This is the discography of American musician and singer Billy Preston.
Albums Studio albums TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsUSUS R&BUS GospelCAN16 Yr. Old Soul Released: June 1963 Label: Derby Formats: LP————The Most Exciting Organ Ever Released: January 1965 Label: Vee Jay Formats: LP, 4-track1435——Hymns Speak from the Organ Released: 1965 Label: Vee Jay Formats: LP, 8-track————Early Hits of 1965 Released: December 1965 Label: Vee Jay Formats: LP, 8-track————Wildest Organ in Town! Released: June 1966 Label: Capitol Formats: LP, 8-track1189——That's the Way God Planned It Released: August 22, 1969 Label: Apple Formats: LP, MC, 8-track127———Encouraging Words Released: September 11, 1970 Label: Apple Formats: LP, MC, 8-track—50——I Wrote a Simple Song Released: November 8, 1971 Label: A&M Formats: LP, MC, 8-track329——Music Is My Life Released: October 1972 Label: A&M Formats: LP, MC, 8-track327—31Everybody Likes Some Kind of Music Released: September 21, 1973 Label: A&M Formats: LP, MC, 8-track523—76The Kids & Me Released: May 1974 Label: A&M Formats: LP, MC, 8-track178—21It's My Pleasure Released: June 1975 Label: A&M Formats: LP, MC, 8-track4318—20Billy Preston Released: October 1976 Label: A&M Formats: LP, MC, 8-track————A Whole New Thing Released: November 1977 Label: A&M Formats: LP, MC, 8-track—49——Behold! Released: July 1978 Label: Myrrh Formats: LP Gospel album————Late at Night Released: August 1979 Label: Motown Formats: LP, MC, 8-track4973——Universal Love Released: April 1980 Label: Myrrh Formats: LP, MC, 8-track Gospel album————The Way I Am Released: February 1981 Label: Motown Formats: LP, MC————Billy Preston & Syreeta Released: July 1981 Label: Motown Formats: LP, MC With Syreeta12748——Pressin' On Released: August 1982 Label: Motown Formats: LP————On the Air Released: July 1984 Label: Motown Formats: LP, MC————Ministry of Music Released: September 1985 Label: King James Formats: LP Gospel album——33—You Can't Keep a Good Man Down Released: 1986 Label: D&K Formats: LP, MC————Billy's Back! Released: September 1995 Label: Nu Groov Music Formats: LP, MC————Minister of Music Released: 1995 Label: PepperCo Formats: CD Gospel album————You and I Released: 1997 Label: Crisler Formats: CD Featuring Novecento————Music from My Heart Released: August 21, 2001 Label: MCG Records Formats: CD————"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.
Live albums {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" ! scope="col" style="width:15em;" |Title ! scope="col" style="width:15em;" |Album details |- ! scope="row" |Club Meetin''' | Released: October 1966 Label: Capitol Formats: LP |- ! scope="row" |Live European Tour| Released: August 2, 1974 Label: A&M Formats: LP
Soundtrack albums TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsSWEFast Break Released: March 1979 Label: Motown Formats: LP, MC, 8-track From the film of the same name; Preston features on six tracks42
Compilation albums TitleAlbum detailsBilly's Bag Released: 1976 Label: DJM Formats: LPThe Best of Billy Preston Released: 1980 Label: A&M Formats: LPThe Best Released: November 1982 Label: A&M Formats: LP, MCThe Collection Released: April 1989 Label: Castle Communications Formats: CD, 2xLPUltimate Collection Released: March 2000 Label: Hip-O Formats: CDBillys Bag – His Most Hammond Groovin 'Soul Movin' Sides 1963–1966 Released: November 2001 Label: RPM Formats: CD20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Billy Preston Released: May 21, 2002 Label: A&M Formats: CDSoul Derby – Complete Vee Jay Recordings 1964/1965 Released: 2003 Label: Vampi Soul Formats: CD
EPs TitleEP detailsBilly Preston's Beatles Salute Released: 2004 Label: Billy Preston's Studio Formats: CD Limited promotional release
Singles {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" ! rowspan="2" scope="col" style="width:17em;" | Title ! rowspan="2" scope="col" style="width:2em;" | Year ! colspan="8" |Peak chart positions ! rowspan="2" |Certifications ! rowspan="2" scope="col" style="width:12em;" |Album |- ! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" | US ! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" | US R&B ! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" | US AC ! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" | US Dance ! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" | AUS ! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" | CAN ! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" | NL ! scope="col" style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" | UK |- ! scope="row" |"My Kind of Music" | rowspan="2" |1961 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | | rowspan="2" |- ! scope="row" |"Volcano" |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"Greazee" |1963 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | |16 Yr. Old Soul|- ! scope="row" |"Billy's Bag" | rowspan="2" |1965 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |51 | | rowspan="2" |The Most Exciting Organ Ever|- ! scope="row" |"Drown in My Own Tears" |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"The Girl's Got "It"" | rowspan="4" |1966 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"Advice" |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | |Wildest Organ in Town!|- ! scope="row" |"Sunny" |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | |Club Meetin'|- ! scope="row" |"Can't She Tell" |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"Hey Brother" | rowspan="2" |1968 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | |That's the Way God Planned It|- ! scope="row" |"The Split" |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | |The Split|- ! scope="row" |"Get Back" (with the Beatles) / | rowspan="4" |1969 |1 |— |— |— |1 |1 |1 |1 | RIAA: 2×Platinum BPI: Silver |Let It Be|- ! scope="row" |"Don't Let Me Down" (with the Beatles) |35 |— |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"That's the Way God Planned It" |62 |— |— |— |22 |61 |14 |11 | | rowspan="2" |That's the Way God Planned It|- ! scope="row" |"Everything's Alright" |— |— |— |— |76 |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"All That I've Got (I'm Gonna Give It to You)" | rowspan="3" |1970 |108 |— |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"If I Had a Hammer" |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | |The Most Exciting Organ Ever|- ! scope="row" |"My Sweet Lord" |90 |23 |— |— |— |— |— |— | |Encouraging Words|- ! scope="row" |"I Wrote a Simple Song" / | rowspan="2" |1971 |77 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | | rowspan="4" |I Wrote a Simple Song|- ! scope="row" |"Outa-Space" |2 |1 |23 |— |— |13 |— |44 | RIAA: Gold |- ! scope="row" |"My Country 'Tis of Thee" | rowspan="4" |1972 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"The Bus" |— |43 |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"That's the Way God Planned It" (re-release) |65 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | |That's the Way God Planned It|- ! scope="row" |"Slaughter" |50 |17 |— |— |— |63 |— |— | |Slaughter|- ! scope="row" |"Will It Go Round in Circles" | rowspan="3" |1973 |1 |10 |— |— |99 |1 |— |— | RIAA: Gold |Music Is My Life|- ! scope="row" |"Space Race" |4 |1 |34 |— |— |6 |— |— | RIAA: Gold | rowspan="3" |Everybody Likes Some Kind of Music|- ! scope="row" |"My Soul Is a Witness" |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"You're So Unique" | rowspan="3" |1974 |48 |11 |— |— |— |42 |— |—
! scope="row" |"Nothing from Nothing" |1 |8 |15 |— |60 |5 |— |— | RIAA: Gold | rowspan="2" |The Kids & Me|- ! scope="row" |"Struttin'" |22 |11 |— |— |— |24 |— |—
! scope="row" |"Fancy Lady" | rowspan="3" |1975 |71 |23 |— |— |— |83 |— |— | | rowspan="3" |It's My Pleasure|- ! scope="row" |"That's Life" |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"Do It While You Can" |— |58 |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"I've Got the Spirit" / | rowspan="5" |1977 |— | rowspan="2" |48 |— |— |— |— |— |— | | rowspan="3" |Billy Preston|- ! scope="row" |"Do What You Want" |— |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" | "Girl" |— |44 |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"Whole New Thing" / |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | | rowspan="4" |A Whole New Thing|- ! scope="row" |"Wide Stride" |— |33 |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"I'm Really Gonna Miss You" | rowspan="3" |1978 |— |59 |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"Disco Dancin'" |— |— |— |— |— |— |39 |—
! scope="row" |"Get Back" |86 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | |Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band|- ! scope="row" |"Go for It" (with Syreeta) | rowspan="3" |1979 |108 |— |— |80 |— |— |— |— | |Fast Break|- ! scope="row" |"It Will Come in Time" (with Syreeta) |— |— |— |— |— |— |15 |47 | | rowspan="2" |Late at Night|- ! scope="row" |"With You I'm Born Again" (with Syreeta) |4 |86 |2 |— |21 |9 |7 |2 | align="left" | BPI: Silver |- ! scope="row" |"Universal Love" | rowspan="3" |1980 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | |Universal Love|- ! scope="row" |"One More Time for Love" (with Syreeta) |52 |72 |— |— |— |— |— |— | | rowspan="2" |Syreeta|- ! scope="row" |"Please Stay" (with Syreeta) |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"Hope" | rowspan="7" |1981 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | | rowspan="2" |The Way I Am|- ! scope="row" |"A Change Is Gonna Come" |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"Searchin'" (with Syreeta) |106 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | | rowspan="3" |Billy Preston & Syreeta|- ! scope="row" |"Just for You (Put the Boogie in Your Body)" (with Syreeta) |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"A New Way to Say I Love You" (with Syreeta) |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |104
! scope="row" |"I'll Make It with Your Love" |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"Love" (with Syreeta) |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | |Billy Preston & Syreeta|- ! scope="row" |"I'm Never Gonna Say Goodbye" | rowspan="2" |1982 |88 |64 |38 |— |— |— |— |— | | rowspan="3" |Pressin' On|- ! scope="row" |"Thanks, But No Thanks" |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"Pressin' On" |1983 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"And Dance" | rowspan="3" |1984 |— |— |— |55 |— |— |— |— | | rowspan="3" |On the Air|- ! scope="row" |"If You Let Me Love You" |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"Here, There and Everywhere" |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"Christmas with the Family" (as the Preston Family) |1985 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"So Good, So Fine" (with Ann-Louise Hanson) | rowspan="3" |1986 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | |Duva – Flyg igen|- ! scope="row" |"What About the Love" |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | |You Can't Keep a Good Man Down|- ! scope="row" |"Since I Held You Close" |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | | rowspan="3" |- ! scope="row" |"Heroes" | rowspan="2" |1991 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |103
! scope="row" |"Watching the Hands of Time" (with Syreeta) |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |—
! scope="row" |"Hold Me" |1997 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | |You and I|- | colspan="12" style="font-size:90%" |"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.
As a guest/session performer 1963: Night Beat (Sam Cooke) 1965: "I Don't Know What You Got (But It's Got Me)" (Little Richard) 1967: "In the Heat of the Night" (Ray Charles) 1969: A Black Man's Soul (Ike Turner) 1969: "Get Back" and "Don't Let Me Down" (The Beatles) 1969: Abbey Road (The Beatles) 1970: Let It Be (The Beatles) 1970: All Things Must Pass (George Harrison) 1970: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (John Lennon) – piano on "God" 1971: Sticky Fingers (The Rolling Stones) 1971: The Concert for Bangladesh (George Harrison and Friends) 1971: There's a Riot Goin' On (Sly and the Family Stone) 1971: Live at Fillmore West (King Curtis and Aretha Franklin) 1971: Barbra Joan Streisand (Barbra Streisand) – keyboards and drums 1972: Exile on Main St. (The Rolling Stones) 1972: Wind of Change (Peter Frampton) – piano, keyboards, harpsichord, accordion 1973: Ringo (Ringo Starr) – organ on "I'm the Greatest" and "Oh My My" 1973: Goats Head Soup (The Rolling Stones) 1974: Dark Horse (George Harrison) – electric piano 1974: Goodnight Vienna (Ringo Starr) – clavinet on the title track, electric piano on "Only You" 1974: It's Only Rock 'n Roll (The Rolling Stones) 1975: "You Are So Beautiful" (Joe Cocker) 1975: "Take Me Back" "They Shall Be Mine" (Andrae Crouch and the Disciples) - organ 1975: Extra Texture (Read All About It) (George Harrison) – electric piano on "His Name Is Legs (Ladies And Gentlemen)"