I Wrote a Simple Song

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I Wrote A Simple Song
I Wrote A Simple Song.jpg
Studio album by Billy Preston
Released 8 November 1971 (US)
14 January 1972 (UK)
Recorded February, August−September 1971
Genre Soul, rock
Length 40:03
Label A&M
Producer Billy Preston
Billy Preston chronology
Encouraging Words
(1970)Encouraging Words1970		 I Wrote a Simple Song
(1971)		 Music Is My life
(1972)Music Is My life1972

I Wrote a Simple Song is the sixth studio album by Billy Preston. Released in 1971, this was his first for A&M Records.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 2/5 stars[1]

This album continued Preston's inclusion of gospel-themed songs which had started with the 1967 album Club Meeting. Preston's friend George Harrison supplied dobro accompaniment on the title track.

The instrumental "Outa-Space" won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance in 1973.[2] It was also one of the clarion calls for the coming importance of the Hohner Clavinet in popular music.

Track listing

All songs by Billy Preston and Joe Greene, except where noted.

Side One

  1. "Should Have Known Better" – 2:28
  2. "I Wrote a Simple Song" – 3:28
  3. "John Henry" (Preston, Robert Sam) – 3:15
  4. "Without a Song" (William Rose, Edward Eliscu, Vincent Youmans) – 4:57
  5. "The Bus" – 3:32

Side Two

  1. "Outa-Space" – 4:08
  2. "The Looner Tune" (Preston, Joe Greene, Jesse Kirkland) – 2:47
  3. "You Done Got Older" (Preston, Bruce Fisher) – 3:08
  4. "Swing Down Chariot" (traditional; arranged by Billy Preston and Joe Greene) – 4:13
  5. "God is Great" – 3:32
  6. "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" (traditional) – 4:27

Personnel

Charts

Year Album Chart positions[3]
US US
R&B
1972 I Wrote a Simple Song 32 9

Singles

Year Single Chart positions[4]
US US
R&B		 US
Dance
1972 "I Wrote a Simple Song" 77 — —
"Outta-Space" 2 1 —
"The Bus" — 43 —

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r67739/review
  2. ↑ * 15th Grammy Awards
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