Billy Preston Nothing From Nothing 1974 William Everett Preston 1946 2006 Opening Day SNL 1975
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- Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
You gotta have somethin'
If you wanna be with me
Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
You gotta have somethin'
If you wanna be with me
I'm not tryin' to be your hero
'Cause that zero is too cold for me, Brrr
I'm not tryin' to be your highness
'Cause that minus is too low to see, yeah
Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
And I'm not stuffin'
Believe you me
Don't you remember I told ya
I'm a soldier in the war on poverty, yeah
Yes, I am
Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
You gotta have somethin'
If you wanna be with me
Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
You gotta have somethin'
If you wanna be with me
You gotta have somethin'
If you wanna be with me
You gotta bring me somethin' girl
If you wanna be with me
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"Nothing From Nothing" was a song written by Great Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher. It was performed by keyboardist/vocalist Great Billy Preston for his 1974 album The Kids and Me. The song Reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week in October 1974, becoming Preston's second solo chart-topper in the United States (following his 1973 hit "Will It Go Round in Circles"). Preston performed the song later on Saturday Night Live - the first musical performance ever on the show.As NBC Was Open in 1975,
----------------- William Everett Preston Great BILLY PRESTON was born on (September 2, 1946 To June 6, 2006) in Houston, Texas. At the age of three, the family moved to Los Angeles where Preston began playing piano while sitting on his mother Robbie's lap. Noted as a child prodigy, by the age of ten, Preston was playing organ onstage backing several gospel singers such as Mahalia Jackson, James Cleveland and Andrae Crouch. At twelve, he appeared in the Nat King Cole-starring W.C. Handy biopic, St. Louis Blues, playing Handy at a younger age; a year prior, he appeared on Cole's national TV show singing the Fats Domino hit, "Blueberry Hill".
In 1962, he joined Little Richard's band as an organist and it was while performing in Hamburg that Preston met The Beatles. In 1963, he performed organ on Sam Cooke's Night Beat album and released his first gospel album, 16 Years Soul, that same year. In 1965, he released his secular debut album, The Most Exciting Organ Ever, and that same year played organ and performed on the rock and roll show, Shindig!. In 1967, he joined Ray Charles' band. Following his exposure with Charles, several musicians began asking Preston to come to sessions, most notably The Beatles, who asked him to contribute to two of their albums, Abbey Road and Let It Be ---------------- Bruce Fisher (born January 8, 1951) is an American songwriter, record producer, playwright and guitarist, best known for his collaborations with Billy Preston. first LP release, Red Hot in 1977, he worked with Roy Ayers, Keni Burke (with whom he wrote the title song), Charles Earland, Mtume and the Brecker Brothers in 1977. He also played and performed with The Blackbyrds, James Gadson, David Williams, Leon Ware, Carolyn Willis, Wah Wah Watson, Ernie Watts, the late Richard Tee and Bernard Purdie throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He also played guitar with Sunfire, and co-wrote and produced songs for the group 3 for 3 in 1990. ---------------- Saturday Night Live (abbreviated as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol.The show premiered on October 11, 1975, under the original title Saturday Night.The show revolves around a series of sketches parodying American culture and politics,
This is not from 1974, this is him on Saturday Night Live in 1975 as the first music guest ever, this was the first song he did that night and boy did he tear it up.
Opening Day SNL 1975
@@TayseerHararah
Actually at first it wasn't called Saturday Night Live, the first season and a half it was called NBC's Saturday Night because Howard Cosell owned the rights to the name with his show he had at the time called Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell that Bill Murray was a writer on believe it or not, then half way through the second season it went off the air and Lorne Michael got the rights to the name Saturday Night Live and hired Bill Murray.
George Carlin was the first host ever that night.
And man did Billy Preston knock it out of the park with his performance if Nothing From Nothing, I myself think this was the greatest performance ever by a musical guest on the show, he set a standard everyone else has been chasing after ever since.
@@dukecraig2402 Saturday Night Live (abbreviated as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol.The show premiered on October 11, 1975, under the original title Saturday Night.The show revolves around a series of sketches parodying American culture and politics,
@@TayseerHararah
The original title was "NBC's Saturday Night".
A, you can look it up.
B, I own the first 2 seasons and can assure you the first season and a half say NBC's Saturday Night on the title card and is introduced by Don Pardo as that.
The very first show was hosted by George Carlin, musical guests were Janis Ian and Billy Preston with Preston performing first (this incomplete clip), also on the first episode is "a film by Albert Brooks", comedians Valri Bromfield and Andy Kaufman, the original "not for ready prime time players" cast of;
Jane Curtin
Garrett Morris
Laraine Newman
Gilda Radner
Dan Aykroyd
John Belushi
Chevy Chase
George Coe
Michael O'Donoghue
The first cold opening is John Belushi and George Coe with Coe suffering a fake heart attack and Belushi in character as a foreigner trying to learn English from him, then imitating his heart attack at which point Chevy Chase walks onto the set dressed as a set hand with a headset on and looks at the camera and says "Live from New York it's Saturday Night!!!", at which point the title card comes up that says "NBC's Saturday Night" and Don Pardo for the first time ever introduces the show by saying "NBC's Saturday Night...starring George Carlin...with Janis Ian and Billy Preston...a film by Albert Brooks...Jim Henson's Muppets (which was the world's introduction to the Muppets and they were a regular part of the show for the first season, though not the Muppet characters from their own future show)...the not for ready prime time players (as per the former mentioned original cast listed on the screen but not said aloud by Pardo)...and comedians Valri Broomfield, Andy Kaufman...ladies and gentlemen, George Carlin!!!"
Those are the exact words by Pardo and is how the show was introduced for the first season and a half with the exception of different hosts and musical guests, once again the title card says NBC's Saturday Night and is introduced by Pardo as such.
This lasted till halfway through the 2nd season when the title card and Pardo's introduction was changed to "Saturday Night Live" at which point Bill Murray who was previously a writer on the show Howard Cosell's Saturday Night Live and was added as a cast member.
The intro to the first show I just gave is a verbatim word for word intro from my DVD of the first show, first season I just put in.
Also, from the book Live From New York and Billy Crystal himself, Crystal was an original cast member who walked off the set 15 minutes before the first show aired at the advice of his agent over an unresolved dispute with Lorne Micheal, he would later in the 80's rejoin the cast as a regular.
WOW didn't know that.
watched the first snl episode and loved this song 👍
Lovely clip of a brilliant, soulful artist.
This is nice, but where's the full performance? In any case, you can see why the Beatles brought him in as a young man for keyboards during the "Let It Be" sessions when Paul wasn't playing the piano.
Only learnt about this after watching another vid with Billy taking and answering questions from and audience
I heard this in bartells, and I was just realizing how good this song is.
Oh, another wonderful and precious song and performance,
this is great!
Wow..Rufus own Tony Maiden on guitar
@ keemyfoke,, blessings,,, RIP..Billy Preston
@ keemyfolke you,re right that is Tony maiden guitarist of Rufus and Chaka khan he worked with Billy for a number of years as well so did the brothers Johnson also kenny Burke the bassist for the five stairsteps as well as Robert Sam the keyboardist organist and Manuel kellog drummer both went on to work With yGraham Central Station and Organist Kenny lupper who also worked with Aretha Franklin and keyboardist Hubert Heard as well the great Guitarist David T Walker. Blessings
I much prefer the studio version, but Nothing From Nothing is one of the all time great songs.
Why cut the original like this? Sounds like a record skipping.
@ keemyfoke Blessings
The tape was not made well, jumpy but Billy was always great.
Does any if the current cast even know who he was? I do!
the guitarist looks like the guy from Rufus..dope performance
Just heard an interview with Rufus bassist Bobby Watson who said that he and guitarist Tony Maiden were called by Preston last minute to do the show with him.....They didn't know they were gonna be part of a little bit of history.
@@armandocorpus9492 thank you so much. This just made my day!!!
@@keemyfoke
This wasn't in 1974, this is from the very first episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975 which actually at the time was called NBC's Saturday Night because Howard Cosell owned the rights to the name with his show he had at the time Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell that Bill Murray was actually a writer on, then half way through the 2nd season Cosell's show went off the air and Lorne Micheal bought the rights to the name Saturday Night Live and hired Bill Murray.
This was the first song ever performed on the show and Preston absolutely knocked it out of the park, George Carlin was the first guest host ever on this night and Billy Crystal who was actually supposed to be an original cast member walked off the set 15 minutes before it aired because of a disagreement he had with Lorne Micheal, he would return in the 1980's as a cast member.
Does anyone know the name of the drummer? He is fantastic!
the great Manuel "Manny" Kellough !
This mix is unbelievably bad, a shame because it was a great performance. Somebody in SNL's sound team probably got chewed out for that one, they brought a soul singer/keyboardist on and then mic'd his guitarist like he was Hendrix or something lol
This is DIMO Only Made up Not Complete Song . . Great you are