No escaping the age I'm afraid. The Mailcoach era was pre it's latest incarnation but post having a separate room in the back - with a football table and a biker clientele . I think it still had the revolving door though.
H Samuels? You'll have to enlighten me.
Love the Booker T stuff. Green Onions always reminds me of "American Graffitti" a favourite film of mine.
The shadows, could listen to them all day long
So hard to do this...
The first that came to mind from pop music were "Wipe Out" by The Surfaris (the intro music for "Ready Steady Go") and "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams.
Jazz - "So What" on the game-changing "Kind of Blue" album by Miles Davis.
Do we include classical which, for the most part, is instrumental? Put me down for the Aria from Bach's "Goldberg Variations"
The original wasn't, the CCS cover was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55nAwmVLQSk
With an honourable mention for another Booker T track Soul Limbo, AKA The cricket music
The much sampled Bob James.
Chuck Berry who Beatles, Stones admit copied his riffs. Guitar solo to Jonny B good