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Green Onions
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Featured in Episode
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Artist(s)
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Top Chart Position (Hot 100)
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3 (September 29, 1962, one week)
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Year Released
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1962
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Album
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Green Onions
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Writer(s)
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Steve Cropper, Booker T. Jones, Lewie Steinberg, Al Jackson, Jr.
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RIAA Certification
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Gold
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Sequence song appears
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Punks in diner harassing Izzy & other patrons
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"New Love"
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"Green Onions" is a song by Booker T. & The M.G.'s, featured on the album Green Onions in 1962 and released as a single in September of that year. It appeared in the Miami Vice episode "Nobody Lives Forever".
Notes[]
- The song, like "Bad to the Bone", has been frequently used in TV Shows (American Dad, Ken Burns' Baseball, and Top Gear), movies (American Graffiti, The Sandlot, Stepmom, and Glory Road), and video games (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Skate, and Battlefield: Bad Company).
- Booker T. & The M.G.'s had have a second Billboard Top 10 hit in 1968, "Hang 'em High", and their final Top 10 appearance in 1969, "Time is Tight".
Performers[]
- Booker T. Jones - organ, piano
- Steve Cropper - guitar
- Lewie Steinberg - bass
- Al Jackson, Jr. - drums
Booker T & the MG's - green onions - mod classic 60s
Video of "Green Onions"