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The Booker T. Set is a 1969 studio album by the Southern soul band Booker T. & the M.G.'s. Other than one original track, it consists mostly of instrumental covers of popular songs from the previous several years. Multiple genres of music are covered, including folk, soul, jazz, funk, and rock.
- Booker T. & the M.G.'s
- May 1969
- 1969
Booker T. & the M.G.'s es una agrupación instrumental de música soul, rock y R&B, muy popular entre los años 1960 y 1970. Se les asocia habitualmente con la compañía discográfica Stax Records, y se les considera parte del subgénero denominado "Memphis soul".
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- Early Years: 1962–1964
- Later Success: 1965–1969
- Reinterpreting The Beatles' Abbey Road and Gig with CCR
- Jones's Departure from Stax and Melting Pot
- 1980s to The Present
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Booker T. & the M.G.'s formed as the house band of Stax Records, providing backing music for numerous singers, including Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding. In summer 1962, 17-year-old keyboardist Booker T. Jones, 20-year-old guitarist Steve Cropper, and two seasoned players, bassist Lewie Steinberg and drummer Al Jackson Jr. (the latter making his de...
Booker T. & the M.G.'s consistently issued singles from 1963 to 1965, but only a few made the charts, and none was as successful as "Green Onions". Their second album, Soul Dressing, was released in 1965. Whereas the Green Onions album contained mostly covers, every composition but one on Soul Dressingwas an original. After contributing to that alb...
In 1969, Dunn and Jones, in particular, had become admirers of the Beatles, especially their work on Abbey Road. The appreciation was mutual, as the Beatles had been musically influenced by the M.G.'s. John Lennon was a Stax fan, who fondly called the group "Book a Table and the Maitre d's" (in 1974, Lennon facetiously credited himself and his stud...
In 1971 Booker T. and the M.G.'s released what would be their last Stax single, "Melting Pot", and their last Stax album, also called Melting Pot. "Melting Pot"'s repetitive groove-oriented drumming, loping bass line, and tight rhythm guitar made it an underground hit popular in New York City block parties. The song has often been sampled by rapper...
In 1980 the hit feature film The Blues Brothersfeatured Cropper, Dunn and Hall as part of the primary band backing the Blues Brothers. In 1986, former co-owner of Atlantic Records Jerry Wexler asked the group to be the house band for Atlantic Records' 40th anniversary celebration. The night before the gig, Jones came down with food poisoning, so Pa...
For many years, Stax publicity releases stated that the initials in the band's name stood for "Memphis Group", not the MG sports car. However, this has proved not to be the case. Musician and record producer Chips Moman, who worked at Stax Records when the band was formed, claimed that the band was named after his sports car, and only after he left...
Other releases
1. 1967: Back to Back [live] with the Mar-Keys- US #98 2. 1968: The Best of Booker T. & the MG's(1962–1967 compilation, Atlantic SD-8202; CD reissue: Atlantic 81281 [1984] with 4 bonus tracks) 3. 1970: Greatest Hits(1968–1971 compilation, Stax STS-2033; CD reissue: Fantasy FCD-60-004 [1986] with 6 bonus tracks) 4. 1973: The MG's(released as the MG's but without Cropper and Jones) 5. 1976: Union Extended(12 unreleased tracks from the 1960s; released in the UK only on Stax/Pye STX.1045) 6. 1992...
Singles
1. Note: Through a period between late 1963 and early 1965, Billboard magazine did not publish an R&B singles chart. R&B chart figures for this era are from Cashbox magazine.
- 1962–1971, 1973–1977, 1992–2012
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The Booker T. Set is a 1969 studio album by the Southern soul band Booker T. & the M.G.'s. Other than one original track, it consists mostly of instrumental covers of popular songs from the previous several years. Multiple genres of music are covered, including folk, soul, jazz, funk, and rock.
The Booker T. Set by Booker T. & The M.G.'s (Album, Soul): Reviews, Ratings, Credits, Song list - Rate Your Music. The Booker T. Set. Rate/Catalog. --- Catalog. Set listening. Tags. Review. Track ratings. 10 Issues. The Booker T. Set. 1969 Vinyl LP Stax / SXATS 1015 (1E 062 90359) The Booker T. Set. 1969 Vinyl LP Stax / STS-2009. The Booker T. Set.
