Doin' Our Thing

Summary

Doin' Our Thing is the sixth studio album by R&B band Booker T. & the M.G.'s, released in April 1968. The album was their first self-produced effort and charted at number 176 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart.

Doin' Our Thing
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 23, 1968
RecordedNovember 24, 1967 and February 2, 1968
StudioStax Recording Studio, Memphis
GenreSouthern soul, instrumental rock
Length36:43
LabelStax/Atlantic
ProducerBooker T. & the M.G.'s
Booker T & the M.G.'s chronology
Back to Back
(1967)
Doin' Our Thing
(1968)
Soul Limbo
(1968)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

Track listing edit

Side 1
  1. "I Can Dig It" (Cropper, Dunn, Jones, Jackson) – 2:42
  2. "Expressway (to Your Heart)" (Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff) – 3:05
  3. "Doin' Our Thing" (Cropper, Dunn, Jones, Jackson) – 4:01
  4. "You Don't Love Me" (Willie Cobbs) – 2:49
  5. "Never My Love" (Don Addrisi) – 2:47
  6. "The Exodus Song" (Ernest Gold) – 2:38
Side 2
  1. "The Beat Goes On" (Sonny Bono) – 2:39
  2. "Ode to Billie Joe" (Bobbie Gentry) – 4:02
  3. "Blue on Green" (Cropper, Dunn, Jones, Jackson) – 2:28
  4. "You Keep Me Hanging On" (Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland, Brian Holland) – 4:50
  5. "Let's Go Get Stoned" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson, Josephine Armstead) – 2:54

Personnel edit

Booker T. & the M.G.s
Technical
  • Loring Eutemey – design
  • Dan Hersch – digital remastering
  • Peter Hujar – photography
  • Bill Inglot – digital remastering
  • Peter Jujar – photography
  • Bill Kington – photography
  • The M.G.'s – supervision (producer)

References edit

  1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Doin' Our Thing at AllMusic