One of the songs on my album And I Love Her is the great classic, This Masquerade.
Everybody knows the George Benson version, because it was a world-wide hit and won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1977.
But most people don't know it was written some years earlier by Leon Russell. The song appeared on the B-side of Russell's 1972 hit "Tight Rope". His version was also part of the soundtrack for the psychological thriller film Bug.
Here's a video in If you can struggle through the intro, the original version of this great song is beautiful - much more haunting than Benson's version:
Everybody knows the George Benson version, because it was a world-wide hit and won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1977.
But most people don't know it was written some years earlier by Leon Russell. The song appeared on the B-side of Russell's 1972 hit "Tight Rope". His version was also part of the soundtrack for the psychological thriller film Bug.
Here's a video in If you can struggle through the intro, the original version of this great song is beautiful - much more haunting than Benson's version: