Artist Lounge: Billy Preston
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In over 40 years of playing music, Billy Preston crossed paths with many greats, including Sam Cooke. He recorded this burning b-3 instrumental for Sam's label SAR in '63, and just a few years later he was hanging out with the Beatles..Damn. Happy Friday... MORE
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 ,CALIF. BRO.
ALLEN INVITED HIM TO TRAVEL
WITH OUR TEAM, BUT SOME OF THE
TEAM MUSICIANS, THOUGHT HE WAS
"TOO YOUNG14 YRS),TO BE ON
THE ROAD!"(IN LATER YEARS,HE
VISITED REV. ALLENS MIRACLE
VAL... MORE
You heard "Short Fat Fanny" by Little Richard before, but you should watch & listen to this superior version. Billy was working for Little Richard when this video was made but i couldn“t find any reference of this song being released so maybe it was just a video edit.... MORE
Shown the way by The Morning News: an alphabet of jazz videos on Moistworks
I'm told that if you don't watch this one, you're dumb.







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