Cream
"White Room"
Single / B-side: "Those Were the Days" (UK) / "Passing the Time" (Australia)
Released: September 1968
Album: Wheels of Fire (Released: July 1968 (US) / 9 August 1968 (UK))
Writers: Jack Bruce, Pete Brown
Label: Atco (US), Polydor (UK)
"White Room" is a song by British rock band Cream, written by Jack Bruce & Pete Brown. Drummer Ginger Baker claims to have added the distinctive 5/4 opening to what had been a 4/4 composition. It originally appeared on the US release of their double album "Wheels of Fire" in July 1968 and was released as a single in September 1968. This was released as a single after Cream had broken up. It did better in the US than in England, since Cream had caught on in the States. It is one of their most famous songs, along with "Sunshine of Your Love". This song was placed at #376 on the 2004 (and its 2010 update) list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
The recording of "White Room" reportedly began in July 1967 in London at the initial session for Cream’s as-yet-unnamed third album and work continued at Atlantic Studios in New York in December and finished during three separate sessions to complete the studio part of Wheels of Fire; February, April and June 1968, all at Atlantic Studios.
The lyric of the song is about depression and hopelessness, but the setting is an empty apartment. The lyrics were written by a beat poet named Pete Brown, who was a friend of Cream bass player Jack Bruce. Brown also wrote the words for "Sunshine Of Your Love" and "I Feel Free."
Eric Clapton refused to play this after leaving Cream until 1985, when Paul Shaffer urged him to play it while he was sitting in with the band on Late Night With David Letterman. That same year, Clapton played it at Live Aid. Clapton also performed the song at his Royal Albert Hall concert series and with Sheryl Crow at Crow's 1999 concert in Central Park.
Bruce recorded a new, Latin-influenced version on his 2001 album Shadows In The Air. Clapton played on this as well as his new recording of "Sunshine Of Your Love."
Line-up / Musicians:
Jack Bruce - vocal, and bass
Eric Clapton - guitars, wah-wah pedal
Ginger Baker - drums, timpani
Felix Pappalardi - violas
Link / Review:
wikipedia: White Room
songfacts: White Room by Cream
allmusic: White Room - Cream
nme: 100 Best Songs of the 1960s - Cream "White Room"
reasontorock: White Room - Reason to Rock
rollingstone: Cream, "White Room" - 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
"White Room"
Single / B-side: "Those Were the Days" (UK) / "Passing the Time" (Australia)
Released: September 1968
Album: Wheels of Fire (Released: July 1968 (US) / 9 August 1968 (UK))
Writers: Jack Bruce, Pete Brown
Label: Atco (US), Polydor (UK)
"White Room" is a song by British rock band Cream, written by Jack Bruce & Pete Brown. Drummer Ginger Baker claims to have added the distinctive 5/4 opening to what had been a 4/4 composition. It originally appeared on the US release of their double album "Wheels of Fire" in July 1968 and was released as a single in September 1968. This was released as a single after Cream had broken up. It did better in the US than in England, since Cream had caught on in the States. It is one of their most famous songs, along with "Sunshine of Your Love". This song was placed at #376 on the 2004 (and its 2010 update) list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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| Cream's single, "White Room", 1968 |
Cream - "White Room" (single, 1968)
The recording of "White Room" reportedly began in July 1967 in London at the initial session for Cream’s as-yet-unnamed third album and work continued at Atlantic Studios in New York in December and finished during three separate sessions to complete the studio part of Wheels of Fire; February, April and June 1968, all at Atlantic Studios.
The lyric of the song is about depression and hopelessness, but the setting is an empty apartment. The lyrics were written by a beat poet named Pete Brown, who was a friend of Cream bass player Jack Bruce. Brown also wrote the words for "Sunshine Of Your Love" and "I Feel Free."
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| Cream's single, "White Room" (1968, France cover) |
Cream - "White Room" (music video)
Eric Clapton refused to play this after leaving Cream until 1985, when Paul Shaffer urged him to play it while he was sitting in with the band on Late Night With David Letterman. That same year, Clapton played it at Live Aid. Clapton also performed the song at his Royal Albert Hall concert series and with Sheryl Crow at Crow's 1999 concert in Central Park.
Bruce recorded a new, Latin-influenced version on his 2001 album Shadows In The Air. Clapton played on this as well as his new recording of "Sunshine Of Your Love."
Eric Clapton - "White Room" (live)
Line-up / Musicians:
Jack Bruce - vocal, and bass
Eric Clapton - guitars, wah-wah pedal
Ginger Baker - drums, timpani
Felix Pappalardi - violas
Link / Review:
wikipedia: White Room
songfacts: White Room by Cream
allmusic: White Room - Cream
nme: 100 Best Songs of the 1960s - Cream "White Room"
reasontorock: White Room - Reason to Rock
rollingstone: Cream, "White Room" - 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
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