| Billy Preston | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Billy Preston |
| Cover: | Billy_Preston_Album.jpg |
| Released: | 19 November 1976 |
| Recorded: | March 1976 |
| Studio: | Indigo Ranch, Malibu with the Record Plant Mobile |
| Genre: | Soul, rock |
| Length: | 36:02 |
| Label: | A&M |
| Producer: | Billy Preston, Robert Margouleff |
| Prev Title: | It's My Pleasure |
| Prev Year: | 1975 |
| Next Title: | A Whole New Thing |
| Next Year: | 1977 |
Billy Preston (sometimes referred to Do What You Want) is the eleventh studio album by American soul musician Billy Preston, released in 1976 on A&M Records. It includes the singles "I've Got the Spirit" and "Girl", both of which were top 50 hits on Billboards Soul Singles chart in the US. Preston recorded the album in Malibu, California in March 1976, shortly before joining the Rolling Stones on their two-month European tour.
The song "Do What You Want" is a remake of the 1969 original from Preston's debut album for Apple Records, That's the Way God Planned It.[1] Two other tracks, "Let the Music Play" and "When You Are Mine", are re-recordings of songs that appeared on Preston's 1970 album Encouraging Words.[2] In a 1974 interview for the NME, Preston said that he and George Harrison, his former producer, were "both convinced that some of those Apple cuts were among the best I've ever done and could still have a chance of being hits. They missed out first time around largely because of the internal dissension at Apple."[3]
All songs by Billy Preston, except where noted.
Side one
Side two
Drums
Greg Adams - flugelhorn, trumpet
Emilio Castillo - tenor saxophone
Mic Gillette - flugelhorn, trumpet, piccolo
Steve Kupka - baritone saxophone
Lenny Pickett - tenor saxophone