While the City Sleeps...
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| Studio album by George Benson | ||||
| Released | September 23, 1986 | |||
| Recorded | 1985-1986 Tarpan Recording Studios, Mediasound Studios | |||
| Genre | Pop, Jazz-Pop | |||
| Length | 38:13 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Producer | Narada Michael Walden for Perfection Light Productions, Tommy LiPuma, Robbie Buchanan, Kashif, Preston Glass (associate) | |||
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While the City Sleeps... is the 1986 studio album of George Benson on Warner Bros.. It features musicians like Paulinho da Costa, Preston Glass, Paul Jackson, Jr., Marcus Miller and Narada Michael Walden (as drummer and producer), alongside young talents of the time like Kenny G, Randy Jackson and Kashif. It's part of the "series" of 1980s pop albums Benson recorded. Though it doesn't have any instrumental tracks, Benson's guitar playing is somewhat in the headlight in songs like "Love Is Here Tonight", "Teaser" and "Too Many Times". Beside being the most successful single, "Kisses in the Moonlight" is still frequently played by Benson at live performances and is present on many of his compilation albums (The Best of George Benson, The George Benson Anthology, The Essential Selection, etc.) On the B-side of the "Kisses in the Moonlight" single – alongside "Breezin'" (Special Mix) on the 12" version – is the instrumental song "Open Your Eyes" (George Benson/Ronnie Foster) (producer: Tommy LiPuma, engineer: Eric Calvi) which is not available elsewhere.
Like many of Benson's pop albums, While the City Sleeps... was criticized for the lack of guitar playing, and being an "attempt to chase the charts".
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