Released September 1968 Length 39:21 Soul Limbo
(1968) Up Tight
(1969) Release date September 1968 | Recorded 1968 Producer Booker T. & the M.G.'s Artist Booker T. & the M.G.'s Label Stax | |
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Genres Rhythm and blues, Instrumental rock Similar Booker T & the MG's albums, Southern soul albums | ||
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Soul Limbo is the seventh studio album by the American R&B band Booker T. & the M.G.'s, released in 1968 on Stax Records. The album was the first Stax LP issued after the label severed its ties with former distributor Atlantic Records in 1968.
Contents
The title track is perhaps best known in the UK as the theme tune for BBC Television's cricket coverage and later for Test Match Special. It features a marimba solo by Terry Manning. Its composition is somewhat similar to a song by Byron Lee and the Dragonaires. The song was later covered by the English punk band Snuff.
The album also features the group's hit version of the title theme from the film Hang 'Em High.
Track listing
- "Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy" (Al Cobb, Ray Whitley)
- "La-La (Means I Love You)" (Thom Bell, William Hart)
- "Hang 'Em High" (Dominic Frontiere)
- "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell)
- "Over Easy" (Booker T. & the M.G.'s)
- "Soul-Limbo" (Booker T. & the M.G.'s)
- "Eleanor Rigby" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
- "Heads or Tails" (Booker T. & the M.G.'s)
- "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" (Aretha Franklin, Teddy White)
- "Born Under a Bad Sign" (William Bell, Booker T. Jones)
- "Foxy Lady" (Jimi Hendrix)
Songs
1Be Young - Be Foolish - Be Happy3:07
2La La Means I Love You2:43
3Hang ’Em High4:02
References
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