With the legendary Ray Charles on piano, this is former child piano prodigy and Beatles collaborator Billy Preston performing ‘Agent Double O Soul‘ on The Ed Sullivan Show. The 1967 performance was featured in the documentary Before the Music Dies.
Watch more performances from Sullivan, and more videos from the 1960s in the archives.
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