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Billy Preston wrote "You Are So Beautiful" with one of his regular collaborators, Bruce Fisher. [4] Preston's inspiration was his mother, who worked as a stage actress. According to his friend Sam Moore (who had assumed it was a standard love song), Preston was appalled to learn that Moore was using the song as a means to attract young women ...
For this album, Stevens specializes particularly in the music genre of country. Joe Cocker 's hit " You Are So Beautiful " is the only cover song on the album. " You Are So Beautiful " and "Honky Tonk Waltz" are two singles lifted from the album.
The album is, however, particularly noticeable for the song "You Are So Beautiful", originally released on Billy Preston's The Kids & Me album. Ultimately, it went on to become one of Cocker's bigger hits, reaching No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 , proving this album to eventually become a hit.
In recent years, as a managing member at Speak of the Devil LLC, Theatre Production, Fisher has been producing a play that he wrote entitled "Hear No Evil", starring Tony Award nominee Keith David, directed by Tony nominee Obba Babatunde, with musical direction by Harold Wheeler and costume design by Academy Award winner Ruth E. Carter.
Despite the fact that the song wasn't given a commercial release as a single, but included as one of three new tracks on Universal's greatest hits package The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer (2003) and only released as a 12" promo single to club DJs, [1] "You're So Beautiful" became a dance hit, reaching number 5 on the US Billboard ...
You Are So Beautiful is a compilation album by American country music singer Tanya Tucker. It was released in June 1977 by Columbia Records and with producer Billy Sherrill . It consisted of songs Tucker had recorded several years prior while still recording for Columbia.
(Reuters) -Online travel agency Booking.com could cut jobs as part of a review of its organizational structure, it said on Saturday. The company, a unit of Booking Holdings, said in an emailed ...
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