Hip Hug-Her

Hip Hug-Her
Studio album by Booker T. & The MG's
Released June, 1967
Recorded February 9, 1967
April 26, 1967
Genre R&B
Instrumental rock
Length 30:26
Label Stax/Atlantic
Producer Booker T. & the MG's
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Booker T. & The MG's chronology
In The Christmas Spirit
(1966)		 Hip Hug-Her
(1967)		 Back to Back
(1967)

Hip Hug-Her is a soul album by Booker T. & the M.G.'s, released on Stax Records in June of 1967. The title track was the band's most successful single since their debut "Green Onions". Their cover of The Young Rascals song "Groovin'" was also a hit (#10R&B, #21Pop).

Contents

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Hip Hug-Her" (Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Al Jackson Jr., Booker T. Jones) – 2:22
  2. "Soul Sanction" (Cropper, Dunn, Jackson, Jones) – 2:30
  3. "Get Ready" (Smokey Robinson) – 2:45
  4. "More" (Riz Ortolani, Nino Oliviero) – 2:55
  5. "Double or Nothing" (Cropper, Dunn, Jackson, Jones) – 2:51
  6. "Carnaby St." (Cropper, Dunn, Jackson, Jones) – 2:14

Side two

  1. "Slim Jenkins' Place" (Cropper, Dunn, Jackson, Jones) – 2:25
  2. "Pigmy" (Mel Brown, Billy Larkin, Henry Swarn) – 3:55
  3. "Groovin'" (Eddie Brigati, Felix Cavaliere) – 2:40
  4. "Booker's Notion" (Cropper, Dunn, Jackson, Jones) – 2:25
  5. "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) – 3:24

Personnel

Charts

USA - Album

Year Chart Peak Position
1967 Black Albums #4
1967 Pop Albums #35

USA - Singles

Year Song Chart Peak Position
1967 "Groovin'" Black Singles #10
1967 "Groovin'" Pop Singles #21
1967 "Slim Jenkin's Place" Black Singles #70

External links

Booker T. & the M.G.'s
Members
Studio albums
Green Onions (1962) · Soul Dressing (1965) · And Now! (1966) · In The Christmas Spirit (1966) · Hip Hug-Her (1967) · Doin' Our Thing (1968) · Soul Limbo (1968) · Uptight (1969) · The Booker T Set (1969) · McLemore Avenue (1970) · Melting Pot (1971) · The MG's (released by The MG's) (1973) · Universal Language (1977) · That's The Way It Should Be (1994)
Live albums
Singles
Jelly Bread · Home Grown · Chinese Checkers · Mo' Onions · Soul Dressing  · Can't Be Still · Boot-Leg · Be My Lady · My Sweet Potato · Jingle Bells · Hip Hug-Her · Groovin' · Silver Bells · Soul Limbo · Hang 'Em High · Time is Tight · Mrs. Robinson · Slum Baby · Something · Melting Pot · Sugarcane · Neckbone · Sticky Stuff · Green Onions
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