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{{Infobox album
| name       = The Boll Weevil Song and 11 Other Great Hits
| type       = studio album
| artist     = [[Brook Benton]]
| cover      = The Boll Weevil Song and 11 Other Hits.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1961
| recorded   =
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Rhythm and blues|R&B]]
| length     = 32:03
| label      = [[Mercury Records|Mercury]]
| producer   =
| prev_title = If You Believe
| prev_year  = 1961
| next_title = There Goes That Song Again
| next_year  = 1962
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = ''[[AllMusic]]''
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=allmusic>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000837064|label=Brook Benton The Boll Weevil Song}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
|rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=1 |page=549}}</ref>
}}
'''''The Boll Weevil Song and 11 Other Great Hits''''' is a studio [[album]] released by [[Brook Benton]] in 1961 on Mercury [[LP record]] MG 20641 (mono) and SR 60641 (stereo).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vBVjDwAAQBAJ&q=The+Boll+Weevil+Song+and+11+Other+Great+Hits+1961&pg=PA1980-IA246|title=Goldmine Record Album Price Guide|first=Martin|last=Popoff|date=2009|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9781440229169|via=Google Books}}</ref> The album appeared on ''[[Billboard 200|Billboard]]'''s album charts in 1961 for 13 weeks, reaching position number 70.<ref>''The Billboard Albums'', 6th edn. Joel Whitburn. 2006. Record Research Inc. p. 95. {{ISBN|0-89820-166-7}}.</ref> The orchestrations were done by [[Stan Applebaum]], who also conducted the orchestra on the sessions.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Brook Benton |year=1961 |title=The Boll Weevil Song and 11 Other Great Hits |type=12-inch vinyl LP |publisher=Mercury |id=MG 20641}}</ref>
Following the significant popularity of Benton's hit "[[The Boll Weevil Song]]," Mercury quickly arranged sessions<ref name=allmusic /> which largely rely on American Caucasian folk music for material,<ref name=folk>{{cite journal |date=1962 |journal=Journal of American Folklore |publisher=Houghton, Mifflin, and Co. |volume=75 |pages=184}}</ref> although Benton took composition credit for most of the songs.<ref name=allmusic /> The result is a mix of R&B and pop.<ref name=folk /> ''Allmusic'' reviews the album favorably, but its reviewer, [[Greg Adams (writer)|Greg Adams]], wishes the rest of the album had the "fire" contained in the title track.<ref name=allmusic />
== Track listing ==
All tracks composed by Brook Benton except where indicated.
{{Track listing| collapsed       =
| headline        =
| extra_column    =
| total_length    = 32:03
| title1          = [[The Boll Weevil Song]]
| writer1         = Brook Benton - [[Clyde Otis]]
| length1         = 2:35
| title2          = Honey Babe
| writer2        = [[Dave Dreyer]]
| length2         = 2:21
| title3          = [[Worried Man Blues|A Worried Man]]
| note3        =
| length3         = 3:24
| title4          = [[Careless Love]]
| note4        =
| length4         = 2:43
| title5          = My Last Dollar
| note5        =
| length5         = 2:40
| title6          = Key to the Highway
| writer6        = [[Charlie Segar|Charles Segar]] - [[Big Bill Broonzy|Willie Broonzy]]
| length6         = 2:26
| title7          = [[Frankie and Johnny (song)|Frankie and Johnny]]
| writer7        = adapted by Brook Benton
| length7         = 2:21
| title8          = The Intoxicated Rat
| note8        =
| length8         = 2:42
| title9          = Johnny-O
| note9        =
| length9         = 2:09
| title10          = It's My Lazy Day
| writer10        = [[Smiley Burnette]]
| length10         = 2:35
| title11          = Child of the Engineer
| note11        =
| length11         = 3:35
| title12          = Four Thousand Years Ago
| note12       =
| length12         = 2:32}}
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