Artist's albums
Ninety-Nine Percent (Remastered)
2023 · single
Come Let's Go (Remastered)
2023 · single
The Devoted Brook Benton
2023 · album
Rainy Night in Georgia (Re-Recorded - Sped Up)
2023 · single
Just A Matter Of Time (22 Hits)
2021 · album
My True Confession
2020 · album
Blue Decorations
2020 · single
I've Got the Christmas Spirit
2020 · single
A Lover's Question (Songwriters Mix)
2020 · single
It's Just A Matter Of Time
2020 · album
Super Hits
2019 · album
30 Best Hits
2019 · album
There Goes That Song Again
2019 · album
That Old Feeling
2017 · album
Rainy Night in Georgia
2016 · compilation
The Essential Vik & RCA Victor Recordings
2016 · compilation
You're All I Want For Christmas
2011 · single
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Biography
Silky smooth: that was Brook Benton's byword from his first record to his very last, as the singer parlayed his rich baritone pipes into seven number one R&B hits and eight Top Ten items. Stints on the gospel circuit preceded Benton's first secular session for Okeh in 1953, but his career didn't begin to take off until he teamed with writer/producer Clyde Otis. Benton co-wrote and sang hundreds of demos for other artists before frequent collaborator Otis signed his friend to Mercury; together they pioneered a lush, violin-studded variation on the standard R&B sound, which beautifully showcased Benton's intimate vocals. Benton crashed the top spot on the R&B charts in early 1959 with his moving "It's Just a Matter of Time," then rapidly encored with three more R&B chart-toppers: "Thank You Pretty Baby," "So Many Ways," and "Kiddio." Pairing with Mercury labelmate Dinah Washington, their delightful repartee on "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)" and "A Rockin' Good Way" paced the R&B lists in 1960. The early '60s were a prolific period for Benton, but he left Mercury a few years later and bounced between labels before reemerging with the atmospheric Tony Joe White ballad "Rainy Night in Georgia" on Cotillion in 1970. Benton later made a halfhearted attempt to cash in on the disco craze, but his hitmaking reign was at an end long before his death in 1988. ~ Bill Dahl, Rovi