Will It Go Round in Circles

"Will It Go Round in Circles"
Single by Billy Preston
from the album Music Is My Life
B-side	"Blackbird"
Released	March, 1973
Genre	Funk-soul
Label	A&M Records
Writer(s)	Billy Preston, Bruce Fisher
Producer(s)	Billy Preston
Certification	Gold
Billy Preston singles chronology
"Slaughter" (1972) "Will It Go Round in Circles" (1973) "Space Race" (1974)

"Will It Go Round in Circles" is a song written by Bruce Fisher and Billy Preston, and recorded by Preston for his 1972 album Music Is My Life. On its release as a single in 1973, the song was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks, and sold over a million copies. The song was one of two number-one hits by him solo, (the other being "Nothing from Nothing") although he is credited on The Beatles' "Get Back".

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1973)	Peak position
Canada [1]	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1973)	Position
Canada [2]	18
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [3]	8

Covers

The song was covered by Donny Osmond on his 2009 album Love Songs Of The '70s. Phish covered the song twice in 1999, including on 10 September at The Gorge Amphitheatre. Orlando Brown covered the song on the 2006 Disney soundtrack album That's So Raven Too!.

In popular culture

• The song was in the soundtrack of the 1996 Matt Dillon film, Beautiful Girls.^[4]
• In 2006, the song was included in the television film Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior.^[5]
• The song was played in a diner in the pilot for House of Cards.

References

1. https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.4845&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=40gf9vn5eap6bhsnr3m9v6h9p5
2. http://www.musicandyears.com/year/1973
3. http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1973.htm
4. IMDB Beautiful Girls Entry
5. IMDB Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior Entry

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics