Brook Benton - Best Of Brook Benton

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 31:37
Size: 72.4 MB
Styles: R&B
Year: 2000
Art: Front

[2:26] 1. It's Just A Matter Of Time
[2:19] 2. Endlessly
[2:28] 3. Thank You Pretty Baby
[2:33] 4. So Many Ways
[2:47] 5. Baby (You've Got What It Takes)
[2:40] 6. Kiddio
[2:29] 7. A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love)
[2:26] 8. Fools Rush In
[2:38] 9. The Boll Weevil Song
[2:13] 10. Lie To Me
[2:42] 11. Hotel Happiness
[3:49] 12. Rainy Night In Georgia

This collection contains most of Brook Benton's biggest hits, including the later "Rainy Night In Georgia", a late 60's soul classic that cemented his place in the genre. The few that are missing aren't nearly as significant as the classics that are here. This a disc made to push play on and listen to all the way through. Not a substandard tune anywhere to be found. The sound quality is admirable. No sonic wonder, it is remastered and certainly and improvement over what came before. So buy it, play it, and be prepared to sit back and snap your fingers. ~Jack the Beatlegeezer

A dozen selections, each of which was a Top 15 pop hit, and six of them reached #1 on the R&B charts! Hear these silky-smooth favorites: The Boll Weevil Song; Hotel Happiness; It's Just a Matter of Time; Rainy Night in Georgia; Kiddio; Lie to Me; Fools Rush In; Baby (You've Got What it Takes) (with Dinah Washington), and more.

Best Of Brook Benton

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Brook Benton - Endlessly

Styles: Vocal, Easy Listening
Year: 1959
Time: 32:44
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 75,8 MB
Art: Front

(2:21) 1. People Will Say We're in Love
(3:20) 2. Because of You
(2:17) 3. More Than You Know
(2:37) 4. Blue Skies
(3:08) 5. Time After Time
(2:41) 6. A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening
(2:18) 7. Endlessly
(3:32) 8. The Things I Love
(2:39) 9. (It's No) Sin
(2:45) 10. Around the World
(2:36) 11. May I Never Love Again
(2:24) 12. You'll Never Know

Silky smooth: that was Brook Benton's byword from his first record to his very last, as the singer parlayed his rich baritone pipes into seven number one R&B hits and eight Top Ten items. Stints on the gospel circuit preceded Benton's first secular session for Okeh in 1953, but his career didn't begin to take off until he teamed with writer/producer Clyde Otis. Benton co-wrote and sang hundreds of demos for other artists before frequent collaborator Otis signed his friend to Mercury; together they pioneered a lush, violin-studded variation on the standard R&B sound, which beautifully showcased Benton's intimate vocals.

Benton crashed the top spot on the R&B charts in early 1959 with his moving "It's Just a Matter of Time," then rapidly encored with three more R&B chart-toppers: "Thank You Pretty Baby," "So Many Ways," and "Kiddio." Pairing with Mercury labelmate Dinah Washington, their delightful repartee on "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)" and "A Rockin' Good Way" paced the R&B lists in 1960.

The early'60s were a prolific period for Benton, but he left Mercury a few years later and bounced between labels before reemerging with the atmospheric Tony Joe White ballad "Rainy Night in Georgia" on Cotillion in 1970. Benton later made a halfhearted attempt to cash in on the disco craze, but his hitmaking reign was at an end long before his death in 1988.By Bill Dahl https://www.allmusic.com/artist/brook-benton-mn0000524239/biography

Endlessly

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Brook Benton - A Jammin' Christmas Time

Size: 74,7 MB
Time: 31:43
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Blues Soul, Holiday
Art: Front

01. Beautiful Memories (3:01)
02. Christmas Makes The Town (2:37)
03. Child (3:17)
04. I Wish Everyday Could Be Like Christmas (2:53)
05. Merry Christmas All (2:36)
06. Blue Decorations (3:32)
07. I've Got The Christmas Spirit (3:56)
08. Decorate The Night (3:26)
09. This Time Of The Year (2:36)
10. When A Child Is Born (3:45)

Silky smooth: that was Brook Benton's byword from his first record to his very last, as the singer parlayed his rich baritone pipes into seven number one R&B hits and eight Top Ten items. Stints on the gospel circuit preceded Benton's first secular session for Okeh in 1953, but his career didn't begin to take off until he teamed with writer/producer Clyde Otis. Benton co-wrote and sang hundreds of demos for other artists before frequent collaborator Otis signed his friend to Mercury; together they pioneered a lush, violin-studded variation on the standard R&B sound, which beautifully showcased Benton's intimate vocals.

Benton crashed the top spot on the R&B charts in early 1959 with his moving "It's Just a Matter of Time," then rapidly encored with three more R&B chart-toppers: "Thank You Pretty Baby," "So Many Ways," and "Kiddio." Pairing with Mercury labelmate Dinah Washington, their delightful repartee on "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)" and "A Rockin' Good Way" paced the R&B lists in 1960.

The early '60s were a prolific period for Benton, but he left Mercury a few years later and bounced between labels before reemerging with the atmospheric Tony Joe White ballad "Rainy Night in Georgia" on Cotillion in 1970. Benton later made a halfhearted attempt to cash in on the disco craze, but his hitmaking reign was at an end long before his death in 1988.

A Jammin' Christmas Time

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