Sky arts George Benson Documentary
Saturday 17 October 6.00pm
Sky arts George Benson Documentary
Saturday 17 October 6.00pm
This one sounds real cool,i'm putting together my personal benson anthology,good stuff snakepit!
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Hi...I watched it last week, and enjoyed it. I didn't know a lot about him prior to his late 70s stuff but i discovered he was talented in the Jazz field.
Good Stuff
George Benson kinda had a Nat King Cole experience in his career. He became so well known through his singing that a mass part of his fan base forgot, overlooked, ignored
or simply didn't care how great he was on his chosen instrument. Pissed off a lot of his early fans who saw him as a solid progression after Kenny Burrell, Grant Green and the
giant Wes Montgomery. George is still working today, celebrating his own heroes, like
Fats Domino and though I haven't heard it yet, he's reportedly backing Bootsy Collins on
the Boot's latest release....
Thanks for the shout, I've loaded that to be recorded. I was fortunate to catch him live back in the summer of 2017. It was a few weeks after Barry Gibb did Glastonbury. Barry was great but struggled a bit on some of the Saturday Night Fever stuff [[expected bearing in mind his age). I thought at the time, I'm off to see George soon and he's a couple of years older. Needn't have worried, he'd still got it in spades. So pleased I got to see him, especially in these latter times of pandemic.
He's appeared in my town several times and I've never gone to see him I regret that now.
I ran into him going opposite directions on the people-mover at the Charlotte, NC airport some years ago. We made eye contact and he gave me a brotherly nod. Made my year!
George giving Bootsy some muscle...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoGoKe8z7Ok
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