Average White Band & Ben E. King "Benny & Us" (1977) -Soul / Funk-

 Label : Atlantic Recording Corporation

 Side One

01 - Get It Up For Love (Ned Doheny)
02 - Fool For You Anyway (Mick Jones)
03 - A Star In The Ghetto (Phillip Mitchell)
04 - The Message (Average White Band & Ben E. King)

Side Two

01 - What Is Soul (Bob Gallo & Ben E. King)
02 - Someday We'll All Be Free (Donny Hathaway & Edward Howard)
03 - Imagine (John Lennon)
04 - Keepin' It To Myself (Alan Gorrie & Average White Band)


Ben E. King : Lead vocals
Alan Gorrie : Bass, Guitar & Background vocals
Hamish Stuart : Guitar & Background vocals
Onnie McIntyre : Guitar
Roger Ball : Keyboards & Alto Sax
Malcolm Duncan : Tenor Sax
Steve Ferrone : Drums & Percussion

Additional Musicians :

Ray Barretto : Congas on "A Star In The Ghetto"

Nicholas Marrerro : Congas & Percussion on "Keepin' It To Myself" & "Get It Up For Love"

Additional Horns on "Fool For You Anyway", "What Is Soul" & "Keepin' It To Myself" :

Randy Brecker : Trumpet

Michael Brecker : Tenor Sax

Lew Del Gatto : Baritone Sax

Barry Rogers : Trombone

Marvin Stamm : Trumpet

Guitar Solo on "Fool For You Anyway" by Jim Mullen

Additional Background vocals on "Get It Up For Love", "Fool For You Anyway", "The Message", "What Is Soul" & "Keepin' It To Myself" by Luther Vandross & on "Imagine" & "Someday We'll All Be Free" by Luther Vandross, Robin Clark & Debra Gray

Horn Arrangements on "Fool For You Anyway", "The Message", "What Is Soul" & "Keepin' It To Myself" by Roger Ball

Horn & String Arrangement on "A Star In The Ghetto" by Arif Mardin

String Arrangement on "Imagine" by Cengiz Yaltkaya & Arif Mardin

String Arrangement on "Someday We'll All Be Free" by Cengiz Yaltkaya

Thanks to Alex Ligertwood & Ian Laington

All Selections Recorded by Gene Paul except "The Message" & "Someday We'll All Be Free" Recorded by Bobby Warner
Assistant Engineers : Tom Heid & Steve Klein
Engineers for Additional Recording : Lew Hahn & Jimmy Douglass

Produced by Arif Mardin & Jerry Greenberg
Ably Assisted by Average White Band