Space Race (Billy Preston song)

"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. ^[1]

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.^[2]

• 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

• 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.^[3]
• The song can also be heard in a party scene in the 1979 film When a Stranger Calls.^{[citation needed ]}

• 1973 singles
• Billy Preston songs
• Pop instrumentals
• A&M Records singles
• Songs written by Billy Preston
• 1970s instrumentals
• 1970s rhythm and blues song stubs

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