Cream Versions
| "Spoonful" | ||||||||
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| Live version by Cream from the album Wheels of Fire | ||||||||
| Released | July–August 1968 | |||||||
| Recorded | Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco March 10, 1968 1st show |
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| Genre | Blues rock, acid rock | |||||||
| Length | 16:48 | |||||||
| Label | Polydor Atco |
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| Writer | Willie Dixon | |||||||
| Producer | Felix Pappalardi | |||||||
| Wheels of Fire track listing | ||||||||
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The British blues-rock band Cream recorded "Spoonful" for their 1966 UK debut album, Fresh Cream. For the American release of Fresh Cream, "I Feel Free" was substituted for "Spoonful". The song was released in the U.S. later in 1967 as a two-sided single (Atco 45-6522), but edited as Part 1 fades out as the instrumental break starts and Part 2 begins just before the third verse. Cream frequently played it in concert and the song evolved beyond the blues-rock form of the 1966 recording into a vehicle for extended improvised soloing influenced by the sixties San Francisco music scene. One such rendering, recorded at a Winterland concert and included on their 1968 album Wheels of Fire, lasts nearly seventeen minutes.
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