Fresh Cream Gets The Super Deluxe Treatment

Fresh Cream, the band’s album is to be reissued in super deluxe format. The 3-CD + 1 Blu-Ray Audio disc in a gatefold sleeve and a rigid slipcase includes a 64-page hardback book, and featuring new sleeve is to be released in January 2017. The set comprises various alternate and new stereo mixes plus several, previously unreleased BBC sessions. In addition a special 6LP 180g Vinyl edition of Fresh Cream will also be released in April 2017.

Originally released in 1966, Fresh Cream features Eric Clapton fresh from John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers; drummer, Ginger Baker straight from the Graham Bond Organisation and versatile bassist and musician, Jack Bruce who, at the time, had just left Manfred Mann.

Coming together as Cream in the early summer of 1966, the trio released their debut in December of the same year. Highlights include the racing harmonica work-out and the call and response excitements on Muddy Waters’ ‘Rollin’ and Tumblin’, a spine-tingling vocal on the Willie Dixon classic, ‘Spoonful,’ as well as the self-penned ‘Sleepy Time Time’. Their rousing treatment of the traditional standard, ‘Cat’s Squirrel’ is the perfect track to show how all three musicians gelled to create a band that influenced so many..

FRESH CREAM

Disc One:
FRESH CREAM Mono Album
1. N.S.U. 2:44
2. SLEEPY TIME TIME 4:20
3. DREAMING 2:00
4. SWEET WINE 3:19
5. SPOONFUL 6:30
6. CAT’S SQUIRREL 3:01
7. FOUR UNTIL LATE 2:09
8. ROLLIN’ AND TUMBLIN’ 4:46
9. I’M SO GLAD 3:59
10. TOAD 5:14
Session recording – mono mix:
11. THE COFFEE SONG 2:56
The Mono Singles:
12. WRAPPING PAPER 2:29
13. CAT’S SQUIRREL 3:01
A-side & B-side of Cream’s 1st UK single, Reaction 591007, released 7 October 1966.
14: I FEEL FREE 2:49
15: N.S.U. 2:45
A-side & B-side of Cream’s 2nd UK single, Reaction 591011, released 9 December 1966.
16. SPOONFUL Part I 2:26
17. SPOONFUL Part II 2:31
A-side & B-side of Cream’s 3rd US single, ATCO 45-6522, released September 1967.
The Mono French EPs:
18. WRAPPING PAPER alternate mix 2:25
19. SWEET WINE alternate mix 3:18
20. I’M SO GLAD 3:57
21. CAT’S SQUIRREL alternate master 3:01
FRENCH EP, Polydor 27 791, released November 1966.
22. I FEEL FREE alternate mix 2:48
23. ROLLIN’ AND TUMBLIN’ alternate master 1:50
24. N.S.U. 2:44
25. FOUR UNTIL LATE 2:06
FRENCH EP, Polydor 27 798, released November 1966.

Disc Two:
FRESH CREAM Stereo Album
1. N.S.U. 2:45
2. SLEEPY TIME TIME 4:23
3. DREAMING 2:01
4. SWEET WINE 3:20
5. SPOONFUL 6:31
6. CAT’S SQUIRREL 3:08
7. FOUR UNTIL LATE 2:08
8. ROLLIN’ AND TUMBLIN’ 4:43
9. I’M SO GLAD 3:59
10. TOAD 5:12
Session recordings – stereo mixes:
11. I FEEL FREE 2:52
12. WRAPPING PAPER 2:25
13. THE COFFEE SONG 2:48
New stereo mixes:
14. I’M SO GLAD (NEW STEREO MIX) 3:59
15. N.S.U. (NEW STEREO MIX) 2:48
16. WRAPPING PAPER (NEW STEREO MIX) 2:43
17. THE COFFEE SONG (NEW STEREO MIX) 3:06
18. ROLLIN’ AND TUMBLIN’ (FIRST VERSION – NEW STEREO MIX) 4:53
19. SPOONFUL (FIRST VERSION – NEW STEREO MIX) 5:57
20. TOAD (NEW STEREO MIX) 5:12
All new stereo mixes previously unreleased.

Disc Three:
FRESH CREAM Early versions, outtakes and alternate mixes:
1. THE COFFEE SONG early version 2:54
2. YOU MAKE ME FEEL session outtake 2:41
3. BEAUTY QUEEN session outtake 2:38
4. WRAPPING PAPER early version 1:05
5. CAT’S SQUIRREL early version 2:27
6. I FEEL FREE early version 3:08
7. I FEEL FREE mono mix with no lead vocal 2:51
8. I FEEL FREE alternate mono mix 2:50
9. SWEET WINE early version 3:07
10. ROLLIN’ AND TUMBLIN’ early version 4:35
11. TOAD early version 4:19
All tracks previously unreleased except “You Make Me Feel” which was first released
on the box set Those Where The Days, Polydor 314 539 000-2, in September 1997.

THE BBC SESSIONS (November 1966 – January 1967):
BBC Light Programme “Saturday Club” session
Recorded at the Playhouse Theatre, London, 8th November 1966:
12. SWEET WINE 3:28
13 ERIC CLAPTON INTERVIEW 0:54
14. WRAPPING PAPER 2:31
15. ROLLIN’ AND TUMBLIN’ 3:04
16. SLEEPY TIME TIME 3:16 previously unreleased
17. STEPPIN’ OUT 1:50

BBC Home Service “Guitar Club” session
Recorded at BBC Studio 2, Aeolian Hall, London, 28th November 1966:
18. CROSSROADS 1:55
19. STEPPIN’ OUT 2:34 previously unreleased

BBC World Service “R & B Club” session
Recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studio 4, London, 9th December 1966:
20. CAT’S SQUIRREL 3:43
21. TRAINTIME 2:56
22. I’M SO GLAD 4:24
23. LAWDY MAMA 1:54

BBC Light Programme “Saturday Club” session
Recorded at the Playhouse Theatre, London, 10th January 1967:
24. ERIC CLAPTON INTERVIEW 2 0:48
25. I FEEL FREE 2:55
26. N.S.U. 2:57
27. FOUR UNTIL LATE 1:54

Disc Four (Blu-Ray Audio Disc)

FRESH CREAM US Stereo Album in 24/96 Hi Resolution Audio:
1 I FEEL FREE 2:52
2. N.S.U. 2:45
3. SLEEPY TIME TIME 4:23
4. DREAMING 2:01
5. SWEET WINE 3:19
6. CAT’S SQUIRREL 3:08
7. FOUR UNTIL LATE 2:08
8. ROLLIN’ AND TUMBLIN’ 4:43
9. I’M SO GLAD 3:59
10. TOAD 5:12

Stereo bonus tracks:
11. SPOONFUL 6:32
12 WRAPPING PAPER 2:25
13 THE COFFEE SONG 2:49

FRESH CREAM US Mono Album in 24/96 Hi Resolution Audio:
14. I FEEL FREE 2:48
15. N.S.U. 2:44
16. SLEEPY TIME TIME 4:20
17. DREAMING 2:00
18. SWEET WINE 3:19
19. CAT’S SQUIRREL 3:00
20. FOUR UNTIL LATE 2:08
21. ROLLIN’ AND TUMBLIN’ 4:45
22. I’M SO GLAD 3:58
23. TOAD 5:13

Mono bonus tracks:
24. SPOONFUL 6:33
25 WRAPPING PAPER 2:28
26 THE COFFEE SONG 2:54

Format: UK English