1
record label: Mercury 71565
chart position: RandB #1 (10 weeks), US #5
weeksinr&bchart: 17
written by: Clyde Otis, Murray Stein & Brook Benton
album: The Two Of Us
comments: [jazz RnB]
Dinah Washington & Brook Benton
Baby, You've Got What It Takes
1960
Mercury
2
record label: Mercury 1109
chart position: RandB #1 (9 weeks), US #7, UK #41
weeksinr&bchart: 14
written by: Brook Benton & Clyde Otis
album: Golden Hits
Brook Benton
Kiddio
1960
Mercury
3
record label: Mercury 71394
chart position: RandB #1, US #3
written by: Brook Benton, Belford Hendricks and Clyde Otis
album: It's Just a Matter of Time
comments: [ballad]
Brook Benton
It's Just a Matter of Time
1959
Mercury
4
record label: Mercury 71478
chart position: RandB #1, US #16
written by: Brook Benton and Clyde Otis
Brook Benton
Thank You Pretty Baby
1959
Mercury
5
record label: Mercury 1099
chart position: RandB #1 (4 weeks), US #7
weeksinr&bchart: 13
written by: Brook Benton, Clyde Otis & Luchi DeJesus
album: The Two Of Us
comments: [jazz RnB]
Dinah Washington & Brook Benton
A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love)
1960
Mercury
6
record label: Cotillion 44057
chart position: RandB #1, US #4, US AC #2
written by: Tony Joe White
album: Brook Benton Today
comments: [ballad]
Brook Benton
Rainy Night in Georgia
1970
Cotillion
7
record label: Mercury 71820
chart position: RandB #2 (4 weeks), US #2, UK #30, US AC #1
weeksinr&bchart: 12
written by: Brook Benton, Clyde Otis
album: The Boll Weevil Song and 11 Other Great Hits
Brook Benton
The Boll Weevil Song
1961
Mercury
8
record label: Mercury 72055
chart position: RandB #2 (1 week), US #3
weeksinr&bchart: 13
written by: Leon Carr & Earl Shuman
album: Golden Hits, Volume 2
comments: [released 1962, charted 1963]
Brook Benton
Hotel Happiness
1962
Mercury
9
record label: Mercury 71774
chart position: RandB #2 (1 week), US #28
weeksinr&bchart: 13
written by: Clyde Otis & Willie Dixon
Brook Benton
For My Baby
1961
Mercury
10
record label: Mercury 71774
chart position: RandB #6, US #11
weeksinr&bchart: 14
written by: Joe Shapiro, Jimmy Williams [Jimmy T. Williams] & Clyde Otis
Brook Benton
Think Twice
1961
Mercury
11
record label: Mercury 72135
chart position: RandB #7, US #22, US AC #8
weeksinr&bchart: 10
written by: R. Stevens and M. Singleton
album: Lie To Me Singing The Blues
Brook Benton
My True Confession
1963
Mercury
12
record label: Mercury 71512
chart position: RandB #1, US #6
written by: Bobby Stevenson
album: I Love You In So Many Ways
Brook Benton
So Many Ways
1959
Mercury
13
record label: Mercury 71722
chart position: RandB #5, US #24, UK #50
weeksinr&bchart: 10
written by: Rube Bloom & Johnny Mercer
album: Songs I Love To Sing
Brook Benton
Fools Rush in (Where Angels Fear to Tread)
1960
Mercury
14
record label: Mercury 72099
chart position: RandB #4, US #28, US AC #14
weeksinr&bchart: 8
written by: Margie Singleton and Brook Benton
album: Lie To Me Singing The Blues
Brook Benton
I Got What I Wanted
1963
Mercury
15
record label: Mercury 72230
chart position: RandB #5, US #35, US AC #11
written by: Emil Anton & Alan Thomas
album: On the Countryside
comments: [ballad]
Brook Benton
Going Going Gone
1964
Mercury
16
record label: Mercury 72024
chart position: RandB #3, US #13
written by: Margie Singleton & Brook Benton
album: Singing the Blues Lie to Me
comments: [blues]
Brook Benton
Lie To Me
1962
Mercury
17
record label: Mercury 71903
chart position: RandB #12, US #15
written by: Brook Benton, Oliver Hall & Marnie Ewald
Brook Benton
Revenge
1961
Mercury
18
record label: Mercury 71859
chart position: RandB #14, US #20, US AC #6
written by: Brook Benton
album: The Boll Weevil Song and 11 Other Great Hits
comments: Adapted by Brook Benton
Brook Benton
Frankie and Johnny
1961
Mercury
19
record label: Mercury 71443
chart position: RandB #3, US #12, UK #28
written by: Brook Benton and Clyde Otis
album: Endlessly
Brook Benton
Endlessly
1959
Mercury
20
record label: Mercury 72266
chart position: RandB #4, US #47, US AC #13
written by: Earl Shuman & Leon Carr
Brook Benton
Another Cup Of Coffee
1964
Mercury
21
record label: Mercury 72177
chart position: RandB #15, US #32, US AC #8
weeksinr&bchart: 8
written by: Brook Benton and Malcolm Dodds
Brook Benton
Two Tickets To Paradise
1963
Mercury
22
record label: Mercury 72266
chart position: RandB #8, US #43, US AC #14
written by: Clyde Otis
album: This Bitter Earth
Brook Benton
Too Late To Turn Back Now
1964
Mercury
23
record label: Mercury 71652
chart position: RandB #21, US #16
written by: Brook Benton & Clyde Otis
album: Golden Hits
Brook Benton
The Same One
1960
Mercury
24
record label: Mercury 71566
chart position: RandB #15, US #37
weeksinr&bchart: 4
written by: Vin Corso (as Vincent A. Corso) and Clyde Otis
Brook Benton
The Ties That Bind
1960
Mercury
25
record label: RCA 47 8693
chart position: RandB #26, US #53, US AC #9
written by: Brook Benton & Clyde Otis
album: Mother Nature, Father Time
comments: [ballad]
Brook Benton
Mother Nature, Father Time
1965
RCA
26
record label: Mercury 72214
chart position: RandB #12, US #66
weeksinr&bchart: 2
written by: Clyde Otis (as Cliff Owens) and Jessie Hollis
comments: [christmas]
Brook Benton
This Time of the Year
1960
Mercury
27
record label: Mercury 72303
chart position: RandB #6, US #75, US AC #13
written by: Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Brook Benton
A House Is Not A Home
1964
Mercury
28
record label: Cotillion 44034
chart position: RandB #11, US #74
written by: Patrick Robinson and Toussaint Mccall
album: Do Your Own Thing
Brook Benton
Nothing Can Take the Place of You
1969
Cotillion
29
record label: Mercury 72333
chart position: RandB #11, US #53, US AC #15
written by: Charles Arrington
Brook Benton
Lumberjack
1964
Mercury
30
record label: Cotillion 44093
chart position: RandB #18, US #67, US AC #18
written by: Don Covay and George Soule
album: Story Teller
comments: [beat ballad]
Brook Benton
Shoes
1970
Cotillion
31
record label: Cotillion 44072
chart position: RandB #31, US #45, US AC #35
written by: Claude Francois, Jacques Revaux and Paul Anka
album: Brook Benton Today
Brook Benton
My Way
1979
Cotillion
32
record label: Cotillion 44007
chart position: US #99, US AC #26
written by: Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
album: Do Your Own Thing
Brook Benton
Do Your Own Thing
1968
Cotillion
33
record label: Mercury 71925
chart position: Cashbox R&B #20, US #43
written by: Mack David and Elmer Bernstein
album: Golden Hits, Volume 2
Brook Benton
Walk On The Wild Side
1962
Mercury
34
record label: Mercury 71962
chart position: RandB #19, US #45
written by: Sibelius Williams
album: Golden Hits, Volume 2
Brook Benton
Hit Record
1962
Mercury
35
record label: Cotillion 44078
chart position: RandB #31, US #45, US AC #4
written by: Joe South
album: Home Style
comments: [country soul]
Brook Benton
Don't It Make You Want to Go Home
1970
Cotillion
36
record label: Mercury 71859
chart position: Cashbox R&B #31, US #45, US AC #8
written by: Teddy Randazzo, Cirino Colacrai, Brook Benton and Clyde Otis
Brook Benton
It's Just a House Without You
1961
Mercury
37
record label: Mercury 72365
chart position: RandB #33, US #67
written by: Rudy Clark
Brook Benton
Do It Right
1964
Mercury
38
record label: Reprise 0649
chart position: US AC #36
written by: Jerry Chestnut
Brook Benton
Weakness in a Man
1968
Reprise
39
record label: Mercury 72446
chart position: Cashbox R&B #25, US #100, AC #37
written by: Brook Benton & Ed Townsend
Brook Benton
Love Me Now
1965
Mercury
40
record label: RCA 47 8879
chart position: US AC #37
written by: Lou Stallman and Clyde Otis
Brook Benton
Break Her Heart
1966
RCA
41
record label: Reprise 0611
chart position: US #78, US AC #37
written by: Leon Ashley and Margie Singleton
album: Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)
Brook Benton
Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)
1967
Reprise
42
record label: Mercury 71912
chart position: US #19
written by: Robert MacGimsey
album: If You Believe
Brook Benton
Shadrack
1962
Mercury
43
record label: Mercury 72099
chart position: Cashbox R&B #27, US #59
written by: Ed Warren and Arthur Kent
Brook Benton
Dearer Than Life
1963
Mercury
44
record label: Mercury 72207
chart position: RandB #25, US #108
weeksinr&bchart: 7
written by: Brook Benton
Brook Benton & Damita Jo
Stop Foolin'
1963
Mercury
45
record label: Olde World 7700
chart position: RandB #49
written by: Tony Joe White
Brook Benton
Making Love Is Good for You
1978
Olde World
46
record label: Mercury 71912
chart position: US #77
written by: J.T. Adams
album: If You Believe
Brook Benton
The Lost Penny
1962
Mercury
47
record label: Vik 0311
chart position: US #82
written by: Daryl Petty
Brook Benton
A Million Miles from Nowhere
1958
Vik
48
record label: Mercury 71566
chart position: US #58
written by: Aaron Schroeder and Wally Gold
album: Golden Hits
Brook Benton
Hither, Thither and Yon
1960
Mercury
49
record label: Mercury 72055
chart position: US #89
written by: Bob Perper, Paul Gasper and Jack Aranda
album: Golden Hits, Volume 2
Brook Benton
Still Water Runs Deep
1962
Mercury
50
record label: Mercury 72207
chart position: US #111
written by: Bennie Benjamin and Sol Marcus
Brook Benton & Damita Jo
Baby, You've Got It Made
1963
Mercury
51
record label: Mercury 71.722
chart position: RandB #93
written by: Jimmie Hodges
Brook Benton
Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)
1960
Mercury .
52
record label: MGM 14440
chart position: US #104
written by: William Backer
Brook Benton
If You Got the Time
1972
MGM
53
record label: Cotillion 44130
chart position: Cashbox RandB #56
written by: Percy Mayfield
album: Story Teller
comments: [ballad]
Brook Benton
Please Send Me Someone To Love
1971
Cotillion
54
record label: Mercury 72365
chart position: US #119
written by: McCoy and Williams
Brook Benton
Please, Please Make It Easy
1964
Mercury
55
record label: RCA Victor 478768
chart position: US #122
written by: Otis, Augustas
Brook Benton
Only a Girl Like You
1966
RCA Victor
56
record label: RCA Victor 478830
chart position: US #126
written by: Bobby Stevenson and June Cordae
Brook Benton
Too Much Good Lovin' (No Good for Me)
1966
RCA Victor