The Best of the studio recordings and live with Orchestra. Vanilla Fudge, tightly bound by shared professional and personal experiences and, like most teenagers and young adults in '67, enticed by experimental drugs and 'free love,' had transformed their sound. Some club owners complained that their slow, moody, stop-start, whisper-then-scream arrangements of songs like 'Ticket to Ride,' 'People Get Ready' and 'Eleanor Rigby' were emptying dancefloors. With the patronage of George Francis 'Shadow' Morton, an extremely talented but somewhat unhinged producer-about-town, the group known as Mark Stein and the Pigeons, who'd impressed Morton with their showmanship and instrumental expertise, was transformed into Vanilla Fudge and signed to Atlantic's ATCO subsidiary. Disc one highlights the 'best of' Vanilla Fudge, the ferocity of sound; Disc two ups the ante when the Fudge meets Orchestra!
The Hits
1-1 Vanilla Fudge You Keep Me Hangin' On
1-2 Vanilla Fudge Tearin' Up My Heart
1-3 Vanilla Fudge Shotgun
1-4 Vanilla Fudge People Get Ready
1-5 Vanilla Fudge Take Me For A Little While
1-6 Vanilla Fudge Good Good Livin'
1-7 Vanilla Fudge I Want It That Way
1-8 Vanilla Fudge Need Love
Guitar – Teddy Rondinelli
Orchestra – San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra
1-9 Vanilla Fudge Eleanor Rigby
1-10 Vanilla Fudge She's Not There
1-11 Vanilla Fudge Season Of The Witch
1-12 Vanilla Fudge Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
Bass – TM Stevens
2-1 Vanilla Fudge With San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra Good Livin'
2-2 Vanilla Fudge With San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra Take Me For A
Little While
2-3 Vanilla Fudge With San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra Ain't That
Peculiar
2-4 Vanilla Fudge With San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra People Get
Ready
2-5 Vanilla Fudge With San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra Shotgun
2-6 Vanilla Fudge With San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra Tearin' Up My
Heart
2-7 Vanilla Fudge With San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra She's Not There
2-8 Vanilla Fudge With San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra Keep Me
Hangin' On
2-9 Vanilla Fudge With, San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra Season Of The
Witch
2-10 Vanilla Fudge With San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra Do Ya Think I'm
Sexy
Bass, Vocals – Tim Bogert
Drums, Vocals – Carmine Appice
Guitar, Vocals – Vince Martell (tracks: 1-1 to 1-12)
Organ, Vocals – Bill Pascali
Producer [Bianic Music] – Carmine Appice
Disc 2 recorded at Glendale Studios, CA before a live audience on September 9, 2004. |
