Booker T and the MG's
 

Does anyone remember the piece of music called 'Green Onions', by this band?

Yes.
It was an instrumental. Booker T & The MGs were the in-house band for Stax/Volt, backing for the likes of Sam & Dave and the great Otis Redding.

Green Onions was a big favourite among the mods during the 60s.
Why are you interested Luke?

Because the first time I ever heard it, I fell in love (sort of) with the tune. It's a great, and slightly groovy, piece of music. I now have it on CD. :)

Luke.
Other instrumentals with a 60's soul feel well worth a listen;

Exus Trek - Luther Ingram & His Orchestra, Double Cookin' by the Checkerboard Squares (also known as Strings A GoGo) and a track called Sliced Tomatoes - The Just Brothers...remember Fat Boy Slims 'Funk Soul Brother' (or whatever it was called), well that's the one sampled by Fat Boy Slim (thieving git) and it's a class tune in it's original form.

Great band - Booker T. Jones was a great organ player, too. I love the Hammond B3 Organ… By the way, if you like Booker T's sound, you should check out the master of the B3, Jimmy Smith. A lot of his stuff is now remastered, and finally sounds CD-quality. Also check out John Medeski of Medeski, Martin & Wood - they're a terrific jam band, and John is an incredible organ player.

i love jimmy smith - at the moment, dot com blues is a favourite of mine, but other stuff like the sermon and back at the chicken shack is great too

my favourite medeski martin and wood song is "i wanna ride you" from uninvisible - really funky

Thanks, I'll look for those artists.

And right-track, I'll make a list of those song titles and look for them.
Cheers mate.

Or you could buy this :thumb:

Minight Brew (goldmine)

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Personal favourites on the compilation are 'Frantic Escape' by the Innocent Bystanders, 'I need Help' by the Detroit Land Apples and 'My Sugar Baby' by Connie Clark.

Tracks;

Midnight Brew - Melvin Carter

Double Cookin - Checkerboard Squares

A Case Of Love - Renfro Orchestra

Bari Track - Doni Burdick

Hit and Run- Lebaron Orchestra

Soul Step - The Dogs

Dominica - Frank Nelson and his Beat Strings

Beachcomber- Johnny Gibson Trio

Happiness Is Here - Topper Productions

Frantic Escape - Innocent Bystanders

Makin' Up Time- The Holidays

Exus Trek - Luther Ingram

I Need Help - Detroit Land Apples

My Sugar Baby - Connie Clark

I Have Faith In You - Doni Burdick

Love Bound - Audio Arts Strings

What Is This - Fred & Bobbie's Rhythm Section

That's The Way It Is - Ann Perry

The Gallop - Milton Wright & The Terra Sherma Strings

The Joker - The Milestones

They'll Be Coming - Sam Ambrose

Magic Potion - Lou Johnson

I haven't heard of ANY of those..... Oh dear.... :laughing:

But I'll have a look for the album.

Thanks.

Well If you like old R&B/rare Soul, I'm willing to bore you to death with it if you want.

Oh please don't.... :) and to be quite honest, I think I've got most of the music I want. What I mean is, I'm a lazy f**ker, and can't be arsed chasing around song titles and artists!! I know what you're thinking now - you're thinking : "You ungrateful f**ker". Well, I'm not ungrateful, I do the same as you're doing, and refer music to people I know, and if I do it to my friends, they frown and grunt, because they really can't be arsed finding the stuff!! Anyway, thanks for helping. Meanwhile, I'll carry on listening to 'Green Onions'. :) - Mates?

Haha, don't sweat mate.

However, you are missing out on a vast amount of unknown and rare material (If you love 60's R&B and Soul that is).

Believe me the stuff released by Motown and the likes of Atlantic records is just the tip of a massive iceberg.
There's some quality tunes out there still undiscovered.

Because of this thread I did a bit of digging around on the net about this song and discovered Booker T Jones recorded 'Green Onions' aged 16 and on it's release two years later it sold over a million copies.

Incredible. Some people have all the talent!

Right-track, I'm not sweating!! I just don't want you to get the wrong end of the stick, if you know what I mean.
F**k me!! That's a kick-arse piece of music for a 16 year old. What a legend!!! :drummer:

You're not kidding!! :bowdown: :laughing:

And I've seen 'Motown' CDs for sale in TJ Hughes. I might just think about getting one!!

i pity tha fool who try to fvck wif booker t

Wasn't he the five, five, FIVE TIME WCW Champion?????

He was, but a different Booker T!!! :yeah:

http://www.autographsonline.com/Scans/tbooker18645.jpg

I was working at a BBQ joint a couple of years back and this guy came in and said he was Booker T's Roommate in College. He started telling me all these stories. It was pretty cool.

My knowledge of Booker T & MG's is non existence but I have been given an album by Booker T Jones called Potato Hole. On one listen I must say that I was rather impressed. http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov...41804oqb34.jpg

Instrumental soulful funk with a Hammond organ. I am going to give this furhter plays.

Great band, love Cropper's guitar work, the entire band is killer. My fave BTMG's is them backing Redding at Monterey, they smoked with their hardcore R&B as the dazed hippies looked on, and backing Albert King on his Born Under A Bad Sign LP.

I was only listening to these a few days ago. Great band and I love their sound, not just the actual songs but the guitar and organ combo sound. I only have a greatest hits. Is that all you really need or is there a hidden gem album out there?

Green Onions gets my blood flowing and my foot tappin like no other song does. I would definetly consider it a masterpiece. Booker T. puts a whole new definition on "organ". Looked back at some posts that said he was only 16 when this was recorded. That is really remarkable.

One day in my Spanish class, the teacher was gone so everyone had me DJ for them, so I got out my speakers and blasted Green Onions as loud as my speakers would go, haha, and I mean to tell you, you could hear it on the whole other side of the school. Didn't get to play it for very long though before some of the teachers caught on :(. But definelty worth it for that first minute.

They are a great band. Been listening to them for couple years now. Had only heard Green Onions. But there albums are pretty tight