Robbed Hit of the Week 1/6/14 - George Benson's "20/20"...

George Benson - "20/20"
from the album 20/20 (1984)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #48

This week's "robbed hit" is from jazz and soul singer, guitarist and songwriter George Benson, whose 1983 album In Your Eyes scored a top-40 pop hit with "Lady Love Me (One More Time)" and and almost-one with "Inside Love (So Personal)". The following year Benson released his next set, 20/20, and the first single from the set was the title track, a breezy, typical mid-80's synth-driven lite-pop song that catered to his current adult-contemporary crowd...

"20/20" peaked right under the pop top-40 in January of 1985, while scaling to #15 on the R&B chart and Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") format charts. Across the Atlantic, the song became George's twelfth top-40 hit in England, where he had been having bigger success in the 80s. (It's of note on the same album is the song "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You", which Hawaiian teen Glenn Medeiros would take to the top-20 in a few years)...

The single would be his last to make Billboard's Hot 100 pop chart, though he would continue to have success on R&B radio, where he would last place in the top-10 in 1988 with a remake of the Staple Singers' "Let's Do It Again" in 1988. Ten years later, he reappeared with a minor soul hit "Standing Together" at #62, which also climbed to #18 on the adult-contemporary radio chart. He even showed up at the club, where his "Song For My Brother" was a #6 dance hit in 1997. As recently as 2000, Benson made the club chart with "The Ghetto (El Barrio)" which went to #28.

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...and here is George live in concert at Montreaux with "20/20"...