Album
Green Onions / Behave Yourself
1962 · Funk / Soul
3 collectors on Gatefold own this
Green Onions / Behave Yourself is a Soul & Funk album by Booker T. And The MG's, originally released in 1962. On Gatefold: 35 pressings tracked, owned by 3 collectors.
About
It’d be difficult to chose just one Booker T. album to own, given the absurd splendor of the band’s output (even excluding their work as Stax Records' house band). But this boisterous instrumental gesture to early-’60s R&B, funk, blues, jazz, soul, surf, and gospel might be the one. The now-traditional title tune, led by Booker T.’s unmistakable organ runs, has seeped into public consciousness in myriad ways since its 1962 release. And the quartet’s freakishly skilled playing simply pops—witness the smoky groove on “Lonely Avenue,” the knee-knocking bounce behind “Twist and Shout,” and Steve Cropper’s guitar stingers in “Mo Onions.”
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Tracklist
- 1Green Onions2:56
- 2Rinky Dink2:41
- 3I Got a Woman3:35
- 4Mo' Onions2:57
- 5Twist and Shout2:13
- 6Behave Yourself3:55
- 7Stranger On the Shore2:22
- 8Lonely Avenue3:30
- 9One Who Really Loves You2:26
- 10You Can't Sit Down2:51
- 11A Woman, a Lover, a Friend2:33
- 12Comin' Home Baby3:12
Sound DNA
- Soul & Funk
- Classic Soul
- warm
- soulful
- laid-back
Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.
Original pressing on the Volt label.
Credits
The people behind it.
Songwriting
- Al Jackson Jr.
- Booker T. Jones
- Jones/Cropper/Steinberg/Jackson
- Lewis Steinberg
- Steve Cropper
3 collectors on Gatefold own this · 35 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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