McLemore Avenue

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McLemore Avenue
McLemore Avenue cover
Cover album by Booker T. & the MGs
Released April, 1970
Recorded 1970
Genre Southern soul, Instrumental rock
Length 38:12
Label Stax
STS-2027
Booker T. & the MGs chronology
The Booker T Set
(1969)		 McLemore Avenue
(1970)		 Melting Pot
(1971)

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

Contents

[edit] Track listings

All songs by Lennon/McCartney except "Here Comes The Sun" and "Something", by George Harrison

[edit] Side one

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

[edit] Side two

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

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Production credits

  • Produced and arranged by Booker T. & The M.G.s
  • Engineers - Ron Capone, Gordon Rudd, Rik Pekkonen
  • Remix engineers - Steve Cropper, John Fry
  • Photography - Joel Brodsky
  • Art direction - The Graffiteria/David Krieger
  • Art supervision - Herb Kole