Tell It Like It Is (George Benson album)

The album peaked at No. 145 on the Billboard Top LPs chart.^[3]

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".^[4]

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

• 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