Brook was from South Carolina. His voice is so soothingly southern. He sounds like creamy butter melting on hot cornbread. Listening to him I'm transported to my grandparents' home in Virginia. I can hear the raindrops on the tin roof and the smell of sweet summer rain blowing through tge curtains and the screen doors.
This is one of my most favorite songs ever. First time I heard it was not a rainy day... it was a misty May morning, dew covering everything outside, and my bedroom window was open, and the white lilacs just below it were in bloom and filling my room with a heavenly scent. Every time I hear this song it's as if I can smell those lilacs, and every time I smell lilacs, the song plays in my head. Wonderful memory... and Brook has such an amazing voice... so deep, so soothing. Thank you for playing this, Harri!
Thanx for the manner in which you set the scene like a very prolific writer. That is precisely how I feel. Benton has such a masculine voice and such a profound and meaningful presentation. No one else sings it better.
This is one instance when it is the perfect match of vocals with melody and sentiment. You can feel the rain and the haunting darkness and loneliness of the night in your soul. WOW. One of the moodiest songs ever. Magical.
Smooth. Gold. The voice. The strings. I've never been fond of harmonica music, but here it just fits. I was about 13 when this came out and I can remember hearing it and it was, indeed, a rainy night---in the Bronx.
I'm so glad you reacted to this great Brook Benton song. I requested some Brook Benton songs several months ago. He also did a Joe South song called Don't it Make you Want To Go Home, and wonderful songs with the lovely Dinah Washington. I was a baby when he sang with Dinah we had them at home on the radio. Plus when I was about 8 he had a song about the Boll Weevils which was cute and really showed off his wonderful range. But thanks so much for playing Brook Benton. It makes this old lady's heart happy.😊😁😘
Brook Benton and this song has been a fave of mine since I was about 9 years old. My mom used to play it on the stereo! Love his voice and he’s easy on the eyes too❤
I just love this song. Loved 8 years in Georgia. Good place. People are plus & minus. My boys went to college there & met their wives, so it is special to me.
I think I would enjoy a rainy night in Georgia. I have a memory of laying on the backseat of the family car with my parents up front. We're leaving the church. The sun is about to set and this song starts to play on the radio. That's such a fee-good memory for me!
Hari, try It's Just a Matter of Time, Endlessly, Kiddio, The Boll Weevil Song, and his duets with Dinah Washington, Baby (You've Got What it Takes )and A Rockin Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love). Great voices!
I guess wherever you're from, that's what a rainy night you think feels like. But it's been my experience that when it rains in the evening, especially when it's warm, it feels different wherever you're at. Imagine no AC and it's been stupid hot all day and then it starts raining. The humidity rises but then when it rains enough the air cools off... It creates a relaxed peaceful feeling but if you're lonely, it just makes you melancholy.
"Lord, I believe it's raining all over the world". I think Mr. Benson does the very best version of this song. There's your harmonica, Harri! This takes me back to the rainy nights in Georgia...
Thank you Harri for reacting to this song! It’s a favorite of mine, I’ve requested this to other reactors, no one has. Actually heard this driving his voice brought tears to my eyes.
THIS IS PERHAPS my favorite R&B song of all time. That lower register just kills me, and he had a long and distinguished career of beautiful vocal performances like this. Brook Benton was one of the all time greats period.
I heard it for the first time coming into Valdosta GA at nite. Yes, it was raining. I wanted it to play all the way to Atlanta. Sheet melodic brilliance..
Here's what the writer, Tony Joe White said about this version... Direct quote, "I knew Brook, but I didn’t know he had recorded ‘Rainy Night in Georgia’ until, well, I was working in Memphis at the time, and they sent me a little 45 rpm. I’ll bet I played it 15 times without stopping. And I just thought, ‘Man, how a voice like that can just take a song and sing it that way…'
I read an interview in regard to Benton's version of this song where White said that sometimes it takes another singer to show a songwriter just how the song should really be sung.
Enjoyed your reaction. Like yourself I’d heard as a kid and enjoyed it to an extent I suppose but couldn’t appreciate it of course. I’ve been collecting music of my lifetime through the years and when I revisited this one…man this one just hits in such a way. It transports me to a certain nostalgic, warm, sad, yet comfortable state of mind. Brook’s voice is indeed is so warm. He had a Christmas tune, “This Time of the Year” and it does the same to me.
Rainy night in Georgia was written by Tony Joe White in 1967. I also love a Brit bird named Lu Lu . She does a song called “Oh me Oh my”. It makes me cry and will do it to you too. A new girl named Natalie Blue does a song called “It could have been something.” I would love it if you reviewed these two songs as you are a Music Lover and your opinion is what really matters. Not people that just like music. You have to love it Harry. Thanks. It is raining here in California as well. How cool is that?❤
I know Tony Joe White wrote this and also recorded. But Brook Benton version is filled with so much emotion when I hear this song it always brings a tear to my eyes.Just love the whole production of the song. Great choice for a reaction song✌️
Actually Tony Joe White only did a demo for the song to send to Jerry Wexler at Atlantic records .3 months later Brook Bentons recording came out .When TJW heard he said he he was never really interested in the song until he heard Brook sing it he had to learn it. Thuscwasctaken from a Y T video about the song where he masterfully performs it.
Loved the understated jazz guitar licks played by Cornell Dupree, who was a session musician and played on a lot of Motown recordings. Takes me back to my teen years, what a powerful song. Never knew Tony Joe White wrote the song! Now I've got to check his version as well as Ray Charles Thanks Harri !
There are so many songs about Georgia! You must also know the song, Midnight Train to Georgia, by Gladys and The Pips! Me? I can't wait to move back north from Georgia. It is a very pretty and green State, but I am a Yankee and am missing my roots....
Brooks Benton is one of my best childhood memories. My mom loved him and the Platters and when I hear him, it takes me back to a simpler time. Thank you Harri.
What a perfect song!! I’ve never heard this one! Plus GOD is answering prayers for RAIN 🌧 now its been pouring since Monday here in Florida. And its forecast through next Saturday. BEAUTIFUL SONG
Please listen to Brook Benton With All My Heart and It's Just A House Without You his voice is heaven and the songs well have a listen you will love them
One of my favourite songs and vocal performances of all time from first hearing. I'm always happy to hear anyone perform it well. Beautiful arrangement too, top to bottom. ;>D
The harmonica player is Toots Thielemans and the lead guitar is played by Cornell Dupree. Other musicians on this song include Dave Crawford on piano, Billy Carter on organ, Jimmy O'Rourke on guitar, Harold Cowart on bass, and Tubby Zeigler on drums. The orchestration was arranged and conducted by Arif Mardin.
Im a 80s kid who grew up with metal and rock but dang it at 56 and know Im a adult this is adult music and music like this needs to come back to this world vs all the crap made today.
@@HarriBestReactions for the most part! Rained earlier, but all good now. Hey, have you reacted to Bonnie Raitt? You’d love her song, “Gnawin’ On It”! She plays an incredible slide guitar!
You'd love Solomon Burke also if you're not familiar with him I could send some requests for you. Solomon Burke is 1 of my top R&B, blues, gospel artists. I get that side from my Ma!
Great choice Harri. IIRC the first track I heard by Mr. Benton was "Fools Rush In" (1960) . Try it. Slightly dated but it has that wonderful voice of his. I have this, the Tony Joe White version and one by Randy Crawford. All 10/10. For personal reasons I'm addicted to Randy Crawford's version. I'll have to fly away and play a selection of her tracks now.
Brook was from South Carolina. His voice is so soothingly southern. He sounds like creamy butter melting on hot cornbread. Listening to him I'm transported to my grandparents' home in Virginia. I can hear the raindrops on the tin roof and the smell of sweet summer rain blowing through tge curtains and the screen doors.
This is one of my most favorite songs ever. First time I heard it was not a rainy day... it was a misty May morning, dew covering everything outside, and my bedroom window was open, and the white lilacs just below it were in bloom and filling my room with a heavenly scent. Every time I hear this song it's as if I can smell those lilacs, and every time I smell lilacs, the song plays in my head. Wonderful memory... and Brook has such an amazing voice... so deep, so soothing. Thank you for playing this, Harri!
You are a poet
@@skyblue9515 They do have that quality.
Thanx for the manner in which you set the scene like a very prolific writer. That is precisely how I feel. Benton has such a masculine voice and such a profound and meaningful presentation. No one else sings it better.
This is one instance when it is the perfect match of vocals with melody and sentiment. You can feel the rain and the haunting darkness and loneliness of the night in your soul. WOW. One of the moodiest songs ever. Magical.
this is the most popular version of the song. brook benton did a wonderful job, what a tremendous voice and delivery.
This has been in my top ten for a long time. Such a timeless tune.
Brooke Benton's voice is INCREDIBLE! ✅️🙏🏾
The first time I heard this song I was actually driving through Georgia at night with the rain coming down steadily. Blew me totally away.
ME TOO!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Jawjuh, one hell of a lonely man singing about a rainy night in his soul.
I know I''ve said "great song" a few times, but this truly is a great great song. So heartfelt.
Wow ! First time hearing. Great song and great singer.
Oh I love Brook Benton and this song is great . It’s just a matter of time is a great song by him too if you haven’t heard it.
Smooth. Gold. The voice. The strings. I've never been fond of harmonica music, but here it just fits. I was about 13 when this came out and I can remember hearing it and it was, indeed, a rainy night---in the Bronx.
I'm so glad you reacted to this great Brook Benton song. I requested some Brook Benton songs several months ago. He also did a Joe South song called Don't it Make you Want To Go Home, and wonderful songs with the lovely Dinah Washington. I was a baby when he sang with Dinah we had them at home on the radio. Plus when I was about 8 he had a song about the Boll Weevils which was cute and really showed off his wonderful range. But thanks so much for playing Brook Benton. It makes this old lady's heart happy.😊😁😘
The Boll Weevil Song was part of my childhood too.
Thought this song great the first time I heard it when it was originally released.
Brook Benton, one of the greatest singers ever.
This song seems to capture those times when you're down and blue better than anything else.
Met Brook twice Sat in his dressing room with my wife great singer great man play him every day try his epic version of my way love the man
I think the most evocative song of s moody rsiny nite in your soul...of all time. Haunting and Sheer brilliance.
Music of my childhood! Thank God!!!
Brook Benton and this song has been a fave of mine since I was about 9 years old. My mom used to play it on the stereo! Love his voice and he’s easy on the eyes too❤
Harri You know its Great when you get a chill listening to it, Thank You so Much.
That was fresh Harry. Anyone would be hard pressed to bring this song like he did. Great reaction
I used to play this on rainy nights...lights out, raindrops shining on the window from the streetlights ....
💎💎💜💜💎💎 Brook Benton’s voice is so smooth, he takes you on a journey for sure - thanks for playing this Harri 🎶
I just love this song. Loved 8 years in Georgia. Good place. People are plus & minus. My boys went to college there & met their wives, so it is special to me.
I think I would enjoy a rainy night in Georgia. I have a memory of laying on the backseat of the family car with my parents up front. We're leaving the church. The sun is about to set and this song starts to play on the radio. That's such a fee-good memory for me!
One of my favorites, ever since the first time I heard it, decades ago.
Pure magic.
Thanks , Harri.
This the best song in the world, nothing is better❤️
I love your show and your knowledge of music and melody. This is one of my favorite songs.
He’s talking to me..my soul! ❤️🔥
Like you, I grew up with this song because of my dad.
I used to wonder why he liked to sit in the dark and listen to this, but I get it now.
A great song to slow dance to! Thanks for the reaction! You listen to the best songs!
Another classic...Didn't realize that he passed in 88"...What a voice...this takes me back...best wishes brother
My mother loved this.
One of the great american tunes.Perfect.
I remember my mother playing this song when I was quite small...
Hari, try It's Just a Matter of Time, Endlessly, Kiddio, The Boll Weevil Song, and his duets with Dinah Washington, Baby (You've Got What it Takes )and A Rockin Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love). Great voices!
Great artist Great song to.
I guess wherever you're from, that's what a rainy night you think feels like. But it's been my experience that when it rains in the evening, especially when it's warm, it feels different wherever you're at. Imagine no AC and it's been stupid hot all day and then it starts raining. The humidity rises but then when it rains enough the air cools off... It creates a relaxed peaceful feeling but if you're lonely, it just makes you melancholy.
Brook Benton. Crazy underrtated vocalist.
"Lord, I believe it's raining all over the world". I think Mr. Benson does the very best version of this song. There's your harmonica, Harri! This takes me back to the rainy nights in Georgia...
Thank you Harri for reacting to this song! It’s a favorite of mine, I’ve requested this to other reactors, no one has. Actually heard this driving his voice brought tears to my eyes.
Last night was one of those rainy nights in Ga......Beautiful song !!
Perfect. It's raining 🌧 tonight in Georgia
This was the last song the late great Conway Twitty recorded. He recorded it as a duet with Sam Moore. It was a great cover.
We need some Conway on here!
Would love to hear your reaction to this @HarriBest Reactions
THIS IS PERHAPS my favorite R&B song of all time. That lower register just kills me, and he had a long and distinguished career of beautiful vocal performances like this. Brook Benton was one of the all time greats period.
Big fan of Brooke Benton forever. His version of this song is my favorite. This would be my first pick for lost on a desert
island playlist.
This song just flows through you like a river of warm honey. I've always loved this classic.
The late great Brook Benton
I heard it for the first time coming into Valdosta GA at nite. Yes, it was raining. I wanted it to play all the way to Atlanta. Sheet melodic brilliance..
I've walked the streets of Atlanta in the rain. And sang this song the whole time
Tony Joe White's original of this is excellent, much more Southern rock/blues. But Brook's voice is incredible. One of a kind.
Polk salad Annie 🎸☮️💕
I didn't know anyone besides Brook did this song. I'll check him out. Thanks. :)
Here's what the writer, Tony Joe White said about this version... Direct quote,
"I knew Brook, but I didn’t know he had recorded ‘Rainy Night in Georgia’ until, well, I was working in Memphis at the time, and they sent me a little 45 rpm. I’ll bet I played it 15 times without stopping. And I just thought, ‘Man, how a voice like that can just take a song and sing it that way…'
I read an interview in regard to Benton's version of this song where White said that sometimes it takes another singer to show a songwriter just how the song should really be sung.
Now you can try and understand where your was at this, very nostalgic love it
Thank you! I have been waiting so long for someone to react to this song. A true classic.
Enjoyed your reaction. Like yourself I’d heard as a kid and enjoyed it to an extent I suppose but couldn’t appreciate it of course. I’ve been collecting music of my lifetime through the years and when I revisited this one…man this one just hits in such a way. It transports me to a certain nostalgic, warm, sad, yet comfortable state of mind. Brook’s voice is indeed is so warm. He had a Christmas tune, “This Time of the Year” and it does the same to me.
I heard this song when I was very young but, for some reason, it stayed with me.
This my jam very relaxing mostly on a rainy day
A great economy of words conveying such vivid imagery. Hard to do.
This song always slows my heart rate, squelches anxiety, puts me somewhere entirely. Amazing
Rainy night in Georgia was written by Tony Joe White in 1967. I also love a Brit bird named Lu Lu . She does a song called “Oh me Oh my”. It makes me cry and will do it to you too. A new girl named Natalie Blue does a song called “It could have been something.” I would love it if you reviewed these two songs as you are a Music Lover and your opinion is what really matters. Not people that just like music. You have to love it Harry. Thanks. It is raining here in California as well. How cool is that?❤
I know Tony Joe White wrote this and also recorded. But Brook Benton version is filled with so much emotion when I hear this song it always brings a tear to my eyes.Just love the whole production of the song. Great choice for a reaction song✌️
Actually Tony Joe White only did a demo for the song to send to Jerry Wexler at Atlantic records .3 months later Brook Bentons recording came out .When TJW heard he said he he was never really interested in the song until he heard Brook sing it he had to learn it. Thuscwasctaken from a Y T video about the song where he masterfully performs it.
@@1bigrowdy thanks for the info. Interesting history of the record. 👍👍
Loved the understated jazz guitar licks played by Cornell Dupree, who was a session musician and played on a lot of Motown recordings.
Takes me back to my teen years, what a powerful song. Never knew Tony Joe White wrote the song! Now I've got to check his version as well as Ray Charles
Thanks Harri !
I am so glad to be reminded of this wonderful song and voice. His voice is incredible.
This fine song was written by Tony Jo White from "Polk Salad Annie" fame. He wrote both songs.
Really like this one. Thanks, Harri.
There are so many songs about Georgia! You must also know the song, Midnight Train to Georgia, by Gladys and The Pips! Me? I can't wait to move back north from Georgia. It is a very pretty and green State, but I am a Yankee and am missing my roots....
Brooks Benton is one of my best childhood memories. My mom loved him and the Platters and when I hear him, it takes me back to a simpler time. Thank you Harri.
Grew up on the edge of the deep south. Enough that I've seen evenings like this...takes me back to better days...
beautiful
Got goosebumps!
Killer tune.
George Jones and Sam Moore from Sam & Dave do a amazing cover of this classic tune! You must hear it
Actually I meant Conway Twitty and Sam Moore. My bad
It’s life and you have to play the game. Dear Lord that is painful, help us get through every day 😢
Awesome song
What a perfect song!! I’ve never heard this one! Plus GOD is answering prayers for RAIN 🌧 now its been pouring since Monday here in Florida. And its forecast through next Saturday.
BEAUTIFUL SONG
When I play this song, I have to play it 10-15 times before I can move on to something else
Love this song x
Please listen to Brook Benton With All My Heart and It's Just A House Without You his voice is heaven and the songs well have a listen you will love them
One of my favourite songs and vocal performances of all time from first hearing. I'm always happy to hear anyone perform it well. Beautiful arrangement too, top to bottom. ;>D
Love your channel and this song. Beautiful voice that just washes all over you. Thanks for the review of this one.
The harmonica player is Toots Thielemans and the lead guitar is played by Cornell Dupree. Other musicians on this song include Dave Crawford on piano, Billy Carter on organ, Jimmy O'Rourke on guitar, Harold Cowart on bass, and Tubby Zeigler on drums. The orchestration was arranged and conducted by Arif Mardin.
Thank you Keven for the recognition of the fine artists that contributed to this most wonderful song
Im a 80s kid who grew up with metal and rock but dang it at 56 and know Im a adult this is adult music and music like this needs to come back to this world vs all the crap made today.
Great stuff Harri. Fond memories for me too. Keep up the great work.
1970 is nmy favorite year for music, and this song is one of the reasons. Luther Tucker gave excellent sympathetic guitar accompaniment.
Brook's deep, smokie voice gave us countless beautiful songs for decades
Thank you for reviewing this!
We were privileged to enjoy Brook Benton in the 1950s and 60s on the radio. He is missed.
The memories of listening to this soulful song with your daddy must be heartwarming to relive, Harri.
Gold 🎵
Lookin’ sharp, Harri! I’m commenting from Acworth, Georgia! Always enjoy your reactions!
Hope its dry in Georgia tonight?😀
@@HarriBestReactions for the most part! Rained earlier, but all good now. Hey, have you reacted to Bonnie Raitt? You’d love her song, “Gnawin’ On It”! She plays an incredible slide guitar!
Or…perhaps the Brian Setzer Orchestra “Jump Jive ‘N Wail”!
Yes. Yes. YESS!!! I love the Randy Crawford version, but his deep notes in the verse!!! 🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🙏🏽
Smooth like melted Caramel. It is absolutely gorgeous. Wonderful reaction Harri
Scoop me out of that bucket, Harri.
This just melts the soul.
You'd love Solomon Burke also if you're not familiar with him I could send some requests for you. Solomon Burke is 1 of my top R&B, blues, gospel artists. I get that side from my Ma!
i use to love when this would come on the radio, circa 1970,i was 13 and have loved brook benton and this song since then
Great choice Harri. IIRC the first track I heard by Mr. Benton was "Fools Rush In" (1960) . Try it. Slightly dated but it has that wonderful voice of his.
I have this, the Tony Joe White version and one by Randy Crawford. All 10/10. For personal reasons I'm addicted to Randy Crawford's version. I'll have to fly away and play a selection of her tracks now.
One of those lines that stabs you in the heart; "Feels like it's raining all over the world".
Omg! I love this gorgeous song. Did he have other hits? I am butter
Song sounds exactly like rain...
Pure silk!
I've loved this one a long time!