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"Tales of Brave Ulysses" is a song recorded in 1967 by British group Cream. [3] It was released as the B-side to the "Strange Brew" single in May 1967. [1] In November, the song was included on Cream's second album, Disraeli Gears. [4] The song features one of the earliest uses of a wah-wah pedal, which guitarist Eric Clapton plays throughout ...
Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6, 2005 is a live album by the British rock band Cream, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in 2005 during the band's reunion tour. As the title implies, the recording includes songs from their four reunion shows on 2, 3, 5, and 6 May 2005.
It was the first Cream single on which he sang lead. Unlike the group's previous single, "I Feel Free", no promotional video was made for the song, but the band mimed to it on television on the German program Beat Club on 19 May 1967. [6] The song later appeared on the soundtrack of the 1979 feature film, More American Graffiti.
Sharp would go on to create the artwork to Cream's next album Wheels of Fire and co-wrote the songs "Tales of Brave Ulysses" and The Savage Seven movie theme "Anyone for Tennis" with Clapton. The photography was by Bob Whitaker , known for his work for the Beatles , including the controversial Yesterday and Today "butcher" cover.
Cream were a 1960s British rock power trio consisting of drummer Ginger Baker, guitarist/singer Eric Clapton and bassist/singer Jack Bruce.While together they released four albums, the last two being partly recorded live in concert, and ten singles.
Farewell Concert is the live recording of the band Cream's final concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 26 November 1968. Aside from the band's reunion concert in 2005 it is Cream's only official full concert release on video. It was originally broadcast by the BBC on 5 January 1969. It was not released on video in the US until 1977.
The song has an identical chord progression to Cream's previous recording "Tales of Brave Ulysses". [9] Both Bruce and Baker claimed to have added the distinctive 5 4 or quintuple metre opening to what had been a 4 4 or common time composition. [10] Bruce later revealed that the 5 4 opening had made the record company wary that it would do well ...
Fresh Cream: 1966 [6] "Sitting on Top of the World" [d] Walter Vinson Lonnie Chatmon arr. Chester Burnett ‡ Wheels of Fire: 1968 [2] "Sleepy Time Time" Jack Bruce Janet Godfrey: Fresh Cream: 1966 [10] "Spoonful" [e] † Willie Dixon ‡ Fresh Cream: 1966 [10] "Strange Brew" † Eric Clapton Felix Pappalardi Gail Collins: Disraeli Gears: 1967 ...