Rock & Roll (Vanilla Fudge album)
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Rock & Roll is the fifth album by the American psychedelic
rock band Vanilla Fudge
. It was released in September 1969, and peaked on the Billboard album charts at #34 in October of that year. It was the band's last studio album prior to their initial break-up in spring 1970.
[*] only available as bonus track on CD
Psychedelic music
Psychedelic music covers a range of popular music styles and genres, which are inspired by or influenced by psychedelic culture and which attempt to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues-rock bands in the...
rock band Vanilla Fudge
Vanilla Fudge
Vanilla Fudge is an American rock band. The band's original lineup – vocalist/organist Mark Stein, bassist/vocalist Tim Bogert, lead guitarist/vocalist Vince Martell, and drummer/vocalist Carmine Appice – recorded five albums during the years 1966–69, before disbanding in 1970...
. It was released in September 1969, and peaked on the Billboard album charts at #34 in October of that year. It was the band's last studio album prior to their initial break-up in spring 1970.
Track listing
- "Need Love" (Appice/Bogert/Martell/Stein)
- "Lord In The Country" (Mark Stein)
- "I Can't Make It Alone" (Gerry GoffinGerry GoffinGerry Goffin is an American lyricist. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 with former songwriting partner and first wife, Carole King. he has co-written six Billboard Hot 100 chart-toppers.-Career:Goffin enlisted with the Marine Corps Reserve after graduating from...
/Carole KingCarole KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, King had an album, Tapestry, top the U.S...
) - "Street Walking Woman" (Appice/Bogert/Martell/Stein)
- "Church Bells Of St. Martins" (Mark Stein)
- "The Windmills of Your MindThe Windmills of Your Mind"The Windmills of Your Mind" is a song performed by Noel Harrison, with music composed by Michel Legrand and English lyrics written by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman, which was used as the theme for the 1968 film, The Thomas Crown Affair, starring Steve McQueen alongside and ultimately versus...
" (Alan BergmanAlan BergmanAlan Bergman is an American lyricist and songwriter.-Life & career:Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UCLA. His involvement in the entertainment industry began in the early 1950s as a director of children's television shows...
/Marilyn BergmanMarilyn BergmanMarilyn Bergman is a composer, songwriter and author.She was born Marilyn Keith in Brooklyn, New York and studied psychology and English at New York University...
/Michel LegrandMichel LegrandMichel Jean Legrand is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist...
) - "If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody" (Rudy ClarkRudy ClarkRudy Clark is an American songwriter about whom little biographical information seems to be known. Supposedly a former mail carrier hailing from New York City, he was most active from the early 1960s through the early 1970s...
) - "Break Song" (previously unissued studio version)* (Appice/Bogert/Martell/Stein)
[*] only available as bonus track on CD
Personnel
- Carmine AppiceCarmine AppiceCarmine Appice is an American rock drummer of Italian background and is the older brother of drummer Vinny Appice by 12 years. He received a classical music training and was influenced by the jazz drumming of Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa early on...
- drums, vocals - Tim BogertTim BogertJohn Voorhis "Tim" Bogert III is an American musician. He graduated from Ridgefield Memorial High School in his hometown in 1963...
- bass, vocals - Vince MartellVince MartellVince Martell is best known as the lead guitarist for Vanilla Fudge.Martell was born in the Bronx to parents who played the guitar and encouraged him to play as well...
- guitar, vocals - Mark SteinMark Stein (musician)Mark Stein was the vocalist, keyboardist, composer, and arranger for Vanilla Fudge, the Tommy Bolin band, and Alice Cooper's band .- Early life and influences :...
- lead vocals, keyboards