Friday, April 3, 2020

Brook Benton - Discography

Brook Benton

Brook Benton was a very popular soul singer in the early 60's and sold many, many records for the Mercury label. He had a voice that had a very wide appeal and was also a talented songwriter.

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
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Endlessly Benton
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Greatest Hits The Mercury Years

Home Style

I Love You in so Many Ways
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If You Believe
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It's Just a Matter of Time
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Songs I Love To Sing


Story Teller
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The Billy May Way
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The Boll Weevil Song

The Gospel Truth
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13 comments:

JanV said...

Thank you for the brook Benton albums.

Ozzieguy said...

You are very welcome JanV.
I also loved his music.

Shiloh said...

guess i missed the links

Shiloh said...

will the links be available again soon?

Ozzieguy said...

Hi Shiloh
Links fixed

Shiloh said...

THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU ROCK! :)

Ozzieguy said...

Thank you Shiloh

mrRadio said...

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!

mrRadio said...

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.

Ozzieguy said...

Excellent, he was such a great artist, I used to play and sing a lot of his stuff.

Ozzieguy said...

Oh dear, I stuffed up again.
Sorry, I shall fix it.

rosbeliobones9223@gmail,com said...

Muito obrigado !!!

Ozzieguy said...

You are very welcome rosbeliobones