You Are So Beautiful by jomel77

jomel77 - You Are So Beautiful

jomel77

Jul 20, 2024 03:25am

"You Are So Beautiful" is a song credited to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Preston" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Billy Preston</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Fisher" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bruce Fisher</a> that was first released in 1974 on Preston's ninth studio album, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kids_%26_Me" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Kids & Me</a>. It was also the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-side_and_B-side" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">B-side</a> of his single "Struttin'." Later that same year, English singer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Cocker" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joe Cocker</a> released a slower version of the song on his album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can_Stand_a_Little_Rain" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">I Can Stand a Little Rain</a>. Cocker's version was produced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Price_(musician)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jim Price</a> and released as a single in November 1974.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_So_Beautiful#cite_note-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[1]</a> It became Cocker's highest-charting solo hit in the United States, peaking at number five on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_charts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Billboard</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hot 100</a> (Cocker's biggest hit on the US pop chart was "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Where_We_Belong" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Up Where We Belong</a>," a duet with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Warnes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jennifer Warnes</a> from the 1982 film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Officer_And_A_Gentleman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">An Officer And A Gentleman</a>, which reached number 1),<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_So_Beautiful#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a> and at number four on Canada's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_(magazine)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Top Singles</a> chart.Although he remains uncredited by the publisher as of 2023, several sources assert that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Wilson" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dennis Wilson</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_Boys" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the Beach Boys</a> assisted Preston in completing the song by co-writing the lyrics and modifying part of the melody at a contemporaneous party.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_So_Beautiful#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[3]</a> Wilson performed the song live with the Beach Boys (often as an encore with minimal accompaniment) from 1975 until his final performances with the group in 1983. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Rankin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kenny Rankin</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Stevens" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ray Stevens</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Rogers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kenny Rogers</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Tyler" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bonnie Tyler</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kennedy_(singer)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brian Kennedy</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Driscoll" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Phil Driscoll</a> are also among the artists who have covered "You Are So Beautiful". The song has also been featured in numerous movies, television shows, and ads.Billy Preston wrote "You Are So Beautiful" with one of his regular collaborators, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Fisher" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bruce Fisher</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_So_Beautiful#cite_note-Tobler/BGO-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[4]</a> Preston's inspiration was his mother, who worked as a stage actress. According to his friend <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Moore" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sam Moore</a> (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 each time he sang it in concert. In Moore's description, Preston told him: "That song's about my mother!"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_So_Beautiful#cite_note-5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[5]</a> The composition interpolates part of Preston's 1969 song "Let Us All Get Together (Right Now)," <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_So_Beautiful#cite_note-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[6]</a> which he wrote with soul singer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Troy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Doris Troy</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_So_Beautiful#cite_note-7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[7]</a>