Released 1961 Artist Brook Benton Label Mercury Records | Length 32:03 Release date 1961 Genre Rhythm and blues | |
If You Believe
(1961) The Boll Weevil Song and 11 Other Great Hits
(1961) The Boll Weevil Song and 11 Other Great Hits
(1961) There Goes That Song Again
(1962) Brook Benton albums Songs I Love to Sing, The Gospel Truth, 20 Greatest Hits, Brook Benton: Forty Gre, The Two of Us | ||
The Boll Weevil Song and 11 Other Great Hits is a studio album released by Brook Benton in 1961 on Mercury LP record MG 20641 (mono) and SR 60641 (stereo). The album appeared on Billboard's album charts in 1961 for thirteen weeks, reaching position number 70. The orchestrations were done by Stan Applebaum, who also conducted the orchestra on the sessions.
Following the significant popularity of Benton's hit The Boll Weevil Song, Mercury quickly arranged sessions which largely rely on American Caucasian folk music for material, although Benton took composition credit for most the songs. The result is a mix of R&B and pop. Allmusic reviews the album favorably, but reviewer Greg Adams wishes the rest of the album had the "fire" contained in the title track.
Songs
1The Boll Weevil Song
2Honey Babe
3A Worried Man