Space Race (Billy Preston song)

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"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 a gold record.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[1]

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

Popular culture[]

• 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.^[2]
• The song can also be heard in a party scene in the 1979 film When a Stranger Calls.

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