Green Onions
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"Green Onions" is a hit soul instrumental recorded in 1962 by Booker T. & the MG's, composed by Steve Cropper, Al Jackson, Jr., Booker T. Jones and Lewis Steinberg. The tune is a twelve bar blues with a rippling Hammond organ line. According to guitarist Steve Cropper its name arose from the band members' efforts to think of a title that was "as funky as possible".[1]
"Green Onions" entered the Billboard Hot 100 in September of 1962 where it remained for 16 weeks, peaking at number 3. Read Full Bio"Green Onions" is a hit soul instrumental recorded in 1962 by Booker T. & the MG's, composed by Steve Cropper, Al Jackson, Jr., Booker T. Jones and Lewis Steinberg. The tune is a twelve bar blues with a rippling Hammond organ line. According to guitarist Steve Cropper its name arose from the band members' efforts to think of a title that was "as funky as possible".[1]
"Green Onions" entered the Billboard Hot 100 in September of 1962 where it remained for 16 weeks, peaking at number 3. Originally issued on the Volt subsidiary of Stax Records, it was quickly reissued on Stax proper; it also appeared on the hit album Green Onions. The recording did not chart in the UK until January 1980 after being featured in the 1979 film Quadrophenia.
"Green Onions" has been used extensively in radio, television, film and advertising. The tune is also a favorite at baseball parks across the United States.
"Green Onions" was ranked #181 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
In a live cover of this tune from the album Everybody Needs the Blues Brothers, Dan Aykroyd, as his character Elwood Blues of the Blues Brothers comments on the song during a vamp, "I believe that this tune can be equated with the great classical music around the world. Well now you go to Germany, you got your Bach, your Beethoven and your Brahms. Here in America, you got your Fred McDowell, your Irving Berlin, your Glen Miller, and your Booker T. & the MG's!"
"Green Onions" entered the Billboard Hot 100 in September of 1962 where it remained for 16 weeks, peaking at number 3. Read Full Bio"Green Onions" is a hit soul instrumental recorded in 1962 by Booker T. & the MG's, composed by Steve Cropper, Al Jackson, Jr., Booker T. Jones and Lewis Steinberg. The tune is a twelve bar blues with a rippling Hammond organ line. According to guitarist Steve Cropper its name arose from the band members' efforts to think of a title that was "as funky as possible".[1]
"Green Onions" entered the Billboard Hot 100 in September of 1962 where it remained for 16 weeks, peaking at number 3. Originally issued on the Volt subsidiary of Stax Records, it was quickly reissued on Stax proper; it also appeared on the hit album Green Onions. The recording did not chart in the UK until January 1980 after being featured in the 1979 film Quadrophenia.
"Green Onions" has been used extensively in radio, television, film and advertising. The tune is also a favorite at baseball parks across the United States.
"Green Onions" was ranked #181 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
In a live cover of this tune from the album Everybody Needs the Blues Brothers, Dan Aykroyd, as his character Elwood Blues of the Blues Brothers comments on the song during a vamp, "I believe that this tune can be equated with the great classical music around the world. Well now you go to Germany, you got your Bach, your Beethoven and your Brahms. Here in America, you got your Fred McDowell, your Irving Berlin, your Glen Miller, and your Booker T. & the MG's!"
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AgentJayZ
That groove is smooth, hypnotic, and irresistible... the greatest groove of them all...
... the coolest song of all time.
Yeetman 94
Whenever we can gather with friends after the pandemic and I go my friends house to watch wrestling pay per views again, and if I play this song, one of my hardcore millennial friends will say that this song is boring and that he hates it
Albert L. Anderson Jr.
Real cool for all times and for ever
GK PRIVATE
The epitome of in the moment, being cool, everything under control. Like flopping the nuts and having everybody covered and going all in and winning the World Series of Poker, like closing the deal and paying cash for your retirement home with the swimming pool and retiring with no debt, no loans, like getting back into Thailand for a 6 month vacation and not having any money worries.. The list goes on
John Banister
@Nathan Pedroza Real music!
Nathan Pedroza
hey boomers im 10 and i love this song
Bruh Youtube
If you’re listening in 2021 then you are a great person with incredible taste in music
AJ
Aww. Thank you. 😇👍
Ranegate
fore shure
shaundie bahe
I was raised by my grandparents and grew up listening to the 50’s 60’s and 70’s and listen to the 80’s with my mom