About Brook Benton
Benjamin Franklin Peay, known professionally as Brook Benton, was an American singer and songwriter whose music transcended rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and pop music genres in the 1950s and 1960s, with hits such as "It's Just a Matter of Time" and "Endlessly". Benton recorded his first solo, "The Kentuckian Song", the theme from a movie of the same name. Epic Records signed The Sandmen in 1954, immediately sending the group to record at the Columbia studios in New York. Upon a second recording session, Okeh decided to push Benton as a solo artist. One of Benton's sisters was the original artist to record "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)", in 1958, under the title "You've Got What It Takes", using the stage name Dorothy Pay, as the B-side of her single "Strollin' with My Baby".
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