You may know him from slick Top 40 soul hits like "Give Me The Night and "On Broadway", but jazz guitarist George Benson made one of the ballsiest moves in musical history by releasing an entire album cover version of selections from The Beatles Abbey Road just three weeks after the original came out(!). After a schmaltzy start with Golden Slumbers/You Never Give Me Your Money, things really get cooking when Ron Carter and Idris Muhammed kick in on "Come Together". The rest of the album follows suit,alternating schmaltz with great solos from Benson, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, and Sonny Fortune. This curiosity belongs in any record collection-filed under Sunday Morning Music.

Because/Come Together