Cream – Goodbye
(Polydor Records 1969 583053)
Matrix No’s: A3/B3 – UK Pressing
EJ Day Gatefold Sleeve in Very Good condition
– some wear to edges/corners & some rubbing
Vinyl in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from some light pops/crackles)
Cream were a 1960s British rock power trio consisting of drummer Ginger Baker, guitarist/singer Eric Clapton and bassist/singer Jack Bruce. The group’s third album, Wheels of Fire (1968), was the world’s first platinum-selling double album. The band is widely regarded as the world’s first successful supergroup. In their career, they sold more than 15 million copies of their albums worldwide. Their music included songs based on traditional blues such as “Crossroads” and “Spoonful”, and modern blues such as “Born Under a Bad Sign”, as well as more current material such as “Strange Brew”, “Tales of Brave Ulysses” and “Toad”.
The band’s biggest hits were “I Feel Free” (UK number 11), “Sunshine of Your Love” (US number 5), “White Room” (US number 6), “Crossroads” (US number 28), and “Badge” (UK number 18).
The band made a significant impact on the popular music of the time, and, along with Jimi Hendrix and other notable guitarists and bands, popularised the use of the wah-wah pedal. They provided a heavy yet technically proficient musical theme that foreshadowed and influenced the emergence of British bands such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. They also had an impact on American southern rock groups the Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd. The band’s live performances influenced progressive rock acts such as Rush.
The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. They were included in both Rolling Stone and VH1’s lists of the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time,” at number 67 and 61 respectively. They were also ranked number 16 on VH1’s “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock”.
Goodbye (also called Goodbye Cream) is the fourth and final original album by British supergroup Cream. The album was released in Europe by Polydor Records and by Atco Records in the United States, debuting in Billboard on 15 February 1969. A single, “Badge”, was subsequently released from the album a month later. The album was released after Cream disbanded in November 1968.
Track listing
| Side one | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Vocal(s)[1] | Length | ||||||
| 1. | “I’m So Glad” | Skip James | Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce | 9:11 | ||||||
| 2. | “Politician” | Bruce, Pete Brown | Bruce | 6:19 | ||||||
| Side two | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Vocal(s)[1] | Length | ||||||
| 1. | “Sitting on Top of the World” | Walter Vinson, Lonnie Chatmon; arr. Chester Burnett | Bruce | 5:01 | ||||||
| 2. | “Badge” | Clapton, George Harrison | Clapton | 2:45 | ||||||
| 3. | “Doing That Scrapyard Thing” | Bruce, Brown | Bruce | 3:14 | ||||||
| 4. | “What a Bringdown” | Ginger Baker | Clapton, Bruce | 3:56 | ||||||
Personnel
- Jack Bruce – bass guitar, piano, organ, vocal
- Eric Clapton – guitars, vocal
- Ginger Baker – drums, percussion, vocal
- Felix Pappalardi – producer, bass on “What a Bringdown”, piano, Mellotron
- George Harrison (credited as “L’Angelo Misterioso”) – rhythm guitar on “Badge”
- Bill Halverson – engineer
- Adrian Barber – engineer
- Damon Lyon-Shaw – engineer
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