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@dee_dee_place

3 жыл бұрын

@Breckyn Thomas ABSOLUTELY! Nat King Cole is my all-time favorite pianist & singer. For NKC to see the genius in the 10-year-old Billy Preston is a testament to the artistry with which both of them possessed.

@sisi11122

3 жыл бұрын

When they get it this right.

@martinmoffitt4702

3 жыл бұрын

YES SIR TOO COOL!

@jaybassman6326

3 жыл бұрын

Amen!

@martinmoffitt4702

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaybassman6326 Yes Sir!

Even at 11 years old, Billy Preston's talent was supreme.

@pgroove163

2 жыл бұрын

a tortured soul in later yrs...

@Methilde

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Nat.

@janetownley

2 жыл бұрын

@@pgroove163 … and an incredibly successful and brilliant career in between

@johnheinrich1718

2 жыл бұрын

Billy Preston, the only non-Beatle with credit on a #1 hit Beatles song. Get Back’

@alanvallazza9781

2 жыл бұрын

@@pgroove163 After his failed marriage in the 70s he never wanted to marry again.

Wow Billy played with Nat, the Beatles, The Stones and had his own hits! What a guy

@Uetti

2 жыл бұрын

And with Little Richard and Ray Charles

@larryaldama1673

2 жыл бұрын

🎹🇺🇸

@larryaldama1673

2 жыл бұрын

@@Uetti 🇺🇸🎹

@djhagoslove6942

Жыл бұрын

And with Sam Cooke

@person3538

Жыл бұрын

He was great with Ray Charles too

One of the most remarkable moments in the Get Back doc is when Billy Preston starts playing the Fender Rhodes and Paul McCartney's eyes light up - he gives the whole project an adrenaline shot

@janetownley

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@calito44

2 жыл бұрын

Man!!! do you mean in the Ive got a Feeling song??? Paul 's mind literally blew off in that part......

@lifeonanotherplanet

2 жыл бұрын

@@calito44 Yes! 😀

@buzzlafalce4448

2 жыл бұрын

Billy Preston was a phenomenal musician..saw him live a couple times and there was no doubt he was at a different level than most musicians..

@greenatom

2 жыл бұрын

That was magic.

Nobody today has 1% the talent of these two gentlemen.

@morrisonreed1

Ай бұрын

I know what you mean,, but ,,,there are still some really talented people walking around

Preston was a child prodigy, self-taught and brilliant! He was playing with Cole at the same time John Lennon and Paul McCartney met in Liverpool. Their paths crossed three years later when he was backing Little Richard in Hamburg. Of course, his contribution to the Beatles in 1969 is iconic. An amazing talent.

@matrox

2 жыл бұрын

Hamburger?...Where da video at?🤔

@billkalivas9750

2 жыл бұрын

@@matrox kzread.info/dash/bejne/eWSi1LOkk9K2Zs4.html

@ApartmentKing66

2 жыл бұрын

@@foresttemple1380 A lot of "5th Beatles." George Martin is often called that, Billy Preston as you pointed out, to say nothing of the pre-Ringo Beatles Pete Best and Stu Sutcliffe.

@ralph0901

2 жыл бұрын

@@foresttemple1380 I was going to say that! but you are correct, of course

@alexanderSydneyOz

2 жыл бұрын

@@foresttemple1380 Martin really was the "5th Beatle", as he was a properly trained musician and arranger, and facilitated songs and studio performances they weren't actually capable of doing without him.

When Nat said "You have a very excellent career ahead of you," he was spot on!

@lauramalek3128

2 жыл бұрын

Talent can absolutely "spot" talent.

@bemore1134

2 жыл бұрын

There's something about legends crossing paths, when one isn't yet at that level of notoriety......It's sort of mystical, magical, haunting. That was a LOT of fun. Thanks so much.

@su....

2 жыл бұрын

and the way nat touched billy's chin. so dear. so important.

Billy Preston calls him MR. Cole! Back when even kids were polite!

How could this not make you smile. To the few that gave this a thumbs down, we need to pull the planet over at the next stop and let you two off!

@poekneegurrl

10 жыл бұрын

Now that was classic in the joke department cakewalker21 LOL...(I'd say you have a promising career as a comedy professional !!! Can I do your monologues?

@7echo

4 жыл бұрын

Nov 2019, now there are 20 people with no soul

@kennethbonney7638

4 жыл бұрын

✔️😂💯 I like that!!!

@davidwesley2525

Ай бұрын

​@@7echoI Guess Those People Prefer Heavy Metal , Hip Hop , Justin Beiber , & Taylor Swift. 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

At one time or another Billy Preston literally played with everyone who is anyone didn't he!

@killakam3084

3 жыл бұрын

When you play with Reverend James Cleveland you can play anywhere!

@bakercarl8518

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it may have been a misprint when back in the day I found a Sly Stone & Billy Preston duel album.( Still in original packaging).

@faniaba7414

3 жыл бұрын

@Nick Madness OMG Billy Preston and Ollie Brown in one show! That must've been heaven!🤩 You're one lucky dude😁

@chrism8311

2 жыл бұрын

Little RIchard, Ray Charles, the Beatles... Nat COLE.. the Rolling Stones...Eric Clapton.. the list goes on. Shows how much he is respected and how talented he was. RIP dude.

@jimeb2jim256

2 жыл бұрын

He's fantastic with the Kingpins on King Curtis Live at the Fillmore.

Nat King Cole is the epitome of elegant style and class

@BlazeDuskdreamer

5 ай бұрын

He really was in everything he ddi.

People dont know what a fantastic pianist Nat was. Its overshadowed by his wonderful voice, but listen to his keys work!

@lilliehalumi8770

2 жыл бұрын

If you were around when his show aired, you would have seen him playing and singing. I did.

@edzielinski

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Other noted pianists respected him. His true love was piano, and his singing was secondary to him.

@fretnesbutke3233

2 жыл бұрын

He was a revered jazz pianist before his popular music took off. You're right,most people don't know that. It almost doesn't seem fair that some people are born with talent to spare!

Playing with the Beatles at the rooftop a decade later 😊

@MsAppassionata

4 жыл бұрын

Sudip Bhandari About 12 years later, to be more precise and he played with a lot of other great people before that.

@edsonbatista4137

3 жыл бұрын

Hey sudip Bhandari , You mean 5 decade later right!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@Cloxxki

2 жыл бұрын

Billy was a big deal before the Beatles were, then... He saw the Beatles arrive, he was performing on their last performance. And without him it wouldn't have happened even. He made the music and creation work there.

@boombapdoom493

2 жыл бұрын

One of the honoraries to be called “the fifth beatle” ik there are others that are considered but he stands out musically

@Methilde

2 жыл бұрын

And with the Stones all around the world, saw them in Paris 76.

All anyone needs to know about Nat King Cole is in his daughter's eyes when she talks about him; it's pure love for a wonderful father.

@Tonetwisters

2 жыл бұрын

Not to mention that she was just beautiful in that shot!

Among his many accomplishments, he got the Beatles back in the groove.

The Beatles were in Hamburg in 1962. This means Billy was only 16 when he met The Beatles. Incredibly young to have left home and go off touring thousands of miles away. But what a player he was. He was very quiet during the Get Back documentary. All he did was play incredible electric piano and smile a lot!

@sekos99

2 жыл бұрын

Jackson didn't include enough of Billy in the film, especially on the rooftop. I'm pretty sure he was featured more in Let It Be. (Overall, I did not like the way Get Back was edited.)

Billy Preston was a child prodigy ,very talented . That was nice for Mr Nat King Cole to let him take th d spotlight like that God bless them both

No wonder they called him "king". There will never be another Nat Cole!

A jazz legend and a child prodigy. You can't help but love Nat and Billy. Thank You KZread.

Billy Preston is the most underestimated grace to music and our culture! RIP!

@winstonscott4195

6 жыл бұрын

greysonthecat so true.

@joesmith34

4 жыл бұрын

Billy turned out to be tbe 5th Beatle

@Cloxxki

2 жыл бұрын

Finally inducted into the RRHOF. Decades late, as tends to be the norm for actual greats.

@MsAppassionata

2 жыл бұрын

@@Cloxxki Yeah! What took them so long?

@paulrodgers5559

2 жыл бұрын

@@MsAppassionata Madonna and L.L. Cool J were takin' up space.

WOW!!!!Billy Preston with Nat "King" Cole. What a start to a really great career for Billy the legend.

I love KZread! I sometimes find videos like this. Wow!!

I play keyboards, saw Billy play at the Watts Drum Festival clean and sober. I was 3 years old watching Nat's show with my folks in Compton. Billy was the man on 88's I listened to a lot. Thrilling seeing him play live for free at the festival near my home in the city. Dude was the baddest keyboard player ever!! Imagine at 11 years old doing the organ like he did...church kids learn early. I love the Hammond B3 and C3 series to this day. Funky organ with a unique sound with the Leslie speakers. Hammond sued Leslie for making it I found out, but it made the organ sound so much richer with the rotating cone design. Poor Hammond was a clock maker before the organ idea came to be. Legendary now...mostly in Black Churches all over town I notice. Thanks for the upload...

Never knew this footage was around and Wow to see the older generation bringing the new and both are very talented. Even more respect for Billy Preston as he was so talented so young. Sad that Nat, Billy and Natalie are now not with us but we do have their music.

@matrox

2 жыл бұрын

The millennial generation have no clue who Billy Preston was or even Nat King Cole for that matter.😣

@nigeh5326

2 жыл бұрын

@@matrox to be fair that’s no different to earlier generations who would know little of previous generations heroes much of the time. Each generation has its own style that it thinks is the best

@Methilde

2 жыл бұрын

@@matrox wrong, some of them knew Billy cause of the Stones.

@renaissanceman165

2 жыл бұрын

@@matrox Well actually, the irony, even among the older generations is that, before he became an iconic singing legend, Nat "King" Cole was a prodigy himself, and a premier, award winning jazz pianist, with the King Cole Trio. His playing style helped forge the beginnings of the "Bebop" style of jazz music. Nat was a technical genius on the piano keyboard. He was also a gifted songwriter, arranger, and composer As the 1950s approached, Nat was encouraged to sing more, and eventually stand up st the microphone to croon love ballads. So, actually, there were two career phases of Mr. Cole. However, his popularity as a balladeer overshadowed his jazz musician background. Even Nat admitted that he missed being exclusive at the piano. With the arrival of new, upcoming piano virtuosos like Oscar Peterson, and Errol Garner on the scene, Nat decided to return to his roots, and record a couple piano albums himself. Despite the urban legend that Nat King Cole never sang, until a drunk club patron demanded that he sing "Sweet Lorraine" is just not true. Nat always sang with the trio, upon occasion. However, he had yet to develop into the vocal powerhouse, and icon that he would become years later. Check it Out! Ciao!!!

@ivangranger8494

2 жыл бұрын

@@nigeh5326 Not true. Entertainment included all ages and genres at one time. Eclectic was it. Now it’s boring, flesh peddling of many, or violence. People do still listen to the Great composers. Exploring is the name of the game. You could find great music of different decades on iTunes, and make eclectic cd’s if you or a friend have a personal computer. I only have an iPad now. Of course you can listen on you tube as we are here.

What a surprise to see this...then saves the Beatles on "Get Back" 13 years later (check out the new movie), and blows it open at the "Concert for George". Cole was right about his career......

@lilliehalumi8770

2 жыл бұрын

I don't need to check out the new movie to know what Billy Preston was for the Beatles. He was wonderful at the Concert for George.

@vb8428

2 жыл бұрын

@@lilliehalumi8770 Well, I needed it and needed this recommendation too

Billy Preston is absolutely the most underappreciated musical artist in history. RR Hall of Fame waited 36 years to induct the true 5th Beatle...what were they thinking???

@babongo

2 жыл бұрын

Billy had sexual/drug/legal issues (1991 and later) that some say killed his career. I wonder if music industry powers at the time were afraid to be associated with him in fear of backlash if his tendencies became public. So sad, such pure talent.

@jeffreydillingham7630

2 жыл бұрын

@@babongo, I read about that as well, but I honestly think he should have been inducted before 1991. Who knows, maybe the praise could have curtailed his behaviors and led him to new avenues.

My mother loved Nat King Cole. I watch this and I see why. He was a gentleman way beyond his talent. He could give the spotlight to this young man without a second glance. God rest ye merry gentlemen.

Two of my favorite musical artists.I was lucky enough to see Billy play live at Lathrop High School from the front row in Fairbanks Alaska in 1979 and go backstage and chat him up a little. Two supremely talented musicians.

billy is 11 years old and playing that organ like a much older pro. he was a true prodigy. r.i.p to both billy and nat.

I remember Natalie when she was a child, on this show!! Billy Preston was a monster talent at age 10!;)

This video needs a place in the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame! Two great performers, Billy Preston was so young, wonderful music from both of them rest in peace❤

Billy Preston was and will always be a TREASURE. An American Treasure. A Treasure of Humanity.

I was fortunate to see Billy play with Eric Clapton in 2004. Was a Great concert.

@Cream1968

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree saw him with Clapton in 2001. What a great show! And what a great entertainer

Nat & Billy jamming together is beautiful.

Utterly heart warming to find these two fine collaborators during these days of ill intent and vulgarity. There's still humanity to be treasured. Thank you.

@2323msg

2 жыл бұрын

Amen to that

@andyroche1264

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, that clip I wonderful but there was plenty of I'll intent and vulgarity then too

I'm back looking at this. Today I feel like crying looking at Mr. Cole and especially Billy because he was so young, so sweet and innocent here. This is priceless.

@autumn1231

2 жыл бұрын

I know what you mean. The genuine hug he gave young Billy at the end tops it off. So beautiful.

@boomerang905

2 жыл бұрын

@@autumn1231 Right. Two Giants who left us too soon.

Billy Preston was a great player even when he was young. Nat King Cole was amazing! What a smooth vocal style he had. Beautiful and perfect for jazz or pop songs. He had his own style. Unforgettable! RIP to Preston, Cole and Natalie

Holy cow, what a find!

Billy also played the organ with Sam Cooke. Check out Sam's 1963 version of Red Rooster. Part of that Chicago connection he had, during the fledgling and developmental stages of his career, that also included Ray Charles and Quincy Jones. Four entertainment icons helping nurture the prodigious talents of one so young, yet so divinely gifted. 🎹

Billy Preston has worked with Nat Cole, Mahalia Jackson, Clapton, Beatles, Little Richard, Ray Charles,etc.

Wow! No wonder he was SO GREAT on Get Back/Let it Be!

Wow. What a talent. If Preston was 11 in 1957, he would have been only 16 when he met the Beatles in Hamburg.

This vid showed up as a recommendation while I'm watching part two of Get Back, where the 23 year-old Billy comes to sit in with The Beatles. Really amazing!

And that's what you call real talent! :)

Billy was BORN to entertain. He was born to delight people. He was born to make people happy with his breathtaking talents. RIP dear Billy. Love you always.

The commentary at the end is spot on. I would also humbly say that Nat showed real affection for Billy. Two wonderful souls together !

this is mind blowing Billy's talent is so evident...

Amazing musician. "Will it Go Round in Circles". Didn't realize he started so young.

Saw him in Get Back, when he was recording with The Beatles. He seem to be having a ball, just watching the proceedings and making his contribution. He was an absolute professional at 10!

I remember the Nat King Cole Show on TV and loved his jazz trio even before then! Marvelous. He loved to feature and promote prime talent like the young Billy Preston here, who went on to have a wide ranging career on the merits of his shining vocal and keyboard abilities

Wow!! What a special archived moment in history. The great Nate King Cole alongside that beast of that little organ player and singer. Which that little organ player and singer went on in life to become a world wideLegend Mr. Billy Preston which Preston had suffered kidney disease in his later years, brought on by his hypertension. He received a kidney transplant in 2002, but his health continued to deteriorate. He had voluntarily entered a drug rehabilitation clinic in Malibu, California, at the suggestion of guitarist Is'real Benton, and suffered pericarditis there, leading to respiratory failure that left him in a coma from November 21, 2005.[1] Preston died on June 6, 2006, in Scottsdale, Arizona. Salute to the late great Billy Preston I was recently introduced to his music and I found one of the best remixes Billy recreated. A song entitled Change is gonna come. He has one of the best covers of Change Gonna Come.

Very cool..... I hadn't realized Cole had a TV show in 57....both were great!

That's just too much legendary talent in one spot...

Oh, that was so amazing...the legendary, Mr. Nat "King" Cole and Billy Preston. RIP

Who hasn't Billy Preston been playing with and since when? My favorite Beatles song is I Want You (She's So Heavy), and the Hammond part by Preston is just one very good reason.

Wow. Just watched Billy Preston with the Beatles in Peter Jackson's "Get Back". Amazing to see this old footage of him with Nat King Cole.

Billy Preston just had music pouring out of him, natural talent is just undeniable!

Oh damn this warms heart a million times. Discovered Preston two years ago and have know Mr Cole pretty much all my life through my Gran, ,,,

This was even better than I thought it would be, and I thought it would be awesome. They look like they're having a blast. Such a joy.

Unbelievable talent...what joy they both had performing.

So glad it can now be said that this amazing clip features two Rock And Roll Hall Of Famers.

That was pure Love that you could actually feel. Where are the new one's? because the Love is missing. ✌💖😊

Some people are just born with it.

That is the reason why he were one of the biggest artist in the world! He already were born GREAT!!!!!!

In all the videos of Billy Preston playing, you see the same joyful smile.

I just wanna pinch his cheeks - WOW Mr Preston, you were an adorble kid and SUCH A TALENT!!!!!

Bless his heart. What a great piece of film. I don’t know if Nat ever lived long enough to know Billy Prestons potential.

What a great clip! I love Billy, and also love the way Natalie's voice shines with warmth when she is talking about her dad!

Brilliant. So brilliant. A top quality tv classic that wasn't appreciated or respected.

I met Billy at a Beatle convention ... his legacy was so bright I had to wear shades. Bless him.

This is genius, Billy was a prodigy from the very beginning!!!

Wow. First backing up Nat King Cole then backing up Beatles on Get Back 12 years later ! “Excellent career ahead of you “ for sure !

Treating everyone with the sweet melody of the intellectual freedom of being an equal. BRAVO!

Look at little Billy Preston, just amazing! He is often considered the 5th Beatle too!

Billy so talented and cute..!!

I love the musical chairs-style presentation/choreography of their performance -- especially how seamlessly that they pulled it off!!!

Mr. Cole’s generous spirit on full display… Mr. Cole, you live on in my collection of your music which has nurtured me for many decades. Thank you ♥️🎶🤗🥂

Had no idea BP was a child prodigy. I didn’t realize that he was so young when he met the Beatles in Hamburg either. That was in 1962, so only 5 years after this clip. He was playing with Little Richard at age 16 then. What a career, too bad he didn’t live to be at his HOF induction.

Just amazing ! Talent is a gift provided by God !

How am I just seeing this for the first time? I love coming across things like this. They were two amazing talents. If all you know is Nat King Cole's later stuff, I highly recommend checking out his earlier stuff he recorded with The Nat King Cole Trio. It's definitely some of the coolest music of the era.

This is quite awesome! I never realized that Billy started in the biz so young. Bless him.

I was fifteen and met Billy the next year, in 1958, when I joined the Sky Pilot choir. He taught me what rhythm really was and last year, I learned to spell it. We had Ethel Waters and Little Richard visit as guests, during the run, and when I left for the Army, in "63, Billy went to England, to join the Beatles as their pianist, when they hit the road. In "64, in Germany, I heard the Beatles, for the first time on the radio, in a bar. I asked what the hell THAT was and a girl said, "They're the Beatles!" I heard their falsetto squealing quartet and wanted to throw the radio out the window. After I was discharged I had a chance to see Ray Charles. I purchased one of his LP's on the base in Germany, in "65 and it was great, so I wanted to see him in person. To my surprise, Billy was his opening act and he started with playing some Beethoven, on the piano, morphing into a contemporary ballad. I had a chance to chit chat, with Billy, during an intermission. That was the last time I saw him. I heard he died of complications, due to high blood pressure, while I was sitting in front of the cure.

I often debate in my mind the 20th century's greatest and the typical names run thru my head, Sanatra, Elvis, MJ, even Ray Charles, but how could Nat King Cole not be the 1? Always loved Billy Preston (Will it go Round in Circles, Out-a-space You Are so Beautiful). Glad l was born in the early 60s!

Shortly after this video short film with Nat King Cole and Billy Preston was made, Billy was cast as W.C. Handy as a child in the wonderful and moving motion picture "St. Louis Blues" (1958), where Nat played the fully grown W. C. Handy. If you've never seen this movie, I strongly recommend it. The cast is simply incredible and so is just about everything else in it. You can see it for free on KZread currently, here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/laqHt6uKqbGpcrg.html.

@bholaoates1542

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, James!

@plutojayce973

2 жыл бұрын

You weren't lying great film!

@bholaoates1542

2 жыл бұрын

@James Feldman I just watched the St. Louis Blues film all the way through five days ago. Man, what a great find -- really riveting stuff. Thank you again for recommending it. Happy holidays to you!

OH WOW...since '57 he's played with greats like Sam Cooke and Ray Charles, becoming the 5th Beatle from with his solo career began, also appeared on albums by Aretha Franklin and the Rolling Stones...what a career!

@delstanley1349

7 жыл бұрын

And Eric Clapton

@MsAppassionata

4 жыл бұрын

He played with some of the best because he was, himself, one of the best. R.I.P. Billy.

Wow! Billy Preston sang with Nat!

Nat King Cole was a class act. He did not steal the spot light from 11 years old Billy Preston. May they both R.I.P. 12/22/2021

He was so talented at a young age, I watched his unsung documentary. Amazing black musical talent.

is that ever awesome and what incredible talent from these two. isnt natalie just awesome herself. she rocks.

Nat King Cole Truly Was A Real For Real Hunam Being. He Never Ever tried to hog a performance or a title or a place/spotlight! He truly was confident with his talent and Was Just Who He Was; And Comfortable With Being Himself! He had nothing to prove or exploit or take that wasn’t his to have. What a Remarkable Role Model!!

What a thrill that must have been for a young Billy Preston

The master and apprentice

This is a wonderful find! I never knew Much about Billy Preston until he had a few hits. Whoever was managing him at this young age wasn't doing enough for him. He's obviously immensely talented. RIP, Mr. Preston.

This is so cool. Billy Preston was an amazing musician that's why the Beatles wanted him to tour & record with them.

Wow 🤩 great Billy Preston!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Bravoooo

Amazing. From Nat King Cole to the Beatles and "Get Back". I saw him live in the '70s when he had his giant Afro hair and he was fantastic.

2 of the best there ever were and I never knew this performance existed.

that kid just may have a future in music.

My band had the privilege and honor to open for Billy “back in the day”. It was on a sunset dinner cruise. He was also known as “the 5th Beatle”.🌴😎🌈Aloha 🤙🏼

Color me impressed, even at 10 they guy had sooo much talent.