"Will It Go Round in Circles" is a song by American soul musician Billy Preston from his 1972 album Music Is My Life. It was written by Preston and Bruce Fisher and released as a single in March 1973. The record topped the Billboard Hot 100 and sold over a million copies. This was the first of two number one hits for Preston as a solo performer, the other being "Nothing from Nothing", although he is also credited on the Beatles' 1969 hit "Get Back".
Personnel Source:Adapted from Music Is My Life: A&M Records (1971_, AMLS 63516
Billy Preston – piano, vocals George Johnson – guitar Louis Johnson – bass guitar Hubert Heard – organ, melodica Manuel Kellough – drums Tom Scott – saxophone Jim Horn – saxophone George Bohanon – trombone Buck Monari – trumpet Paul Hubinon – trumpet
Chart performance Weekly charts Chart (1973) PeakpositionAustralia (Kent Music Report)99 Canadian RPM 1001South Africa (Springbok)20 U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles10
Year-end charts Chart (1973)RankCanadian RPM Year-End18U.S. Billboard Hot 1008
All-time charts Chart (1958–2018) PositionUS Billboard Hot 100358
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Covers The song was covered by Donny Osmond on his 2009 album Love Songs Of The '70s. Phish did two renditions in 1999, including on 10 September at The Gorge Amphitheatre. Orlando Brown recorded it for the 2006 soundtrack album That's So Raven Too!, for his Disney Channel series That's So Raven; his version was also featured in the Disney Channel original film Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior. The song was performed in Hebrew by Yehonatan Geffen and Dani Litani in their 1974 live show That's All for Now - For Now That's All.
In 2024 the Dave Matthews Band covered the song during their summer tour with Dave Matthews singing the first verse and keyboardist Buddy Strong taking over the chorus and closing.
In popular culture The song appears in the soundtrack of the 1996 Matt Dillon film Beautiful Girls. The song is featured as the opening theme in the 1997 HBO Sports documentary Long Shots: The Life & Times of The American Basketball Association.Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine:
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