Green Onions (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Green Onions
Type = Album
Artist = Booker T. & the M.G.'s


Released = October, 1962
Recorded = June-August 1962
Genre = Southern soul, Instrumental rock
Length = 34:55
Label = Stax/Atlantic
S 701
Producer = Jim Stewart
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:n9c8b5t4tsqf link]
Last album =
This album = "Green Onions" (1962)
Next album = "Soul Dressing" (1965)

"Green Onions" is the debut album by Booker T. & the M.G.'s, released on Stax Records in October of 1962. It reached number 33 on the Pop Albums chart in the month of its release. The title single was a huge hit worldwide which has been covered by dozens of artists, including The Blues Brothers, The Ventures, Al Kooper, The Shadows, Mongo Santamaria, Count Basie and many others.

Three previous Stax LPs - two by Mar-Keys, one by Carla Thomas - had been issued on Atlantic Records. "Green Onions" was the first album released on the Stax label proper. It was also Stax's first charting album, peaking at number 33 on The Billboard 200. Bowman, Rob (1997). Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records. New York: Schirmer Trade. p.229-233 ISBN 0825672848]

Track listing

ide one

#"Green Onions" (Steve Cropper, Booker T. Jones, Lewie Steinberg, Al Jackson, Jr) – 2:45
#"Rinky Dink" (David Clowney, Paul Winley) – 2:39
#"I Got a Woman" (Ray Charles, Renald Richard) – 3:32
#"Mo' Onions" (Cropper, Jackson, Jones, Steinberg) – 2:50
#"Twist and Shout" (Phil Medley, Bert Berns) – 2:09
#"Behave Yourself" (Cropper, Jackson, Jones, Steinberg) – 3:45
#"Stranger on the Shore" (Acker Bilk, Robert Mellin) – 2:18

ide two

#"Lonely Avenue" (Doc Pomus) – 3:25
#"One Who Really Loves You" (Smokey Robinson) – 2:22
#"You Can't Sit Down There Boy!" (Dee Clark, Kal Mann, Cornell Muldrow) – 2:46
#"A Woman, a Lover, a Friend" (Sidney Wyche) – 3:15
#"Comin' Home Baby" (Bob Dorough, Ben Tucker) – 3:09

Personnel

*Steve Cropper - guitar
*Booker T. Jones - organ, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards
*Lewie Steinberg - upright bass
*Al Jackson, Jr. - drums

Chart history

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