Discography
- Albums
- 1962: Green Onions US #33
- 1965: Soul Dressing
- 1966: And Now!
- 1966: In the Christmas Spirit US #13
- 1967: Hip Hug-Her US #35
- 1967: Back To Back (live album) US #98
- 1968: Doin' Our Thing US #176
- 1968: Soul Limbo US #127
- 1969: Up Tight (soundtrack) US #98
- 1969: The Booker T Set US #53
- 1970: McLemore Avenue US #107
- 1971: Melting Pot US #43
- 1973: The MG's (released by The MG's)
- 1977: Universal Language
- 1994: That's the Way It Should Be
- Singles
| US release date | A-side | B-side | Label | Chart positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notes | |||||||
| 08/1962 | Green Onions | Behave Yourself | Volt V-102 | #3 | #1 | Also issued as Stax S-127. | |
| 01/1963 | Jellybread | Aw' Mercy | Stax S-131 | #82 | |||
| 02/1963 | Home Grown | Burnt Biscuits | Stax S-134 | Also issued with "Big Train" as B-side. | |||
| 06/1963 | Chinese Checkers | Plum Nellie | Stax S-137 | #78 | |||
| 12/1963 | Mo' Onions | Fannie Mae | Stax S-142 | #97 | Same catalog number used for "Tic-Tac-Toe", below. | ||
| 01/1964 | Tic-Tac-Toe | Mo' Onions | Stax S-142 | #109 | #46 | ||
| 07/1964 | Soul Dressing | MG Party | Stax S-153 | #95 | |||
| 11/1964 | Can't Be Still | Terrible Thing | Stax S-161 | ||||
| 04/1965 | Boot-Leg | Outrage | Stax S-169 | #58 | #10 | ||
| 11/1965 | Be My Lady | Red Beans and Rice | Stax S-182 | ||||
| 07/1966 | My Sweet Potato | Stax S-196 | #85 | #18 | |||
| Booker-Loo | Stax S-196 | #37 | |||||
| 12/1966 | Jingle Bells | Winter Wonderland | Stax S-203 | “Jingle Bells” peaked at #20 on Billboard's list of Christmas-related singles in 1966. It did not make the standard pop charts. | |||
| 02/1967 | Hip Hug-Her | Summertime | Stax S-211 | #37 | #6 | ||
| 06/1967 | Groovin' | Stax S-224 | #21 | #10 | |||
| Slim Jenkins' Place | Stax S-224 | #70 | |||||
| 12/1967 | Silver Bells | Winter Snow | Stax S-236 | ||||
| 05/1968 | Soul Limbo | Heads or Tails | Stax STA-0001 | #17 | #30 | ||
| 10/1968 | Hang 'Em High | Over Easy | Stax STA-0013 | #9 | #35 | ||
| 02/1969 | Time Is Tight | Johnny, I Love You | Stax STA-0028 | #6 | #7 | #4 | “Johnny I Love You” features vocals by Booker T. Jones. |
| 05/1969 | Mrs. Robinson | Stax STA-0037 | #37 | #35 | |||
| Soul Clap '69 | Stax STA-0037 | #35 | |||||
| 07/1969 | Slum Baby | Meditation | Stax STA-0049 | #88 | #46 | ||
| 06/1970 | Something | Sunday Sermon | Stax STA-0073 | #76 | |||
| 02/1971 | Melting Pot | Kinda Easy Like | Stax STA-0082 | #45 | #21 | ||
| 10/1971 | Jamaica This Morning | Fuquawi | Stax STA 0108 | A-side credited to The M.G.'s; B-side to Booker T. and The M.G.'s | |||
| 1973 | Sugarcane | Blackside | Stax STA 0169 | #67 | Release credited to The M.G.'s | ||
| 1973 | Neckbone | Breezy | Stax STA 0200 | Release credited to The M.G.'s | |||
| 1977 | Sticky Stuff | Tie Stick | Asylum E-45392 | #68 | |||
| 1977 | Grab Bag | Reincarnation | Asylum E-45424 | ||||
| 1979 | Green Onions | Soul Limbo | Atlantic | #7 | |||
| 1994 | Cruisin' | Just My Imagination | Columbia 38-77526 | Cruisin' won the 1994 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance | |||
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.
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