Sunday, January 8, 2012

On the turntable this Sunday...McLemore Avenue


McLemore Avenue is a 1970 album by Booker T. & the MGs consisting entirely of mostly instrumental covers of songs from the Beatles' album Abbey Road (released only months earlier in September 1969). The title and cover are an homage to the Beatles album; 926 East McLemore Avenue being the address of the Stax studio in Memphis, as Abbey Road was for EMI in London.

Track listings:

Side one: Medley: "Golden Slumbers", "Carry That Weight", "The End", "Here Comes The Sun", "Come Together" - 15:48
"Something" - 4:09

Side two: Medley: "Because", "You Never Give Me Your Money" - 7:26
Medley: "Sun King", "Mean Mr. Mustard", "Polythene Pam", "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window", "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" - 10:40

Personnel:

Booker T. Jones - organ, piano, keyboards, guitar
Steve Cropper - guitar
Donald "Duck" Dunn - electric bass
Al Jackson, Jr. - drums

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