RHINO
★★★★
As he told Classic Pop recently, it took 15 albums for George Benson to discover the magic formula: stop working on the East Coast, head to California and relax. You can hear the sunshine on his 1976 breakthrough, reissued for Rhino’s Black History Month vinyl series. Benson begins singing like the smooth, unruffled gentleman who’d soon dominate late-night taxi rides home for generations to come.