Booker T. Jones says Obama preferred ‘Green Onions’ over ‘Hail to the Chief’

Memphis, Tenn.-born and raised Booker T. Jones was just 16 when he started writing the soul-rocker instrumental tune “Green Onions,” which would become a huge hit for Booker T. & the MGs, the house band for Stax records, in 1962. “I started writing it in my music theory class,” Jones tells The Post. He says...

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