Vanilla Fudge (album)
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| Studio album by Vanilla Fudge | ||||
| Released | August 1967 | |||
| Genre | Psychedelic rock | |||
| Length | 42:41 | |||
| Label | Atco Records (US) Polydor Records (UK) |
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| Producer | Shadow Morton | |||
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Vanilla Fudge (Atco 33-224/mono, SD 33-224/stereo) is the first album by the American psychedelic rock band Vanilla Fudge. It was released in summer 1967 and consists entirely of covers of songs, which were slowed down to about half speed of the original recordings by their original artists. The album is dedicated to Mrs. Lucy Monaco, the mother of Joseph Monaco who had a basement studio where groups associated with the album's producer, Shadow Morton, were known to record. Publicly she has only been acknowledged as a close friend of Shadow Morton.[1]
The album was Vanilla Fudge's most successful, peaking at #6 on the Billboard album charts in September 1967. An edited version of "You Keep Me Hangin' On" was released as a single and also charted.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
[edit] Side one
- "Ticket to Ride" (Lennon–McCartney) – 5:40
- "People Get Ready" (Curtis Mayfield) – 6:30
- "She's Not There" (Rod Argent) – 4:55
- "Bang Bang" (Sonny Bono) – 5:20
Side 1 of the album ends with: "The following is a series of high-frequency tones..."
[edit] Side two
- "STRA (Illusions Of My Childhood - Part One)" – 0:20
- "You Keep Me Hangin' On" (Brian Holland-Lamont Dozier-Eddie Holland) – 7:20
- "WBER (Illusions Of My Childhood - Part Two)" – 0:23
- "Take Me For A Little While" (Trade Martin) – 3:27
- "RYFI (Illusions Of My Childhood — Part Three)" – 0:23
- "Eleanor Rigby" (Lennon–McCartney) - 7:40
- "ELDS" - 0:31
The letters in STRAWBERRY FIELDS only appear on the CD cover and not the original album release.
The rills (spaces where the groove shifts bands) between "Illusions Of My Childhood - Part Two" and "Take Me For A Little While" were not cut accurately on the second pressing of the album. "Take Me For A Little While" begins within the band of "Illusions Of My Childhood - Part Two" and is continued while the rill shifts to the band for "Take Me For A Little While". The track "ELDS" is not a separate band on the album, being combined with "Eleanor Rigby".
The intro of Eleanor Rigby was used by French rapper Booba in his 2002 Temps Mort album.
[edit] Reception
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| Allmusic |   [2] |
Allmusic's Paul Collins rated Vanilla Fudge four out of five stars. He stated that "nobody could accuse Vanilla Fudge of bad taste in their repertoire" and that most of the tracks "share a common structure of a disjointed warm-up jam, a Hammond-heavy dirge of harmonized vocals at the center, and a final flat-out jam." However, he also said that "each song still works as a time capsule of American psychedelia."[2]
[edit] Personnel
- Carmine Appice - drums, vocals
- Tim Bogert - bass, vocals
- Vince Martell - guitar, vocals
- Mark Stein - lead vocals, keyboards
[edit] References
- ^ Stein, Mark (November 21, 1992). Interview with Russell H. Tice. http://www.mark-stein.com/interview/mintview.htm. Retrieved July 05, 2011.
- ^ a b Collins, Paul. Vanilla Fudge [1967 - Vanilla Fudge] at Allmusic. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
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