Billy Preston ORIG OZ Promo LP Encouraging words EX '70 Apple SAPCOR14
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Nov 9, 2025 Sold Date
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Billy Preston ORIG OZ Promo LP Encouraging words EX '70 Apple SAPCOR14


Original 1st Press OZ Promo LP released in 1970 on Apple Records. Cat: SAPCOR14.
Encouraging Words was about as fine an album as Apple Records ever issued by anyone who wasn't a member of the Beatles, and it's also better than many of the Apple albums issued by the ex-bandmembers; but it's also among the most obscure of any album that the label ever issued by a major artist -- without a hit single to drive its sales, the LP never did more than brush the very bottom of the charts, and it was quickly lost amid the financial collapse of the label and the implosion of the Beatles' business ventures; even many Billy Preston fans never had a chance to find out it was there, obscured as it was by his subsequent chart success with "Outta Space" on the A&M label. A bold and searing effort mixing gospel, soul, and rock sounds about as well as any record cut that year, Encouraging Words lived up its killer musical pedigree, partly an offshoot of the evolution of the Let It Be and All Things Must Pass albums, and of sessions that Preston and George Harrison had produced for Doris Troy; but it also picked up where Preston's playing for Ray Charles had left off in 1968. 

Tracks : Right now/ Little girl/ Use what you've got/ My sweet lord/ Let the music play/ The same thing again/ I've got a feeling Sing one for the lord/ When you are mine/ I don't want you to pretend/ Encouraging words/ All things must pass/ You've been acting strange..

  There are a few light spindle marks on labels. Record has some light scuff marks that cause some light crackles and is in Excellent condition. Gloss cover has some ring wear and marks on back and is in VG+ condition.

Wrapping method: All records are sent in stiff cardboard mailers then wrapped in brown paper and sealed around edges with brown packaging tape. Records are taken out of sleeve to avoid seam splits and ring wear.


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