I heard that sound, and it just struck me. I thought that’s what I want to do with my life. That’s the sound I want to try to make.

The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones’ arrangement of “One Mint Julep.”
BOOKER T. JONES

Arrangement Player Rays Reason Trying
I heard that sound, and it just struck me. I thought that’s what I want to do with my life. That’s the sound I want to try to make.
BOOKER T. JONES

Heard Make Struck Thought
I was one of the chosen few to have a job and to walk through the curtain at Stax Records was just an amazing thing for me to do at age 14.
BOOKER T. JONES

Amazing Chosen Records Things
I was extremely fortunate to live around the corner from a recording studio and to be chosen to have a paper route to make enough money to pay for the music lessons.
BOOKER T. JONES

Age Jobs Records

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