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You know what's missing from a great swath of current pop music? Funky. Everything is straight forward THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP. There's rarely anything in the pocket, on the one, something that is crazy sticky with dirty dirty funk. Even most modern rap music sounds like it came from a box marked "Bleh." Even ZZ Top, back in the day, could bend things to the nasty nasty funktastic side of things.

So that's why today we are featuring Mr. Billy Preston, master of the funk organ, co-writer and performer of today's tune, which somehow someway went to number one on the Billboard Hot One Hundred in 1973, stayed there for two weeks and sold over a million copies. Take that Trailor Swift.

And that is why this is your-

-K-101.7 SONG OF THE DAY! 

P.S: Did you know, K-101.7 Faithful that Billy Preston is the only artist to receive a credit on the 45 cover of a Beatles release, for hos organ contributions to "Get Back?" It's true. Here's the story of the famous rooftop concert, famously featuring "Get Back."

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