The Kids & Me is the ninth studio album by Billy Preston

Billy Preston

William Everett "Billy" Preston was a musician who gained notoriety and fame, first as a session musician for the likes of Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and The Beatles, and later finding fame as a solo artist with hits such as "Space Race", "Will It Go Round in Circles" and "Nothing from...

, released in 1974, after his famous tour in Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

. This album included "You Are So Beautiful", later covered by Joe Cocker

Joe Cocker

John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE is an English rock and blues musician, composer and actor, who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles...

, and the hit single "Nothing From Nothing".

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

Encouraging Words

Encouraging Words is the fifth studio album by Billy Preston, released in 1970. Preston worked closely with George Harrison on the album, who contributed guitar, co-produced, co-wrote a song with Preston, and contributed two of his own songs which were yet to be released, as All Things Must Pass...

(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."

The album's dedication, reflected in the title, was to St. Elmo's Village inner-city children's recreation centre, located in mid-city Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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Track listing

All tracks composed by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher

Bruce Fisher

Bruce Fisher is an American songwriter, record producer, playwright and guitarist best known for his collaborations with Billy Preston.-Career:Born January 8, 1951, in Washington D.C., Fisher was raised in Chicago, Illinois, by his grandmother...

; except where indicated

1. "Tell Me You Need My Loving" – 2:42
2. "Nothing From Nothing
   Nothing from Nothing (Billy Preston song)
   "Nothing From Nothing" was a song written by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher. It was performed by keyboardist/vocalist Billy Preston for his 1974 album The Kids and Me...
   
   " – 2:33
3. "Struttin'" (Preston, George Johnson) – 2:31
4. "Sister Sugar" – 3:01
5. "Sad Sad Song" – 2:27
6. "You Are So Beautiful
   You Are So Beautiful
   "You Are So Beautiful" is a song written by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher and Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys. It was first recorded by Preston and made popular in a version by Joe Cocker....
   
   " – 4:44
7. "Sometimes I Love You" (Preston) – 3:12
8. "St. Elmo" (Preston) – 2:26
9. "John The Baptist" (Preston, John Schuler) – 3:19
10. "Little Black Boys And Girls" – 2:28
11. "Creature Feature" (Preston, Hubert Heard) – 3:27

Personnel

• Billy Preston
  Billy Preston
  William Everett "Billy" Preston was a musician who gained notoriety and fame, first as a session musician for the likes of Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and The Beatles, and later finding fame as a solo artist with hits such as "Space Race", "Will It Go Round in Circles" and "Nothing from...
  
  : Keyboards, piano, vocals.
• Tony Maiden: Guitars.
• Joe Walsh
  Joe Walsh
  Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles, and has experienced notable success as a solo artist and prolific session musician, especially with B.B...
  
  : Guitars.
• Bobby Watson
  Bobby Watson
  Bobby Watson is an American post-bop jazz alto saxophonist, composer, producer, and educator. Watson now has 26 recordings as a leader. He appears on nearly 100 other recordings as either co-leader or in a supporting role...
  
  : Bass Guitar.
• Albert Perkins
  Al Perkins
  Al Perkins is a Texas-born American guitarist. The Gibson guitar company called Perkins "the world's most influential Dobro player", and even began producing an "Al Perkins Signature" Dobro in 2001 - designed and autographed by Perkins....
  
  : Banjo.
• Kenneth Luper: Keyboards.
• Hubert Heard: Keyboards.
• Manuel Kellough: Drums.