Green Onions - Cover Versions

Cover Versions

• Henry Mancini in album Uniquely Mancini of 1963.
• The Ventures included their version on their popular 1963 album The Ventures Play Telstar and The Lonely Bull
• In a live cover of this tune from the album Made in America, Dan Aykroyd, as his character Elwood J. Blues of the Blues Brothers comments on the song during a vamp, "I believe that this tune can be equated with the great classical music around the world. Well now you go to Germany, you got your Bach, your Beethoven and your Brahms. Here in America, you got your Fred McDowell, your Irving Berlin, your Glenn Miller, and your Booker T. & the M.G.s!"
• A live cover by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers appears on their career-spanning set The Live Anthology.
• British keyboardist Paul Hardcastle covered the song from his album Cover to Cover.
• Graham Bond released a version of "Green Onions" on his 1970 solo album Solid Bond.
• American guitarist Roy Buchanan played an extended version of the song "Green Onions" on the album Loading Zone.
• Johnny Thunders covered the song oh his 1983 double album In Cold Blood. A live version is also included on the second record.
• Milt Buckner released the song on Green Onions.
• Jack Costanzo on his 2002 album Scorching the Skins.
• Georgie Fame released "Green Onions" as the b-side to "Do Re Mi" in April 1964.
• Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper recorded the song live on The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper in 1969.
• Byron Lee and the Dragonaires on several different albums.
• Jamaican Shaggy and British artist Maxi Priest. sampled the song on their 1996 album Man with the fun.
• Harry James did a version of "Green Onions" with his band in 1965 with Buddy Rich on drums.
• The Japanese garage rock trio The 5.6.7.8's performed a cover of "Green Onions" on their album Teenage Mojo Workout.