"Space Race (Billy Preston song)"
Single by Billy Preston
from the album Everybody Likes Some Kind of Music
B-side"We're Gonna Make It"
ReleasedSeptember 1973
GenreFunk
LabelA&M
Songwriter(s)Billy Preston
Producer(s)Billy Preston
Official Audio
"Space Race" on YouTube

"Space Race" is an instrumental track by Billy Preston, released as a single in 1973 on the A&M label, taken from Preston's 1973 album Everybody Likes Some Kind of Music. "Space Race" was awarded a gold record. [1]

Chart performance

The single, a sequel to his 1972 hit, "Outa-Space", reached number one on the R&B chart for one week and number four on the Pop Singles chart.[2]

Personnel

  • Billy Preston – vocals, keyboards, bass guitar, producer
  • David T. Walker – guitar
  • Hubert Heard, Kenneth Lupper – keyboards
  • Paul Riser – string & horn arrangements
  • Manuel Kellough – drums
  • Tommy Vicari – engineer
  • The instrumental proved popular enough that the musical variety show American Bandstand used it as the song for its mid-broadcast break from the mid-1970s until the show completed its run in 1989.[3]
  • The song can also be heard in a party scene in the 1979 film When a Stranger Calls.

References

  1. ↑ https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0779q1nw/dsc/#aspace_ref81_rjd
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Record Research. p. 468.
  3. ↑ White, Adam; Bronson, Fred (1993). The Billboard Book of Number One Rhythm & Blues Hits. Billboard Books:Watson-Guptill Publications, New York. p. 125.
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