OK. Now it's been over 10 years since I first heard this version. Nothing has changed. This masterpiece is at the front of my 74 years of accumulated music of every type in my soul. I have probably played this video hundreds of times since. Yesssss. Close your eyes. Take it all in - alone - every single note. I just finished listening again and my eyes are all filled up. What the hell is goin' on. I'm gonna play it again...............
I don't give a fuck what anyone has to say to me, but this is possibly the greatest live musical performance, at least that i've ever seen. The problem is people dont realize when you listen to something like this you have to completely indulge yourself into the music and listen in complete silence and soak up every single layer of the music, that's why I love this crowd their almost in completely silent the entire song with occasional cheers. and the passion in those solos...no words
This song is so soothing. I listen to it while I lay in bed whenever I don't feel good. I first heard this song in the "Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" episode of The Sopranos.
OK. Its at least 5 years later since I first heard this version. I'm now 68. Close your eyes. Close the door. Turn up the volume. Not too loud. Soak up every second of every note of every instrument. I can't sing, read music or play an instrument. This is musical perfection.
I'm 63 and this is my favorite tune of all time. I know nothing about music but these guys were so in sync together and tight when they played. The finish to this song gives me goosebumps every time. The finish on this song in vinyl is off the charts !!!!!
We're the same age, my friend,,,and ditto to everything you just said. Except, you just proved you DO know something about music…the important thing!…thanks for posting!
Thomas Poserina I my friend, am a bit older than you, and this is the hottest version of this song I've ever heard. it makes me sweat and crave a mint julep.
... I listened to the studio version of this track hour after hour back in '66, but Mr. Jones really took the song to a whole new dimension THIS time...
One of my fav songs. Top 3. I’ve listened to the studio version THOUSANDS of times, and rarely give it one single play when I pull it up in my archives. Excellent!
Reading Jet Magazine, I came across this fabulous man Solomon Burke: King of Rock and Soul... he was the robust, regal preacher-turned-singer who defined soul music in the '60s and continued to perform and minister for decades. He made his transistion and will be missed by many!
My all time favorite song. I think deeply to this song. It has that special vibe. Steve Cropper is one of the best all time. I seen this group play in long beach in 2002. What a performance i almost cried it was so good. Very classy band
Incredible SOUL ! ..WELL PLAYED, Gentlemen ! ..... Today's music can't hold a candle to this, especially, this LIVE performance... Not only do I hear this song, I FEEL it more !
Just heard this song in the background on The Sopranos S01E08 Recognized Summertime immediately. Just had to look up the artist, that blown away ! What a find.
As good as this is, and it's f'n great, the studio version is even better. It takes you right in to the sultry heat of a southern summer. It makes you sweat just listening to it.
Strong point made about seeing the performers live. I lived in New York in the early '80s. Rap and breakdancin' were relatively new then. It meant something then. My point is now music is all over the place being whatever it wants to be. Music and musicianship are rooted in performance. There's something real and truthful about feedback, buzzing amps, torn guitar strings, faulty mics and all that.
The age of hiphop, rap modern music put shortly, is my age of music, yet after listening to a lot of music and thinking rationally about whats good and whats bad and more important why this is so, i decided for myself which music i like best. I trust any rational thinking person to do the same, despite their time of living or cultural background. For instance one of my friends is a quite well known hiphop dj, yet he only listens to this kind of music, he makes hiphop he listens to funk and soul.
This song has been covered by many artists with different styles and versions. Song was from "Porgy and Bess" stage play of 1946. This version happens to be an instrumental with Booker T burning up the Hammond organ and "Duck " Dunn And Steve Cropper being mean on the bass and guitar, respectively. This must have been quite a set to listen and even take in the music. A set like this deserves a quiet, silky performance, of which this was one!!!
It's amazing that two of these guys were white. They sound like the blackest music in the market. I'm kind of proud of the white guys Go Steve and Duck and Booker T and the drummer whose name I forgot.
His original drummer was Al Jackson, who was murdered in 1975. The drummer on this set had the last name of Figg. Don't know much about him, but he performed masterfully with them on this occasion!!! The drummer on this set was named Anton Figg!!!
Absolutely beautiful. The MGs were the masters of cover songs. They could take any song and make it a million times better. Just listen to McLemore Avenue, it's a Booker T & the MGs album where they just play Abbey Road covers. Abbey Road is one of my favorite albums ever, but after I heard the MGs version, I find it hard to go back. The final medley on the album culminating with I Want You (She's so Heavy) is my favorite piece of music ever.
Not sure anyone cares, but this was actually a bar called the Strand in Manhattan Beach CA, not New York... 91 sounds right. I remember this fondly as I was just camera left behind Booker T... I was there working with the director (Michael Oblowitz)... this would become my video editing debut. It was an amazing experience to watch and meet these guys, and an incredible opportunity for me at the time to step up from assistant and cut my first project. I was basically a 23 year old wet behind the ears kid sweating it out for hours/ days/ nights with this footage hoping to impress.... time FLIES! The only other bit of trivia I can add is that Anton Fig from the David Letterman Show is on the drums.
I'm now 70 years old and of all the music I have experienced in my lifetime from Jimmi Hendrix to Aretha Franklin to Otis Redding to the Beatles and Rolling Stones, if I could choose to go back in time and sit thru one live performance - THIS would be it. Man this music goes thru your soul every single time.
As for the cd, dvd, mp3, etc. if it wasnt for these things i wouldve never heard this music. Without having that heard on cd first I never wouldve went to the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Netherlands. I'd say that the age of information had a really positive effect on my choice of music and making me willing to see that music live. My exact point is that my grandchildren will never be able to see Booker T and the MG's live. It's a narcistic point of view more than a rational one.
Good point. Tough drills ahead. Too much counterpoint and crescendo from rap, hip-hop, rock and pop 'innuendo'. Don't quit tho'. Live music...could return. Just eliminate the Walkman, Discman, CD, DVD, MP3, MP4, downloads & mobile phones, eh? Tough! Really tough! Don't get me wrong. I'm on your side. And I don't like what I see happening. Nothing we say or do changes anything until the time comes for it to change.
thats not necessarily true though, my generation of lovers of proper music will drill this type of music into their kids. Hence making your grandkids have the same experience u had listening to this for the first time, as for the live experience, it's not only a shame but it's also a pity that they will never have that experience.
OK. Now it's been over 10 years since I first heard this version. Nothing has changed. This masterpiece is at the front of my 74 years of accumulated music of every type in my soul. I have probably played this video hundreds of times since. Yesssss. Close your eyes. Take it all in - alone - every single note. I just finished listening again and my eyes are all filled up. What the hell is goin' on. I'm gonna play it again...............
Sopranos made me fall in love with booker T and the mgs
I don't give a fuck what anyone has to say to me, but this is possibly the greatest live musical performance, at least that i've ever seen. The problem is people dont realize when you listen to something like this you have to completely indulge yourself into the music and listen in complete silence and soak up every single layer of the music, that's why I love this crowd their almost in completely silent the entire song with occasional cheers. and the passion in those solos...no words
Instrumental love!
This song is so soothing. I listen to it while I lay in bed whenever I don't feel good.
I first heard this song in the "Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" episode of The Sopranos.
OK. Its at least 5 years later since I first heard this version. I'm now 68. Close your eyes. Close the door. Turn up the volume. Not too loud. Soak up every second of every note of every instrument. I can't sing, read music or play an instrument. This is musical perfection.
OMG Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn can’t be any better !!!!
JONES CROPPER DUNN & JACKSON
I'm 63 and this is my favorite tune of all time. I know nothing about music but these guys were so in sync together and tight when they played. The finish to this song gives me goosebumps every time. The finish on this song in vinyl is off the charts !!!!!
We're the same age, my friend,,,and ditto to everything you just said. Except, you just proved you DO know something about music…the important thing!…thanks for posting!
Thomas Poserina I my friend, am a bit older than you, and this is the hottest version of this song I've ever heard. it makes me sweat and crave a mint julep.
Thomas Poserina kick ass music booker t and the Mgs
Kick ass booker
📠
Couldn't agree more! Our grandkids will never have it this good...maybe NEVER AGAIN!
Booker T. Jones is a towering genius among Hammond players. Such a beautiful soul, and it pours out of the organ.
Dude, this is great music from the 60's; this is just one of their songs. There is more, much more!
... I listened to the studio version of this track hour after hour back in '66, but Mr. Jones really took the song to a whole new dimension THIS time...
One of my fav songs. Top 3. I’ve listened to the studio version THOUSANDS of times, and rarely give it one single play when I pull it up in my archives. Excellent!
- You ever feel like nothing good would ever happen?
- Yeah. And nothing did. So what? I’m alive. I’m surviving.
1st time I ever heard/seen this, this is king of the hill !!!
The best fit to this song I've seen!!! Smokin!!
wow it is mindblowing, so beautiful!!
Reading Jet Magazine, I came across this fabulous man Solomon Burke: King of Rock and Soul... he was the robust, regal preacher-turned-singer who defined soul music in the '60s and continued to perform and minister for decades. He made his transistion and will be missed by many!
My all time favorite song. I think deeply to this song. It has that special vibe. Steve Cropper is one of the best all time. I seen this group play in long beach in 2002. What a performance i almost cried it was so good. Very classy band
I get chills every time I watch this amazing performance.
Incredible SOUL ! ..WELL PLAYED, Gentlemen ! ..... Today's music can't hold a candle to this, especially, this LIVE performance... Not only do I hear this song, I FEEL it more !
Best album, during my Army years, 68'-72' they were a great escape when we were overseas. Just as good today as they were back then.
Thanks for your service. Hope all is well
The very definition of Sol! It gets no better than this.
I agree 100%
This version of a great classic tune is just so,so magnificent.
Amazing sounds & very enjoyable.
this is one complex song and it sounds sooo good. 5000 stars to the performers on this one!!
Just heard this song in the background on The Sopranos S01E08
Recognized Summertime immediately. Just had to look up the artist, that blown away !
What a find.
As good as this is, and it's f'n great, the studio version is even better. It takes you right in to the sultry heat of a southern summer. It makes you sweat just listening to it.
Strong point made about seeing the performers live. I lived in New York in the early '80s. Rap and breakdancin' were relatively new then. It meant something then. My point is now music is all over the place being whatever it wants to be.
Music and musicianship are rooted in performance. There's something real and truthful about feedback, buzzing amps, torn guitar strings, faulty mics and all that.
Best recording by Booker T & the MGs imho
Totally. I've heard some amazing versions of this song but I have to say I love this one above all the others I've heard.
Mid-summer, 2017 here and now. This music is full of rich "sounds for sore ears".
Masterpiece.
absolutely amazing
The B3 makes magic of George and Ira Gershwin's finest song.
Heard this one yesterday live in Einhoven, Netherlands. So awfully beautiful...
And their version of "Something" was a masterpiece in my opinion.
mi versión favorita de Summertime desde que tenía 17 años
Righteous.
Thank you!
Good ; better; Best !!!!!
No one better than Booker T.at last.
Well, damn, my heart's beatin' faster!!! Yeah!! Yeah!!
many really distinctive covers have been made all very nice in their own way.
another great song to listen too
The age of hiphop, rap modern music put shortly, is my age of music, yet after listening to a lot of music and thinking rationally about whats good and whats bad and more important why this is so, i decided for myself which music i like best. I trust any rational thinking person to do the same, despite their time of living or cultural background. For instance one of my friends is a quite well known hiphop dj, yet he only listens to this kind of music, he makes hiphop he listens to funk and soul.
best instumental ST money can buy.
Not long enough. Need more summertime.
It is simply the BEST
Amazing
This song has been covered by many artists with different styles and versions. Song was from "Porgy and Bess" stage play of 1946. This version happens to be an instrumental with Booker T burning up the Hammond organ and "Duck " Dunn And Steve Cropper being mean on the bass and guitar, respectively. This must have been quite a set to listen and even take in the music. A set like this deserves a quiet, silky performance, of which this was one!!!
GOOD BEAUTIFUL TRANSCENDS ALL BARRIERS EVEN THE COLOR BARRIER This was a mixed race band AND they kicked A**
RIP Mr. Dunn.
I love booker Ts organ!!
It's amazing that two of these guys were white. They sound like the blackest music in the market. I'm kind of proud of the white guys Go Steve and Duck and Booker T and the drummer whose name I forgot.
His original drummer was Al Jackson, who was murdered in 1975. The drummer on this set had the last name of Figg. Don't know much about him, but he performed masterfully with them on this occasion!!! The drummer on this set was named Anton Figg!!!
Absolutely beautiful. The MGs were the masters of cover songs. They could take any song and make it a million times better. Just listen to McLemore Avenue, it's a Booker T & the MGs album where they just play Abbey Road covers. Abbey Road is one of my favorite albums ever, but after I heard the MGs version, I find it hard to go back. The final medley on the album culminating with I Want You (She's so Heavy) is my favorite piece of music ever.
The fast finger tapping at 2:14 is incredible
There was no equal !
Listened to these cats on 8 track in Dad's truck. Had to order "Melting Pot" on CD for $20- well worth it... Damn.
there are parts where Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac come to mind. - FANTASTIÇ!
Couldnt agree more.
Where's my arc paulie ?
Not sure anyone cares, but this was actually a bar called the Strand in Manhattan Beach CA, not New York... 91 sounds right. I remember this fondly as I was just camera left behind Booker T... I was there working with the director (Michael Oblowitz)... this would become my video editing debut. It was an amazing experience to watch and meet these guys, and an incredible opportunity for me at the time to step up from assistant and cut my first project. I was basically a 23 year old wet behind the ears kid sweating it out for hours/ days/ nights with this footage hoping to impress.... time FLIES!
The only other bit of trivia I can add is that Anton Fig from the David Letterman Show is on the drums.
STEADY that's actually really awesome. I care. I'm very impressed with the work they did to make this song happen.
I'm now 70 years old and of all the music I have experienced in my lifetime from Jimmi Hendrix to Aretha Franklin to Otis Redding to the Beatles and Rolling Stones, if I could choose to go back in time and sit thru one live performance - THIS would be it. Man this music goes thru your soul every single time.
le chef-d'oeuvre
exceptionel, blues,j'adore
le plus que parfait !
Where’s my arc Paulie?
Dunn's bassline is sublime.
Like si en 2024 lo seguís viendo
I have a friend who does this on a sax and it sounds great
Booker T COMIN HARD
Booker T --> the god of the hammond organ
anyone know any other bands like booker t & mg's?
@TheNorthernSoulKing He said: "I'm a fan of Booker T, I have a Leslie 122 (the best) for sale"
ASTOUNDING
As for the cd, dvd, mp3, etc. if it wasnt for these things i wouldve never heard this music. Without having that heard on cd first I never wouldve went to the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Netherlands. I'd say that the age of information had a really positive effect on my choice of music and making me willing to see that music live. My exact point is that my grandchildren will never be able to see Booker T and the MG's live. It's a narcistic point of view more than a rational one.
This has a Miles Davis feeling to it, and that's saynig something.
@gpcl16 that album was actually produced by george harrison pretty cool huh Mclemore avenue
Billy Stewert's full verson of this song is the best, Janis close second, but this was an awesome version also my opinion ;-)
love booker t ,but and i know its not the same vibe ,but big brother and the holding co,with janice knocked this out ,park
Good point. Tough drills ahead. Too much counterpoint and crescendo from rap, hip-hop, rock and pop 'innuendo'. Don't quit tho'.
Live music...could return. Just eliminate the Walkman, Discman, CD, DVD, MP3, MP4, downloads & mobile phones, eh? Tough! Really tough!
Don't get me wrong. I'm on your side. And I don't like what I see happening. Nothing we say or do changes anything until the time comes for it to change.
Where is my Arc?
All i got is nightmares paulie
Where's my arc, Paulie?
Do U all remember this tune at the ending of the movie, joint?
f i have to choose a message to send to the extra terrestrial... well this would be my first choice
Yeah Green Onions was the most popular, but the real one was "Melting Pot" before that, even better.
thats not necessarily true though, my generation of lovers of proper music will drill this type of music into their kids. Hence making your grandkids have the same experience u had listening to this for the first time, as for the live experience, it's not only a shame but it's also a pity that they will never have that experience.
JONES CROPPER DUNN & JACKSON?
@TheNorthernSoulKing Je suis un Fan de Booker T , j'ai une cabine Leslie 122 (la meilleur) à vendre ...
Christopher Moltisanti brought me here
isn't this called " Ohrenschmaus " in German ?
Astrein
Great band , but never want to hear Summertime again.
I can play a hundred Stax songs,can you?
@TheNorthernSoulKing I know absolutely nothing about them man, sorry. Could only translate the message.