As a Brook Benton fan for many years I found a sealed copy of the album on eBay. It was a great pleasure to be able to open a new album after so many years. Side A of the album is fantastic, the Brook Benton style that made him so popular shines on all of the tracks. The one song that stands out is his rendition of Keys to the Highway. It is one of the most moving selections that I have ever heard of the song. I perfer the orignal version on vinyl, in mono, as my system is setup with a true mono cartridge. The above mentioned track, as far as I can tell, has never been released on CD so it would be a great find for anyone that truly enjoys the sound of Brook Bentons great voice.

★★★☆☆☆ Just listened to this album today and wanted to add a review - especially to recommend the rendition of "Key to the highway" - and found it's already been done, even recommending that track too. A major part of the tracks found here have pop/R&B hybrid with swinging bass and strings, a style and sound Benton best formulated in his "Kiddio" hit song. Or maybe it was a Mercury label thing, as it reminds quite a lot of other Mercury hits like the Dinah Washington/Brook Benton duet hits as well as some of Sarah Vaughan's Mercury pop hits, "Broken-hearted melody" e.g. Either way, it's pleasant, kinda tongue-in-cheek cool and swinging. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Benton wrote own material and his compositions are fine pop songs, though novelty on the lyric side theming around annoying even But let's be honest, it was the time of "Yello-polka-dot-bikinis" and certainly not the proudest era of lyricism, kind of the lyricists half-a-century off. Back to "Key to the highway", the Big Bill Broonzy classic. In the Benton version instead of the usual slow blues, it's transformed to an intense strings loathen ballad of intense delivery. Though the album in general may be just a swinging, fun package, that track should be shelfed elsewhere, not only in Benton's catalogue beside his other great cover, "Rainy night in Georga", but up there with the best of R&B ballads.