Outta Space by Billy Preston

[wingman572]

who's got acid?

[supaakuru]

I just funked all over myself

[MrMarziani52]

Wow!

[sblizzy]

Someone help me!! I am looking for one of the other top funk instrumentals at that time...I know that Dennis Coffee Scorpio was one of them. This one by Billy Preston was another...But there was another instrumental that had a similar keyboard sound that Billy is using and was a huge song. I need help from those who are the funk historians...it was about 1970-71 era..

[str8zilla]

@sblizzy ...are ya familiar wit frankenstin.....edgar winter group

[sblizzy]

@str8zilla yeah but thats not the one...

[Jako32]

def pre disco we have here.

[rahphunk]

So damn funky!!! May he forever live in peace!!

[Irisheddy]

Billy Preston can claim he was the fifth Beatle

[bumpy56]

FUNKAY TOON!!!!!!!!!!!.

[spwilson77]

Bring out the platform shoes and the disco dresses. This is one JAMMIN' song!! Where's my checkerboard lighted dance floor??

[DancingSpiderman]

Funky Clavinet Playin' MoFo

[MrSpencerport]

That song could have went on for another 20 min. and it would fine with me.

[Medic83301]

This is the greatest song ever to be played on a clavinet ! This song just grabs you , shakes you and makes you wanna BOOGIE !!

[MrDavros1234]

In the words of the maestro"Evening Keith ...how you doing...well on the show today between three and five along came Billy Preston with the one called.....Outer Space".

Back to reality - thanks for the links, haven't actually tried either of 'em yet tbh. There's a chap on the one of the AF youtube sites wanting to know what the acoustic guitar music on AF's "Poets Corner" spot. Any ideas? Have a great Christmas...alright......and that's for sure!! Malcolm

[ProperBodged]

this is a great tune, and that's coming from a white guy! :)

[mkl62]

A #1 hit for Billy Preston on the Rhythm & Blues charts. This was the 249th #1 R&B song of the Rock Era. It also hit #2 on the Top 40 charts. Last night, I watched the American Music Awards. Had they existed one year earlier, I feel that this song would have been nominated. I hope that they give their Lifetime Achievement Award to Billy in the future.

[luckystar9860]

Far out and Grooooovy!

[djai2djai]

I will never forget this record. RIP mr. Preston

[doyouwannarollwithme]

RIP - BILLY PRESTON!

[MrDavros1234]

Great record - always associate this with the mercurial Alan Freeman and his short lived weekday afternoon show on Radio one. god bless you Fluff - and that's for sure pop pickers!!

[BackToTheBlues]

@MrDavros1234 And er, that's one memory you've just brought back for me right there. Alright? Not arf!

[bonnevillebabycakes]

...outta sight..!!

[Kubyashi]

well, if there ever was such thing..... then this much be funkalicious.

[howtoplanaparty]

"Written by Billy Preston and Giuseppe Verdi"

[armancan1989]

nice energizing music :D

[stroh013]

I saw him with leon russel at blossom music center in the valley in akron ohio-1972, 17 years old, got soooo high and this song made me swim...hmmm, the girl i was with was hot to boot, lol. great memories..thanks for posting!!

[JurassicJasonL4D]

i found this on my name is earl. Just great

[chikkengrease]

now you know you have to be a musical wiz to make "space age" music without any synths! billy preston makes me proud to be from houston!

[fitz3511]

Preston and others around this time put a lot of work into making their own special sound. Great music from one of the Masters ... We get old the music stays young.

[Nitebug61]

This is a classic. I was in the 5th grade when this song came out.

[soyounoat]

This is FUNK.

[Mandi7882]

The 5th Beatle!

[sonicsteev]

yea billy!

[wandacre]

I love this song outta space, back in the day watching soul train dancing to the beat like I was there! you go B. Preston

[Mookmod]

My Name Is Earl?

[anonymoog]

YES.

[jazzsoul60]

Aw, shake it now! Make me wanna do the Bump and the Penguin!

[mrcoolguyify]

if you look up the word funk in the Webster's Dictionary, it would say 'see Outta Space by Billy Preston'

[AchLstStnd]

@mrcoolguyify It would also say the same thing if you looked it up...(removes sunglasses)...in your Funk and Wagnalls YYYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH­H!!!

[btinsley1]

All aboarrrrd for a fonk-filled trip back to the 70s ...have your tickets ready & please keep all afros INSIDE the passenger cabins

[MsCargento]

@btinsley1 LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[guy070467]

i wanna see live material........see " hot as hell"

[MsCargento]

NOTHING LIKE VINYL, THIS SONG IS STILL BUMPIN!!!!!

[ACuriousStagbeetle]

The vinyl rip is great keep em comin!

[segundopizza]

incredible, wow i need a witness!!!

[evil5150]

I loved this song in One Crazy Summer

[haakondahl]

maaaaan YEARS I been wonderin what this is.

[nu2thgame]

Classic...

[slipdisco]

This is perfect!

[IstOne1989]

this song is like having sex with a clavinet

[th25tina]

groovy!!!



[DancingSpiderman]

Dis song so fonkay, I jus wanna sayyyy

I CRAVE KA-KA

[ugleeamerican]

Not too much to say--Fuckn Awesome!

[DancingSpiderman]

DAYyum tight

[Martykun36]

My hair just inflated

[antivenin]

I have ALWAYS loved Billy Preston and this song.

[THEBIKEFIXER0254]

driver parrallel lines brought me here

[tariksba]

haven't heard this since maybe near 40 years,thanx for sharing ,

[manutdok1]

Wrote to BBC Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis who used to play Outta Space as background music in his show,fading it in & out whilst talking.He wrote back with the title and I went straight out and bought it,then played it to death.Thanks for posting.

[senyahecnerual]

So sweet.

[blueninja78]

outta sight!!!!

[iForgotmyname191]

i like it, but he has to change the backround

[BoomBoy13]

Can't get better than the 70s.

[winterover79]

Thank you very much ! An absolutely great song with a few snaps and pops . Takes me back to high school !! Thanks again.

[winterover79]

Thank you very much ! An absolutely great song with a few snaps and pops . Takes me back to high school !! Thanks again.

[jvlivs2]

I was given a Best of the 70s CD after my grandfather passed, and this song was on it. Played it for the first time in my car, and literally played the thing until my ears bled. And I STILL kept playing it! Though he's gone now, long live the Black Beatle (AKA The Fifth Beatle to some folks).

[XTdarkgainTX]

move your ass!

[LAIDBACKMANNER]

funk-a-delik! A little Stevie wonder-isk but still bad ass.

[chr23453]

i was attending a cook out (in my youth) at my cousins house when i heard this song...I played this song at least a dozen times while I was there

[rocketman4403]

Boogie on forever, Billy Preston. May you rest in peace.

[MrDavidTWalker]

A Friend asked me to check this channel out and i am Happy I did

Thank You for posting this!

It was Good to Hear my Guitar & wah wah pedal with Billy Preston again :-)

David T. Walker (Guitarist)

[longlivetheking58]

@MrDavidTWalker You're playing on this song? That's so neat! I was in the 9th grade when I first heard this, spring of '72. I loved it then and I love it now.

[flooflox]

@MrDavidTWalker Great to hear from the players on these songs. I was a young teen living in Southern Ontario, Canada when I bought the 45. It made the hair stand up on arms when I played it. I'm 50 now, and listening to it just now, it did the same thing. Some music is just timeless.

[bpkeane1]

Lets Get Funking!!!...and that 1961 Fender Precision....Summer 1972

[bpkeane1]

Lets Get Funking!!!...and that 1961 Fender Precision....

[Aliendear]

Whatever turntable you have there, sounds good and is keeping perfect time.

[johnnycab13]

@elc1960... :)...H2...SO4...has got a real kick to it, but stereo...105 is safer yeah...

stereo...105 is WVBF :)...remember The Magic Cristian, nights on WVBF? And another daytime (dawn-dusk) daytime only AM station...(WNTN?)..."your daytime nightclub?

Thanks lots for the reply...i miss (old-time) Boston radio Big-time :)

[elc1960]

@vicky75201 Oak Cliff - the area that gave us T-Bone Walker and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Two more people the world is poorer without (I know that's bad grammar, but it's accurate).

[ettmc2]

Had this..... Funk Funk Funk

[357431smithmr]

To all of you at YouTube...Thank you for sending the Email for "The Vigil" by Blue Oyster Cult. I had recorded the song on cassette WAY BACK in 1979!!! THANK YOU!!!

[mikeeiland1]

Found this song by accident. I bought the single "I Wrote A Simple Song" in December 1971. Flipped it over---curious as to what "Outa-Space" sounded like. I was mesmerized. It's so perfect I thought it done by computer! I didn't hear this on radio until May 1972...6 months after I bought it. Even "The Bus" came out around April 1972 while I kept jamming to "Outa-Space". Kids at school called this "my" song because that's how they heard it all those months before radio hit it!

[tonylong75]

My favorite song!

[BEANDRR]

Billy Cranks!

[357431smithmr]

Is it possible to find the name/group of a song I heard and recorded in 1979?... {Our lights are dim / our roads are crumbling...down...and we don't know what to do...We're sick and tired and dying to meet you...cause we've bit off more than we can chew..] HELP! Maybe someone out there can help...

[yertles]

@357431smithmr, I think the song you are talking about is 'The Vigil' by the Bue Oyster Cult. At least, that's the song i found when I searched on those lyrics in google :)

[GregDad100]

To patroleleven: I remember when this song was popular and I had NO idea if the artist was black OR white and, frankly, I could not have cared less. It was (and is) a great instrumental. Geesh, who cares about race when it comes to great music?!

[truthaddict11]

anyone else hypnotized by the turntable?

[marcfedak]

@truthaddict11 , I have. The Moody Blues Threshold label (a yellow comet on dark blue) was always hypnotic to watch, and Canadian experimental pop artist Nash the Slash had a cool skull on his records that was neat to watch rotating.

[bzjohnny]

@truthaddict11 LMAO!!!!

[mrcoolguyify]

@truthaddict11 I'm hypnotized by your mom! ba-zing!

[howtoplanaparty]

@truthaddict11 no because I haven't time to look at it

[Sylphqueen1968]

LOVE this song totally yeh!

[btinsley1]

we used to bustop to this back in 1974...

[shardennefroider]

Git down! This is funkier than Funkmeister Funky Funk from Funksville on Funkday

[bledsoe50]

Thanks for posting this cut;it definitely brings back fond memories!!!

[BichonFrise2001]

whoo-hoo! I get down with my big bad self. love this song. thx for sharing. they don't make music like this anymore!!!

[GumGumPizzaCat]

HA HAAAA !!!!!! FUNKEY !

Put this in ya cars, on highway-streets and go faaaaast !

Absolute killer sound, and i love it !

[Pikachu5258]

i luv dis song

[MsKeith1969]

sure wish i could have been an adult back in 1972 instead of being a 2 year old.

[pvtpstr]

Frikkin' stoned groove - bring back the clavinet!

[shaaronie]

3:14 You don't know what the "funk" you're talking about!

[shaaronie]

I listen to this every morning on the way to a job that I hate doing. It puts me in a good mood every time!

[guard47]

WOW!!! I was in living in Oceanside CA when this came out.  I was 11yrs old. Tnanks to Billy and Outta Space, Im a musician...THANKS BILLY

[citizenpetroff]

This is my absolute FAVOURITE funky song EVER!!! It's on this game called Driver Parallel Lines, and I've even heard it on the weather channel before. I could never figure out what it was called..I'm soooooooo happy I know now. How can anyone dislike this?

[seeyouinthecorners]

Saw Billy Preston open for the Stones in the early 70's. Billy came out from above, attached to a rope and flying around the fabulous Forum (any of you from So Cal and remember when the Forum was THE venue for concerts) and settled at his keyboard to open with this song. I think it was the Stone's Exile on Main Street tour, or Sticky Fingers.

[skinfanjay]

Billy is funky on the Hohner Clavinet

[plastictolstoy]

if this was a vynil record I would have worn the grooves off it already!

[kasteman1]

Look up 'funky sound" in the dictionary

It says: "please see Outta Space - Billy Preston"

[slipdisco]

This song is absolutely perfect!

[ItsDickCheney]

Oh yeah baby heard it on the weather channel, never has the local on the 8s been so funky.

[circusitch]

@ItsDickCheney I heard it on the weather channel too. I was so excited, it's the best song they've played. ( the second best was when they played the Four Seasons by Dvorak in 1995) 

[webguy21]

@ItsDickCheney hahahaa  yeahhhh!

[loukie1000]

like it

[enriquebenitez51]

He should it kill Yoko Ono in the studio when he was recording with The Beatles, no court in England was going to find it guilty....he would it be a national hero LOL

[kenpalmer1965]

I was a little whippersnapper in elementary school when this one came out! Great video and what an awesome song!

[52381a]

Bought this and another BP album for myself at Christmas age 15

[TheWarpedVinyl]

this song makes me wanna wear polyester! LOV IT!

[52381a]

@TheWarpedVinyl

It's not that good,,

[cyrussv]

Damn I love this song..always have...

[powerman5000ca]

What a Great Song

Thanks for sharing

I had forgotten this song

[phylchmusic]

I want this to play every time I walk into a room full of people.

[TevyeWill]

randomly grabbed this out of a crate of my mom's in the basement- wanted to hear it it(no turn table) Diggin it:)

[harenchi]

I was about eight years old when this song came out and I have never stopped loving it! Great tune then, now, and forever!!!

[altatoth1958]

As a 52 year old white male may say that it's difficult not to want to get up and dance to this . An amazing talented musician . RIP Billy :(

[elc1960]

@altatoth1958 As a 51 year old Caucasian/Hispanic male, I say HELL YEAH! Love this song. Absolutely love it. Billy was an underrated musician and singer, and the world is a poorer place without him.

[pathetwat]

A classic - this tune moulds early day house and funk in its most raw form.

[oldschoolsister55]

NORFOLK,VA BATMANS DEN, HAMPTON BLVD. PARTY DOWN YOU NOW THIS

[billh1027]

love it love love

[Libervurto]

3 people are not in a funky 70's cop show

[jenevajones991]

What a flashback! Love this!

[AbbeyRoad52]

I heard this at Home Depot the other day and have been looking for it and now I've found it!

[griffislo]

Funk at it's finest

[SandGs72]

...This is just pure groove...

[DOCRX09]

THIS IS THE 1ST TIME SINCE THE MID 70S I HAVE HEARD THIS JAM!!! AHHHH--ITS GOOD TO HAVE MEMORIES!!!

[ziginz]

I...I'm a billy Preston fan? Did not know that about myself. Rather happy to discover this fact though.

[ajushi10]

5TH Beatle Billy Preston Played with Them on the Album Abby road and Songs Something and I want You( she's so heavy). Credit was withheld but its a little known fact and was given the Credit later.

[elvispreseli]

@ajushi10 He supported the Stones when I saw them in '72. No-one on Youtube has posted his fantastic version of Sunny yet. I hope to do so soon.

[tamarahndrsn]

LOVE IT, TRUE FUNK!

[voncello]

Makes you wonder what Bach would have wrote if he heard this!

...well, it makes me wonder anyway! ;-)

[Medic83301]

@voncello Bach would have wrote OUTTA SIGHT if he heard this !

[15chipshops]

Funky Sheeet!!!

[mfurey69]

Not only did I hear this song a million times on my parents' car radio in the mid-70's...but this video was posted on my birthday! Synchronicity, baby!

[Froebs]

OH SHIT

[moogy77]

I think he's the only musician who was able to say he was in The Beatles ans Stones.

That's pretty cool!!

[patroleleven]

whenever I'm the only "BLACK" in a room,this song plays in my head !

[palehorse44]

@patroleleven best comment I've seen in a while

[cb4077]

@patroleleven lol.....

[MsCargento]

@patroleleven i love that...that is the best comment i have ever read!!!!!!!!!

[Lrothtube]

@patroleleven LOL loves it

[ileanacastro1]

@patroleleven Man, I'm not even black and this song plays in my head at all times!

[atunick14]

fuck yea

[MsCargento]

jam jam jam, still till this day.....he was fabulous!!!!

[roryhoymusic]

This is just one funky tune. Love it!!!!!!

[redjameskidd]

Wow, this is fantastic. Just heard it on the radio.

[shaaronie]

Funkiest song ever! I can't get through a day without listening to this, since I rediscovered it a few months ago!

[Chitown2701]

I saw Billy when he toured with the Stones in 1975, he played keyboards. He played this at the concert, it was awesome.

[TeeTommyBee]

Billy Preston R.I.P.

[btinsley1]

this screams for the "bus stop".......now get in a line

[67JMOORE]

GREAT

[DESMYTTER]

People have to remember : Louis (Brothers) Johnson plays HERE on bassguitar ! AlainD

[colibri1]

I looked up Billy Preston's "Will It Go Round In Circles" because it was one of my favorite songs when I was a little kid, and this came up on the side so I had to check it out. I had totally forgotten about this little instrumental but you heard it all the time in the early 70s! So cool to hear it again.

[only4tsc]

this song takes me to a place I've never been

[littledavid1000]

check the r&r hall of fame, he's there

[missduck9]

Turn it up!!

[YusefDeeb69]

4 minutes 8 seconds. . . . . OF PURE UNCUT, UNABIDED, UNHINDERED FUNK!!!

[DaveWollenberg]

Hit #1 soul, #2 pop in '72 in Billboard. God bless! RIP, Billy.

[bobbyh5362]

It's the funk Meister extaordinaire !! God Bless you Billy..... you lived in the shadow of others but were a shining light, worthy of the spotlight

Bobby H

[griffislo]

Old School Funk at it's FINEST!!!