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The Stax Story (part 3): Booker T. Jones

Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, November 1967

BOOKER T. JONES was born in Memphis, Tennessee, November 12, 1944. He started playing the organ professionally at the age of fourteen. During his high school years, he was the director of the high school band for four years. He organized a high school orchestra, which played prom dates throughout the Mid-South for three years. In 1962 Booker T. was named to the "Who's Who" in high schools of America.

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