Wrapping Paper

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“Wrapping Paper”
Single by Cream
from the album Fresh Cream
B-side Cat's Squirrel
Released October 1966
Recorded July - October 1966 at Rayrik Studios in London, Ryemuse Studios in London
Genre Blues-rock
Length 2:19
Label Polydor
Writer(s) Jack Bruce
Pete Brown
Producer Robert Stigwood
Cream singles chronology
"Wrapping Paper"
(1966)
"I Feel Free"
(1966)

"Wrapping Paper" is a song written by Jack Bruce and Pete Brown, performed by Cream and originally released as a single in 1966. It features on The Very Best of Cream. It is quite distinct style, a slow jazz number in contrast to the hard blues of other early songs such "N.S.U." and the pop-style of "I Feel Free".

Ginger Baker has claimed that he and Eric Clapton disliked the song and that Bruce and Brown went behind their backs to release it as a single. In an interview, Baker called it "the most appalling piece of shit I ever heard in my life." See http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xmG_MxbGIfk