"Space Race" is an instrumental track by Billy Preston, released as a single in 1973 on the A&M label. It was taken from Preston's 1973 album Everybody Likes Some Kind of Music, and "Space Race" was awarded a gold record.
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.
Personnel Billy Preston – vocals, keyboards, bass guitar, producer David T. Walker – guitar Hubert Heard, Kenneth Lupper – keyboards Paul Riser – string and 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. The song can also be heard in a party scene in the 1979 film When a Stranger Calls.
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