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Goodies (George Benson album)

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Released
  
1968

Producer
  
Esmond Edwards

Genre
  
Jazz

Release date
  
1968

Label
  
Verve Records

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Recorded
  
November 18 && 19, 1968 A&R Studios, New York City

Goodies (1968)
  
Tell It Like It Is (1969)

Artists
  
George Benson, Willie Bobo

Similar
  
George Benson albums, Jazz albums

Goodies is an album by jazz guitarist George Benson recorded in 1968 and released on the Verve label.

Contents

Reception

AllMusic awarded the album 2 stars stating "Verve needed one more album from Benson after he signed with A&M/CTI, and ended up with a strange grab-bag in which Benson plays superbly throughout, whatever the odd goulash of sounds in back of him".

Track listing

All compositions by George Benson except as indicated

  1. "I Remember Wes" - 3:50
  2. "Carnival Joys" - 3:50
  3. "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Jerry Wexler) - 4:40
  4. "That Lucky Old Sun" (Beasley Smith, Haven Gillespie) - 3:37
  5. "Julie" - 3:10
  6. "Windmills of Your Mind" (Michel Legrand, Alan and Marilyn Bergman - 5:00
  7. "Doobie, Doobie Blues" - 5:10
  8. "Song for My Father" (Horace Silver) - 4:45
  9. "People Get Ready" (Curtis Mayfield) - 4:10

Personnel

  • George Benson - guitar, vocals
  • Clark Terry - trumpet
  • Garnett Brown - trombone
  • Arthur Clarke, George Marge - tenor saxophone, flute
  • Bobby Lucas - harmonica
  • Paul Griffin - piano, celeste
  • Bob Cranshaw, Chuck Rainey - electric bass
  • Jimmy Johnson, Jr., Leo Morris - drums
  • Jack Jennings - congas, vibraphone
  • The Sweet Inspirations - vocals
  • The Winston Collymore Strings arranged and conducted by Horace Ott (tracks 2, 4, 5 & 7),

    • References

    Goodies (George Benson album) Wikipedia
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