Vanilla Fudge - Vanilla Fudge

Artist:

Vanilla Fudge

UPC:

075679039026

See Also:

Blue Murder Rolling Stones (The) Beck, Bogert & Appice Cactus

Description:

Personnel: Vince Martell (guitar); Mark Stein (keyboards); Carmine Appice (drums).
Director: George "Shadow" Morton.
Photographer: Richard Stevens.
In a debut consisting of covers, nobody could accuse Vanilla Fudge of bad taste in their repertoire; with stoned-out, slowed-down versions of such then-recent classics as "Ticket to Ride," "Eleanor Rigby," and "People Get Ready," they were setting the bar rather high for themselves. Even the one suspect choice -- Sonny Bono`s "Bang Bang" -- turns out to be rivaled only by Mott the Hoople`s version of "Laugh at Me" in putting Bono`s songwriting in the kindest possible light. Most of the tracks here 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. Still, some succeed better than others: "You Keep Me Hanging On" has a wonderfully hammered-out drum part, and "She`s Not There" boasts some truly groovy organ jams. While the pattern can sound repetitive today, each song still works as a time capsule of American psychedelia. ~ Paul Collins

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Ticket to Ride
2. People Get Ready
3. She`s Not There
4. Bang Bang
5. Stra (Illusions of My Childhood, Pt. 1)/You Keep Me Hangin` ...
6. Take Me for a Little While/Ryfi (Illusions of My Childhood, Pt. 3)
7. Eleanor Rigby/Elds

Album Information

Release Date:

10/25/1990

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Hard Rock

Label:

Atco (USA)

Producer:

George "Shadow" Morton

Catalog Number:

33224-2

Original Release Year:

1967

# of Discs:

1

Runtime:

42 : 41

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