- Audio CD (April 4 2000)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Universal Music Group
- ASIN: B00004S5GD
- In-Print Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| 1. Will It Go Round in Circles |
| 2. Outa-Space |
| 3. Slaughter (from the movie Slaughter) |
| 4. I Wrote a Simple Song |
| 5. That's the Way God Planned It (live) |
| 6. Struttin' |
| 7. Fancy Lady |
| 8. You're So Unique |
| 9. Space Race |
| 10. Get Back (from the movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band) |
| 11. Blackbird |
| 12. Wide Stride |
| 13. Nothing from Nothing |
| 14. I'm Really Gonna Miss You |
| 15. You Are So Beautiful |
| 16. With You I'm Born Again (duet with Syretta; from the movie Fast Break) |
| 17. Since I Held You Close |
| 18. Go for It (duet with Syreeta; from the movie Fast Break) |
| 19. One More Time for Love (duet with Syreeta) |
| 20. I'm Never Gonna Say Goodbye |
Product Description
Album Description
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin' ...,
By FrizzText "frizz" (Wuppertal) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ultimate Collection (Rm) (W/1 (Audio CD)
"Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin', you gotta have somethin', if you wanna be with me..." - when this Billy Preston song (a former Number 1 hit single) comes on, suddenly my legs get to moving and I can't sit. It's a proud song, not arrogant - why he should be shy, anxious, modest, submissive, obsequious? Billy's success: He played piano supporting the Beatles and Ray Charles, Mahalia Jackson and Little Richard, the Rolling Stones and Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, The Jackson Five, Sly and the Family Stone, Barbra Streisand, Sammy Davis Jr., Quincy Jones - who could present such a list of sessions? Nevertheless his self-confidence swells not too risky, he feels how dangerous overweening self-conceit could be - tantalized in the very near of pop-music-idols: "I'm not tryin' to be your hero, because that zero, is too cold for me, brrr - I'm not tryin' to be your highness, because that minus, is too low to see, yeah ..." Maybe you remember the movie "Let It Be" and Billy performing as part of the Fab Four during their historic rooftop final concert. The stunning, furious, fulminant piano-track in "Get Back" or in "Blackbird" are representative for this period. Billy's keyboard dominance was highlighted recently with the release of the "Let It Be - Naked" album issue: the original tracks - not overlapped by Phil Spector's string-sound-orchestrations. Billy penned the multi-platinum standard "You Are So Beautiful" which was performed by his friend Joe Cocker. Preston also made a appearance in "Blues Brothers 2000" as part of the super group that included Eric Clapton and Stevie Winwood and B.B. King among others. "Don't you remember I told ya, I'm a soldier, in the war on poverty ..." - well, this sort of music will make you rich, not poor and penniless ...
4.0 out of 5 stars
The best of Billy Preston playing both funk and soul,
By Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (HALL OF FAME)
This review is from: Ultimate Collection (Rm) (W/1 (Audio CD)
Billy Preston was called the "Fifth Beatle" because of the session work he did with the Fab Four towards the end during the recording of "Let It Be" and "Abbey Road." While I think that in the long run producer George Martin better deserves the title, it is certainly true that no other musician was featured as prominently on Beatle songs; Eric Clapton only did that one awesome guitar bit on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and Mick Jagger was just singing with a bunch of other folks on "All You Need Is Love." The Beatles were just another stop on Preston's rise to the top of the charts. He was a child prodigy who was playing keyboards with the great gospel singer Mahalia Jackson when he was only ten and who played the young W. C. Handy in the Hollywood bio-pic "St. Louis Blues" in 1958. He even was a regular on the televiison show "Shindig." But working with the Beatles got him his own album with Apple gave him the foundation for his own hits such as "Will It Go Round in Circles" and "Outa-Space," the first two tracks on this hits collection. The cover of the "Ultimate Collection" shows the Billy Preston everybody remembers, with the giant afro and the omni-present grin. These 20 tracks provide the music we remember as well, with the dazzling keyboard work. The coverage of Preston's entire career is pretty balanced, paying equal attention to the early funky stle of "Outa-Space" and "Slaughter," along with his own version of the Beatles' hit "Get Back," as well as the smoother soul style of his duets with Syreeta, "With You I'm Born Again," "Go for It," and "One More Time for Love." Of course, his best song in this style, "You Are So Beautiful," was a monster hit for Joe Cocker. However, this equal treatment sort of makes it inevitable that you will like one style more than the other (I like the early stuff a lot better). Either way, you will find enough tracks to your liking to make picking up this "Ultimate Collection" worthwhile. Note: The reason for the live recording of "That's the Way God Planned it" is because the original was recorded for Apple and some sort of licensing restrictions apply. Billy Preston did not end up as a major artist, but he was a major player
5.0 out of 5 stars
You won't be disappointed.,
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This review is from: Ultimate Collection (Rm) (W/1 (Audio CD)
This is a good album. There are three or four songs that are reminiscent of that 70's disco era which I think are dated but then there are the awesome tunes like Outa-Space and Will It Go Round In Circles, and the beautifully done Blackbird. I could swear I hear Stevie Wonder on harmonica in Will It Go Round In Circles. I bought the album because I wanted Outa-Space and I've felt more than once that it was money well spent.
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