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Billy Preston Songs

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William Everett "Billy" Preston (September 2, 1946 - June 6, 2006) was an American musician whose work included R&B, rock, soul, funk and gospel. A virtuoso keyboardist, particularly on Hammond organ, Preston was recognized as a top session musician in the 1960s, during which he backed artists such as Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and the Beatles. He then went on to achieve fame as a solo artist, with hit pop singles including "That's the Way God Planned It", "Outa-Space", "Will It Go Round in Circles", "Space Race", and "Nothing from Nothing". In addition, Preston co-wrote "You Are So Beautiful", which became a number 5 hit for Joe Cocker, and Stephen Stills asked Preston if he could use his phrase "if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with" and created the hit song.

Below is a list of Billy Preston songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: AandM 1411
chart position: RandB #10, US #1, UK #52
written by: Bruce Fisher and Billy Preston
album: Music Is My Life
Billy Preston Will It Go Round in Circles
1973 A&M
2 record label: AandM 1320
chart position: RandB #1, US #2, UK#44, US AC #23
written by: Billy Preston & Joe Greene
album: I Wrote a Simple Song
comments: [jazz funk instrumental]
Billy Preston Outa-Space
1972 A&M
3 record label: AandM 1544
chart position: RandB #8, US #1, US AC #15
written by: Billy Preston & Bruce Fisher
album: The Kids and Me
Billy Preston Nothing from Nothing
1974 A&M
4 record label: AandM 1463
chart position: RandB #1, US #4, US AC #34
written by: Billy Preston
album: Everybody Likes Some Kind of Music
comments: [jazz funk instrumental]
Billy Preston Space Race
1973 A&M
5 record label: AandM 1644
chart position: RandB #11, US #22
written by: Billy Preston & George Johnson
album: The Kids and Me
comments: [instrumental]
Billy Preston Struttin'
1974 A&M
6 record label: Apple 12
chart position: UK #11, US #62
written by: Billy Preston
album: That's the Way God Planned It
Billy Preston That's the Way God Planned It
1969 Apple
7 record label: AandM 1492
chart position: RandB #11
written by: Billy Preston
album: Everybody Likes Some Kind of Music
Billy Preston You're So Unique
1974 A&M
8 record label: AandM 1380
chart position: RandB #17, US #50
written by: Billy Preston
Billy Preston Slaughter
1972 A&M
9 record label: AandM 1735
chart position: RandB #23, US #71
written by: Billy Preston and Syreeta (as Syreeta Wright)
album: It's My Pleasure
Billy Preston Fancy Lady
1975 A&M
10 record label: Apple 1826
chart position: RandB #23, US #90
written by: George Harrison
album: Encouraging Words
Billy Preston My Sweet Lord
1971 Apple
11 record label: AandM 1980
chart position: RandB #33
written by: Billy Preston
album: A Whole New Thing
Billy Preston Wide Stride
1977 A&M
12 record label: AandM 1925
chart position: RandB #44
written by: Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher
Billy Preston Girl
1977 A&M
13 record label: AandM 1411
chart position: Cashbox RandB #25
written by: Lennon, McCartney
album: Music Is My Life
Billy Preston Blackbird
1972 A&M
14 record label: President 263
written by: Billy Preston
Billy Preston Billy's Bag
1966 President
15 record label: Motown 1625
chart position: RandB #64, US #88, US AC #38
written by: Artie Butler and Molly Ann Leikin
album: Pressin' On
comments: [ballad]
Billy Preston I'm Never Gonna Say Goodbye
1982 Motown
16 record label: AandM 1768
chart position: RandB #58
written by: Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher
Billy Preston Do It While You Can
1975 A&M
17 record label: AandM 1320
chart position: US #77
written by: Billy Preston and Joe Greene
album: I Wrote a Simple Song
Billy Preston I Wrote a Simple Song
1972 A&M
18 record label: AandM 1340
chart position: RandB #43
written by: Billy Preston and Joe Greene
Billy Preston The Bus
1972 A&M
19 record label: AandM 7418
chart position: US # 86
written by: John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Billy Preston Get Back
1978 A&M
20 record label: AandM 1892
chart position: RandB #48
written by: Billy Preston
album: Billy Preston
Billy Preston Do What You Want
1977 A&M
21 record label: AandM 1892
chart position: RandB #48
written by: Billy Preston and Doug Jones
album: Billy Preston
Billy Preston I've Got The Spirit
1977 A&M
22 record label: Apple 1817
chart position: US #108
written by: Billy Preston and Doris Troy
Billy Preston All That I've Got (I'm Gonna Give It to You)
1970 Apple
23 record label: AandM 2012
chart position: RandB #59
written by: Billy Preston
Billy Preston I'm Really Gonna Miss You
1978 A&M
24 record label: Motown 1870
chart position: Cashbox RandB #81
written by: B. Preston, R. Palmer, S. Smith
comments: [funk]
Billy Preston Since I Held You Close
1986 Motown
25 record label: ERC Records 116
chart position: US dance #55
written by: Billy Preston, Bruce Fisher and Ralph Benatar
album: On the Air
comments: [jazz funk instrumental]
Billy Preston Kick It
1984 ERC Records




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