The Beat Goes On (album)

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The Beat Goes On
The Beat Goes On cover
Studio album by Vanilla Fudge
Released 1968
Genre Psychedelic rock
Label Atco Records
Producer(s) Shadow Morton
Professional reviews
Vanilla Fudge chronology
Vanilla Fudge
(1967)		 The Beat Goes On
(1968)		 Renaissance
(1968)


The Beat Goes On (ATCO Records 33237) is the second album by the American psychedelic rock band Vanilla Fudge. It was released in 1968 and was very different from their first album. There aren't any real "songs" on the album. It's a scattershot sound collage featuring just about anything and everything to make it interesting. The voices of world leaders, the band reciting pre-written mantras and reflections, and featuring covers from The Beatles and Sonny Bono.

The group was at odds with their producer Shadow Morton when this album came to be. Shadow made his own album, apart from the group's input, and it shows. It's an anomaly in the group's catalogue, although all of the "musical" parts sound like the group, before and after. The concept, however, does not belong to the band and bears no resemblance to the group's other works.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Sketch"
  2. "Intro: The Beat Goes On"
  3. "Eighteenth Centry Variations On A Theme By Mozart"
  4. "The Beat Goes On II"
  5. "Fure Elise / Moonlight Sonata"
  6. "The Beat Goes On III"
  7. "The Beat Goes On IV"
  8. "Voices In Time"
  9. "The Beat Goes On V"
  10. "Merchant / the Game Is Over"
  11. "The Beat Goes On VI"
  12. "You Can't Do That"*
  13. "Come By Day, Come By Night"*

[*] only available as bonus track on CD

The album is currently out of print and very hard to find in any format.

[edit] Personnel

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