By the mid-to-late 1970s, as he recorded for Warner Bros. Records, a whole new audience began to discover Benson. On 1976's Breezin', Benson sang a lead vocal on the track "This Masquerade", a song written by Leon Russell. Benson's version (notable also for the lush, romantic piano intro and solo by Jorge Dalto), became a huge pop hit and won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year. (He had sung vocals infrequently on albums earlier in his career, notably his rendition of "Here Comes the Sun" on The Other Side of Abbey Road.) The rest of the album is instrumental, including his rendition of the 1975 José Feliciano composition "Affirmation".
By the mid-to-late 1970s, as he recorded for Warner Bros. Records, a whole new audience began to discover Benson. On 1976's Breezin', Benson sang a lead vocal on the trac.k "This Masquerade", a song written by Leon Russell. Benson's version (notable also for the lush, romantic piano intro and solo by Jorge Dalto), became a huge pop hit and won a Grammy Award for R?ecord of the Year. (He had sung vocals infrequently on albums earlier in his career, notably his rendition of "Here Comes the ,Sun" on The Other Side of Abbey Road.) The rest of the album is instrumental, including his rendition of the 1975 José Feliciano composition "Affirmation".