Club Meeting

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Club Meeting
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Live album by
ReleasedMarch 30, 1967
Recorded1965
VenueThe Trip, West Hollywood, CA
Genre Soul
Length30:23
Label Capitol
Producer Billy Preston, Steve Douglas
Billy Preston chronology
Wildest Organ in Town!
(1966)
Club Meeting
(1967)
That's the Way God Planned It
(1969)
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Club Meeting is the first live album by Billy Preston, recorded in 1965 at The Trip on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, and released in 1967. In 2004, Wildest Organ in Town! and Club Meeting were released together.

Track listing

  1. "Introduction (Billy's Theme)" (Billy Preston) – 1:41
  2. "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) – 2:53
  3. "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" (Willie Dixon) – 4:31
  4. "Billy's Groove" (Preston) – 2:39
  5. "No Man Is an Island" (with The Soul Brothers) (Alex Kramer, Joan Whitney) – 3:54
  6. "Let the Music Play" (with The Soul Brothers) (Preston, Jesse Kirkland) – 3:02
  7. "Wade in the Water" (Traditional, adapted by Preston, H. B. Barnum) – 2:52
  8. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 4:14
  9. "This Little Light of Mine" (Traditional, adapted by Preston, Barnum) – 2:58
  10. "Ike's Theme" (Preston) – 2:35
  11. "Together" (with The Soul Brothers) (Betsy Buchanan, Viril Hollins) – 2:49
  12. "James Brown Medley": (Ted Wright, James Brown, Johnny Terry) – 4:43

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