Tell It Like It Is (George Benson album)

The album peaked at No. 145 on the Billboard Top LPs chart. ==Reception==

The AllMusic review states "Benson manages to transcend the blasting Latin-percussion-spiced production, the tight time limits, and all with often brilliantly tasty guitar fills and brief solos in many styles and three reverb-heavy vocals". ==Track listing==

• "Soul Limbo" (Booker T. & the M.G.'s) – 3:25 • "Are You Happy" (Theresa Bell, Jerry Butler, Kenneth Gamble) – 2:27 • "Tell It Like It Is" (George Davis, Lee Diamond) – 2:51 • "Land of 1000 Dances" (Chris Kenner) – 2:48 • "Jackie, All" (Eumir Deodato) – 2:14 • "Don't Cha Hear Me Callin' to Ya" (Rudy Stevenson) – 3:16 • "Water Brother" (Don Sebesky) – 2:09 • "My Woman's Good to Me" (Billy Sherrill, Glenn Sutton) – 3:14 • "Jama Joe" (George Benson) – 3:49 • "My Cherie Amour" (Stevie Wonder, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy) – 3:28 • "Out in the Cold Again" (Ted Koehler, Rube Bloom) – 2:41 ==Personnel==

• George Benson – guitar, vocals • Lew Soloff – trumpet • Arthur Clarke (tracks 1–5), Bob Porcelli (tracks 6, 7 & 9), Hubert Laws (tracks 6, 7 & 9), Jerome Richardson (tracks 1–5, 8, 10 & 11), Joe Farrell (tracks 8, 10 & 11), Joe Henderson (tracks 8, 10 & 11), Sonny Fortune (tracks 1–5) – saxophone • Rodgers Grant (tracks 6, 7 & 9), Richard Tee (tracks 1–5, 8, 10 & 11) – piano • Bob Bushnell (tracks 1–5), Jerry Jemmott (tracks 1–7 & 9), Jim Fielder (tracks 8, 10 & 11) – bass guitar • Leo Morris – drums • Paul Alicea, Angel Allende, Johnny Pacheco – percussion • Marty Sheller – arranger, conductor ;Technical • Pete Turner – photography == Charts ==