Vanilla Fudge are being celebrated with a box set comprising their complete output for Atlantic’s Atco label made between 1967 and 1969. “Where Is My Mind? The Atco Recordings 1967-1969” arrives September 27th, 2024, via Cherry Red Records’ Esoteric label. The collection, on 9-CDs, includes the albums “Vanilla Fudge” (mono and stereo versions), “The Beat Goes On” (mono and stereo versions), “Renaissance”, “Near the Beginning”, and “Rock & Roll”, along with a 2-CD live recording at the Fillmore West in 1969, as well as session outtakes and rare singles, all newly remastered from the original master tapes.
Featuring Mark Stein (vocals, organ), Vincent Martell (guitar, vocals), Tim Bogert (bass, vocals) and Carmine Appice (drums, vocals), the band were originally known as The Pigeons and gained attention thanks to their radical, slowed down and heavy interpretations of current hits.
They signed to Atco Records, a division of Atlantic in April 1967 and changed their name to Vanilla Fudge at the insistence of Atlantic founder Ahmet Ertegun. Their radical cover version of The Supremes’ hit “You Keep Me Hanging On” was issued as a single in June 1967. Dominated by the hard hitting approach of their rhythm section and the powerful Hammond organ playing of Stein,
The band’s self-titled debut album was released in August 1967 and was a psychedelic rock tour-de-force, featuring a seven-minute version of “You Keep Me Hanging On,” along with imaginative cover versions of compositions by The Beatles, The Zombies (“She’s Not There”) and Curtis Mayfield, among others. Over the next two years, Vanilla Fudge would record a series of albums that would evolve from psychedelic rock to heavy rock and influence many emerging bands, among them Deep Purple, before disbanding in 1970.
9CD BOXED SET FEATURING OF THE COMPLETE ATCO RECORDINGS BY VANILLA FUDGE MADE BETWEEN 1967 AND 1969. NEWLY REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES.
- INCLUDES THE ALBUMS ‘VANILLA FUDGE’ (mono & stereo versions), ‘THE BEAT GOES
ON’ (mono & stereo versions), ‘RENAISSANCE’, ‘NEAR THE BEGINNING’ AND ‘ROCK & ROLL’, ALONG WITH A 2CD LIVE RECORDING AT THE FILLMORE WEST IN 1969, SESSION OUT-TAKES AND RARE SINGLES.
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