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George Benson (born March 22, 1943 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania with a population of 312,819. The population of the seven-county metropolitan area is 2,462,571....
) is an American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 guitarist. He is however, better known to the public at large as a Pop
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
 and R&B singer, famous for such hits as "Give Me the Night
Give Me the Night

Give Me The Night is a 1980 album by George Benson and was released on the Warner Bros. Records label. The Song "Moody?s Blood" was recorded with R&B Singer Patti Austin....
", "Lady Love Me (One More Time)", "Turn Your Love Around
Turn Your Love Around

"Turn Your Love Around" is one of many major R&B, Jazz and Pop hit singles for George Benson. The song was written to help fill out Benson's 1981 greatest hits album, "The George Benson Collection"....
", "Inside Love(So Personal)", "In Your Eyes", and "This Masquerade
This Masquerade

"This Masquerade" is a song composed by Leon Russell. The song appeared on the b-side of the single for Russell's 1972 hit "Tight Rope."The most successful version was released by George Benson in 1976....
", among others. Benson is an accomplished scat singer
Scat singing

In vocal jazz, scat singing is vocal Musical improvisation with random vocables and syllables or without words at all. Scat singing gives singers the ability to sing improvised melodies and rhythms, to create the equivalent of an instrumental solo using their voice....
, often developing intricate melodic
Melody

In music, a melody , also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones which is perceived as a single entity....
 voice phrases
Phrase (music)

In music a phrase is a section of music that is relatively self contained and coherent over a medium time scale. In common practice, phrases are often four and most often eight bar s, or Measure s, long....
 alongside his guitar, accurately parallelling it in pitch
Pitch (music)

Pitch represents the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound. It is one of the three major auditory system attributes of sounds along with loudness and timbre....
, accent
Accent (music)

In music, an accent is an emphasis placed on a particular note , either as a result of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark....
, tempo
Tempo

In musical terminology, 'tempo' is the speed or pace of a given musical piece. It is an extremely crucial element of composition, as it can affect the mood and difficulty of a piece....
, and syncopation
Syncopation

In music, syncopation includes a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected in that they deviate from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beat in a meter ....
.

on was born and raised in the Hill District in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania with a population of 312,819. The population of the seven-county metropolitan area is 2,462,571....
 and attended the defunct Connelly High School before dropping out.






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George Benson (born March 22, 1943 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania with a population of 312,819. The population of the seven-county metropolitan area is 2,462,571....
) is an American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 guitarist. He is however, better known to the public at large as a Pop
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
 and R&B singer, famous for such hits as "Give Me the Night
Give Me the Night

Give Me The Night is a 1980 album by George Benson and was released on the Warner Bros. Records label. The Song "Moody?s Blood" was recorded with R&B Singer Patti Austin....
", "Lady Love Me (One More Time)", "Turn Your Love Around
Turn Your Love Around

"Turn Your Love Around" is one of many major R&B, Jazz and Pop hit singles for George Benson. The song was written to help fill out Benson's 1981 greatest hits album, "The George Benson Collection"....
", "Inside Love(So Personal)", "In Your Eyes", and "This Masquerade
This Masquerade

"This Masquerade" is a song composed by Leon Russell. The song appeared on the b-side of the single for Russell's 1972 hit "Tight Rope."The most successful version was released by George Benson in 1976....
", among others. Benson is an accomplished scat singer
Scat singing

In vocal jazz, scat singing is vocal Musical improvisation with random vocables and syllables or without words at all. Scat singing gives singers the ability to sing improvised melodies and rhythms, to create the equivalent of an instrumental solo using their voice....
, often developing intricate melodic
Melody

In music, a melody , also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones which is perceived as a single entity....
 voice phrases
Phrase (music)

In music a phrase is a section of music that is relatively self contained and coherent over a medium time scale. In common practice, phrases are often four and most often eight bar s, or Measure s, long....
 alongside his guitar, accurately parallelling it in pitch
Pitch (music)

Pitch represents the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound. It is one of the three major auditory system attributes of sounds along with loudness and timbre....
, accent
Accent (music)

In music, an accent is an emphasis placed on a particular note , either as a result of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark....
, tempo
Tempo

In musical terminology, 'tempo' is the speed or pace of a given musical piece. It is an extremely crucial element of composition, as it can affect the mood and difficulty of a piece....
, and syncopation
Syncopation

In music, syncopation includes a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected in that they deviate from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beat in a meter ....
.

Biography


Early career

Benson was born and raised in the Hill District in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania with a population of 312,819. The population of the seven-county metropolitan area is 2,462,571....
 and attended the defunct Connelly High School before dropping out. Benson started out playing straight-ahead instrumental jazz with organist Jack McDuff
Jack McDuff

"Brother" Jack McDuff was a jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who was most prominent during the hard bop and soul jazz era of the 1960s....
. Benson got his first experience playing with his several-year stint with McDuff's group. At the age of 21, Benson recorded his first album as leader, The New Boss Guitar, with Brother Jack McDuff on organ.

Benson's next recording was It's Uptown with the George Benson Quartet with Lonnie Smith on organ and Ronnie Cuber
Ronnie Cuber

Ronnie Cuber is primarily a jazz musician baritone saxophonist. He has also played in Latin, pop, rock and blues sessions. In addition to baritone sax, he has also played soprano sax and flute, the latter on an album by Eddie Palmieri....
 on baritone sax. This album showcased Benson's talent in constructing swinging bebop lines at blistering tempos. Benson followed it up with The George Benson Cookbook, also with Lonnie Smith and Ronnie Cuber.

Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
 employed Benson's talents in the mid 1960s; Benson played guitar on "Paraphernalia", which appeared on the trumpeter's 1967 Columbia
Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
 release, Miles in the Sky
Miles in the Sky (album)

Miles in the Sky is an album recorded in January and May 1968 by the Miles Davis quintet. It is notable for the first use of electric piano and electric guitar on an issued recording by Davis, a foreshadowing of his move into jazz fusion music over the next few years....
. He went to Verve Records
Verve Records

Verve Records is an United States Jazz record label now owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records and material which had been licensed to Mercury Records previously....
 afterwards. Then, Creed Taylor
Creed Taylor

Creed Taylor is an United States record producer. He is the founder of two jazz record labels, Impulse! Records and CTI Records. He was also a producer of note at Verve Records and is widely acknowledged for bringing major bossa nova talent from Brazil to record in the U.S....
 signed him up for his CTI
CTI Records

CTI Records was a jazz record label founded in 1967 in music by Creed Taylor, initially as a subsidiary of A&M Records....
 label, where he recorded numerous albums with jazz heavyweights guesting to limited financial success. Benson also did versions of The Beatles
The Beatles

The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
's 1969 album Abbey Road
Abbey Road (album)

Abbey Road is the eleventh official U.K. album and seventeenth U.S. album released by The Beatles. Though work on Abbey Road began in April 1969, making it the final album recorded by the band, Let It Be was the last album released before the Beatles' dissolution in 1970....
 called The Other Side of Abbey Road, released in 1969, and "White Rabbit
White Rabbit (song)

"White Rabbit" is a psychedelic rock/acid rock song from Jefferson Airplane's 1967 in music album Surrealistic Pillow. It was released as a single and became the band's second top ten hit, peaking at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100....
", originally written and recorded by San Francisco rockgroup Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane was an United States rock music band formed in San Francisco, California in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
, around this time.

1970s and 1980s


By the mid to late 1970s, as he recorded for Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an United States record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is also affectionately known as "Warners" and 'the Bunny', based on the Bugs Bunny cartoons released by Warner Bros....
 after recently signing with them, a whole new audience began to discover Benson for the first time. With the 1976 release Breezin'
Breezin'

Breezin' is an album by jazz/soul music guitarist George Benson.The album marked the beginning of Benson's most successful period commercially....
, also the name of a memorable instrumental on the album which became an AM Radio staple, Benson began to put his vocal on tracks such as "This Masquerade
This Masquerade

"This Masquerade" is a song composed by Leon Russell. The song appeared on the b-side of the single for Russell's 1972 hit "Tight Rope."The most successful version was released by George Benson in 1976....
", which was the first song to make number one on the Billboard pop, jazz and R&B charts. Benson had used his vocals on songs earlier in his career, notably his rendition of "Here Comes the Sun
Here Comes the Sun

"Here Comes the Sun" is a song by George Harrison from The Beatles' 1969 album Abbey Road .The song, one of Harrison's best-known Beatles contributions alongside "Something", originated from a songwriting collaboration between Harrison and close friend Eric Clapton called "Badge ," recorded by Clapton's group Cream , and featuring an ar...
" on the Other Side of Abbey Road album. He was part of psychedelic soul group Harlem Underground Band during the 1970s, whose song "Smokin' Cheeba Cheeba" was featured in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is a Nonlinear gameplay action-adventure game computer game and video game developed by Rockstar North. It is the third 3D computer graphics game in the Grand Theft Auto video game franchise and fifth original game overall....
.

"This Masquerade" won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year
Grammy Award for Record of the Year

The Record of the Year is one of the four most prestigious Grammy Awards presented annually. It has been awarded since 1959. The honorees through its history have been:...
 and the live take of the classic "On Broadway
On Broadway

"On Broadway" is a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil in collaboration with the team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller....
", recorded two years later from the 1978 release Weekend in L.A., also won a Grammy
Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
). Benson made it into the Pop and R&B Top Ten and the song "Give Me the Night
Give Me the Night

Give Me The Night is a 1980 album by George Benson and was released on the Warner Bros. Records label. The Song "Moody?s Blood" was recorded with R&B Singer Patti Austin....
", produced by Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. , is an United States music Conductor , record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991....
, was his biggest U.S. pop hit, peaking at number four in 1980. "Turn Your Love Around
Turn Your Love Around

"Turn Your Love Around" is one of many major R&B, Jazz and Pop hit singles for George Benson. The song was written to help fill out Benson's 1981 greatest hits album, "The George Benson Collection"....
" and others became big hits for Benson as well. On Warner Bros., Benson accumulated three other platinum LPs and two gold albums.

He also recorded the original version of "Greatest Love of All
Greatest Love of All

"Greatest Love of All" is the fourth and final Single released from Whitney Houston's self-titled 13x platinum first studio album, Whitney Houston , released in April 1986....
" for the 1977 Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali is a retired United States boxing and former three-time List of heavyweight boxing champions.As an amateur, Ali won a gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in the light heavyweight division gold medal....
 bio-pic, The Greatest
The Greatest (film)

The Greatest is a 1977 film about the life of boxer Muhammad Ali, in which Ali plays himself. It was directed by Tom Gries and Monte Hellman....
, which was later recorded successfully as a cover by Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston

Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an United States singer, songwriter,actress, record producer, film producer, and former model . Houston rose to international fame in the mid-1980s and her crossover success opened doors for many other African American women to find success in booty shaking & pop music and movies....
.

During this time Benson recorded with the German conductor, Claus Ogerman
Claus Ogerman

Claus Ogerman is a Germany musical arrangement/ Orchestration, conductor, and composer, perhaps best known for his work with Antonio Carlos Jobim....
.

Later and current career


From the mid 1980s up until today Benson has continued to tour and record music.

In 1985 Benson and guitarist Chet Atkins
Chet Atkins

Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins was an influential American guitarist and record producer.His picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes and Les Paul, brought him admirers both within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally....
 succeeded on the smooth jazz
Smooth jazz

Smooth jazz is a sub-genre of jazz which is influenced stylistically by Rhythm and blues, funk and pop music.Beginning in the early 1970s, it was an evolution into jazz with a modern, electronic sensibility....
 charts with their collaboration "Sunrise", one of two songs from the duo released on Atkins' disc Stay Tuned. Producer Mike Poston states Benson and Atkins recorded an album's worth of music, but due to disagreements between lawyers for their record companies, the rest of the material has never been released.

In 1992, Benson appeared on Jack McDuff's Colour Me Blue album.

George Benson toured with Al Jarreau
Al Jarreau

Alwyn Lopez "Al" Jarreau is an United States singer. A seven-time Grammy Award winner, he is the only vocalist in history to win in three separate categories: jazz, pop music, and R&B....
 in America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand to promote their 2006 album Givin' It Up.

He played during the second Monsoon Cup in Terengganu
Terengganu

Terengganu is a sultanate and constitutive state of federal Malaysia. The state is also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Iman . The coastal city of Kuala Terengganu which stands at the mouth of the broad Terengganu River is both the state and royal capital as well as the largest city in Terengganu....
 in 2006 and also Malaysia
Malaysia

Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....
's 50th Merdeka celebration alongside Al Jarreau
Al Jarreau

Alwyn Lopez "Al" Jarreau is an United States singer. A seven-time Grammy Award winner, he is the only vocalist in history to win in three separate categories: jazz, pop music, and R&B....
 in 2007.

In May 2008, for the first time Benson took part in Mawazine Festival in Morocco
Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....
  Benson continues to tour the world performing over 100 shows a year. Benson lives a private life in Arizona, where he is an active member of the Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses is a restorationism, Millenarianism Christianity religious movement. Sociology of religion have classified the group as an Adventism sect....
.

2009 sees Benson back in the studio recording a new album, with David Paich and Steve Lukather of Toto fame joining a stellar cast.

Discography


Albums

  • 1964: George Benson/Jack McDuff (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    )
  • 1964: The New Boss Guitar (Prestige)
  • 1965: Benson Burner (Columbia
    Columbia Records

    Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
    )
  • 1965: It's Uptown (Columbia)
  • 1966: The George Benson Cookbook
    The George Benson Cookbook

    The George Benson Cookbook is the second album by jazz/soul music guitarist George Benson to be produced by John H. Hammond....
     (Columbia)
  • 1966: Willow Weep for Me (CBS
    CBS Records

    CBS Records is a record label founded by CBS Corporation in 2006 in music to take advantage of music from its entertainment properties distributed by CBS Paramount Television....
    )
  • 1967: Blue Benson (Verve
    Verve Records

    Verve Records is an United States Jazz record label now owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records and material which had been licensed to Mercury Records previously....
    ) - Jazz #23
  • 1968: Giblet Gravy (Verve)
  • 1968: Goodies (Verve)
  • 1969: Shape of Things to Come (A&M
    A&M Records

    A&M Records is an United States record label owned by Universal Music Group which operates through the Interscope-Geffen-A&M division....
    ) - R&B #38, Jazz #11
  • 1969: Tell It Like It Is (A&M) - US #145, R&B #43, Jazz #16
  • 1969: The Other Side of Abbey Road (A&M) - US #125, R&B #18
  • 1970: I Got a Woman & Some Blues (A&M)
  • 1971: Beyond the Blue Horizon (CTI
    CTI Records

    CTI Records was a jazz record label founded in 1967 in music by Creed Taylor, initially as a subsidiary of A&M Records....
    ) - Jazz #15
  • 1972: White Rabbit
    White Rabbit (album)

    White Rabbit is an album by George Benson. The title track is a cover of the famous Grace Slick song....
     (CTI) - Jazz #7
  • 1973: Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon, Vol. 1 (Accord)
  • 1973: Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon, Vol. 2 (Accord)
  • 1973: Witchcraft (Jazz Hour)
  • 1974: Body Talk (CTI) - Jazz #10
  • 1975: Bad Benson (CTI) - US #78, Jazz #1
  • 1976: Good King Bad (CTI) - US #51, R&B #18, Jazz #3
  • 1976: Benson & Farrell (CTI) - US #100, R&B #27, Jazz #3
  • 1976: Breezin'
    Breezin'

    Breezin' is an album by jazz/soul music guitarist George Benson.The album marked the beginning of Benson's most successful period commercially....
     (Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros. Records

    Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an United States record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is also affectionately known as "Warners" and 'the Bunny', based on the Bugs Bunny cartoons released by Warner Bros....
    ) - US #1, R&B #1, Jazz #1
  • 1977: In Concert-Carnegie Hall (CTI) - US #122, R&B #43, Jazz #6
  • 1977: In Flight (Warner Bros.) - US #9, R&B #2, Jazz #1
  • 1978: Space Album (CTI)
  • 1978: Weekend in L. A.
    Weekend in L. A.

    Weekend in L. A. is an album by jazz/soul music guitarist George Benson....
     (Warner Bros.) - US #5, R&B #1, Jazz #1
  • 1979: Livin' Inside Your Love
    Livin' Inside Your Love

    Livin' Inside Your Love is a Double album-Gramophone record by jazz musician George Benson, which was released in 1979....
     (Warner Bros.) - US #7, R&B #4, Jazz #1
  • 1979: Take Five (CTI)
  • 1980: Cast Your Fate to the Wind (CTI)
  • 1980: Give Me the Night
    Give Me the Night

    Give Me The Night is a 1980 album by George Benson and was released on the Warner Bros. Records label. The Song "Moody?s Blood" was recorded with R&B Singer Patti Austin....
     (Warner Bros.) - US #3, R&B #1, Jazz #1
  • 1981: GB (CTI)
  • 1981: The George Benson Collection (Warner Bros.) - US #14, R&B #5, Jazz #1
  • 1983: In Your Eyes (Warner Bros.) - US #27, R&B #6, Jazz #1
  • 1983: Pacific Fire (CTI)
  • 1984: 20/20 (Warner Bros.) - US #45, R&B #20, Jazz #3
  • 1984: Live in Concert (Design)
  • 1985: The Electrifying George Benson (Affinity)
  • 1986: While the City Sleeps... (Warner Bros.) - US #77, R&B #21, Jazz #8
  • 1987: Collaboration (with Earl Klugh
    Earl Klugh

    Earl Klugh is an United States smooth jazz/jazz fusion guitarist and composer. Klugh currently resides in the Buckhead district of Atlanta, Georgia....
    ) (Warner Bros.) - US #59, R&B #28, Jazz #1
  • 1988: Twice the Love (Warner Bros.) - US #76, R&B #17, Jazz #10
  • 1989: Tenderly (Warner Bros.) - US #140, Jazz #1
  • 1990: Big Boss Band (Warner Bros.) - Jazz #3
  • 1991: Midnight Moods (Warner Bros.)
  • 1992: The Essence of George Benson (Columbia)
  • 1993: Love Remembers (Warner Bros.) - R&B #50, Jazz #1
  • 1994: The Most Exciting New Guitarist on the Jazz Scene (Sony)
  • 1995: The Best of George Benson (Warner Bros.) - Jazz #14
  • 1996: California Dreamin (Sony)
  • 1996: Lil Darlin (Thunderbolt)
  • 1996: That's Right (GRP
    GRP Records

    GRP Records is an United States jazz record company that was founded in New York by Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen in 1982....
    ) - US #150, R&B #33, Jazz #1
  • 1998: Standing Together
    Standing Together

    Standing Together is an album by jazz musician George Benson, which was released in 1998....
     (GRP) - R&B #47, Jazz #1
  • 1998: Masquerade (Thunderbolt)
  • 1999: The Masquerade Is Over (Jazz Hour)
  • 2000: Live at Casa Caribe (Columbia River)
  • 2000: Absolute Benson (GRP) - US #125, R&B #24, Jazz #1
  • 2001: All Blues (Bianco)
  • 2002: Blue Bossa (Prestige Elite)
  • 2002: After Hours (Universe)
  • 2003: Irreplaceable (GRP)
  • 2003: The Greatest Hits of All (Rhino) - US #138, R&B #74, Jazz #3
  • 2004: Golden Legends Live (St. Clair)
  • 2005: Jazz After Hours with George Benson (Performax)
  • 2005: Best of George Benson Live (GRP) - Jazz #4
  • 2006: Givin' It Up (with Al Jarreau
    Al Jarreau

    Alwyn Lopez "Al" Jarreau is an United States singer. A seven-time Grammy Award winner, he is the only vocalist in history to win in three separate categories: jazz, pop music, and R&B....
    ) (Concord
    Concord Records

    Concord Records is a United States record label now based in Beverly Hills, California. Originally known as Concord Jazz, it was established in 1972 in music as an off-shoot of the Concord Jazz Festival in Concord, California by festival founder Carl Jefferson, a local automobile dealer and jazz fan who sold his Lincoln Mercury dealers...
    ) - US #58, R&B #14, Jazz #1
  • 2007: Live from Montreux (Immortal)


Singles

  • 1975: "Supership" - UK #30
  • 1976: "This Masquerade
    This Masquerade

    "This Masquerade" is a song composed by Leon Russell. The song appeared on the b-side of the single for Russell's 1972 hit "Tight Rope."The most successful version was released by George Benson in 1976....
    " - US Pop #10, US R&B #3
  • 1976: "Breezin'" - US Pop #63, US R&B #55
  • 1977: "Everything Must Change" - US R&B #34
  • 1977: "Nature Boy" - UK #26
  • 1977: "Gonna Love You More" - US Pop #71, US R&B #41
  • 1977: "The Greatest Love of All" - US Pop #24, US R&B #2, UK #27
  • 1978: "On Broadway" - US Pop #7, US R&B #2
  • 1978: "Lady Blue" - US R&B #39
  • 1979: "Love Ballad" - US Pop #18, US R&B #3, UK #29
  • 1979: "Unchained Melody
    Unchained Melody

    "Unchained Melody" is a popular song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. It is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, by some counts having spawned over 500 versions in hundreds of different languages....
    " - US R&B #55
  • 1980: "Give Me the Night
    Give Me the Night

    Give Me The Night is a 1980 album by George Benson and was released on the Warner Bros. Records label. The Song "Moody?s Blood" was recorded with R&B Singer Patti Austin....
    " - US Pop #4, US R&B #1, UK #7, NLD #8
  • 1980: "Love X Love" - US Pop #61, US R&B #9, UK #10
  • 1981: "Love All the Hurt Away" (with Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Franklin

    Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock and roll, blues, Pop music, Rhythm and Blues and Gospel music....
    ) - US Pop #46, US R&B #6
  • 1981: "Turn Out the Lamplight" - US R&B #33
  • 1981: "What's On Your Mind" - UK #45
  • 1981: "Turn Your Love Around
    Turn Your Love Around

    "Turn Your Love Around" is one of many major R&B, Jazz and Pop hit singles for George Benson. The song was written to help fill out Benson's 1981 greatest hits album, "The George Benson Collection"....
    " - US Pop #5, US R&B #1, UK #29
  • 1982: "Never Give Up on a Good Thing" - US Pop #52, US R&B #16, UK #14
  • 1983: "Inside Love (So Personal)" - US Pop #43, US R&B #3, UK #57
  • 1983: "Lady Love Me (One More Time)" - US Pop #30, US R&B #21, UK #11
  • 1983: "Feel Like Makin' Love" - UK #28
  • 1983: "In Your Eyes" - UK #7
  • 1984: "Late At Night" - UK #86
  • 1984: "20/20" - US Pop #48, US R&B #15, UK #29
  • 1985: "Beyond The Sea (La Mer)" - UK #60
  • 1985: "I Just Wanna Hang Around You" - US Pop #102, US R&B #24, UK #93
  • 1985: "New Day" - US R&B #87
  • 1985: "No One Emotion" - UK #76
  • 1986: "Kisses in the Moonlight" - US R&B #13 UK #60
  • 1986: "Shiver" - US R&B #16, UK #19
  • 1987: "Teaser" - UK #45
  • 1988: "Twice the Love" - US R&B #23, UK #91
  • 1998: "Standing Together" - US R&B #62
  • 2004: "Cell Phone"


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    Sidewalks Entertainment

    Sidewalks Entertainment is a long-running, weekly United States television series that is a combination of a talk show, magazine show and variety show featuring celebrity interviews, music, artistic and novelty acts, and rising performers....