Brook Benton
Born Benjamin Franklin Peay in Camden, South Carolina in 1931, he became a gospel singer at a young age. While still a child he worked delivering milk in the morning and joined the Camden Jubilee Singers.
He enjoyed writing songs and in 1948, at age 17, journeyed to New York City to try to sell some of them. With his gospel singing background, it was not long before he drifted in and out of gospel groups such as Bill Langford's Spiritual Singers, the Langfordaires, the Golden Gate Quartet, and the Jerusalem Stars. Brook returned to South Carolina and drove a truck for a while while continuing his music career. He joined an R&B singing group, the Sandmen, and once again went north in search of a big break.
Do Your Own Thing
Endlessly Benton
Greatest Hits The Mercury Years
Home Style
I Love You in so Many Ways
If You Believe
It's Just a Matter of Time
Songs I Love To Sing
Story Teller
The Billy May Way
The Boll Weevil Song
13 comments:
Thank you for the brook Benton albums.
You are very welcome JanV.
I also loved his music.
guess i missed the links
will the links be available again soon?
Hi Shiloh
Links fixed
THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU ROCK! :)
Thank you Shiloh
Mr Benton was pretty amazing. I never got a chance to check out his catalog so I'll be doing that now. Thank you OG!
Just FYI.. noticed you have "Songs I Love To Sing" listed twice, with two slightly different cover pics, look like one is stereo cover and the other may be mono cover. Both links are to the same file however.
Excellent, he was such a great artist, I used to play and sing a lot of his stuff.
Oh dear, I stuffed up again.
Sorry, I shall fix it.
Muito obrigado !!!
You are very welcome rosbeliobones
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