LABEL: FRIDAY MUSIC TWO
RELEASE DATE: 03/06/2026
VARIANT: Green Onions Mono Vinyl LP

* THE BOOKER T & THE MGS FRIDAY MUSIC VINYL SERIES CONTINUES!

* BACK TO MONO!!!!

* CELEBRATE 6 DECADES OF THE GROUND BREAKING MEMPHIS SOUL & ROCKING SOUNDS OF THE LEGENDARY BOOKER T. & THE MGs

* SUPER LIMITED EDITION GREEN ONIONS VINYL

* SUPER RARE MONOPHONIC STAX/ATLANTIC RECORDINGS

* PRODUCED BY JIM STEWART (BOOKER T. & THE M.G.S/OTIS REDDING/SAM & DAVE)

* MASTERED IMPECCABLY BY JOE REAGOSO (BEN E. KING/RAY CHARLES/ARETHA FRANKLIN) FROM THE STAX/ATLANTIC RECORDS MONOPHONIC TAPES

* RECORDED AT STAX STUDIOS, MEMPHIS, TN

* FEATURES SMASHES INCLUDE: GREEN ONIONS HIP HUG-HER SOUL DRESSING RED BEANS & RICE & GROOVIN’

* MUSICIANS: BOOKER T. JONES, STEVE CROPPER, AL JACKSON & DONALD DUCK DUNN

REST IN PEACE STEVE CROPPER

The legendary Memphis Soul Kings Booker T & The MGs began their careers early in the 1960s playing, arranging and writing for Stax artists behind the scenes at the famed studio. What started out as a simple jam with a different take on chordal structures, Green Onions was created while jamming in the studio. In record time, the tune burst into the soul and pop charts and quickly hit number one in the soul charts.

The amazing hit single crossed over to the top rungs of the pop charts in 1962, making this one of
the most important recordings that year, while also crossing over this legendary quartet to a AM pop radio buying audience.

Thanks to this wonderful track, which has gone on to earn him multitudes of awards, accolades and a reputation of being one of the greatest soul records of all time, Booker T Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald Duck Dunn and Al Jackson would go on to make more huge hit records for the masses for many more years.

More big hits followed for Booker T & The MGs as the record buyers and radio stations needed more soul infusion with smashes like Red Beans & Rice Soul Dressing Mo Onions Hip Hug-Her and others.

Celebrating over six decades of this amazing band, Friday Music is very pleased to offer the wonderful soul and rock sounds of Booker T. & The MGs and their great Atlantic Records classic The Best Of Booker T. & The MGs on stunning Green Onions Vinyl.

Recorded at Stax Studios with the legendary Jim Stewart, the classic Atlantic album is finally back with all of its original twelve masterpiece tracks mastered impeccably from the Stax/Atlantic monophonic recordings by Joe Reagoso (Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Booker T. & The MGs).

For this super soul event, we are also including its original retro 1968 artwork elements

The Best Of Booker T. & The MGs Relive this classic soul masterpiece forever Only from your friends at Friday Music.

TRACKLIST

1. Hip Hug-Her
2. Slim Jenkins’ Place
3. Green Onions
4. Soul Dressing
5. Jellybread
6. Groovin’
7. Mo’ Onions
8. Summertime
9. Boot-Leg
10. Can’t Be Still
11. Tic-Tac-Toe
12. Red Beans And Rice