Green Onions (album)
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{{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
| Name = Green Onions
| Type = [[Album]]
| Artist = [[Booker T. & the M.G.'s]]
| Cover = BookerT.&theMG'sGreenOnions.jpg
| Released = October, 1962
| Recorded = June-August 1962
| Genre = [[Southern soul]], [[Instrumental rock]]
| Length = 34:55
| Label = [[Stax Records|Stax]]/[[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]<br /><small>S 701</small>
| Producer = [[Jim Stewart (music)|Jim Stewart]]
| Reviews = *[[Allmusic]] {{Rating-5|4.5}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:n9c8b5t4tsqf link]
| Last album =
| This album = '''''Green Onions'''''<br/>(1962)
| Next album = ''[[Soul Dressing]]''<br/>(1965)
}}
'''''Green Onions''''' is the debut album by [[Booker T. & the M.G.'s]], released on [[Stax Records]] in October of [[1962 in music|1962]]. It reached number 33 on the Pop Albums chart in the month of its release. The title single was a huge hit worldwide which has been [[cover version|covered]] by dozens of artists, including [[The Blues Brothers]], [[The Ventures]], [[Al Kooper]], [[The Shadows]], [[Mongo Santamaria]], [[Count Basie]] and many others.
Three previous Stax LPs - two by [[Mar-Keys]], one by [[Carla Thomas]] - had been issued on [[Atlantic Records]]. ''Green Onions'' was the first album released on the Stax label proper. It was also Stax's first charting album, peaking at number 33 on [[The Billboard 200]]. <ref name="Bowman">Bowman, Rob (1997). Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records. New York: Schirmer Trade. p.229-233 ISBN 0825672848</ref>
==Track listing==
===Side one===
#"[[Green Onions]]" ([[Steve Cropper]], [[Booker T. Jones]], [[Lewie Steinberg]], [[Al Jackson, Jr]]) – 2:45
#"Rinky Dink" ( David Clowney, Paul Winley) – 2:39
#"[[I Got a Woman]]" ([[Ray Charles]], Renald Richard) – 3:32
#"Mo' Onions" (Cropper, Jackson, Jones, Steinberg) – 2:50
#"[[Twist and Shout]]" (Phil Medley, [[Bert Berns]]) – 2:09
#"Behave Yourself" (Cropper, Jackson, Jones, Steinberg) – 3:45
#"[[Stranger on the Shore]]" (Acker Bilk, Robert Mellin) – 2:18
===Side two===
#"[[Lonely Avenue]]" ([[Doc Pomus]]) – 3:25
#"One Who Really Loves You" ([[Smokey Robinson]]) – 2:22
#"You Can't Sit Down There Boy!" ([[Dee Clark]], Kal Mann, [[Cornell Muldrow]]) – 2:46
#"A Woman, a Lover, a Friend" (Sidney Wyche) – 3:15
#"Comin' Home Baby" (Bob Dorough, Ben Tucker) – 3:09
==Personnel==
*[[Steve Cropper]] - [[guitar]]
*[[Booker T. Jones]] - [[organ (music)|organ]], [[bass guitar]], [[guitar]], [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]]
*[[Lewie Steinberg]] - upright bass
*[[Al Jackson, Jr.]] - drums
==Chart history==
{|class="wikitable"
!align="left"|Name
!align="left"|Chart (1966)
!align="center"|Peak<br>position
|-
|''Green Onions''
|align="left"|[[U.S. Pop Albums Chart]]
|align="center"|33
|-
|"Green Onions"
|align="left"|U.S. [[Billboard Pop Singles]]
|align="center"|3
|-
|"Green Onions"
|align="left"|U.S. [[Billboard R&B Singles]]
|align="center"|1
|-
|"Mo' Onions"
|align="left"|U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
|align="center"|97
|-
|"Mo' Onions"
|align="left"|U.S. Billboard R&B Singles
|align="center"|97
|}
==Notes==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Booker T. & the M.G.'s albums]]
[[Category:Debut albums]]
[[Category:1962 albums]]
[[Category:Stax Records albums]]
[[Category:Atlantic Records albums]]