BENTON, BROOK. (née BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PEAY). Popular-music singer ( in Camden, South Carolina). As a child he sang in a church choir directed by his father and later sang with local gospel groups. When he was seventeen years old he went to New York to further his career in entertainment. He obtained employment singing on demonstration records for songwriters and publishers and was heard by Nat King Cole (née Nathaniel Coles), who liked a Benton song, Looking backLooking back...