George Benson – The Most Amazing Jazz Music Guitar Performer Ever – Part 1
Jazz guitar performer George Benson was born March 22, 1943 in Pittsburgh, Pa. The precocious youngster found early on that he possessed a fine singing voice and in fact made his public debut at age four at a Fourth of July show, leading to his nickname – “Little Georgie Benson”. Hearing the jazz guitar recordings of jazz guitarist Charlie Christian with the Benny Goodman Band a few years later ignited his longing to perform on guitar. There were no collection books of jazz guitar tabs or jazz guitar tablature in those days for George to study and learn from. His stepfather, Tom Collier, who also had desires of performing on guitar professionally owned an electric guitar that the youthful George coveted. Because his hands were too little at that point however, he had to settle for an ukulele instead.
By the time he was eight, Benson was rewarded with a very inexpensive guitar by his stepfather who acknowledged his talent. A nearby talent scout noticed George’s talents after seeing him play guitar on street corners and drove him to New York city. At the age of ten, Little Georgie Benson was signed to a short term record contract with RCA Victor Record Company’s “X” label and recorded four sides of R&B music which included Ray Charles’s “It Should Have Been Me”. Only one single, “She Makes Me Mad”, was released and the event helped add to Benson’s notoriety back home, but his strict stepfather saw the whole thing as too much of a distraction and took George’s guitar away!
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