I had seen the adults dance to it at parties. As a grown up, I know that the song can rock me and other grownups at a party. That indeed is a quality of timeless music.
As much as Michael Jackson’s Thriller was the first non-children’s record I asked to be bought for me, my remembering the impact of George Benson’s early 1980s music is among my first memories of popular music.
I would not think about George Benson until in the very late 1990s when I was introduced to jazz music, a former coworker handed me two CDs from which I would base my musical education of the genre. One was Thelonious Monk and the other was George Benson.
That compilation of early George Benson music would introduce me to Wes Montgomery and how important he was to George Benson.
I'm not sure if it was a coincidence or not but yesterday while I was on Wellington Street in Montreal, I heard his 1983 track on what was his birthday. If you don't know the one I'm referring to, give below a listen.
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