Brook Benton - If Only I Had Known (Alan Freed's Mr. Rock and Roll)
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- Brook Benton, Benjamin Franklin Peay, was born on September 19, 1931 in Lugoff, South Carolina. When Peay was young he enjoyed gospel music and wrote songs. So in 1948 he went to New York to pursue his music career. He went in and out of gospel groups such as The Langfordaires, The Jerusalem Stars, and The Golden Gate Quartet. Returning to his home state, he joined a R&B singing group, The Sandmen, and went back to New York to get a big break with his group. The Sandmen had limited success, and their label, Okeh Records, decided to push Peay as a solo artist, changing his name to Brook Benton, apparently at the suggestion of label executive Marv Halsman.
Brook earned a good living writing songs and co-producing albums. He wrote songs for artists such as Nat King Cole, Clyde McPhatter (for whom he wrote the hit "A Lover's Question"), and Roy Hamilton. Soon he released his first minor hit, "A Million Miles from Nowhere". Later he went on to the Mercury label, which would eventually bring him larger success.
Finally in 1959 he made his breakthrough with his hits "It's Just a Matter of Time" and "Endlessly". "It's Just a Matter of Time" peaked at #3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, while "Endlessly" made it to #12. Both of the first two hits were written by Benton with Clyde Otis. They were originally offered to Nat King Cole, but when Otis became an A&R official at Mercury, he convinced Benton to sign with the label and record them himself, while asking Cole not to record the songs as planned. He followed this success with a series of hits, including "So Many Ways" (#6), "Hotel Happiness" (#3), "Think Twice" (#11), "Kiddio" (#7), and "The Boll Weevil Song" (#2). In 1960, he had two top 10 hit duets with Dinah Washington: "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)" (#5) and "A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love)" (#7).
He also recorded his own version of "Take Good Care of Her" in 1962. In the mid- and late 1960's, Benton recorded for RCA Records and Reprise Records with minimal commercial success. In 1969 he signed with Cotillion Records, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records, where the next year he had his last major hit with "Rainy Night in Georgia".
Benton eventually charted 49 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, with other songs charting on Billboard's rhythm and blues, easy listening, and Christmas music charts. The last album made by Benton was Fools Rush In, which was released posthumously in 2005. At one point he was recording on Groove Records.
Brook died of complications from spinal meningitis in Queens, New York City, at the age of 56 on April 9, 1988. ~SOURCE: Wikipedia
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This man's singing is as exquisite as he is.He was multi-talented, as a writer, composer, and arranger. I believe the music industry somehow overlooked this - he was grossly underrated. But, thanks to Clive Owen, he gave us music that is timeless and still enjoyable today.
Brook Benton and the young Elvis Presley my favorite singers Brook Benton is so underrated it's pathetic he should be way more famous than he is definitely in the top 10 singers of all time should be more famous love Brook Benton
I've listened to him all My life for this man is my cousin 🙏❤️
No one could have sung this song as beautifully as Brook Benton! Thank you, Milton for leading me here!
Thanks.
(How weird is it that you thanking me got 10 likes, but my comment praising this immortal performance got
ZERO likes and NO
comments. Go figure.🥺🤔)
@@miltonmoore8369 I have no idea! 😞
graciassss!! por guardar estas perlas. El planeta del 47 te lo agradece cada vez que lo escuchamos!!!
Absolutely astounding Singer,only too glad that I heard Him when I was really young,and enjoyed decades of listening to the incredible voice! 1960,first found a single, then a e/p, and finally the album, "THE TWO OF US" with Dinah Washington,what a truly superb album of Soul at it's finest !! Pure Black Velvet!!
CLYDE MCPHATTER *WITHOUT LOVE* IS ALSO OUTSTANDING!
GOD BLESS
IF I HAD KNOWN OF THIS SONG & PERFORMANCE I WOULD HAVE LISTENED MORE...ONE & ONLY BROOK!!!
Brook Benton & Elvis Presley....the two greatest EVER!
Beautiful song from the great Brook Benton love it
Thanks for the music and the history, grew up in this era and theres none to compare.
Sat on table with Brook i1970 in dressing room he introduced me and my to his manager and arranger great singer and all round entertainer still play him every day
Class and genuine talent personified .
Oh what voice and song...
He was absolutely
unmatchable in interpreting blues
songs, and that includes the immortal
Sam Cooke, whom I
also hold in the utmost esteem.
I absolutely agree, Sam and Brook are my top two singers of all time, and I've been listening since the mid fifties.
Well here is a comment from you!
@@BswaneffectSorry, I just found this comment.😮
(GOOGLE BROOK on
PEG 'O MY HEART and THAT OLD FEELING on the Eddie Styles channel.)😊
Between this song and his first major hit "It's Just A Matter Of Time," Brook Benton was making a reputation primarily as a songwriter, beginning with "Kiddio" sung by Teddy Randazzo in the same movie this clip came from.
This man was a class act. Not only a great performer, but a great song writer also. Love his music. R.I.P. Brook.
DANG!!! BROOK WAS SO TALENTED!! AND FINE!!!!!!!!!! I WISH I HAD THE CHANCE TO SEE YOU PERFORM!!!
He was beautiful.
BROOK YOU ARE TOO GOOD!!! IF ONLY I HAD KNOWN!!!!
I'm surprised that he wasn't inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Brook Benton
One Of Brook' Benton's Best
FREED INTRODUCED BROOK AS A "ROCK AND ROLL" SINGER, BUT HE WAS A SOUL, RYTHM AND BLUES AND POP SINGER, ESPECIALLY GREAT SINGING ROMANTIC BALLADS.
I NEVER HEARD HIM SING A ROCK AND ROLL SONG IN MY LIFE!
AND HE WAS MAGNIFICENT ON COUNTRY SONGS, TO WIT, "MY SHOES GO WALKING BACK TO YOU"
AND "EVERY TIME I'M KISSING YOU."
MY ALL TIME FAVORITE
WAS HIS VERSION OF THE POP ROMANTIC BALLAD,
"THAT OLD FEELING."
[I have posted several more comments before, farther down the page.
Love Brook Benton. Thank you for posting John.
My performance artist throughout my life Mr B B
So Good So Beautiful
Definitely one of my idols
The greatest soul singer in history!
shoknifeman2 mikado Well, He was one of them. Sam Cooke still has that title.
Thank you.
Don't know how I missed this one, but that's fine, I'm always happy to hear more gems.
What a voice
Brilliant singer thank you for this song john
Best singer I've ever heard. This song is amazing and very dear to my heart
Simply wonderful, so soulful
what a great voice
Great song and great for teaching the third conditional!
All thumbs up...!!!
This was able to sneak onto an EP on Vik Records (an RCA subsidiary) for the movie - It may have been reissued on an RCA Camden LP (not sure)
First time knowing and hearing this
MUSIC OF MY CHILDHOOD! NO BETTER SINGER!
La mejor canción del mundo
Classy
Best singer of all time
This man set the standards
Canta muito.
Coisa boa!
dang!! mmm sweet so sweet...cutie too
mon favorie
Surprisingly hit didn't hit another his smooth booming bass notes
Too bad more songs
like this didn't go to
Brook, but went to
The Drifters, Ben E. King, Lenny Welch,
Clyde McPhatter,
Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, The Platters,
et.al. as Brook had the greatest voice of
all of them. One could actually refer to Brook as "The
black Elvis." Both could sing rock, pop,
blues, country, spirituals, folk, but
were at their best
singing serious romantic ballads.
Brook outlived Elvis by 14 years. Far too
many singers died WAY to young.
So true, Milton! I wonder how many women fell in love with this gorgeous man, his voice and selection of songs!
YES RUTH BOYKIN!! I LOVED HIM THE FIRST TIME I HEARD HIM!! I THINK I WAS ABOUT 7!!! I HEARD ENDESSLY!!!!! LOL!!!! THATS WHAT HIS SONGS ARE!!!
MILTON MOORE!!! RIGHT!!! ABSOLUTELY!! CORRECT!!! SIR!!!!!#2020!!!
To be compared with Elvis is the best accolade for any singer.
Nails it with this song
I grew up listening to Elvis and Nat King Cole
''Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation ''
@@barbaraharris7004
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Wow! If that doesn't make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, perhaps you've already reached room temperature...
Querida si yo hubiera sabido te extrañaría, lo sé desde que te fuiste, las cosas hubieran sido diferentes si tan solo hubiera sabido, yo hubiera sido más gentil, y mucho más para ti, yo te he brindado alegría, pero rompí tu corazón en dos, esta grieta que mi corazón lleva, ya que es más de lo que puedo tomar, nosotros pudimos haber estado juntos, pero ahora sé que es demasiado tarde, si, si yo hubiera sabido que te amo, cómo lo sé desde que te fuiste, tu sigues siendo mía si tan solo hubiera sabido, si tan solo hubiera sabido
Destroys my mental picture of Brook.