Buddha and the Chocolate Box is a 1974 album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Cat Stevens

Cat Stevens

Yusuf Islam , commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam....

. The title came to Stevens when he was travelling to a gig on a plane with a Buddha

Buddha

In Buddhism, buddhahood is the state of perfect enlightenment attained by a buddha .In Buddhism, the term buddha usually refers to one who has become enlightened...

 in one hand and a box of
chocolates in the other. He pondered that if he were to die in the plane these would be the last objects with him, and he would be caught between the spiritual and the material. The album leans towards the spiritual path, and is an indication of the direction his life would follow.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Cat Stevens

1. /A1 "Music" – 4:21
2. /A2 "Oh Very Young
   Oh Very Young
   "Oh Very Young" is a song by Cat Stevens. It was released on his 1974 album Buddha and the Chocolate Box. The song, which expresses an older person's wistful appreciation of the idealism of youth and the inevitable disillusionment of maturity, reached number 10 in the U.S. charts....
   
   " – 2:36
3. /A3 "Sun/C79" – 4:35
4. /A4 "Ghost Town" – 3:10
5. /A5 "Jesus" – 2:14
6. /B1 "Ready" – 3:18
7. /B2 "King of Trees" – 5:07
8. /B3 "A Bad Penny" – 3:21
9. /B4 "Home in the Sky" – 3:38

Personnel

• Barry - Vocals, Singer
• Mathieu Bitton - Package Design, Reissue Package Design
• Robin Black - Mixing
• Brigette - Vocals, Choir, Chorus, Singer
• Clifford - Vocals, Choir, Chorus, Singer
• Gerry Conway
  Gerry Conway (musician)
  Gerald Conway is an English folk and rock drummer/percussionist, best known for having performed with the backing band for Cat Stevens in the 1970s, Jethro Tull during the 1980s, and currently a member of Fairport Convention as well as his side projects...
  
    - Drums, Vocals
• Suzanne Cox - Vocals, Singer
• Danny - Vocals, Singer
• Alun Davies
  Alun Davies (guitarist)
  Alun Davies is a Welsh guitarist, studio musician, recording artist, and composer who rose to fame primarily with his supporting guitar work and backing vocals as accompanist for English musician Cat Stevens, from early 1970 to 1977...
  
   - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
• Victor Gamm - Engineer, Mixing
• Roland Harker - Banjo
• Alan Harris - Mixing
• Jacqui - Vocals, Choir, Chorus, Singer
• Ted Jensen
  Ted Jensen
  Ted Jensen is an American recording engineer. Jensen is the chief mastering engineer at Sterling Sound. He started his career as a mastering engineer in 1976 and is currently the most active Mastering Engineer in the industry...
  
    - Mastering
• Jimmy - Vocals, Choir, Chorus, Singer
• Joanne - Vocals, Choir, Chorus, Singer
• Joy - Vocals, Singer
• Judy - Vocals, Choir, Chorus, Singer
• Larry - Vocals, Singer
• Bill Levenson - Reissue Supervisor
• Bruce Lynch
  Bruce Lynch
  Bruce Lynch, born 1948, New Zealand, is an electric and acoustic bassist, producer and arranger.Arriving in the UK in the mid-70s, he became a highly sought-after studio and session musician touring extensively with Cat Stevens, including the 1976 Earth Tour, as well as appearing on six albums...
  
   - Bass
• Rick McCollum  - Vocals, Singer
• Del Newman - Strings, Arranger, String Arrangements
• Roger Quested - Mixing
• Jean Roussel - Strings, Arranger, Keyboards, String Arrangements
• Ruby - Vocals, Singer
• Jim Ryan - Guitar
• Paul Samwell-Smith
  Paul Samwell-Smith
  Paul Samwell-Smith is best known as a founding member and bassist of the 1960s English band, The Yardbirds, a group that spawned such noteworthy musicians as Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page...
  
    - Producer
• Beth Stempel - Reissue Coordination
• Cat Stevens- Synthesizer, Guitar, Keyboards, Producer, Design, Concept, Illustrations
• Sunny - Vocals, Choir, Chorus, Singer
• Vartan - Art Direction
• Mark Warner
  Mark Warner (guitarist)
  Mark Warner is a Nashville, Tennessee session guitarist, published songwriter and music producer who has contributed to many Rock and Pop music recordings. []...
  
   - Guitar
• John Wood
  John Wood (music producer)
  John Wood is an English sound engineer and producer, best known for his work with Fairport Convention, John Martyn, Cat Stevens, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, the Incredible String Band, Pink Floyd, Nico and Squeeze.-Career:...
  
  - Engineer
• Roland Young - Design, Concept