Green Onions - Booker T & The MGs - Memphis Photo Montage

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Uploaded by on Jan 25, 2008

Stanky, funky "Green Onions"
by Stax/Volt house band Booker T. Jones, "King of The Hammond Organ"
& "The Memphis Group"
* Guitarist Steve Cropper
* Bassist Lewie Steinberg
* Drummer Al Jackson

- "Green Onions" single originally released in 1962 as Volt 102
- First spin by DJ Reuben Washington on Memphis radio station WLOK
- The instant hit was re-released as Stax 127 with "Behave Yourself" on Side B
- #1 R&B hit & #3 Pop hit
- Album "Green Onions" released as Stax 701
- Very first album release by Stax; peaked at #33 on Billboard Album charts
- Booker T & the MGs inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992

www.history-of-rock.com/booker_t_and_the_mgs.htm

** Montage of Memphis photos - most taken by award winning photographer extraordinaire "Betty Rocker"

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