Their recording of " Ninety-Nine and a Half ( Won't Do )" by Steve Cropper, Eddie Floyd, and Wilson Pickett was sampled as the primary riff in Madvillain's " America's Most Blunted " from their 2004 self-titled debut.

* " Behave Yourself " – written by Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Al Jackson, Jr. and Lewie Steinberg ; performed by Booker T. & the MG's

The vast majority of Stax releases were backed by house bands Booker T and the MGs ( with Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn, and Al Jackson ) and the Memphis Horns ( the splinter horn section of the Mar-Keys ).

All songs written by Glenn Danzig, except " The Hunter " by Booker T. Jones, Al Jackson, Jr., Donald Dunn, Steve Cropper and Carl Wells

Original members of the group were Booker T. Jones ( organ, piano ), Steve Cropper ( guitar ), Lewie Steinberg ( bass ), and Al Jackson, Jr. ( drums ).

Al Jackson, Jr. was murdered in 1975, after which the trio of Dunn, Cropper and Jones reunited on numerous occasions using various drummers, including Willie Hall, Anton Fig, Steve Jordan and Steve Potts.

In summer 1962, seventeen-year-old keyboardist Booker T. Jones, twenty-year-old guitarist Steve Cropper, bass player Lewie Steinberg, and Al Jackson Jr., a drummer making his debut with the company, were in the Memphis studio to back up former Sun Records star Billy Lee Riley.

Individual session credits notwithstanding, what's indisputable is that the Stax house band ( Cropper, Jackson, Jones, and Steinberg, along with Cropper's Mar-Keys bandmate, bassist Donald “ Duck ” Dunn ; keyboardist Isaac Hayes ; and various horn players, most frequently Floyd Newman, Wayne Jackson and Andrew Love ) would set a standard for soul music.

Jones later taught Cropper, who had not heard Abbey Road, what to play.

The 1973 album entitled The MG's, with Manuel and Whitsett replacing Cropper and Jones, was not commercially successful, though it was critically well received.

After a promising meeting in late September 1975, Jones and Cropper ( who were now living in Los Angeles ) and Jackson and Dunn ( still in Memphis ), decided to give each other three months to finish up all of their projects.

Over the next decade, Cropper, Dunn and Jones remained very active, producing, writing, and playing with other artists.

However, the rehearsals ( with Jones, Cropper, Dunn, and drummer Anton Fig of Shaffer's “ World's Most Dangerous Band ”, featured on Late Night with David Letterman ) went so well that the group decided to play some dates together.

#" Green Onions " ( Steve Cropper, Booker T. Jones, Lewie Steinberg, Al Jackson, Jr ) – 2: 45

#" Mo ' Onions " ( Cropper, Jackson, Jones, Steinberg ) – 2: 50

#" Behave Yourself " ( Cropper, Jackson, Jones, Steinberg ) – 3: 45

While hanging around the Satellite Record Shop run by Estelle Axton, co-owner of Satellite Records with her brother Jim Stewart, Jones met record clerk Steve Cropper, who would become one of the MGs when the group formed in 1962.

Besides Jones on organ and Cropper on guitar, Booker T. and the MGs featured Lewie Steinberg on bass guitar and Al Jackson, Jr. on drums ( Donald " Duck " Dunn eventually replacing Steinberg ).

Jones, Steinberg and Cropper would be joined in mid-1962 by drummer Al Jackson, Jr. to form Booker T. & the M. G.

The sextet of Cropper, Dunn, Hayes, Jackson, Jones and Porter were collectively known as the " Big Six " within the halls of Stax, and were ( either as a group, or working in various combinations ) responsible for producing almost all of the label's output from about 1963 through 1969.

In June 2004, Cropper appeared with Dunn and Jones as the backing band for Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival, held at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.

*" Green Onions " ( Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Lewis Steinberg, Al Jackson, Jr .)

The Booker T and the M. G. s group was founded by Steve Cropper and Booker T. Jones in 1962 ; Al Jackson, Jr. served as the band's drummer.

In the 1970s, Jones and Cropper left Stax, but Dunn and Jackson stayed with the label.

In June 2004, Dunn, Cropper, and Jones served as the house band for Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival.

In a 2008 conversation with BBC Radio 2's Johnnie Walker, Cropper revealed that the record became an instant success when DJ Reuben Washington, at Memphis radio station WLOK, played the song four times in succession, this even before the tune or the band had an agreed-upon name.

Steve Cropper had also become unhappy with business affairs at Stax and soon left.

The album – their first album of new material in 7 years – was produced by Steve Cropper, and featured the MGs and The Memphis Horns and had a minor R & B single, " A Little Bit of Good " ( R & B # 89 ).

He had married the daughter of John Cropper who survived him by only a few days.

Producer Carter had the track recorded in May 1979 with Cropper, bassist Leland Sklar, and drummer Alvin Taylor.

By 1975, Cropper had moved to Los Angeles and along with Jackson and Dunn, reformed Booker T. & the M. G's.

On 2004-06-16, The Pentagon confirmed a report in the New York Times that former CIA chief George Tenet had been allowed by former U. S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to have an Iraqi prisoner secretly detained at Camp Cropper since November, but denied they were trying to hide the prisoner from the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Wise was born in Drummondtown, Accomack County, Virginia, to Major John Wise and his second wife Sarah Corbin Cropper, whose families had long been settled there.

They had three children: Sarah Ann Cropper ( 1825-1842 ), George Africanus Cropper ( 1838-1839 ) and Esther Africanus Cropper ( 1840-1911 ).

Africanus's will also indicates that granddaughter, Sarah Ann Cropper, was " afflicted " in some unstated way ; she died at the age of 17, so may have had a serious illness.

It has been said that the character of Hayley Cropper deserves partial credit for bringing the issues faced by trans people to public attention in a sympathetic manner, rather than the sensationalist coverage that had previously existed.

He had been in the country as part of an ongoing tour with Steve Cropper and Eddie Floyd.

Hayley later reveals that she has had her surname changed by deed poll to Cropper.

Booker T. Jones had just left the company, and Steve Cropper would soon follow.

In 1980 the hit feature film The Blues Brothers featured Steve Cropper and Donald “ Duck ” Dunn as part of the primary band which backed up the Blues Brothers.

Cropper then set up TMI Studios with Jerry Williams and former Mar-Key Ronnie Stoots.

Dunn grew up playing sports and riding his bike with fellow future professional musician Steve Cropper.

After Cropper began playing guitar with mutual friend Charlie Freeman, Dunn decided to pick up the bass guitar.

He was then taken to Abu Ghraib prison before eventually ending up in Camp Cropper, where he spent the remainder of his incarceration in solitary confinement.