The version in a club, look for it, awful video, he got pulled up on stage by one of his students, grabbed someone else's guitar, and just destroyed the place.
I remember first hearing this song in the early 80's when i was in college... it's really cool how he scats while playing his guitar... Here's a song where the player "scratches" on guitar strings....pretty cool to watch and listen to.... czcams.com/video/W4hrE42-l-I/video.html
It doesn't get any funkier or bouncier than "Turn your love Around." That song kicked off my mom's house cleaning records as a toddler. If you don't start smiling and bobbing your head by the chorus, check your pulse.
For those of you new to George Benson, his Breezin' album from the mid 70's was a highly regarded standard pretty much immediately from release. I'm sure it stands up even in 2021. Try This Masquerade from it for a very special keeper tune.
@@CincyCkyLdy , WHO are you & Sheldon arguing with? IF anyone's actually commented that they dislike this song, then shouldn't you be responding directly to THAT commenter? Where U get the idea that everyone likes (or even *should* like) exactly the same songs you do? ... Don't misunderstand-- I like this song too, but I dislike *"loaded questions* which confuse 'opinion' with FACT". ... And @Sheldon Harris-- "People who dislike this song probably dislike sunshine too"?? Wow--It's a good thing *JAMAL doesn't* try to win fans of his fave/music that way.
This was on "Later with Jools Holland" (the man on the piano is Jools himself, the host of the show) on BBC Television in England. Great musician and well respected by his peers...
Jools Holland played piano with the UK band Squeeze, later had his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, and for years has hosted a music show on the BBC where loads of legends have appeared playing live. Definitely worth a deep dive!
Early enough to post a comment you might actually see. Congratulations on your super success with this channel! You are a bright spot we all look forward to. Your joyful spirit keeps us coming back no matter what your are looking at!
Interesting fact that George’s first label didn’t want him singing as they felt it would distract listeners from his mastery of the guitar. This Masquerade is a complete opposite of your first two reactions. His vocals are impeccable.Try to check it out.
@@imagine1004 agree! This Masquerade is his masterpiece in my opinion. There are several videos you can react to all excellent, but my favorite is from Midnight Special when it first became a hit. You haven’t heard George Benson if you haven’t heard it. This Masquerade from the Midnight Special! 🔥⭐️💯
Fun fact, Mr Benson and Andy Warhol went to the same high school in Pittsburgh. (Different years of course). Also Donnie Iris who you reached to...also from the Pittsburgh area.
True story: One of my husband's customers when he was a wholesale florist in the San Francisco area in the 1980's was a concert promoter. You might be surprised to know literally ALL artists want some kind of flowers in their dressing room. My husband would supply them and we were usually offered very good tickets to see the show. I saw George Benson in the Bay Area in 1983. I was very pregnant at the time. The stage was circular and moved around during the performance. The band was 21 pieces!! Lots of percussionists. It was incredible!! We were in the 2nd row and he made a lot of eye contact with the audience. Even if you didn't care for that kind of music, you'd have been floored by talent of each of the musicians he had with him. Great experience I haven't forgotten. I think he wanted a particular kind of orchids in his dressing room, but it's been so many years.
I played in every band our high school had (class of ‘83). We played this song in marching band one year and the crowd loved it. It was fun to play too
I was expecting this one…the best George Benson song. Funny about looking for him on Broadway! Thanks for the reaction and for keeping great music alive. He did this song in 1978. This is a later version by him.
"All That Jazz", baby. Opening sequence. George Benson's On Broadway always takes me back to my favorite Fosse movie. Thanks for this, Jamel. I hadn't listened to GB in years.
@@rosanajaquez3274 I saw it in the theater in '79, I was 10 years old. My parents were pretty liberal with the movies they took me and my sister to see. I've rewatched it at least a dozen times.
Well, sometimes when parents try to "force feed" music on their kids, the kids resist, just instinctively. But I think that music that you hear your folks playing when you're growing up, ends up getting into your system whether you are aware of it or not. I know that's what happened to me. There's music my parents listened to that I didn't care for as a kid, because it was "old people music", haha -- but that now, I happen to really dig.
As a toddler, I didn't resist. I got to hear such pieces as The Grand Canyon Suite, William Tell Overture and such. Great pieces of music. Mom's/Dad's music isn't bad because it's mom's or dad's. My daughter nagged me into taking her to a used-clothing store because she wanted to see what she could get.....on the way we were driving, the radio was on (think 1997-ish, she was mid teens) On the radio came a song: Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company, performing Piece of My Heart. I dug it because I was 11 or 12 when I first heard it and it was revolutionary! Now, I and my daughter of 14 or 15 was riding in the car with me, this song was on the radio and (as sometimes happens) we were both singing along with the radio, completely unaware the the other was even aware that the song existed! I, without an intention to do so, inculcated in my child an appreciation for Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, the Grateful Dead, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and more. If that is "parents try to "force feed' music on there kids" then I am Proudly guilty!
The Platters are still one of my favorites ever. My mom wore out their greatest hits cassette tape, singing with the windows open, as I would ride around in the car with her for her job on the weekends. ❤️❤️
I always called my boys in to listen to music, rock n roll and music history class LOL Thankfully they always enjoyed it ( well, for the most part hehehe) and now they are in their 30s and have excellent taste in music😉😁
I haven't heard him in a long time, and it's a crying shame. A voice that sends shivers down your spine. And then he starts playing that guitar and it's the whole package.
piano player is Jools Holland. He has a great show in the UK, "Later with Jools Holland". He has about 5 bands set up in a circle and points to a band, and they play. Then he points at another band and they play. You should check his show out, you will LOVE it!!! Start with Grace Jones. She was great on there. All the other musicians were rockin out to her. great episode.
Whoo!! This is one of the baddest cats to ever grace a stage!! The voice, the talent with that 6 string?? Dude is insanely talented!! If this don't get you moving you can't move!!
Robert Cray? My favorite! I have 15 albums, CD and digital, from him. Start here and you get a sample of his talent: czcams.com/video/2gQEDwjhaDE/video.html ...and a live one: czcams.com/video/Hz_ZLvIvYMc/video.html I don't know of a bad song, just ones I like more than others.
George makes his guitar sing. You are just scratching the surface of jazz fusion. There is tons of music to listen to, you have a lot to listen to. Keep the jams coming
More jazz! Gotta get that jazz fix ... Al Jarreau ... Morning, Theme from Moonlighting, anything by Bobby McFerrin, more Benson ... Masquerade, Breezin', anything by Herbie Hancock, pre-Winelight CTI stuff from Grover Washington Jr. ... and they just keep coming.
Have you been dipping in my record collection? I endorse everything you have recommended. I'd also recommend for George Benson, pre-Breezin' stuff on CTI. Or almost anything on CTI or KUDU. Grover Washington Jr. "Feels so Good" and Hank Crawford "Tico Rico" were my introduction to CTI/KUDU back in the late 70s and I never looked back. Finally, Herbie Hancock is my favourite musician in any genre so I appreciated the "anything by". I have to consider you a soul brother.
a bit of George's history: his original "claim to fame" was primarily as an instrumental jazz guitarist in the 1960s, very well-known and respected. He rarely did vocals until the mid 1970s, when his "Breezin'" album was a huge breakthrough -- and I recall Guitar Player magazine featuring him (again) at the time, pretty much in awe of the fact this great guitarist they'd known and featured for years had some serious vocal talent as well. His famous recording of the Drifters' song "On Broadway" was on a live album from 1978, and became a huge hit, a Grammy winner, and pretty much a signature song for him.
When I hear him and some other great jazz guitarists. I can't help but say thank you Mr. Wes Montgomery for blazing the trail to a great style of guitar playing
Studio version always. George Benson is one of the greatest. A whole anthology worth of great music. Just put on his greatest hits, headphones, close your eyes and stretch out on your favorite couch.
I wore this album thin when it came out. One of the Best Albums Ever. He can scat with the best of them. This album was the first I heard the song "The Greatest Love of All," so when Whitney came out with her version, I was like, "No, no, no! That's not how this song goes!" 😂
When I was in high school, the marching band did this song. I was on drill/pompom squad. We decided to high kicks on the drum/cymbal crash in song. The first week of practice, we were a sorry lot. But on first night in field at game, we NAILED IT! We performed this when we were in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade in 1983. The band stopped in front of the theater. We ROCKED IT!
George Benson, like others of the 70s and 80s were the best at their craft… We called them legacy entertainers, thanks for reacting to our legacy. Great music never died. You can always learn and love years later and that’s what you’re doing and that’s wonderful…
This song originally came out LONG before 1998, I fell in love with it when it first came out in 1963. George's version was released in 1978, and I fell in love all over again.
I am 60 I grew up on this and staying up to watch the Midnight Special and that was before cable TV! I like watching reaction Videos to see the young people realize how great the music was back then and it was such a big part of our life! There were no home computers or smartphones!
My mother listened to "Big "Band" and daddy liked ballads. My favorite aunt listened to Beethoven and Mozart. My older brother liked The Righteous Brothers and my older sister liked Elvis. I grew up with 70s/80s Rock n Roll. It's great to have appreciation for all kinds of music and I am grateful that the stereo was always playing in my house.
I was 4 going on 5 in 1955/1956 with three older brothers and three older sisters. I remember the music they listened to like it was yesterday. I remember Mama listening to Mahalia Jackson's TV show and Tennessee Ernie Ford and Pat Boone's shows. Never liked Pat Boone much, but I'll never forget Elvis's debut on Ed Sullivan and one sister so excited by it. When the songs from that era play I can sing along almost word for word. By the time I was twenty/twenty-five, I couldn't tell you who sang the songs I liked to listen to. Life happened. I would never have remembered George Benson's name, though I loved his songs. And that goes for much of the music you react to.
I have older siblings ... oldest is 18 yr older. I absorbed their music from day one. We got a piano when I was about 7. We all discovered my father knew how to play. I'd sit on the bench with him and sing Jonny Cash songs. I was blessed to start my musical journey very early on.
Me too. Because of my older siblings, i watched the Beatles on Sullivan and grew up with the British Invasion, Dylan, Motown, CCR, etc. On my own i fell in love with more 60s, 70s and 80s music, including soul and funk. I also worked in record stores and that's another education because you learn about all of your coworkers' favorite music. But it all started because I had older siblings, and my musical tastes are blessed because of it.
I saw George Benson in concert at a jazz festival in Jacksonville Fl in 1987 when I was stationed there for the Navy. It was him, Dizzy Gillespie, Al Hirt. My love of Jazz began then.
George is one of the most amazing guitar men ever. I have been playing for over 50 years, and I still can't make sense of what I see him doing and what I'm hearing. His fingers are unlike anyone else alive or dead. I saw him in the summer of 1976, when the Breezin' album came out. Michael Franks was the warm up act, and he was jazzed like crazy because he had forgotten his guitar strap in LA, and George had lent him his. It's the one in the pic on the back of the Breezin' album. He thought is was SO cool. And it was. Then George came out and his bass player came out, dropped a tambourine on the floor, stepped into it, plugged his bass in, and played both all night long. George blew me away like nobody's business. I had to go home and digest what I had seen and heard, so I didn't even take the guitar out of the case for 3 days. There was no point. This man is an absolute master of the 6 string instrument. Funny thing is, though, I have a DVD of a private lesson with GB, and he clearly KNOWS what he's doing, but explaining it to you? That's a different story. One AMAZING player, and a sweet guy, from what I've heard and can tell.
Oh man i just love George and have been to see him so many times i've lost count. Got to actually meet him back stage in Bournemouth (2017) i was just in awe lol. What a musician and what a nice guy too. I wrote this 3/4 of the way through the video and didn't hear your final comments. My Dad was a piano player so i was brought up on Stevie Wonder, George Benson, Ray Charles, Grover Washington, Al Jarreau and hundreds more like these guys in the 70's. Thank you Dad
One of my all time favorites. A great guitar player and singer. I was lucky enough to have met him once very briefly in an elevator. Easily one of the nicest people I've ever met.
Still have a few albums on vinyl, but the live-album "Weekend in LA" (1977) is the one I've played the most back in the day! The scat and guitar-fills on "On Broadway" i could literally remember and singalong with! (not as good as him tho) Mr. Benson is a great guitarist and singer...saw him live a few times over here in the Netherlands at the North Sea Jazz festival and he was tearing the roof off! This man's career spans more than 6 decades...
Behind his popular singing act, George Benson has always been one of the greatest improvising guitarists of all time. To hear his total mastery of jazz guitar, check out Benson’s first records, “Uptown with the George Benson Quartet” and “The George Benson Cookbook” with a great organ player and a young 20’s Ronnie Cuber killing it on the baritone sax solos.
My parents did the same thing! They played older music, stuff before my time, when I was too little to even know a good song when it hit my ears; and now I love listening this genre. Thanks for reacting to this song!
It brought back some great feelings of my life, back when this track was popular. Now after all these years and I have not listened to it in decades, and it was like hearing the voice of an old close friend I hadn’t seen in a long time, and all you could feel are the good memories come flooding back into your body making you feel what it was like to be young again just for the length of the track.
George Benson goes way back as one the finest jazz guitarists and crossed over to the pop charts in the late 70's with the album "Weekend in L.A." which included "On Broadway' which is a Drifters song from the early 60's, "The Greatest Love of All" later covered by Whitney Houston, and "It's All in the Game."
One of my favorite songs! Find his album "Weekend in LA", and enjoy! I still listen to it on vinyl. I was fortunate to see George live years ago. A true master.
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The version in a club, look for it, awful video, he got pulled up on stage by one of his students, grabbed someone else's guitar, and just destroyed the place.
Ah, found it, enjoy :)
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Please check out “Marooned” by Pink Floyd
I'm pretty sure he's referring to NYC's Broadway.
Neil Young recorded a very...angry...version.
I remember first hearing this song in the early 80's when i was in college... it's really cool how he scats while playing his guitar...
Here's a song where the player "scratches" on guitar strings....pretty cool to watch and listen to....
czcams.com/video/W4hrE42-l-I/video.html
On Broadway was originally done by The Drifters in the early 60s Benson's cover is pure fire.
The best version!
Facts
George Benson is good for everyone’s soul
Yes Yes
Absolutely
Amen to that!!!👍👍🎶🎶
After a day of thinking it over, I agree so much that I liked my own comment! GEORGE BENSON!!
@@mrkdemeritt I don’t comment on much but that one made me very happy thank you
“Turn Your Love Around” is another banger from George Benson
Awesome song!!
My favorite of his😀
OMG I forgot about that song. AN ESSENTIAL... Turn Your Love Around!
It doesn't get any funkier or bouncier than "Turn your love Around." That song kicked off my mom's house cleaning records as a toddler. If you don't start smiling and bobbing your head by the chorus, check your pulse.
For those of you new to George Benson, his Breezin' album from the mid 70's was a highly regarded standard pretty much immediately from release. I'm sure it stands up even in 2021. Try This Masquerade from it for a very special keeper tune.
"This Masquerade" is my personal favorite! It's exceptional!
@@itsmommy100 Mine too. Just listened to it again, tonight, after years hidden in storage with other gold. It still stands as strong as ever.
The Breezin’ album is pure gold 👍🏻👍🏻
Absolutely !!
AFFIRMATION!!!!
I don't expect the people who don't like this song don't enjoy sunshine either lol
I think there's one too many don'ts in that sentence. But we know what you mean. Lol. How could anyone not love this performance?
@@CincyCkyLdy , WHO are you & Sheldon arguing with? IF anyone's actually commented that they dislike this song, then shouldn't you be responding directly to THAT commenter? Where U get the idea that everyone likes (or even *should* like) exactly the same songs you do?
... Don't misunderstand-- I like this song too, but I dislike *"loaded questions* which confuse 'opinion' with FACT".
... And @Sheldon Harris-- "People who dislike this song probably dislike sunshine too"?? Wow--It's a good thing *JAMAL doesn't* try to win fans of his fave/music that way.
Lol!
@@jessehammer4440 You seem fun.
This was on "Later with Jools Holland" (the man on the piano is Jools himself, the host of the show) on BBC Television in England. Great musician and well respected by his peers...
AWESOME!
Jools is another icon - recorded a full album with Sir Tom Jones about a decade ago. His TV show is as good as The Midnight Special.
Oh my gosh I never knew he was a musician as well. Thank you, I’m going to go delve a bit now❤️
Jools Holland played piano with the UK band Squeeze, later had his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, and for years has hosted a music show on the BBC where loads of legends have appeared playing live. Definitely worth a deep dive!
Jools must been having the time of his life when doing "Later with Jools Holland" he got to play/jam with so many different artists!
Is a great segment of Anita Baker scatting with him playing when she appeared on his show, and forgot words of song that’s great
He is in a league of his own. He sings perfectly in unison with his guitar. A legend indeed.
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I second that...
I Will NEVER Get Tired of Listening To This..
I prefer the Drifters version, I like a good classic song. Jazz and skat are not overly for me
Nobody has ever been able to sing along with his own lead playing like George Benson. Absolutely kick ass stuff!!!!
Kick ASS 70s style lol ON BROADWAY Was Released in 1978
It’s masterful how he pulls it off. George is brilliant !!
Local legend!!! Born and raised in Pittsburgh!! Such a talented artist!
Yes indeed. He could definitely play that there guitar.
He's a fantastic guitarist!
Interesting fact that George’s first label didn’t want him singing as they felt it would distract listeners from his mastery of the guitar. This Masquerade is a complete opposite of your first two reactions. His vocals are impeccable.Try to check it out.
Yes!!! My favorite!!!
Yeah, so many people don’t know that he’s technically a genius guitar player, one of the best jazz players of all time.
@@imagine1004 agree! This Masquerade is his masterpiece in my opinion. There are several videos you can react to all excellent, but my favorite is from Midnight Special when it first became a hit. You haven’t heard George Benson if you haven’t heard it. This Masquerade from the Midnight Special! 🔥⭐️💯
Now on to 'Masquerade' by George Benson... I used to could sing the tar out of that one.
Fun fact, Mr Benson and Andy Warhol went to the same high school in Pittsburgh. (Different years of course). Also Donnie Iris who you reached to...also from the Pittsburgh area.
Love this song forever.
he's singing the same notes he's playing, all improvised
@that one again He is a jazz guitarist first so he can.
Sweetness is back. Nobody does this style of music like George! He should be on Broadway. Him and that guitar!!Groovin in Chi Town tonight!🎸🎶
True story: One of my husband's customers when he was a wholesale florist in the San Francisco area in the 1980's was a concert promoter. You might be surprised to know literally ALL artists want some kind of flowers in their dressing room. My husband would supply them and we were usually offered very good tickets to see the show. I saw George Benson in the Bay Area in 1983. I was very pregnant at the time. The stage was circular and moved around during the performance. The band was 21 pieces!! Lots of percussionists. It was incredible!! We were in the 2nd row and he made a lot of eye contact with the audience. Even if you didn't care for that kind of music, you'd have been floored by talent of each of the musicians he had with him. Great experience I haven't forgotten. I think he wanted a particular kind of orchids in his dressing room, but it's been so many years.
Was that the Circle Star theater?
Was the promoter Bill Graham?
@@deejones8196 Yes! That was it!
@@Crunkboy415 I believe so!
I played in every band our high school had (class of ‘83). We played this song in marching band one year and the crowd loved it. It was fun to play too
And this one time at band camp…
😂
Same! We played it in marching band and pep band!
@@dougbrod5771 it was a fun song to play, wasn’t it?
Yes! I had a tri-Tom solo when we played it for pep band
When George Benson sings with the same notes on the guitar, that's called "Scat singing."
I was expecting this one…the best George Benson song. Funny about looking for him on Broadway! Thanks for the reaction and for keeping great music alive. He did this song in 1978. This is a later version by him.
I'm sorry. Sometimes us ole folks forget that youngsters have a hard time keeping up. Come on son, u'll catch up one day. Lol. 🤗🤔😎
😂😂😂
Lol 😎 we cool like that!
Magnificent!!!!! Next - the hit Leon Russell wrote and George made his own “ This Masquerade “! 🌺🙏🏻
Don't forget that the Carpenters did it before George, and all 3 versions are great! I think Jamel already reacted to the Carpenters' version.
Ray Charles did a killer version of it too.
"All That Jazz", baby. Opening sequence. George Benson's On Broadway always takes me back to my favorite Fosse movie. Thanks for this, Jamel. I hadn't listened to GB in years.
I love that movie, possibly Roy Scheider's greatest role.(Well, Jaws is iconic, but still...)
@@thorsluter7835 I agree. He was excellent as Joe Gideon. I cannot count the number of times I’ve seen it. 🌞
@@rosanajaquez3274 I saw it in the theater in '79, I was 10 years old. My parents were pretty liberal with the movies they took me and my sister to see. I've rewatched it at least a dozen times.
When you get a chance please react to Masquerade by George Benson. Beautiful song.
that one is a must review for sure!
What a way to spend my Father’s Day Morning with George Benson…..
Brings to mind Dobie Gray- The 'In' Crowd.
Love Dobie Gray, hope we get to hear some ♡
Well, sometimes when parents try to "force feed" music on their kids, the kids resist, just instinctively. But I think that music that you hear your folks playing when you're growing up, ends up getting into your system whether you are aware of it or not. I know that's what happened to me. There's music my parents listened to that I didn't care for as a kid, because it was "old people music", haha -- but that now, I happen to really dig.
True just from being around it I get nostalgic for my mom's music
As a toddler, I didn't resist. I got to hear such pieces as The Grand Canyon Suite, William Tell Overture and such. Great pieces of music. Mom's/Dad's music isn't bad because it's mom's or dad's.
My daughter nagged me into taking her to a used-clothing store because she wanted to see what she could get.....on the way we were driving, the radio was on (think 1997-ish, she was mid teens) On the radio came a song: Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company, performing Piece of My Heart. I dug it because I was 11 or 12 when I first heard it and it was revolutionary! Now, I and my daughter of 14 or 15 was riding in the car with me, this song was on the radio and (as sometimes happens) we were both singing along with the radio, completely unaware the the other was even aware that the song existed!
I, without an intention to do so, inculcated in my child an appreciation for Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, the Grateful Dead, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and more.
If that is "parents try to "force feed' music on there kids" then I am Proudly guilty!
The Platters are still one of my favorites ever. My mom wore out their greatest hits cassette tape, singing with the windows open, as I would ride around in the car with her for her job on the weekends. ❤️❤️
I always called my boys in to listen to music, rock n roll and music history class LOL Thankfully they always enjoyed it ( well, for the most part hehehe) and now they are in their 30s and have excellent taste in music😉😁
Isn’t it amazing how stupid are parents were when we were young, they seemed to get smarter the older I got.... 🤣
I haven't heard him in a long time, and it's a crying shame. A voice that sends shivers down your spine. And then he starts playing that guitar and it's the whole package.
piano player is Jools Holland. He has a great show in the UK, "Later with Jools Holland". He has about 5 bands set up in a circle and points to a band, and they play. Then he points at another band and they play. You should check his show out, you will LOVE it!!! Start with Grace Jones. She was great on there. All the other musicians were rockin out to her. great episode.
I remember KT Tunstall making her TV debut in a pink miniskirt. The camera switched to Anita Baker, who was totally into KT after one verse!
Also used in the opening scene of the movie "All That Jazz." Love this song!
Our high school marching band played this during halftime football games
Whoo!! This is one of the baddest cats to ever grace a stage!! The voice, the talent with that 6 string?? Dude is insanely talented!! If this don't get you moving you can't move!!
"This brother is smooth" - yes indeed. Not no parkay, not no margarine, strictly BUTTER baby.
No, the finest finest frankincense and myrrh oil!🥰
Butter wishes it were this smooth!
Jamal I don't know if you've reacted to Robert Cray or not. I think you'd really enjoy him. Phenomenal Artist 🎸
Good call...
yes, the Robert Cray band. i saw them live in concert back in the 80's
An excellent recommendation.
Robert Cray? My favorite! I have 15 albums, CD and digital, from him.
Start here and you get a sample of his talent: czcams.com/video/2gQEDwjhaDE/video.html
...and a live one: czcams.com/video/Hz_ZLvIvYMc/video.html
I don't know of a bad song, just ones I like more than others.
For sure! Check out Robert Cray
Love this!! Love George Benson!❤️
George makes his guitar sing. You are just scratching the surface of jazz fusion. There is tons of music to listen to, you have a lot to listen to. Keep the jams coming
My man from Pittsburgh.....George Benson is one of a kind. Everyone loved his skatting in unison with the guitar.
I knew George would be busting out some serious guitar in this live version. Great performance all around from the band.
George is the MAN!!! One of my all time favorites.
This Man George Benson, He is a first class act and one of the best, Love his guitar!
More jazz! Gotta get that jazz fix ... Al Jarreau ... Morning, Theme from Moonlighting, anything by Bobby McFerrin, more Benson ... Masquerade, Breezin', anything by Herbie Hancock, pre-Winelight CTI stuff from Grover Washington Jr. ... and they just keep coming.
The scat master!!!!!! Saw him in concert.
Mornin and Moonlighting send me to heaven!
Have you been dipping in my record collection? I endorse everything you have recommended. I'd also recommend for George Benson, pre-Breezin' stuff on CTI. Or almost anything on CTI or KUDU. Grover Washington Jr. "Feels so Good" and Hank Crawford "Tico Rico" were my introduction to CTI/KUDU back in the late 70s and I never looked back. Finally, Herbie Hancock is my favourite musician in any genre so I appreciated the "anything by". I have to consider you a soul brother.
a bit of George's history: his original "claim to fame" was primarily as an instrumental jazz guitarist in the 1960s, very well-known and respected. He rarely did vocals until the mid 1970s, when his "Breezin'" album was a huge breakthrough -- and I recall Guitar Player magazine featuring him (again) at the time, pretty much in awe of the fact this great guitarist they'd known and featured for years had some serious vocal talent as well. His famous recording of the Drifters' song "On Broadway" was on a live album from 1978, and became a huge hit, a Grammy winner, and pretty much a signature song for him.
'Nature Boy'
When I hear him and some other great jazz guitarists. I can't help but say thank you Mr. Wes Montgomery for blazing the trail to a great style of guitar playing
you forget he has the distinction of being known as the fifth beatle
Studio version always. George Benson is one of the greatest. A whole anthology worth of great music. Just put on his greatest hits, headphones, close your eyes and stretch out on your favorite couch.
I wore this album thin when it came out. One of the Best Albums Ever. He can scat with the best of them. This album was the first I heard the song "The Greatest Love of All," so when Whitney came out with her version, I was like, "No, no, no! That's not how this song goes!" 😂
George Benson had an awesome voice. Made you smile and tap your toes every time.
If you haven’t listened to Grover Washington Jr, Just the Two of Us. Side by side with George Benson in my LP collection
YES! This is the song! 💃🏼
Does anyone know if the live version we’d hear on the radio, is on his album?
George Benson's "On Broadway" was also used to great effect in a scene in the film "All that Jazz" You should check it out.
When I was in high school, the marching band did this song. I was on drill/pompom squad. We decided to high kicks on the drum/cymbal crash in song. The first week of practice, we were a sorry lot. But on first night in field at game, we NAILED IT! We performed this when we were in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade in 1983. The band stopped in front of the theater. We ROCKED IT!
I had to dance to this song in front of the whole school when it came out. I was in the 5th grade. You should have seen this little white boy go. 🙄🕺😂
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I hope the next one is "BREEZIN" . That's the CUT 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
He did this one yesterday
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Darn it, I missed it. Thanks.
Great song! Great Guitarist!
With a voice like George's this version will be quite okay
I love George , so so smooth and good looking. Wow so different than
All the rest at the time and since....beautiful .
George Benson, like others of the 70s and 80s were the best at their craft… We called them legacy entertainers, thanks for reacting to our legacy.
Great music never died. You can always learn and love years later and that’s what you’re doing and that’s wonderful…
What a fine man, fine singer, fine guitarist Memories!
This song originally came out LONG before 1998, I fell in love with it when it first came out in 1963. George's version was released in 1978, and I fell in love all over again.
I feel lucky to have grown up when all these George Benson songs were in the Top 40 and on the radio right next to rock songs and pop songs.
Probably first heard this song 45 to 50 years ago and never tire of hearing it. The great George Benson!
I am 60 I grew up on this and staying up to watch the Midnight Special and that was before cable TV! I like watching reaction Videos to see the young people realize how great the music was back then and it was such a big part of our life! There were no home computers or smartphones!
My mother listened to "Big "Band" and daddy liked ballads. My favorite aunt listened to Beethoven and Mozart. My older brother liked The Righteous Brothers and my older sister liked Elvis. I grew up with 70s/80s Rock n Roll. It's great to have appreciation for all kinds of music and I am grateful that the stereo was always playing in my house.
I was 4 going on 5 in 1955/1956 with three older brothers and three older sisters. I remember the music they listened to like it was yesterday. I remember Mama listening to Mahalia Jackson's TV show and Tennessee Ernie Ford and Pat Boone's shows. Never liked Pat Boone much, but I'll never forget Elvis's debut on Ed Sullivan and one sister so excited by it. When the songs from that era play I can sing along almost word for word. By the time I was twenty/twenty-five, I couldn't tell you who sang the songs I liked to listen to. Life happened. I would never have remembered George Benson's name, though I loved his songs. And that goes for much of the music you react to.
I have older siblings ... oldest is 18 yr older. I absorbed their music from day one. We got a piano when I was about 7. We all discovered my father knew how to play. I'd sit on the bench with him and sing Jonny Cash songs. I was blessed to start my musical journey very early on.
Me too. Because of my older siblings, i watched the Beatles on Sullivan and grew up with the British Invasion, Dylan, Motown, CCR, etc. On my own i fell in love with more 60s, 70s and 80s music, including soul and funk. I also worked in record stores and that's another education because you learn about all of your coworkers' favorite music. But it all started because I had older siblings, and my musical tastes are blessed because of it.
I was lucky to see him in concert right around this time. He was super to watch had a great time
I saw George Benson in concert at a jazz festival in Jacksonville Fl in 1987 when I was stationed there for the Navy. It was him, Dizzy Gillespie, Al Hirt. My love of Jazz began then.
George is amazing , what a talent and he's still going strong !
It makes me so happy to see youngers like you learn what real Singing and music is all about
George is one of the most amazing guitar men ever. I have been playing for over 50 years, and I still can't make sense of what I see him doing and what I'm hearing. His fingers are unlike anyone else alive or dead. I saw him in the summer of 1976, when the Breezin' album came out. Michael Franks was the warm up act, and he was jazzed like crazy because he had forgotten his guitar strap in LA, and George had lent him his. It's the one in the pic on the back of the Breezin' album. He thought is was SO cool. And it was.
Then George came out and his bass player came out, dropped a tambourine on the floor, stepped into it, plugged his bass in, and played both all night long. George blew me away like nobody's business. I had to go home and digest what I had seen and heard, so I didn't even take the guitar out of the case for 3 days. There was no point. This man is an absolute master of the 6 string instrument. Funny thing is, though, I have a DVD of a private lesson with GB, and he clearly KNOWS what he's doing, but explaining it to you? That's a different story.
One AMAZING player, and a sweet guy, from what I've heard and can tell.
Oh man i just love George and have been to see him so many times i've lost count. Got to actually meet him back stage in Bournemouth (2017) i was just in awe lol. What a musician and what a nice guy too. I wrote this 3/4 of the way through the video and didn't hear your final comments. My Dad was a piano player so i was brought up on Stevie Wonder, George Benson, Ray Charles, Grover Washington, Al Jarreau and hundreds more like these guys in the 70's. Thank you Dad
Thank you so much for finally getting to George Benson....BRAVO!!!
One of my all time favorites. A great guitar player and singer. I was lucky enough to have met him once very briefly in an elevator. Easily one of the nicest people I've ever met.
Love George Benson.. his music is good for the soul.
Still have a few albums on vinyl, but the live-album "Weekend in LA" (1977) is the one I've played the most back in the day! The scat and guitar-fills on "On Broadway" i could literally remember and singalong with! (not as good as him tho) Mr. Benson is a great guitarist and singer...saw him live a few times over here in the Netherlands at the North Sea Jazz festival and he was tearing the roof off! This man's career spans more than 6 decades...
I love what he does with his guitar. He is a personal fav of mine.
Fabulous version!! George is the man!! I saw him in 1987, put on an amazing show!!!
I can't believe that Jools Holland was playing piano on Stage with George Benson playing his guitar.
Behind his popular singing act, George Benson has always been one of the greatest improvising guitarists of all time. To hear his total mastery of jazz guitar, check out Benson’s first records, “Uptown with the George Benson Quartet” and “The George Benson Cookbook” with a great organ player and a young 20’s Ronnie Cuber killing it on the baritone sax solos.
You said it best the other day.
Something like; "I know these songs, but I don't know that I know these songs."
My parents did the same thing! They played older music, stuff before my time, when I was too little to even know a good song when it hit my ears; and now I love listening this genre. Thanks for reacting to this song!
I absolutely love George Benson's music, & this is my favorite of all the songs he does....Thank you for reacting to it....
This Broadway is the NY Broadway - plays, musicals. Always loved this song soooo much!
His "scat" singing while playing the guitar always blew my mind how cool it sounded.
“On Broadway” was a hit in 1964 by The Drifters. A must listen.
George is one of the greatest!
No autotune!💖💖💖
Long Version with Harvey Mason and Ralph McDonald PURE! VERY TALENTED George Benson!
It brought back some great feelings of my life, back when this track was popular. Now after all these years and I have not listened to it in decades, and it was like hearing the voice of an old close friend I hadn’t seen in a long time, and all you could feel are the good memories come flooding back into your body making you feel what it was like to be young again just for the length of the track.
I love taking these trips down memory lane w/ you, Jamel! Keep on putting out the great content!
He can play that there guitar. This song makes me think of Dobie Gray. Check out Dobie Gray.
I agree ♡
Thx for playing this oldie! I used to listen to it over & over again! Loved it! ❤️❤️👍
George Benson goes way back as one the finest jazz guitarists and crossed over to the pop charts in the late 70's with the album "Weekend in L.A." which included "On Broadway' which is a Drifters song from the early 60's, "The Greatest Love of All" later covered by Whitney Houston, and "It's All in the Game."
That was quite entertaining, i like how he mimics the same guitar notes he's playing.
I was today years old when I found out this was George Benson. My favorite version.
Been listening to Benson since the 70s, never gets old.
I have a memory of my sister and I singing this in the car. We both knew every word.
One of my favorite songs! Find his album "Weekend in LA", and enjoy! I still listen to it on vinyl. I was fortunate to see George live years ago. A true master.
Some songs/artists have a magical ability to give the listeners goosebumps. This guy gives me full body goosebumps on top of goosebumps.
We played this in our high school marching band. Always a favorite...