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Date Posted: 17:56:01 03/30/03 Sun
Author: Alfred
Subject: Rainy Night In Georgia by Brook Benton #4 1970(Pre AT40 Era?)

Last night I discovered a very good song on 70�s on 7,I listened to it for the very first time and it moved me. The song is in a slow tempo , featuring a guitar, a piano, an organ, and a harmonica. The narrator apparently is a drifter roaming the streets of a city in Georgia. Perhaps his girlfriend left him recently. Anyway, as the rain pours and he seeks an overnight shelter, he seems to hear her voice. Then he hears a train whistle a sad tone in the distance. He heads toward the train and climbs aboard one of its boxcars. He feels like rain is falling everywhere in the world. This song was written by Tony Joe White

As one critic (COLIN ESCOT) points out.It grabbed a lot of other people too. Rainy night became a late blooming hit for Benton in 1970, a little oasis of mellowness amid the psychedelic.Other minor hits and several label affiliations followed but Benton could never recapture the winning groove. He lived his last years playing the oldies circuit, inviting the audience to Remember When.He died on April 9, 1988 of complications from spiral meningitis. Despite his later success with Rainy night in Georgia, Benton will be primarily remembered for the Mercury recordings on this set. His music was true crossover music; it crossed between eras and between divergent styles. It looked both forward and backward; it shared the urbanity of pop music and the drama of gospel. Brook Benton took a decade to find his true voice but -once found- he defined a style that could only be called his own. He became a success on his own terms and the measure of his success is that there is still a demand for his work some thirty years after he first struck gold.

Anyone who has some more info about this song is greatly apreciated.

Alfred

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Re: Rainy Night In Georgia by Brook Benton #4 1970(Pre AT40 Era?) -- Alfred, 15:53:41 04/03/03 Thu