The Most Exciting Organ Ever

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = The Most Exciting Organ Ever | type = Album | artist = Billy Preston | cover = The_Most_Exciting_Organ_Ever.jpg | alt = | released = January 1965<ref>{{cite magazine|date=16 January 1965|title=Vee Jay Offers 26 LP's; Feather's Jazz Line Bows|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1965/CB-1965-01-16.pdf|magazine=Cash Box|page=7|access-date=10 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|date=30 January 1965|title=none|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1965/CB-1965-01-30.pdf|magazine=Cash Box|page=39|access-date=10 September 2025}}</ref> | recorded = September 1964 | venue = | studio = | genre = Soul | length = 33:11 | label = Vee-Jay | producer = Steve Douglas | prev_title = 16 Yr. Old Soul | prev_year = 1963 | next_title = Early Hits of 1965 | next_year = 1965 }}

'''''The Most Exciting Organ Ever''''' is the second album by Billy Preston. The fully instrumental album was released in January 1965. The album includes "Billy's Bag", which was a favorite among British musicians and club-goers at the time.<ref>{{cite AV media|people=Wakeman, Rick (presenter); Wilson, John (producer)|year=2010|title=Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wqb5d|medium=''Radio 4 on Music'' documentary|time=|publisher=bbc.co.uk}}</ref> Preston included a live version of the track on his 1974 album ''Live European Tour''.

Extra songs recorded during the sessions for ''The Most Exciting Organ Ever'' were released on Preston's next studio album.

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==Track listing== All songs by Billy Preston, except where noted.

#"If I Had a Hammer" (Lee Hays, Pete Seeger) – 2:54 #"Low Down" – 2:13 #"Slippin' and Slidin'" (Richard Penniman, Edwin Bocage, Al Collins, James Smith) – 3:06 #"Drown in My Own Tears" (Henry Glover) – 3:24 #"I Am Coming Through" – 2:04 #"The Octopus" – 2:13 #"Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'" (Joe Greene) – 2:30 #"Soul Meetin'" (Don Covay) – 2:42 #"Let Me Know" (Ted Wright) – 2:05 #"Billy's Bag" – 3:48 #"The Masquerade Is Over" (Herbert Magidson, Allie Wrubel) – 4:20 #"Steady Gettin' It" – 2:50

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