Vanilla Fudge | ||||
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Released | August 1967 | |||
Recorded | 1967 | |||
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Length | 42:41 | |||
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Producer | Shadow Morton | |||
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Vanilla Fudge is the debut studio album by the American psychedelic rock band Vanilla Fudge. Released in summer 1967 as Atco 33-224/mono, SD 33-224/stereo, 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 and number #8 in Finland in November 1967. [1] [2] Parts of the original stereo LP were actually mixed in mono, including the entire track "You Keep Me Hangin' On". An edited version of "You Keep Me Hangin' On" was released as a single and also charted.
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [3] |
Allmusic's Paul Collins retrospectively rated Vanilla Fudge four out of five stars some time in the 2000s. 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." [3]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Ticket to Ride" | John Lennon-Paul 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..."
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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5. | "Illusions of My Childhood-Part One" | Carmine Appice, Tim Bogert, Vince Martell, Mark Stein | 0:20 |
6. | "You Keep Me Hanging On" | Brian Holland-Lamont Dozier-Eddie Holland | 7:26 |
7. | "Illusions of My Childhood-Part Two" | Appice, Bogert, Martell, Stein | 0:23 |
8. | "Take Me for a Little While" | Trade Martin | 3:27 |
9. | "Illusions of My Childhood-Part Three" | Appice, Bogert, Martell, Stein | 0:22 |
10. | "Eleanor Rigby" | Lennon-McCartney | 8:24 |
CD reissues have a modified track listing for the tracks on side 2 of the LP:
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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5. | "STRA (Illusions of My Childhood-Part One)" | Appice, Bogert, Martell, Stein | 0:20 |
6. | "You Keep Me Hanging On" | Holland-Dozier-Holland | 7:26 |
7. | "WBER (Illusions of My Childhood-Part Two)" | Appice, Bogert, Martell, Stein | 0:23 |
8. | "Take Me for a Little While" | Martin | 3:27 |
9. | "RYFI (Illusions of My Childhood-Part Three)" | Appice, Bogert, Martell, Stein | 0:22 |
10. | "Eleanor Rigby" | Lennon-McCartney | 8:03 |
11. | "ELDS" | Appice, Bogert, Martell, Stein | 0:21 |
The text in all uppercase letters in the CD reissue track listing spells out "STRAWBERRYFIELDS".
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United States (RIAA) [4] | Gold | 500,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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