Tell It Like It Is is the seventh album by American guitarist George Benson featuring performances recorded in 1969 and released on the A&M label.CTI Records discography accessed February 16, 2012 Chart performance The album peaked at No. 145 on the Billboard Top LPs chart.
Reception The AllMusic review states "Benson manages to transcend the blasting Latin-percussion-spiced production, the tight time limits, and all with often brilliantly tasty guitar fills and brief solos in many styles and three reverb-heavy vocals".Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review accessed February 16, 2012
Track listing "Soul Limbo" (Booker T. & the M.G.'s) – 3:25 "Are You Happy" (Theresa Bell, Jerry Butler, Kenneth Gamble) – 2:27 "Tell It Like It Is" (George Davis, Lee Diamond) – 2:51 "Land of 1000 Dances" (Chris Kenner) – 2:48 "Jackie, All" (Eumir Deodato) – 2:14 "Don't Cha Hear Me Callin' to Ya" (Rudy Stevenson) – 3:16 "Water Brother" (Don Sebesky) – 2:09 "My Woman's Good to Me" (Billy Sherrill, Glenn Sutton) – 3:14 "Jama Joe" (George Benson) – 3:49 "My Cherie Amour" (Stevie Wonder, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy) – 3:28 "Out in the Cold Again" (Ted Koehler, Rube Bloom) – 2:41
Personnel George Benson – guitar, vocals Lew Soloff – trumpet Arthur Clarke (tracks 1–5), Bob Porcelli (tracks 6, 7 & 9), Hubert Laws (tracks 6, 7 & 9), Jerome Richardson (tracks 1–5, 8, 10 & 11), Joe Farrell (tracks 8, 10 & 11), Joe Henderson (tracks 8, 10 & 11), Sonny Fortune (tracks 1–5) – saxophone Rodgers Grant (tracks 6, 7 & 9), Richard Tee (tracks 1–5, 8, 10 & 11) – piano Bob Bushnell (tracks 1–5), Jerry Jemmott (tracks 1–7 & 9), Jim Fielder (tracks 8, 10 & 11) – bass guitar Leo Morris – drums Paul Alicea, Angel Allende, Johnny Pacheco – percussion Marty Sheller – arranger, conductor Technical Pete Turner – photography Charts
Chart (1969) Peakposition US Billboard Top LPs145 References