Brook Benton
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Brook Benton: Disappointed Brook
Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 12 January 1963
Peter Jones looks at the Million-Selling Ex-Truck Driver... ...
Live Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 26 October 1963
ALTHOUGH IT'S billed as "The Greatest Record Show Of 1963", the first performance at Finsbury Park Astoria last Sunday didn't exactly bear witness to that. ...
Brook Benton: Either You Got It Or You Don't Got It
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 14 May 1971
ONE OF the most pleasing successes of 1970 was Brook Benton with what to me was probably the most soulful record of that year, 'Rainy ...
Brook Benton: Brook's Bent on a Come Back
Interview by Robin Katz, Sounds, 23 August 1975
BROOK BENTON'S face has just broken into a big grin. When his eyes roll back down from the ceiling and he stops laughing to himself, ...
Brook Benton: Brook's No Hero Of The Past
Report and Interview by Roger St. Pierre, Record Mirror, 3 April 1976
LIKE RAY CHARLES, Fats Domino and precious few others, Brook Benton's pulling power as one of the father figures of black American music continues despite ...
Bartender Benton sets 'em up for Britain
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 6 April 1976
AFTER SOMETHING like twenty years of continuous success in the States, Brook Benton looks like finally achieving the breakthrough that has eluded him during the ...
Brook Benton: This Is Brook Benton
Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 24 April 1976
THIS MONTH'S MIND-BLOWER: The Benton basement tapes surface after 18 years in the can and turn out to be a bag of fun for all ...
The Stylistics: 'Chitlins In A Basket' Special
Live Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 24 April 1976
Stylistics/Brook Benton/Three Degrees: The Palladium, London ...
Brook Benton: 40 Greatest Hits
Sleeve notes by Colin Escott, Polygram Records, 1990
BROOK BENTON'S music was a study in contrast. The lushness of the backings was juxtaposed against the contained passion in his voice. On ...
Retrospective by Pete Grendysa, DISCoveries, October 1998
A MUSICAL SAGE once quipped, "If you write music, you're a composer. If you write words, you're a lyricist. If you do both, you're Cole ...
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