Personnel includes: Brook Benton, Dinah Washington, The Merry Melody Singers, Cold Grits.Includes liner notes by Stu Hackel.Digitally remastered by Suha Gur (2000 Universal Mastering).This is part of MCA's 20th Century Masters: The...
Another of several Brook Benton hit packages that have been repeatedly issued in the '80s and '90s. It has "Rainy Night In Georgia" and a few of the songs that were late '50s and early '60s hits, but doesn't offer the complete view that's a...
Personnel: Brook Benton (vocals).Liner Note Author: Gary Tanenbaum.The ten songs on this compilation have been endlessly repackaged and sold for various prices. Ten cuts is scanty, so it would be advisable for the interested to seek o...
As Brook Benton's career-defining platters were still a few years down the road, At His Best (1959) is more of an eye-catching moniker rather than a true representation of Benton's (vocals) highest-charting and most warmly received songs. T...
Brook Benton always seems merry. He enjoys his time in the recording studio, so who better to record a Christmas album than this jolly crooner? Even as you sympathized with him on the mourning "Rainy Night in Georgia," you knew he would wea...
Yet another collection of Brook Benton late '50s and early '60s hits. This is better-sounding than some prior anthologies, but still isn't really what the serious Benton fan desires. Those who want just a little Benton material will prefer ...
Photographer: David Redfern.Although it is far from definitive, Rebound/Polygram Special Markets' Greatest Hits is a pretty good sampler of Brook Benton's classic recordings for Mercury. There are a number of hits that are missing, but "...
Yet another collection of Brook Benton late '50s and early '60s hits. This is better-sounding than some prior anthologies, but still isn't really what the serious Benton fan desires. Those who want just a little Benton material will prefer ...
The requisite hits from Brook Benton, who was a dominant balladeer and smooth R&B/pop hitmaker in the late '50s and early '60s. This collection wasn't as complete as the two-disc Mercury package issued in 1989 or Rhino's Anthology, but it d...
Personnel includes: Brook Benton (vocals); Ray Ellis, Rene Hall, Burt Keyes, Fred Norman, Luchi De Jesus, Bert De Coteaux (arranger, conductor); The Sounds.Producers include: Bob Holontz, Eddie Heller, Clyde Otis, Ernie Altschuler.Com...