The Kids and Me

Infobox Album | Name = The Kids and Me
Type = Album
Artist = Billy Preston

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Released = 5 May 1974 (Westlake Audio, Los Angeles, California and A&M Recording Studios, Hollywood,California)
Recorded = October 1973
Genre = Soul / Rock
Length = 32:48
Label = A&M Records
Producer = Billy Preston
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:nxev97e7krst link]
Last album = "Live European Tour 1973"
(1974)
This album = ""The Kids and Me
(1974)
Next album = "It's My Pleasure "
(1975) |

"The Kids and Me" is an album by Billy Preston released in 1974, after his famous tour in Europe. This album included "You Are So Beautiful", later covered by Joe Cocker, and the hit single "Nothin' From Nothin'".

The first track, "Tell Me You Need My Loving," contains the first four measures of keyboard verse from an earlier Preston song: "All That I've Got"--a bonus cut from the import version of his Encouraging Words (1970) album for Apple Records--transposed from the key of C to B. The bridge of "All That I've Got" is also revived untransposed and with identical lyrics in "Sometimes I Love You."

Track listing

# "Tell Me You Need My Loving" (Billy Preston-Bruce Fisher) – 2:42
# "Nothin' From Nothin'" (Billy Preston-Bruce Fisher) – 2:33
# "Struttin'" (Billy Preston-George Johnson) – 2:31
# "Sister Sugar" (Billy Preston-Bruce Fisher) – 3:01
# "Sad Sad Song" (Billy Preston-Bruce Fisher) – 2:27
# "You Are So Beautiful" (Billy Preston-Bruce Fisher) – 4:44
# "Sometimes I Love You" (Billy Preston) – 3:12
# "St. Elmo" (Billy Preston) – 2:26
# "John The Baptist" (Billy Preston-John Schuler) – 3:19
# "Little Black Boys And Girls" (Billy Preston-Bruce Fisher) – 2:28
# "Creature Feature" (Billy Preston-Hubert Heard) – 3:27

Personnel

*Billy Preston: Keyboards, piano, vocals.
*Tony Maiden: Guitars.
*Joe Walsh: Guitars.
*Bobby Watson: Bass Guitar.
*Albert Perkins: Banjo.
*Kenneth Luper: Keyboards.
*Hubert Heard: Keyboards.
*Manuel Kellough: Drums.