Instrumental Soul

The composition “Green Onions” by Booker T. & The M.G.’s is a funky and bluesy instrumental that always sounds hot. Maybe that’s why it’s been used so many times in radio, TV, movies, and ads. This includes (among many others): American Graffiti, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Get Shorty, Happy Gilmore, A Single Man, Quadrophenia, Memphis Beat, X-Men: First Class, the commercial for Chicken Run, and part of the music loop in Cars Land at Disney California Adventure park.  The instrumental was written by Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Lewie Steinberg, and Al Jackson, Jr. In 1962, it reached #1 on the R&B Chart and #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.  It features a Hammond organ and a Fender Telecaster guitar. Booker T. & the M.G.’s were session musicians for Stax Records in Memphis and recorded with numerous Stax artists, including Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, and Isaac Hayes. The story goes that the  group named themselves after the British MG sports car, but the record company objected and the M.G. came to stand for “Memphis Group.”

For More Golden Oldies Music

The Daily Doo Wop Rec Room has daily featured doo wop, rock and roll, R&B, or rockabilly songs that were hits during the first era of rock and roll (that is, from about 1952 until the British invasion in 1964). After a song is featured, it then goes into the juke box. You are welcome to listen to any of the 40+ selections there. Every weekend, there is a Juke Box Saturday, and the juke box is full of song requests from the 1950s and 1960s.

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