Vanilla Fudge (album)

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Vanilla Fudge
Studio album by Vanilla Fudge
Released August 1967
Genre Psychedelic rock
Length 42:41
Label Atco Records (US)
Polydor Records (UK)
Producer Shadow Morton
Vanilla Fudge chronology

Vanilla Fudge
(1967)		 The Beat Goes On
(1968)

Vanilla Fudge (Atco 33-224/mono, SD 33-224/stereo) is the first album by the American psychedelic rock band Vanilla Fudge. Released in summer 1967, it consists entirely of half-speed covers and three short original instrumental compositions.

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.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Ticket to Ride" (Lennon–McCartney) – 5:40
  2. "People Get Ready" (Curtis Mayfield) – 6:30
  3. "She's Not There" (Rod Argent) – 4:55
  4. "Bang Bang" (Sonny Bono) – 5:20

Side 1 of the album ends with: "The following is a series of high-frequency tones..."

Side two

  1. "Illusions Of My Childhood - Part One" – 0:20
  2. "You Keep Me Hangin' On" (Brian Holland-Lamont Dozier-Eddie Holland) – 6:42
  3. "Illusions Of My Childhood - Part Two" – 0:23
  4. "Take Me For A Little While (Trade Martin) – 3:27
  5. "Illusions Of My Childhood — Part Three – 0:23
  6. "Eleanor Rigby" (Lennon–McCartney) - 8:10

The letters in STRAWBERRY FIELDS only appear on the CD cover and not the original album release.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

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."[1]

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Collins, Paul. Vanilla Fudge [1967 - Vanilla Fudge] at AllMusic. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
Vanilla Fudge
Studio albums
Live albums
  • The Best of Vanilla Fudge – Live
  • The Return – Live in Germany Part 1
  • The Real Deal – Vanilla Fudge Live
  • Rocks the Universe – Live in Germany Part 2
  • Good Good Rockin' – Live at Rockpalast
  • Orchestral Fudge
Compilations
Singles
Related artists
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