At 03:46 PM 5/20/97 -0800, you wrote:
>>Just to show my age, the original MG group was Booker T and the MGs ( Green
>>Onions) The name was taken by one of the group who drove an MG.
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>Try again... like the answer but it is wrong. MG stands for Memphis Group.
>They were the house band for the Stack/Voltz Record label based out of...
>how did you guess Memphis. Virtually anything that came out on that label
>had them playing on it. Steve Cropper the guitar player for the group
>co-wrote a lot of material, take a look at the credits on Otis Redding
>material. You saw Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn in the Blues Brothers Band.
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>Lane
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Lane, I beg to differ with you. It was commonly accepted to mean Memphis
Group, but in an interview a few years ago, a member of the band verified
the story about the MG, which shortly after the name was established, was
later identified as the Memphis Group, I kid you not.
Mike
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