I started singing it and people started singing it with us, And I went, 'Wow, people can't be that old,' because that song came out in the late '50s early '60s." I didn't know people knew that song-I understand there was a hit not too long ago. "Especially when I performed it live, people really related to it. "I didn't think it was going to go across, but the people loved it," Benson says of his version of the song. When he opened his mouth to sing, man it was like magic."Īlso on Weekend in London is Benson's live rendition of the old Dave Bartholomew's song "I Hear You Knocking,'" which the guitarist previously recorded for his most recent studio album Walking to New Orleans (It was recorded by R&B singer Smiley Lewis in 1955 and then covered by the English rocker Dave Edmunds in 1970). He was a trained musician, he was not just a guy off the street who was making up stuff as he went along. He'd sit at the piano and play some of the most incredible stuff you ever heard. "I used to go up to his apartment in midtown Manhattan. "I actually used to write songs with him," Benson remembers about Hathaway. It also includes a number of cover songs, such as "Feel Like Makin' Love" by Roberta Flack and "The Ghetto" by the late soul singer Donnie Hathaway.
The set list on Weekend in London contains Benson's signature hits ("Give Me the Night," "Turn Your Love Around," "Love x Love," "Never Give Up on a Good Thing"), deep cuts ("Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You," "Moody's Mood") and instrumentals ("Cruise Control"). We did all kinds of clubs in New York and across America. I did that for years in the early part of my career.
But I had the experience and they're never going to go away. I haven't played on that scale in a long time. You're looking down into a guy's rum and Coke or beer, and his girlfriend is going crazy and his foot is tapping too. Benson remembers how physically close he was to the audience he was at Ronnie Scott's (whose capacity is 250), a departure from the bigger places he's accustomed to performing at.
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