Thursday, March 27, 2008

Throwback Thursday

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The musical GENIUS that is George Benson won a grammy back in 1977 for his hit "The Masquerade" and its this weeks throwie thursday. This song was number 1 on the pop, jazz and R&B charts. Now after you listen to this amazing song, do yourself a favor and head on over to georgebenson.com to get acquainted with this legend. This man is the reason why im SO picky when it comes to my male vocalist of today...when u grew up listening to this, Frankie Beverly, Donny Hathaway and others... the fellows out now can't even make me raise an eyebrow....now PLEASE...CLICK PLAY!


2 comments:

QH said...

I like Mr. Benson, he worked with Vanessa Williams on her last record. It was great. You know "This Masquerade" is a Carpenters song, eh?-QH

Anonymous said...

George Benson, Franky Beverly and Maze, The Commodores, Freddie Jackson. That's good music right there. I also love me some Anita Baker.