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George Benson ~ The Long And Winding Road You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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LOVE "Lack of home training crosses all boundaries." | |
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Love it! Nice tune
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Never heard this before.. but I love it. I actually think I like it better than The Beatles' version (and I love their 'naked' version). I might have to check out The Other Side Of Abbey Road now. |
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George has remade several Beatles songs over the years (including one on his newest album from late last year), and even has a whole album of Abbey Road tracks. Here's a mix someone did of Come Together.
[Edited 4/2/12 21:27pm] You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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By the way, that road is long, but it's not winding. |
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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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^^ It doesnt seem he gets the respect that he truly deserves. Such ashame...
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Who, George Benson?
I think he's pretty well known. Considering that he's a jazz/funk artist, you can't expect him to be very mainstream popular; but he's had a few big hits (Give Me The Night, On Broadway, The Greatest Love Of All...) |
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He is well known but he doesnt get that many accolades. I think he is alot more deserving of more but I guess your right. His genres of music are less popular but I feel he should be credited for being a pioneer at least for those genres, he is... but to me not enough. | |
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George? Jazz purists wrote him off when he stopped focusing on straight jazz and started doing R&B and pop records. Similar to Nat King Cole. They also blame George for helping to popularize "smooth jazz". You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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George said on an episode of Soul Train, he was thinking about leaving the business right before he released the Breezin' album that really began his mainstream popularity. The jazz audience was buying his stuff before then, but that wasn't enough to live on I guess. He had been recording as a guitarist since the early 1960's with other jazz acts. Technically he was performing before that as a singer in doo wop groups and made a record when he was around twelve as Little Georgie Benson. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0 | |
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Well, after listening to some tracks from The Other Side Of Abbey Road, I don't like them as much as his version of "The Long And Winding Road". ... do you happen to know which other Beatles songs he covered?
I didn't even know he had a new album out.. the last one I remember is 2009(?)'s Songs and Stories. |
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George Benson recounts “criminal” encounter with Beatles September 11, 2009 @ 6:57 am By Dean Goodman
As The Beatles take center stage in the music world this week with the much-anticipated reissue of their albums, it’s easy to forget that the Fab Four were not exactly adored by large swathes of the musical community back in the day. Jazz artists, especially, looked down on the noisy pop stars (or were more likely envious of their fame and fortune).
“There was such a divide between rock music and jazz music … We just didn’t discuss anything like that.”
There were some notable crossover efforts, including Ella Fitzgerald with her versions of “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “Got To Get You Into My Life.”
“But among the instrumentalists, it was not possible,” said Benson, who was forced to keep his admiration for The Beatles a secret. ”I liked The Beatles. It just was against the law,” he said. But within weeks of the 1969 release of The Beatles album “Abbey Road,” Benson found himself in the studio, at the best of his label boss, doing a jazz version of the album with a chamber orchestra. ”The Other Side of Abbey Road,” complete with a cover that showed Benson carrying his guitar across the road, scrambled the order of the tunes, recasting most of them in medley form. He also sang on the album for the last time until his smash 1976 Warner Bros. label debut “Breezin.’”
“It took me to a place I had never been before,” he said of the “Abbey Road” sessions, singing the first line of “Golden Slumbers” for good measure.
He later treated the audience to complete versions of a few tunes from the new album, “Songs and Stories,” which just hit stores through Concord Music Group. Among the selections were the instrumental “Living in High Definition,” written by Motown songwriter Lamont Dozier, and “Family Reunion,” co-written by Rod Temperton, who is perhaps best known as the man behind Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and “Rock With You.”
The album also includes a version of “Sailing,” whose singer/songwriter Christopher Cross was in the audience. Benson even managed to persuade retired soul maestro Bill Withers to contribute a tune, “A Telephone Call Away.”
“He can be a difficult fellow if you don’t understand him,” he said. “We got him to come to brunch with us, and we listened to him, as he rambled on and on and on.”
Perhaps with an eye on the latest pop chart, Benson said he would like to collaborate with Whitney Houston, whose first album in seven years just debuted at No. 1. “She’s shaped a lot of careers,” he said.
(photo credit: Greg Allen) You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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I'm guessing that never happened.. |
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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Nope, but there is a photo of George, Whitney, & Bobby Brown together. I think it was taken backstage at one of George's performances. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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All I know is, George once had some very nasty things to say about P. He was on my shit list after that. "Lack of home training crosses all boundaries." | |
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I've always thought this was cute. I used to watch Wonder Woman. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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