Booker T & The MG's "Green Onions" (Stax 1962 LP) Vinyl Stax 701 (original) Mono
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You are bidding on a Vinyl issue of Booker T. & The M.G.’s 1962 album, “Green Onions.” The first LP issued by Booker T. & The M.G.’s, this album was released in 1962 on the Stax label, and the item for sale is listed as “Hi Fidelity.” The cover and album don’t indicate mono or stereo, but our research seems to indicate that it is a mono recording. This is an original issue. (Stax 701). We purchased this item in the 1960’s, played it (and enjoyed it!), and it has been sitting in our home (vertically) for the last few decades.
Highlights include the title track (“Green Onions,” (a big hit, and my phone ring tone) and overall this is a truly groundbreaking instrumental album coming out of Memphis’ great soul label.
The LP is in very good condition but does show signs of age. The LP cover is in VG+ condition but is also showing signs of wear and aging. Please remember that this album was well taken care of, but it was played as part of our record collection decades ago. We have tried to show the good and the bad on the photos included with this listing.
This item has been stored at room temperature, in a smoke free home. Please see photos of actual item being sold.
Green Onions is the debut album by Booker T. & the M.G.'s, released on Stax Records in October 1962. It reached number 33 on the pop album chart in the month of its release. The title single was a worldwide hit and has been covered by dozens of artists, including the Blues Brothers and Roy Buchanan (both with Steve Cropper on guitar), as well as The Ventures, Al Kooper, The Shadows, Mongo Santamaría, Deep Purple (Live and studio versions) and Count Basie.
Three previous Stax LPs – two by the Mar-Keys, one by Carla Thomas – had been issued on Atlantic Records. Green Onions was the first album released on the Stax label. It was also Stax's first charting album, peaking at number 33 on the Billboard 200. The album features only instrumental songs and features Steve Cropper playing a Fender Telecaster.
The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
“Green Onions is the first studio album by the Southern soul band Booker T. & the M.G.'s, released on Stax Records in June 1962.
“There's not a note or a nuance out of place anywhere on this record, which featured 35 of the most exciting minutes of instrumental music in any category that one could purchase in 1962 (and it's no slouch multiple decades out, either). "I Got a Woman" is the single best indicator of how superb this record is and this band was -- listening to this track, it's easy to forget that the song ever had lyrics or ever needed them, Booker T. Jones' organ and Steve Cropper's guitar serving as more-than-adequate substitutes for any singer. Their version of "Twist and Shout" is every bit as satisfying. Even "Mo' Onions," an effort to repeat the success of "Green Onions," doesn't repeat anything from the earlier track except the tempo, and Jones and Cropper both come up with fresh sounds within the same framework. "Behave Yourself" is a beautifully wrought piece of organ-based blues that gives Jones a chance to show off some surprisingly nimble-fingered playing, while "Stranger on the Shore" is transformed into a piece of prime soul music in the group's hands. Just when it seems like the album has turned in all of the surprises in repertory that it could reasonably deliver, it ends with "Comin' Home Baby," a killer jazz piece on which Steve Cropper gets to shine, his guitar suddenly animated around Jones' playing, his quietly trilled notes at the crescendo some of the most elegant guitar heard on an R&B record up to that time”.
Personnel
Booker T. & the M.G.s
· Booker T. Jones – Hammond M3 organ
· Steve Cropper – guitar
· Lewis Steinberg – double bass, bass guitar
· Al Jackson Jr. – drums
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