Outa-Spaceby Billy Preston

We ask for your support a few times a year in order to bring you the music community you rely on. But KEXP also relies on support from listeners like you. We’re only able to be here, on the air, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, because of listener support. It’s important that if you can make a gift, in any amount, that you make a gift today. "Outa-Space" is an instrumental recorded by Billy Preston that originally appeared on his 1971 A&M Records-debut album, I Wrote a Simple Song.

6 Degrees: After joining the Beatles’ Get Back/Let It Be session Billy Preston released this instrumental track featuring the Clavinet.

"Outa-Space" is an instrumental recorded by Billy Preston that originally appeared on his 1971 A&M Records-debut album, I Wrote a Simple Song. To create the primary instrumental sound, Preston played a clavinet through a wah wah pedal. "Outa-Space" peaked at #2, showing that Preston's feelings about it were correct

Billy Preston made "Outa-Space" by using a clavinet, which is a type of electro-mechanical keyboard instrument, and a wah-wah pedal. He then improvised a groove with his backing band before subsequently adding organ and hand claps. The song was called "Outa-Space" because Preston thought it had a spacey sound to it. www.songfacts.com

This was a hit single and won Preston a Grammy in 1972 for Best Pop Instrumental!

William Everett Preston was an American keyboardist, singer and songwriter from Houston, Texas.

Off of Billy Preston's sixth studio album. Preston created the primary instrument sound by playing clavinet through a wah wah pedal.

Playing music that you would have heard on KCMU in 1972 -- kexp.org When Apple went belly up in 1970, A&M Records agreed to sign Billy Preston and allowed him to produce himself. The first album released in 1971 was "I Wrote A Simple Song," which was also the lead single that the record executives were pushing. Preston felt that the instrumental funk of "Outa Space" was better, but it ended up as the B side. The track went on to win Preston a Grammy award in 1972 for Best Pop Instrumental

When Apple went belly up in 1970, A&M Records agreed to sign Billy Preston and allowed him to produce himself. The first album released in 1971 was "I Wrote A Simple Song," which was also the lead single that the record executives were pushing. Preston felt that the instrumental funk of "Outa Space" was better, but it ended up as the B side.

This was a hit single and won Preston a Grammy in 1972 for Best Pop Instrumental!

Billy Preston botn OTD in 1946!

Funk pioneer Billy Preston featured on BBC. www.bbc.co.uk