improvised in the studio
Album
Green Onions is the debut album by Booker T & the MG’s, released on Stax Records in October 1962. It reached number 33 on the pop album chart in the month of its release. Tracks 1 Green Onions (Al Jackson Jr; Booker T Jones; Lewis Steinberg; Steve Cropper) 02:56 2 Rinky-Dink (David Clowney; Paul Winley) 02:40 3 I Got A […]
Muscians
| Bass | Lewis Steinberg |
| Drums | Al Jackson Jr |
| Guitar | Steve Cropper |
| Hammond Organ | Booker T Jones |
Produced By
Jim Stewart
Songwriters
Al Jackson Jr
Booker T Jones
Lewis Steinberg
Steve Cropper
Charts
US:# 3
UK:# 7