Booker T. & the M.G.'s - Green Onions | The story behind the song | Top 2000 a gogo 

One of my friends used to call this the ultimately walking around music, and he's right.

I heard it at an afternoon party/summer fete thing one hot weekend in the 70s. Took me some time to find out who and what it was. Similar with another song they played,the Woodstock song (Matthews Southern Comfort),though I think I'd heard that one already once or twice on the radio.

I love Booker T & the MGs! Green Onions is super funky. I introduced my daughter to Green Onions when she was maybe a year old. Now, she’s 3 and she requests to hear it all the time👍🏻👍🏻. She gets a kick out of hearing it in the animated Addams Family movie(Lurch plays it)😂. Raising her to have great taste with quality music

Yes indeed

Yes but don't forget Duck is also gone. RIP both of you.

1970s: George Benson: Breezin’ Herb Alpert: Rise Chuck Mangione: Feels So Good

Another Favorite is "Behave Your self" that there is ...slow Stripper music!

@@christopherlussier4383 A 45 record with Green Onions on one side and Behave Yourself on the other is a very very rare find. I like both songs, maybe just a tad more Green Onions.

A version by "The Clash" was the first time I heard "Time is Tight" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5-Lj9yzct3U.html

I like Tight is Tight better.

"Is" a brilliant musician.

This was something of which I was never aware. So very very impressed by this group.

@@KyAl2 and that's how it should be. the black and white thing is not important untill someone starts talking about it.

Yes there sure are a lot of contradictions in the media these days. The reason is BT and the MGS was just natural - the others have an agenda.

@FunkyDoolittle: What a colossally ignorant, stupid statement. Bob Babbitt, Joe Messina were integral parts of the Funk Brothers. How about you shut your damn mouth and learn something about music history before you start spouting your dumb, raced-based theories?

Lol no

Al Jackson Jr. - he was the backbone of Stax/Volt and Hi (Al Green) records. He was awesome!

Donald duck "done" indeed.

I thought I recognised them !..excellent!

Lionheart Roar - Al Jackson Jr., the master of the pocket. He could do laid-back like nobody else, while keeping time like an atomic clock.

thanksfernuthin Well , “ Black don’t crack “ is the famous saying....

Cause he is a black fucking good musician

He was only 17 when he whe green onions came out!

George Bennett - I have heard that Paul Schaffer asked Booker T how the riff goes, to be sure that he got it right. The riff parts fit together like a puzzle, and it all works out.

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duh.

Worst. Comparison. Ever. ;)

The guitarist Steve Cropper used a Fender Telecaster on "Green Onions", as he did on all of the M.G.'s instrumentals.[4] The track was originally issued in May 1962 on the Volt label (a subsidiary of Stax Records) as the B-side of "Behave Yourself" on Volt 102; it was quickly reissued as the A-side of Stax 127, and it also appeared on the album Green Onions.[1] According to Cropper, the title is not a marijuana reference; rather, the track is named after the Green Badger's cat, Green Onions, whose way of walking inspired the riff.[5] Songfacts.com, however, ascribes the track's title to Jones. When asked by Stax co-owner Jim Stewart why he had given the track this title, Songfacts reports, Jones replied, "Because that is the nastiest thing I can think of and it's something you throw away."[6] On a broadcast of the radio program Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! on June 24, 2013, Jones was asked about the title and said, "The bass player thought it was so funky, he wanted to call it 'Funky Onions', but they thought that was too low-class, so we used 'Green Onions' instead." Wikipedia

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