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"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] it utilizes a twelve-bar blues progression and features a rippling Hammond M3 organ line played by frontman Booker T. Jones, who wrote it when he was 17.
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 ...
Booker T. & the M.G.'s released a version of the song on their 1962 album Green Onions. [5] Bill Justis released a version of the song on his 1962 album Alley Cat/Green Onions: Bill Justis Plays 12 Big Instrumental Hits. [6] Steve Allen released a version of the song on his 1963 album Gravy Waltz and 11 Current Hits!. [7]
List of instrumental compositions composed or arranged and recorded by Tale Ognenovski; List of instrumental number ones on the UK singles chart; Livery Stable Blues; The Lonely Shepherd; Long Gone (instrumental) Longplayer; Lost Boy Blues; Love Scene (Version 4) Love Scene (Version 6) Lunar (song)
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The song, a mid-tempo twelve-bar blues, is credited to Williamson, Willie Dixon, and Ralph Bass and is based on the 1962 instrumental hit "Green Onions" by Booker T. and the MGs. [1] "Help Me" became a hit in 1963 and reached number 24 in the Billboard R&B chart. [2] The song was later included on the 1966 Williamson compilation More Folk Blues ...
The onions are so special, in fact, there’s an entire law surrounding them. According to the Georgia Department of Agriculture, “The Vidalia Onion Act of 1986 was a Georgia law that ...
Dion had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1962 . [ 1 ] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 29, 1962, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of January 1 through October 31, 1962.