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Booker T & The MG's

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The legendary in-house band of the Stax record labels, formed 1962 in Memphis, Tennessee. The band's name is a combination of organist Booker T. Jones' first names and the acronym for Memphis Group, MG.

The other members are Al Jackson Jr. on drums, Steve Cropper on guitar and Lewis Steinberg on bass, who was replaced by Donald "Duck" Dunn in 1963.

As well as playing on and producing a stellar amount of records, working with artists like Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett and Sam & Dave, they were successful as a band in their own right, with hits like Green Onions (1962) and Hip Hug-Her (1967).

The band was effectively disbanded in the early 1970s, when both Cropper and Jones had left the label. A planned reunion in 1975 didn't happen, as Jackson was murdered in October that year. The three remaining members did reunite several times since the late 1980s, often with Jackson's cousin Steve Potts (2) serving as a drummer.

Booker T & The MG's were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.
Sites:
rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=69
Members:
Al Jackson Jr., Booker T. Jones, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Lewis Steinberg, Steve Cropper
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Green Onions

◄ (13 versions) 		Stax 1962

Soul Dressing

◄ (4 versions) 		Stax 1965

And Now!

◄ (6 versions) 		Stax 1966

In The Christmas Spirit

◄ (3 versions) 		Stax 1967

Mar-Keys, The / Booker T. And The MG's* - Back To Back ◄ (2 versions)

Stax 1967

Hip Hug-Her

◄ (9 versions) 		Stax 1967

Doin' Our Thing

◄ (5 versions) 		Stax 1968

Soul Limbo

◄ (10 versions) 		Stax 1968

Up Tight (Music From The Score Of The Motion Picture)

◄ (9 versions) 		Stax 1969

The Booker T. Set

◄ (9 versions) 		Stax 1969

McLemore Avenue

◄ (8 versions) 		Stax 1970

Melting Pot

◄ (16 versions) 		Stax 1971

Memphis Sound

(LP) 		Stax 1975

Union Extended

(LP, Album) 		Stax 1976

Universal Language

◄ (7 versions) 		Asylum Records 1977

McLemore Avenue

(CD, Album, RE) 		Stax 1990

That's The Way It Should Be

(CD, Album) 		Columbia 1994

Play The "Hip Hits"

(CD) 		Stax 1995

Pop History Vol. 5

(2xLP) 		Polydor Unknown

Singles & EPs

Green Onions

◄ (3 versions) 		Stax 1962

Green Onions / Hip Hug Her

◄ (2 versions) 		Atlantic 1962

Jellybread / Aw' Mercy

◄ (2 versions) 		Stax 1963

Chinese Checkers / Plum-Nellie

◄ (2 versions) 		Stax 1963

R And B With Booker T.

(7", EP) 		London Records, London Records 1963

Mo-Onions / Tic-Tac-Toe

(7", Single) 		Stax 1963
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