George Benson

Give Me the Night is the year's most romantic pop record and one of a handful of recent
pop-fusion LPs that transcend the Muzaklike monotony of MOR-jazz. Four years ago,
Breezin' established guitarist-singer George Benson as the king of this hip, high-gloss mood
genre, in which a virtuoso could coolly strut his stuff without ever risking spontaneity.
Until Give Me the Night, both Benson and the music he helped popularize seemed... More >