{"id":13216,"date":"2024-03-17T10:28:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T10:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=13216"},"modified":"2024-03-17T10:28:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T10:28:46","slug":"music-the-other-side-of-abbey-road-george-benson-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=13216","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: The Other Side of Abbey Road, George Benson, 19??"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wAZWvFnTqaY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/stars_10_five-1-5.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-13215\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/stars_10_five-1-5.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/stars_10_five-1-5-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is one of the many GB albums I don\u2019t yet have in a \u2018hard copy\u2019 format, yet. Indeed, I don\u2019t think I\u2019d ever even listened to it until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having been totally blown away by the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FrkvnzdKObY?si=yxDG6Y81axq0RHx9\">Rick Beato George Benson interview<\/a>, I\u2019ve been delving into areas of Benson\u2019s back catalogue I\u2019d not explored before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, unsurprisingly, it\u2019s proving a rich and rewarding experience. This disc is interesting for numerous reasons. First of all it\u2019s unusual, in popular music, for an artist to release an entire album covering just one other artist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secondly, later on in Benson\u2019s career he\u2019d get a lot of flak for \u2018selling out\u2019, as he began introducing vocal numbers. But, as he says when talking to Rick, he\u2019d <em>always <\/em>sung, since childhood. And this album <em>precedes<\/em> the ones &#8211; <em>Breezin<\/em>, <em>In Flight<\/em>, etc &#8211; that drew certain folks\u2019 ire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personally I absolutely love these recordings. What\u2019s not to love? Excellent songs, reinterpreted by equally excellent musicians, but in a different vein. The blend of jazz, R\u2019n\u2019B, popular song, and terrific classical influenced arrangement, all add up to a Fab whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the many GB albums I don\u2019t yet have in a \u2018hard copy\u2019 format, yet. Indeed, I don\u2019t think I\u2019d ever even listened to it until now. Having been totally blown away by the Rick Beato George Benson interview, I\u2019ve been delving into areas of Benson\u2019s back catalogue I\u2019d not explored before. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=13216\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: The Other Side of Abbey Road, George Benson, 19??&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-3ra","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13216"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}