1962 instrumental composition by Booker T. & the M.G.'s
For the vegetable, see scallion.
"Green Onions"
Cover of the 1962 US single
Single by Booker T. & the M.G.'s
from the album Green Onions
B-side
"Behave Yourself"
Released
July 1962
Recorded
June 1962, Memphis, Tennessee
Genre
Instrumental rock
soul
R&B
Length
2:52
Label
Stax
Songwriter(s)
Booker T. Jones
Steve Cropper
Lewie Steinberg
Al Jackson Jr.
Producer(s)
Booker T. Jones
Steve Cropper
Lewie Steinberg
Al Jackson Jr.
Booker T. & the M.G.'s singles chronology
"Green Onions" (1962)
"Jellybread" (1962)
Official audio
"Green Onions" on YouTube
"Green Onions" is an instrumental composition recorded in 1962 by Booker T. & the M.G.'s. Described as "one of the most popular instrumental rock and soul songs ever"[1] and as one of "the most popular R&B instrumentals of its era",[2] the tune is a twelve-bar blues with a rippling Hammond M3 organ line by Booker T. Jones that he wrote when he was 17, although the actual recording was largely improvised in the studio.[3]
The track was originally issued on the Volt label (a subsidiary of Stax Records) as the B-side of "Behave Yourself" on Volt 102; it was quickly reissued in August 1962 as the A-side of Stax 127, and it also appeared on the album Green Onions that same year.[4] The organ sound of the song became a feature of the "Memphis soul sound".[5]
^Unterberger, Richie. "Green Onions – Song Review". AllMusic. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
^Hannusch, Jeff (November 1, 2012). "Booker T. & The M.G.S, Green Onions (Stax)". OffBeat. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
^Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. p. 753. ISBN 0195313739.
^Strong, Martin Charles (2002). The Great Rock Discography. Canongate. p. 201. ISBN 978-1-84195-312-0.
^Simpson, Dave (March 11, 2019). "How we made Booker T and the MGs' Green Onions". The Guardian. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
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