But if the mood strikes you, turn this up just a bit and sit between the speakers and let it take you away. Songs like Affirmation ring nice bells for me, though there's a lot going on musically, Niels is ultimately right, its easy-listening. But they didn't take as well as the aforementioned albums. That said, it worked for many of these jazzier artists, and certainly Bensons albums were appreciated. And that's kind of what we did, I guess it was our improv version of a music appreciation class, and it worked. If you listened close it sounded like different tunes everytime you heard them. Albums like Stanley Clarke's Modern Man, Kenny Loggins Nightwatch, Santana Moonflower, and so on. I can still hear the details in the production of some of these albums. He played a ton of Earth Wind and Fire (Now you know why I love them so much) but he also played the Commodores, Stanley Clarke and this guy! They had one of the cleanest sounding systems I can still remember to this day. One of his older brothers was a straight ahead rocker who introduced me to April Wines First Glance album among others, and then his other brother was a jazz guy.
I had two major sources of musical influences in my life. The obvious one was found in my brothers album collection and the second was my best friends older brothers. No, it's okay, just another soft easy-listening instrumental track. There, I'm at the last track, and still awake.but for how long? Amasingly, the last track sounds like the most boring of them all. I truely understand, why some people like this music, more than I understand why some people like Venom and King Diamond.
My 90 year old mother would fall asleep to that track, easily. No, honestly it's very nice listening to. Sometime around 1990, I probably would had liked this album a lot, but I was very confused (musically) at that time, because my favorite kind of music had developed into Hair Metal-crap, and I was sick of it. The second track reminds me of music from my childhood TV-shows, until he starts to sing, then it sounds like a Stevie Wonder-song. You knew, that I would bitch about this album, so why should I hold back. There are soo many great classic rock albums out there, but still I have to listen to this for the next half an hour or so. That's just because I have/choose to listen to albums like this, and new "Smash or trash"-songs. I really mean "so much good music, so little time", even though it sometimes sounds like, I hate a lot of music. I would never, ever, ever put this on at home. I remember hearing the title-track before. I got a remastered copy with three bonus tracks for a cool $3.99. Can't say the album has any special meaning to me as I've just purchased it recently. The latter is a terrific song though, and Benson has a very good voice. I vaguely remember the title track getting some airplay, but I can't for the life of me remember This Masquerade. It also nabbed Grammy Awards for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical and Record Of The Year (for the song This Masquerade).
#Breezin george benson chart crack#
The single This Masquerade was a Top 10 pop hit while Breezin' was a mild hit, though it failed to crack the Top 40. The album itself spent two weeks in the top position on the Billboard Pop Albums Chart in 1976. That's a very lengthy career right there. For those of you that aren't familiar with him, George Benson is a jazz and soul guitarist and vocalist whose first album was released in 1964, while his most recent effort hit the shelves in 2013. I'm pickin' this one because it was also a number one Billboard album, which keeps nicely with the overall theme I have been working on in 2016. How 'bout a bit of a curve ball this week? Since it's First Friday, let's go with an anniversary release, one of three albums released by George Benson in 1976. Disclaimer: All info that does not reside in my brain is gathered from (mostly because Jon can't stand it) unless otherwise noted.
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