FIRST TIME REACTION to George Benson/ Young-Holt Unlimited/ Hugh Masekela/ Dennis Coffey Isaac Hayes
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- THANKS TO JK FOR THIS AMAZING MARATHON!!
1. Breezin’ by George Benson
2. Soulful Strut by Young-Holt Unlimited
3. Grazin’ in the Grass by Hugh Masekela
4. Scorpio by Dennis Coffey and the Detroit Guitar Band
5. Shaft by Isaac Hayes
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What a fun reaction, Nick! And yes, absolutely pick up your axe and play if you get the inspiration - especially on instrumentals! And I LOVED your addition of Brick - more like EWF to my ears. I think these songs are timeless, but you don’t hear a lot of funk nowadays, or instrumental hits. Time for a Soul comeback! Thanks, Nick!
@@Dave-hb7lx You’re welcome, Dave! First African American to win Best Original Song at the Oscars. So influential.
George Benson!! What a talent!!! Loved this!!!❤
The theme to Shaft is what made me want to learn how to play wah wah pedal guitar.
George Benson is my favourite artist. He has a huge catalogue dating from the 60s and still recording today. Each decade he embarked on a different take on the genre of Jazz. And for such an amazing singer, half his songs were instrumentals. A jazz icon and music legend.
This is a Killer, a Thriller, a Rainbow Spiller, a Wildest Dream Filler, I mean can you dig it? Right On……. Shut my Mouth.
Awesome JK. Can’t wait to watch Nicks Face light up. Especially on Grazing in the Grass. All great soul shine songs. 😎😎😎
George Benson - Jazz Guitar at it’s finest!
For "Soulful Strut", some web searching shows that Young-Holt Unlimited released their instrumental version around the same time as it was sung by Barbara Acklin as "Am I the Same Girl".
There was also a Swing Out Sister version of the song in 1992, so maybe that is where Nick heard it.
The Bass on Scorpio was played by Bob Babbitt. he and Coffey played as later members of the Funk Brothers, Motown's studio musicians. several of the other members were also on this song.
Another of Babbit's better known lines is on Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)"
Thanks JK! So great to hear Hugh Masekela on the channel. The father of South African Jazz!
Nick, it's pronounced Mass-y-kay-la. He was musical royalty in SA and at the forefront of the cultural fight against apartheid. He was already in exile in the US when he made this track. This was great JK, hearing all these great tracks again.
You’re welcome!
Thanks JK. Grazing in the Grass! The organic start of the cowbell craze. Real cows grazing, real cowbells, real groovy!
Had a restaurant in Ottawa where i had a mix tape for the afternoon after the rush.... this was the first tune. Thanks for the "cascata" of memories. Toby appreciated it on the walk too.
@davidgale What was the restaurant? I used to work in the biz in Bytown back in the day
Benson was one of the first concerts that I went to as a kid. My Uncles had such cool tastes in music. I'm so lucky they wanted to share the experience with me.
Wow. Same. I was 8 when he toured here in New Zealand in 1981 playing an outside concert at Western Springs, a legendary NZ concert venue. I was with my parents and uncles and aunties. I was the only kid allowed to go because I had grown up from a baby to the beautiful music of George Benson, and I was such a huge fan that I was adamant in going. My old man's band used to play Breezin, Give me the night, and Affirmation in their sets too.
I remember I was up on the grass banks with my family but I had to see the master up close. So I took off from my family and tried to get closer weaving my way through the crowd. A dude spotted me jumping up trying to see and asked me if I wanted to go on his shoulders. Of course I said yes please and before you know it, there was George right in front of me. I looked around at the huge crowd and I was in heaven. No one even complained that a kid was blocking their view. What an amazing and memorable first concert. Heartfelt thanks to that kind stranger. And to George and my parents.
I ended up in a George Benson cover band called Affirmation. We were musicians from various bands and had some NZ Symphony Orchestra musicians also. We'd come together for Jazz festivals. So yeah, lifelong fan. I wonder how many people can say that their favourite artist at 7 would still be their favourite 40 years later.
I walked up on Isaac Hayes playing Shaft at a jazz/blues festival just as the sun was setting. I believe it was the Wes Montgomery Fest in Indianapolis back in the early nineties. We had just finished listening to a jazz act on another stage and a breeze was starting to cool down the packed crowd as the sun set behind the stage and that snare starts up. A wave of wandering folks streamed towards the already hefty audience gathered around the Blues stage where Isaac was closing his set. It was the hottest cool vibe. By the way Wes Montgomery isn't a huge name still commercially but he had a distinctive sound that influenced George Benson and Pat Methany, for instance.
Listening to his guitar makes me happy. I don’t play any instruments, all I can say is this gives me the imagery of some sunset scene, riding along side a road parallel to the ocean front, staring at the bicycle next to me, the spinning of the wheel spokes are at a different speed contrast against the background. Everything in slow mo…I bet most people kinda have similar memories of riding in their parent’s car, or public transit where you stared out the window and catches something in sync but in a different speed of what you’re traveling in…that’s what this track brings me…or brings me to.😊
brought back lots of childhood memories
Soulful Strut was written by Eugene Record and Sonny Sanders, but the first version was not instrumental, it was sung by Barbara Acklin with the title "am i the same girl" among other things remade in the early nineties by Swing Out Sister
What a great marathon JK - love it!
Friends of Distinction did a vocal version of grazing in the graze. I recall it was a decent hit for them.
Love the guitar stuff. Keep it up.
Wow this was a great marathon, thank you JK! I hadn't heard George Benson in so long. I had forgotten how good he is and remember seeing him in concert way back in the 70's. Of course Isaac Hayes is the definition of cool with "Shaft". All of these songs take me back.🍂Thanks so much Nick for reacting to these tunes - great comments!
You’re welcome!
Been meaning to listen to "Breezin'" again, enjoyed your reaction to it.
Thanks JK for a great marathon, and thanks Nick for a great reaction.
Breezing got played to death on the radio back in the 70s, but it really holds up well. Soulful strut is a stone cold classic. Grazing in the grass is great too. I’m not sure I had heard Scorpio before, but I will definitely be listening to it again. And what can you say about the Theme from Shaft? It’s just an incredible record, and Isaac Hayes won an Oscar for that song, the first African-American to win an Oscar in a music category.
Thumbs up for Soulful Strut.
Such beautiful class sounds from the late 60s I love it and it makes me sad too
Loved this marathon, these songs are so funky, jazzy and just great.
Haven’t even listened yet but thankful in advance! Nice, JK! You’re gonna have fun, Nick. Me too. 😽💖
There is a keyboard player, jazzfusion ... Joe Sample. You might consider..."Hippies On The Corner" .... Enjoy
Yes, that was a Flugelhorn that Masekela played. Bensons Breezen and Masekelas Grazing in the k Grass. Listened to both of them over and over when I was young (many years ago).
OMG Yu got it Nick!!! What a great guitar player you are...I love it!! I Love seeing musicians especially young musicians as yourself pick up tunes the music masters have created and play it for my enjoyment!!! Love it!
George Benson is a master of the Jazz guitar...love these Jazz musicians.
went to radio city music hall,in the early seventies,saw the rocketts dance to this song,it was magical.
He’s one best guitarist of all time he made Motown what it became he was in many movies sound tracks black Balt jones and many others
Oh my lord. On song 2 and it's epic. I used to play breezing. I'll do it again 😮
This is the side of soul music that we would play at the barbecue in the 70s
Check out George's Good King Bad album from 1975. Some incredible guitar work. Also listen to his The other side of Abbey Road from 1969
Try George Benson’ version of Take 5
The studio version
He really flys on that one
Nice selection per usual 😉
Pretty sure Beastie Boys sampled Scorpio at 25:41
No I’m wrong. But 14 other artists such as Public Enemy, Rage Against the Machine, and Young MC. You know, Bust a Move.
Instrumentals were a regular occurrence on the music charts back in day.
Great marathon JK. Nick you should react to the song Polina by Hugh Masekela you are going to love it.
I'm not entirely sure of my recollection of the time frame, but for a while there was a musical genre called "smooth jazz". It was more melodic and less technically brilliant than what was considered "jazz" back then. It was popular enough that most large radio markets had one smooth jazz station you could program into your car radio and listen to smooth jazz as you tooled around town. George Benson was a mainstay of smooth jazz, as were other fine guitarists like Peter White and Earl Klugh. I think smooth jazz succeeded to the extent it did because it did not require your entire attention to enjoy it. You could put it on in your car, or in your home, and enjoy the time spent doing all the drudgery that living requires of you.
Benson succeeded in crossing over to regular Top 40 radio music, in major part because he had a fine singing voice and great tone to his guitar. He played arenas while other smooth jazz artists played jazz clubs. I took advantage of the this by going to see Earl Klugh perform almost within reaching distance in small clubs in his hometown, metro Detroit, with the main one being Baker's Keyboard Lounge. I think I heard Klugh was immensely popular in Japan and played arenas when he toured there. Alas, the Detroit area no longer has a smooth jazz radio station. The tastes of the public change over time. I was recently delighted to discover I could tune in over the internet to a smooth jazz station in NYC.
"The Horse" by Cliff Noble is another of this time and genre.
Our high school marching band played the horse often
@@MrSmartAlec Are you from Linden NJ?
@@geraldbryden6720 No. originally from WV.
More Hugh ,excellent brass work
Benson is just great man... he is the man....
My cousin , the band he was in opened for Isaac Hayes on his Shaft Tour at The Municipal Auditorium in Downtown Kansas City Missouri on November 7th 1971. The Name of the band he was in was The Curtis Liggins Indications. They were on there way to Stardom but Curtis and some other band members were tagically killed while driving to there next gig. R.I.P. CURTIS AND THE OTHER BAND MEMBERS.
Breezin’ is an AMAZING ALBUM !!!
Please share this one with Lex !!😊
Love this❣️
Brick...heh....I am going to check this Jazz/funk band out!!! "Livin' from the mind."
george benson,s backup guitar player, phil upchurch,is a great player also.
Breezin’ is an amazing album.
When you get a minute, look up Life of Mars by Dexter Wansel & Supersonic by Jimmy Caster 🤯
I suggest you to watch Harlequin by GRP Lee Retouner and Ivan Linz.
Does anyone know of any other music appreciators that can pull out a guitar and be so good on it?
Very jazzy Funk Musik thanks
You might consider
War- the world is a Ghetto from the American band series
nick react to earth wind & fire sun goddess instrumental you'll luv it !
some spyro gyra !
please react southern empire, amazing prog rock band!
This is the side of soul music that we would play at the barbecue in the 70s