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Anyone who despaired about the total lack of instrumentals on Warners' unrepresentative The Best of George Benson will be overjoyed by this sequel, Best of George Benson: The Instrumentals, which contains nothing but instrumentals (that may have been the game plan all along). Admittedly, the instrumental pickings in the Warner catalog are slimmer than, say, those for Benson's pre-"This Masquerade" recordings on CBS/CTI and A&M/Verve, and the style is often slanted toward the kind of easy jazz heard on "The Wave" radio format. But Benson could still create funky fireworks with his guitar on tunes like "Dinorah, Dinorah," "Affirmation," and "Weekend in L.A.," and Benson's off-the-cuff fluency is shown off to stunning effect all alone on "Tenderly." The range of albums is more inclusive than that of the earlier set, spanning Benson's long Warner period and even reaching out to the funky-butt title track from his first GRP album, That's Right. If you combine this album and the vocal Best Of collection, you'll get an excellent summary of George Benson over a span of 20 years.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
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Hubert Laws, Flute - Freddie Washington, Bass Guitar - BILL SCHNEE, MixingEngineer - Bernie Grundman, MasteringEngineer - Richard Tee, Electric Piano - OMAR HAKIM, Drums, Writer - KIRK WHALUM, Saxophone - Randy Brecker, Flugelhorn - George Benson, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, ExecutiveProducer - BOB JAMES, Producer, Piano - Al Schmitt, Audio Recording Engineer - Max Risenhoover, Programmer - Todd Whitelock, Audio Recording Engineer - Victor Deyglio, AssistantEngineer - James Mckeever, AssistantEngineer - Matthew "Boom" LaMonica, AdditionalEngineer - Leonard Ricardson, ExecutiveProducer
© 2000 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1993 Warner Records Inc.
Harvey Mason, Drums - Ralph MacDonald, Percussion - Tommy Lipuma, Producer - BOBBY WOMACK, Writer - Doug Sax, MasteringEngineer - George Benson, Vocals, Lead Guitar, MainArtist - CLAUS OGERMAN, Conductor, Arranger - Jorge Dalto, Piano - Phil Upchurch, Bass Guitar, Rhythm Guitar - Ronnie Foster, Electric Piano, Mini Moog - Stanley Banks, Bass Guitar - Al Schmitt, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Noel Newbolt, Co-ordinator Production - Don Henderson, AssistantEngineer
© 2000 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1976 Warner Records Inc.
Tommy Lipuma, Producer - George Benson, Writer, MainArtist - EARL KLUGH, MainArtist
© 2000 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1987 Warner Records Inc.
Greg Phillinganes, Keyboards, Fender Rhodes Piano - Bruce Swedien, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Jerry Hey, Trumpet - John Robinson, Drums - Patti Austin, Background Vocals - Quincy Jones, Producer - George Benson, Ad Libs Vocals, Lead Guitar, MainArtist - Kent Duncan, MasteringEngineer - Kim Hutchcroft, Flute, Saxophone - LARRY WILLIAMS, Flute, Saxophone - Mark Sackett, AssistantEngineer - Paulinho Da Costa, Percussion - Sheridan Eldridge, AssistantEngineer - Sid Sharp, Concert Master Conductor - HERBIE HANCOCK, Synthesizer Programmer, Synthesizer - IVAN LINS, Writer - VITOR MARTINS, Writer - Claire Fischer, Additional Piano, Fender Rhodes Piano, Synthesizer - Ralph Osborn, AssistantEngineer - Louis Johnson , Bass Guitar
© 2000 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1980 Warner Records Inc.
Robbie Buchanan, Electric Piano - Gene Orloff, Concertmaster - Endre Granat, Concertmaster - Jeremy Smith, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer, TrackingEngineer - Arif Mardin, Producer, String Arranger - David Spinozza, Guitar - Mark Stevens, Backing Vocals - Carlos Vega, Drums - OMAR HAKIM, Writer - Ted Hoyle, Strings - Paul Jackson Jr., Rhythm Guitar - George Benson, Solo Guitar, Lead Vocals, MainArtist - Bobby Warner, AdditionalEngineer - George Marino, MasteringEngineer - Anthony Jackson, Bass Guitar - Harry Lookofsky, Strings - Michael O'Reilly, MixingEngineer, AssistantEngineer, TrackingEngineer - Emanuel Vardi, Strings - Gerald Tarack, Strings - JONATHAN Abramowitz, Strings - Jay Messina, AdditionalEngineer - Julie Last, TrackingEngineer - Stephen Benben, TrackingEngineer - Joe Mardin, Synthesizer Programmer - Julien Barber, Strings - Alfred Brown, Strings - Richard Young, Strings - Bill Dooley, AdditionalEngineer - Guy Lumia, Strings - Joe Malin, Strings - Richard Maximoff, Strings - Fred Zlotkin, Strings - Marilyn Wright, Strings - Dan Nash, TrackingEngineer - Harold Kohon, Strings - Danny Caccavo, AdditionalEngineer - Frederick Buldrini, Strings - John Agallo, AdditionalEngineer
© 2000 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1983 Warner Records Inc.
Harvey Mason, Drums - Ralph MacDonald, Percussion - Tommy Lipuma, Producer - Donny Hathaway, Writer - Doug Sax, MasteringEngineer - George Benson, Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar, MainArtist - CLAUS OGERMAN, Conductor, Arranger - Jorge Dalto, Additional Piano, Clavinet - Phil Upchurch, Guitar, Rhythm Guitar - Ronnie Foster, Electric Piano, Mini Moog - Stanley Banks, Bass Guitar - Al Schmitt, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Noel Newbolt, Co-ordinator Production - Don Henderson, AssistantEngineer
© 2000 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1977 Warner Records Inc.
Harvey Mason, Drums - Ralph MacDonald, Percussion - Tommy Lipuma, Producer - Doug Sax, MasteringEngineer - George Benson, Vocals, Lead Guitar, MainArtist - CLAUS OGERMAN, Conductor, Arranger - Jorge Dalto, Additional Piano, Electric Piano - Phil Upchurch, Rhythm Guitar - Ronnie Foster, Electric Piano, Mini Moog - Stanley Banks, Bass Guitar - Jose Feliciano, Writer - Al Schmitt, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Noel Newbolt, Co-ordinator Production - Don Henderson, AssistantEngineer
© 2000 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1976 Warner Records Inc.
BILL SCHNEE, MixingEngineer, AdditionalEngineer - Tommy Lipuma, Producer - MARTY PAICH, Arranger - Doug Sax, MasteringEngineer - George Benson, Guitar, MainArtist - ELLIOT SCHEINER, RecordingEngineer - Jack Lawrence, Writer - Al Schmitt, AdditionalEngineer - Steve Rinkoff, AdditionalEngineer - Roy Hendrickson, AssistantEngineer - Peter Darmi, AssistantEngineer - Joe Pirrera, AssistantEngineer - TROY HALDERSON, AssistantEngineer - WALTER GROSS, Writer - Bart Stevens, AssistantEngineer - Jim Shefler, AssistantEngineer
© 2000 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1989 Warner Records Inc.
Harvey Mason, Drums - Ralph MacDonald, Percussion - Nick DeCaro, String Arranger - Tommy Lipuma, Producer - Doug Sax, MasteringEngineer - George Benson, Guitar, Lead Vocals, MainArtist - Jorge Dalto, Keyboards, Piano - Phil Upchurch, Guitar - Ronnie Foster, Keyboards - Stanley Banks, Bass Guitar - Stevie Wonder, Writer - Al Schmitt, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Noel Newbolt, Assistant Production - Don Henderson, AssistantEngineer
© 2000 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1978 Warner Records Inc.
Harvey Mason, Drums - Ralph MacDonald, Percussion - Nick DeCaro, String Arranger - Tommy Lipuma, Producer - Doug Sax, MasteringEngineer - George Benson, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Jorge Dalto, Keyboards, Piano - Phil Upchurch, Guitar - Ronnie Foster, Keyboards - Stanley Banks, Bass Guitar - Al Schmitt, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Noel Newbolt, Assistant Production - Don Henderson, AssistantEngineer
© 2000 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1978 Warner Records Inc.
BILL SCHNEE, MixingEngineer - Tommy Lipuma, Producer, ExecutiveProducer - Gavin Lurssen, MasteringEngineer - Doug Sax, MasteringEngineer - MICHAEL WHITE, Lyricist - George Benson, Guitar, MainArtist - Paul Peterson, Additional Guitar, Bass Guitar - RICKY PETERSON, Producer, Keyboards - Michael Bland, Drums - Tom Tucker, Engineer - Ron Smith, Lyricist - Arnie Acosta, MasteringEngineer
© 2000 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 2000 v2 Conversion P Credit
Album review
Anyone who despaired about the total lack of instrumentals on Warners' unrepresentative The Best of George Benson will be overjoyed by this sequel, Best of George Benson: The Instrumentals, which contains nothing but instrumentals (that may have been the game plan all along). Admittedly, the instrumental pickings in the Warner catalog are slimmer than, say, those for Benson's pre-"This Masquerade" recordings on CBS/CTI and A&M/Verve, and the style is often slanted toward the kind of easy jazz heard on "The Wave" radio format. But Benson could still create funky fireworks with his guitar on tunes like "Dinorah, Dinorah," "Affirmation," and "Weekend in L.A.," and Benson's off-the-cuff fluency is shown off to stunning effect all alone on "Tenderly." The range of albums is more inclusive than that of the earlier set, spanning Benson's long Warner period and even reaching out to the funky-butt title track from his first GRP album, That's Right. If you combine this album and the vocal Best Of collection, you'll get an excellent summary of George Benson over a span of 20 years.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:57:59
- Main artists: George Benson
- Label: Warner Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2000 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 2000 Warner Records Inc.
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