That's the Way God Planned It
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| Studio album by Billy Preston | ||||
| Released | 22 August 1969 (UK) 10 September 1969 (US) |
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| Recorded | late 1968; April–July 1969 undisclosed studio, Los Angeles; Abbey Road Studios, London; Olympic Studios, London |
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| Genre | Soul, rock, gospel | |||
| Length | 44.29 | |||
| Label | Apple | |||
| Producer | George Harrison; Wayne Shuler | |||
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| Blues & Soul | (favourable) |
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That's The Way God Planned It is the fourth studio album by American musician Billy Preston, released in August 1969 on Apple Records. The album followed Preston's collaboration with the Beatles on their "Get Back" single and was produced by George Harrison. The title track became a hit in the UK when issued as a single. Aside from Harrison, other contributors to the album include Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Doris Troy.
Derek Taylor's sleevenotes to the original Apple release praised Preston as a wonderful new signing. "Billy Preston is the best thing to happen to Apple this year. He’s young and beautiful and kind and he sings and plays like the son of God."
Preston himself wrote in the notes:
Record Collector's reviewer writes that "[The album reveals] the organist to be an accomplished, spiritually engaging singer-songwriter." In his preview of Apple Records' 2010 reissues, for Rolling Stone, David Fricke lists That's the Way God Planned It among his top five non-Beatle Apple albums. Fricke writes of the song "That's the Way God Planned It": "[Preston] would have bigger hits in the Seventies but never make a better one than this album's rapturous title track … The rest of the album is solid church-infused soul, with Preston covering both Bob Dylan and W.C. Handy." Reviewing the album for Blues & Soul magazine, Sharon Davis writes that "this is an extremely worthy release; reminding us of Billy's enormous and irreplaceable contribution to music."
All songs by Billy Preston, except where noted.
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