BLUES FOR HARD TIMES: Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs

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Series
BLUES FOR HARD TIMES: Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs
Producing Organization
KEXP
Contributing Organization
KEXP (Seattle, Washington)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/24-0000016v
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Description
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Memphis, Tennessee, 1962 at the Stax label studios the house band, Booker T and The MGs, are waiting for a musician to show up for his session. Jim Stewart, Stax's co-founder and the engineer for the night asks Booker T and The MGs to play a song they wrote while they wait. They record then Stewart asks them for a "B-side". And 18-year old organ player Booker T starts to jam on a song he wrote on piano, and the band kicks in. They jam on it for a while and in the middle of the jam the engineer starts the tape. The start and end of the song fade out because the band never stopped playing. When the single "Relax Yourself" is released to radio, the DJs ignore the intended song and start to play "Green Onions" and it hops onto the charts. Where it becomes one of the most memorable blues songs, and definitely one of the top-charting "accidental records" of all time.
Description
Date Produced: 2010-05-08
Date
1992-00-00
Date
1996-00-00
Media type
other
Credits
Host: Michele Myers
Producer: Michele Myers
Producing Organization: KEXP
AAPB Contributor Holdings
KEXP-FM
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Citations
Chicago: “BLUES FOR HARD TIMES: Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs,” 1992-00-00, KEXP, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed December 4, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-24-0000016v.
MLA: “BLUES FOR HARD TIMES: Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs.” 1992-00-00. KEXP, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. December 4, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-24-0000016v>.
APA: BLUES FOR HARD TIMES: Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs. Boston, MA: KEXP, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-24-0000016v