When it was finished, Stigwood arranged for a recording session with Ahmet Ertegun at Atlantic Studios. Robert Stigwood, the group's manager, booked them for a Murray the K package show at the RKO Manhattan Theatre from 25 March to 2 April 1967. Recording Ĭream performed their first American concerts in New York City in 1967. And when he started playing it that way, all of the parts came together and right away they were elated. I said, 'You know, have you ever seen any American Westerns the Indian beat, where the downbeat is the beat?' . Where all the other songs that they played were prepared, this one song, they never found a pocket, they were never comfortable. However, Bruce and recording engineer Tom Dowd dispute Baker's claim, which they say he only made much later. He said that he advised Bruce to slow it down and came up with the distinctive drum pattern which emphasises beats one and three (typical rock drumming favours beats two and four and is known as the backbeat). Cream drummer Ginger Baker compared it to the uptempo "Hey Now, Princess", another Bruce/Brown composition Cream recorded in March. It consists of eight- bar sections using three chords, when the key shifts to the V chord (I = V): IĪ bootleg recording from the Ricky-Tick club in London before Cream recorded the song in the studio, shows "Sunshine of Your Love" with a beat common to rock for the period. Later, to break up the rhythm, Clapton wrote a refrain which also yielded the song's title. Slowly, he started to write "It's getting near dawn and lights close their tired eyes", which is used in the first verse. After an all-night session, Bruce played it on a standup bass while lyricist Pete Brown was staring out the window. Brown had a difficult time writing lyrics that fit the riff. The song follows a blues chord progression (I–IV–I) during the first eight bars.
Music writers Covach and Boone describe the riff as blues-derived, which uses a minor blues pentatonic scale with an added flattened fifth note (or common blues scale). and when he did see it that night, after the gig he went home and came up with the riff. I don't think Jack had really taken him in before. Cream guitarist Eric Clapton elaborated in a 1988 Rolling Stone magazine interview: Cream attended a concert on 29 January 1967 by the Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Saville Theatre in London. "Sunshine of Your Love" began as a bass phrase or riff developed by Cream bassist Jack Bruce. Inspired by recent developments in rock music, the group began pursuing a more overtly psychedelic direction. Their December 1966 debut album, Fresh Cream, was a mix of updated blues numbers and pop-oriented rock songs. In early 1967, Cream were writing and rehearsing songs for a second album. Problems playing this file? See media help. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame included it on its list of the " 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll". Several rock journals have placed the song on their greatest song lists, such as Rolling Stone, Q magazine, and VH1. Hendrix performed faster instrumental versions of the song, which he often dedicated to Cream. In September 1968, it became a modest chart hit after being released in the UK.Ĭream performed "Sunshine of Your Love" regularly in concert and several live recordings have been issued, including on the Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6, 2005 reunion album and video. The song became Cream's first and highest charting American single and one of the most popular singles of 1968. After recommendations by other label-affiliated artists, it released an edited single version in December 1967. Atco Records, the group's American label, was initially unsure of the song's potential. The song was included on Cream's best-selling second album Disraeli Gears in November 1967. Guitarist Eric Clapton and lyricist Pete Brown later contributed to the song and drummer Ginger Baker plays a distinctive tom-tom drum rhythm. Cream bassist and vocalist Jack Bruce based it on a distinctive bass riff he developed after attending a Jimi Hendrix concert. With elements of hard rock, psychedelia, and pop, it is one of Cream's best known and most popular songs. " Sunshine of Your Love" is a 1967 song by the British rock band Cream. " iScreaM Vol.Original UK single label (large centre variant) It was launched on and it aims to release a monthly song remix project from SM Entertainment artists. – present iScreaM is a music project by SM Entertainment's EDM sub-label ScreaM Records.
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