The Gospel Truth Brook Benton

• 1 Let Us All Get Together With the Lord 04:27
• 2 Oh Happy Day 03:56
• 3 Heaven Help Us All 03:33
• 4 Going Home in His Name 02:52
• 5 Take A Look At Your Hands 04:18
• 6 If You Think God is Dead 04:45
• 7 I Dreamed of a City Called Heaven 04:25
• 8 Doing the Best That I Can Do 05:39
• 9 Precious Lord 02:52
• Total Runtime 36:47

Info for The Gospel Truth

Brook Benton, The Gospel Truth arranged and produced by Arif Mardin.

Brook Benton, vocals

Brook Benton was born “BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PEAY” on 19 September 1931 in Camden, South Carolina

Ben started singing at a very young age in his Church Choir at the “Efuces Methodist Church” in Lugoff, SC. After he graduated “Jackson High School” he joined a local gospel quartet called the “Camden Jubilee Singers” for a short period of time. In 1948 he moved to New York City and joined “Bill Langford’s Langfordaires” singing at night and on the weekends while during the day he worked as a truck driver. He next joined a group called “Bill Pinkley’s Jerusalem Stars” before deciding to form his own rhythm and blues band called “The Sandmen”. He subsequently decides to change his performing name to “Brook Benton” and signs a recording contract with “Epic” records that would be very short lived. He then sings a one record deal only with “RCA” records for their subsidiary “Vik” records. He next meets music publisher and A&R Chief Executive for “Mercury” records “Clyde Otis” who was the very first black in this high of a position in the music industry. He joins Clyde as a studio demo singer, a songwriter and a music arranger.

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