THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER BILLY PRESTON!

IN ABOUT 1957-58, BILLY HAD ALREADY PLAYED ORGAN FOR MAHALIA JACKSON!FOR SEVERAL YEARS, HE OFTEN PLAYED AT WITH DORIS AKERS AND THE SKY PILOT CHOIR,IN L.A.,HE WAS STUNNING!LATER HE PLAYED FOR WORLD FAMOUS HEALING EVANGELIST, A A ALLEN..UNDER HIS GIANT TENT CRUSADE, IN EL MONTE(L.A.),CALIF. BRO. ALLEN INVITED HIM TO TRAVEL WITH OUR TEAM, BUT SOME OF THETEAM MUSICIANS, THOUGHT HE WAS"TOO YOUNG14 YRS),TO BE ON THE ROAD!"(IN LATER YEARS,HEVISITED REV. ALLENS MIRACLE VALLEY CAMPMEETING, IN ARIZ, AND PLAYED ON ONE OF THEIR"LIVE" RECORD ALBUMS.) SO,HE THEN WENT ON NAT. TV, WITH RAY CHARLES AND HELPED INVENT THE RAYETTS! BILLY COULD TAKE A HAMMOND B-3ORGAN APART AND PUT IT BACK TOGETHER AGAIN,IN ONE SONG!HE WAS THE ORGANIST,THAT WE ALL TRIED TO DUPLICATE... BUT COULDN'T! JUST BEFORE HIS PASSING, HE TOLD A FRIEND OF MINE, THAT; " HE HAD GONE BACK TO HIS FIRST LOVE ...SERVING JESUS CHRIST!!"IS THEIR REALLY ANYTHING BETTER?-BUFORD D.