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Janelle Borg

“It was midnight. Quincy Jones said, ‘Ritenour, this is Q. You gotta get down here right now. We gotta fix George's solo’”: Lee Ritenour sets the record straight on fixing George Benson’s Give Me the Night solo

George Benson - Lee Ritenour in Montreux Jazz festival in Montreux, Switzerland on July 13th, 2009. .

Session guitar legend Lee Ritenour has recounted how he ended up re-recording part of George Benson's guitar solo on Give Me the Night in an after-hours session with producer Quincy Jones. Now, in a new interview, Ritenour has set the record straight.

“It was like midnight or something, and I had finished up whatever I'd been doing during the day on sessions,” Ritenour told Vertex Effects owners and CEO Mason Marangella.

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