20/20

Album: 20/20 (1984)
Charted: 29 48
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  • This was written by Randy Goodrum and Steve Kipner, who went on to write "If She Would Have Been Faithful..." for Chicago. Goodrum told Songfacts: "When we wrote '20/20' for George Benson, that sort of jumped out of the music. Because I walked in, first time I ever met Steve, and went over to his studio and sat down at his little controller he was using. And I played what essentially was the piano part in the chorus of '20/20' and we said, 'Hey, that feels good. Let's mess with that.' And then after a while we came up with the premise for that."

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  • John from Nashville, TnThis song was the title track from his eighth (and last) studio album to be certified "gold' by the RIAA.
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