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Mr. Fantasy
Mr. Fantasy cover
Studio album by Traffic
Released December, 1967
Recorded April - November 1967
Olympic Studios, London
Genre psychedelic rock
Length 33:54
Label Island Records UK
Producer Jimmy Miller
Professional reviews
Traffic chronology
Mr. A studio album is an original collection of new tracks by a recording artist Traffic were an English rock band formed in 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason. Olympic Studios is a commercial Recording studio located at 117 Church Road in the south-western suburb of Barnes in London, England. A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Psychedelic rock is a style of Rock music that attempts to replicate the mind-altering experiences of hallucinogenic drugs. In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Island Records is a Record label that was founded by British record producers in Jamaica. In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing James 'Jimmy' Miller ( 23 March[[ 942]] - 22 October 1994) was a Brooklyn born Record producer, who produced albums for The Spencer allmusic (previously All Music Guide) is a Metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published Traffic were an English rock band formed in 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason. Fantasy
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Mr. Fantasy (not to be confused with "Dear Mr. Fantasy", the title song on this album) is the debut album by English rock band Traffic. " Dear Mr Fantasy " is a rock song by Traffic off their 1967 album Mr England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A musical ensemble is a group of two or more Musicians who perform instrumental or vocal Music. Traffic were an English rock band formed in 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason. It was released in 1967. For the recording, group members included Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood, Chris Wood, and Dave Mason, however Mason left the band before the album was released. Nicola James "Jim" Capaldi ( 2 August 1944 &ndash 28 January 2005) was an English Musician and Songwriter Stephen Lawrence "Steve" or "Stevie" Winwood (born 12 May 1948 in Handsworth, Birmingham) is an English Singer-songwriter For other people by this name see Chris Wood. Christopher Gordon Blandford 'Chris' Wood (born 24 June 1944, in David Thomas Mason (born 10 May 1944) is an English Musician, singer songwriter, and Guitarist from Worcester The album reached the number 16 position in the UK album chart on 30th December 1967, and reached number 88 in the American Billboard charts. [1]

Contents

Overview

Considered by far the strangest and most art rock style album that Traffic released, Mr. Art rock is a term describing a subgenre of Rock music that tends to have "experimental or avant-garde influences" and emphasizes "novel sonic texture Fantasy didn't gain much more than a cult following for Traffic at the time. Critics seemed to like the album, though, and most said it was clear that Steve Winwood and Traffic were good at putting together semi-mainstream psychedelic rock, except this album was not quite mainstream enough. Psychedelic rock is a style of Rock music that attempts to replicate the mind-altering experiences of hallucinogenic drugs. By their next release, the eponymous Traffic, the band was said to have worked through that. Traffic was the Eponymous rock album by the English Rock band Traffic, ranging in style from Psychedelic rock to Acid

This album features even more horns, flutes, and less rock-style instruments than most of Traffic's future releases. In a Symphony orchestra the horn section is the group of musicians who play the horn (sometimes referred to as the French horn a brass instrument descended The flute is a Musical instrument of the Woodwind family Unlike other woodwind instruments a flute is a Reedless wind instrument that produces its Rock music is a genre of Popular music often though not necessarily employing Electric guitar, Bass guitar, and Drums. The sitar was used much more in this album than any other later Traffic albums, undoubtedly because of Dave Mason's influence. The sitar ( Hindi: सितार Urdu: ستار Persian: سی تار) is a Plucked stringed instrument.

The first US version of the album on United Artists Records had a different title Heaven Is In Your Mind and a different cover that featured 3 members of the group without Dave Mason. United Artists Records was a Record label founded by Max E Youngstein of United Artists in 1958 initially to distribute Soundtracks The title was quickly changed back to Mr. Fantasy but the new cover remained until Island Records re-issued the UK version in the late 1970s. Island Records is a Record label that was founded by British record producers in Jamaica.

For the original US edition the group changed the album substantially. The song order was changed and a short snippet of the group's November 1967 single "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush" was added between most of the songs. " Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush " is a single by Traffic. The US LP also added three songs from the group's UK singles, "Paper Sun" and "Hole In My Shoe" and "Smiling Phases" (B-side) while deleting two Dave Mason songs "Hope I Never Find Me There" and "Utterly Simple. " Paper Sun " is a song and debut-single released in May 1967 by British Psychedelic rock band Traffic. Hole In My Shoe is a song by Traffic which as a single release reached #2 in the UK charts in 1967 " The final track on the US album "Were A Fade, You Missed This' is actually the ending of "Paper Sun" as it appeared in the earlier single. There are also many differences between the stereo and mono mixes for the album. Both the US and UK editions were released in stereo and mono.

The album was engineered by Phil Brown who when asked what was his favourite memory of engineering he responded: "Recording Dear Mr Fantasy, one o'clock in the morning, November 1967. " [1]

Track listing

Original UK album

  1. "Heaven Is in Your Mind" (Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood, Chris Wood) – 4:16
  2. "Berkshire Poppies" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 2:55
  3. "House for Everyone" (Dave Mason) – 2:05
  4. "No Face, No Name, No Number" (Capaldi, Winwood) – 3:35
  5. "Dear Mr. Fantasy" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 5:44
  6. "Dealer" (Capaldi, Winwood) – 3:34
  7. "Utterly Simple" (Mason) – 3:16
  8. "Coloured Rain" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 2:43
  9. "Hope I Never Find Me There" (Mason) – 2:12
  10. "Giving to You" (Capaldi, Mason, Winwood, Wood) – 4:20
    Mono bonus tracks from the US 2000 CD release
  11. "Paper Sun" (Capaldi, Winwood) – 4:15
  12. "Giving to You" (Capaldi, Mason, Winwood, Wood) – 4:12
  13. "Hole in My Shoe" (Mason) – 2:54
  14. "Smiling Phases" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 2:43
  15. "Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush" (Capaldi, Mason, Winwood, Wood) – 2:18

Original US album

  1. "Paper Sun" (Capaldi, Winwood) – 3:26
  2. "Dealer" (Capaldi, Winwood) – 3:13
  3. "Coloured Rain" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 2:46
  4. "Hole in My Shoe" (Mason) – 3:04
  5. "No Face, No Name, No Number" (Capaldi, Winwood) – 3:38
  6. "Heaven Is in Your Mind" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 4:22
  7. "House for Everyone" (Mason) – 2:05
  8. "Berkshire Poppies" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 2:59
  9. "Giving to You" (Capaldi, Mason, Winwood, Wood) – 4:18
  10. "Smiling Phases" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 2:44
  11. "Dear Mr. Nicola James "Jim" Capaldi ( 2 August 1944 &ndash 28 January 2005) was an English Musician and Songwriter Stephen Lawrence "Steve" or "Stevie" Winwood (born 12 May 1948 in Handsworth, Birmingham) is an English Singer-songwriter For other people by this name see Chris Wood. Christopher Gordon Blandford 'Chris' Wood (born 24 June 1944, in David Thomas Mason (born 10 May 1944) is an English Musician, singer songwriter, and Guitarist from Worcester " Dear Mr Fantasy " is a rock song by Traffic off their 1967 album Mr Hole In My Shoe is a song by Traffic which as a single release reached #2 in the UK charts in 1967 Fantasy" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 5:33
  12. "We're a Fade, You Missed This" (Capaldi, Winwood) – :53
    Stereo bonus tracks from the US 2000 CD release (Heaven Is In Your Mind)
  13. "Utterly Simple" (Mason) – 3:17
  14. "Hope I Never Find Me There" (Mason) – 2:09
  15. "Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush" (Capaldi, Mason, Winwood, Wood) – 2:35
  16. "Am I What I Was or Am I What I Am" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 2:32

Credits

Versions

There are actually four different versions of the album when taking into account both the UK and US track listings and the different stereo and mono mixes. Nicola James "Jim" Capaldi ( 2 August 1944 &ndash 28 January 2005) was an English Musician and Songwriter A drum kit (also drum set or trap set) is a collection of Drums Cymbals and sometimes other Percussion instruments such as cowbells David Thomas Mason (born 10 May 1944) is an English Musician, singer songwriter, and Guitarist from Worcester The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical polyphonic keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s The sitar ( Hindi: सितार Urdu: ستار Persian: سی تار) is a Plucked stringed instrument. The tambura ( Hindi: तानपूरा is a type of Stringed instrument found in different versions in different places around the world most are plucked The electric bass guitar (also called electric bass, or simply bass; ˈbeɪs as in "base" is a Stringed instrument played primarily with the Stephen Lawrence "Steve" or "Stevie" Winwood (born 12 May 1948 in Handsworth, Birmingham) is an English Singer-songwriter The organ (from Greek όργανον – organon "organ instrument tool" is a Keyboard instrument of one or more divisions each The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers A harpsichord is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. For other people by this name see Chris Wood. Christopher Gordon Blandford 'Chris' Wood (born 24 June 1944, in The Western concert flute or C flute (most flutes are tuned to the key of C) is a popular transverse side-blown Musical instrument made of metal The saxophone (commonly referred to simply as sax) is a conical- bored transposing Musical instrument considered a member of the Woodwind James 'Jimmy' Miller ( 23 March[[ 942]] - 22 October 1994) was a Brooklyn born Record producer, who produced albums for The Spencer In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing Eddie Kramer (born 1941 in Cape Town, South Africa) is an Audio engineer and producer who has worked with Led Zeppelin, Triumph Audio engineering is a part of audio science dealing with the recording and reproduction of Sound through mechanical and electronic means Photography (fә'tɒgrәfi or fә'tɑːgrәfi (from Greek φωτο and γραφία is the process and Art of recording pictures by means of capturing All have recently been re-issued on CD. The 1999 UK re-issue features the UK version in stereo and the US album in mono as bonus tracks. In 2000 the US stereo version was re-issued on CD with its original title Heaven Is In Your Mind plus stereo bonus tracks. The same year the original UK mono version was also released in the US as Mr Fantasy with mono bonus tracks.

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References

  1. ^ Chart Stats
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