Green Onions / Behave Yourself(Volt V-102, October 1962)Reissued as Stax S-127 | ||
Billboard Hot 100 Chart Peak: #3
Entered Chart: 08/11/62 Weeks on Chart: 16 |
Billboard R&B Chart Peak: #1
Entered Chart: 08/25/62 Weeks on Chart: 15 |
- Green Onions (2:45)
(Jones/Cropper/Steinberg/Jackson)
- Behave Yourself (3:15)
(Jones/Cropper/Steinberg/Jackson)
Quotes & Notes
"I knew when we cut 'Green Onions,' I said 'Shit, this is the best damn instrumental I've heard in I don't know when.' I knew we had a winner there."
—Steve Cropper
"That sounds like somebody making love and the lady says to the man 'behave yourself!' Thus was born the title of what became the B-side, 'Behave Yourself.'"
—Estelle Axton
"Behave Yourself" is featured in the Coen brothers' cult film The Big Lebowski, playing softly at a bowling alley while The Dude contemplates a missed cash handoff in a kidnapping plot.
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