Renaissance (album)

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

Renaissance (ATCO Records 33-244) is the third album by the rock band Vanilla Fudge. Released in 1968, it was the band's first album to feature mostly original material, with five of its seven tracks penned by band members.

The original album's two cover tunes are Essra Mohawk's "The Spell That Comes After" (erroneously credited on original pressings of the LP to Frank Zappa's art director Cal Schenkel), and "Season Of The Witch," originally written and performed by the Scottish folk singer Donovan. The band also interpolates lyrics from a second Essra Mohawk song, "We Never Learn," into their rendition of "Season of the Witch."

The album peaked at #20 on the Billboard album charts in July 1968.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "The Sky Cried - When I Was A Boy" (Mark Stein/Tim Bogert)
  2. "Thoughts" (Vince Martell)
  3. "Paradise" (Mark Stein/Carmine Appice)
  4. "That's What Makes A Man" (Mark Stein)
  5. "The Spell That Comes After" (Essra Mohawk)
  6. "Faceless People" (Carmine Appice)
  7. "Season of the Witch" (Donovan Leitch; interpolating "We Never Learn" by Essra Mohawk)
  8. "All In Your Mind" * (Appice/Bogert/Martell/Stein)
  9. "The Look of Love" * (Burt Bacharach/Hal David)
  10. "Where Is My Mind" * (Mark Stein)

[*] only available as bonus track on CD

[edit] Personnel