Nine CD box set featuring of the complete Atco Recordings by Vanilla Fudge made between 1967 and 1969. Newly remastered from the original master tapes. Includes the albums 'Vanilla Fudge' (Mono & Stereo Versions), 'The Beat Goes On' (Mono & Stereo Versions), 'Renaissance', 'Near The Beginning' And 'Rock & Roll', along with a 2CD live recording at the Fillmore West in 1969, session out-takes and rare singles. With an illustrated booklet with a new essay featuring exclusive band interviews. The band were originally known as The Pigeons and gained notoriety thanks to their radical, slowed down and heavy interpretations of current hits. They signed to Atco Records, a division of Atlantic in April 1967 and changed their name at the insistence of Atlantic founder Ahmet Ertegun to Vanilla Fudge. Their radical cover version of The Supremes' hit "You Keep Me Hanging On" was issued as a single in June 1967. Dominated by the hard hitting approach of their rhythm section and the powerful Hammond organ playing of Mark Stein it became a US top 10 hit. The band's self-titled debut album was released in August 1967 and was a psychedelic rock tour-de-force, featuring a seven-minute version of 'You Keep Me Hanging On', it also featured imaginative cover versions of compositions by The Beatles, The Zombies and Curtis Mayfield among others. Over the next two years, VANILLA FUDGE would record a series of albums that would evolve from psychedelic rock to heavy rock and influence many emerging bands, among them Deep Purple, before disbanding in 1970.

Track List

1. Ticket to Ride
2. People Get Ready
3. She's Not There
4. Bang Bang
5. Illusions of My Childhood Part One
6. You Keep Me Hanging on
7. Illusions of My Childhood Part Two
8. Take Me for a Little While
9. Illusions of My Childhood Part Three
10. Eleanor Rigby
11. You Keep Me Hanging on (Single Version)
12. Illusions of My Childhood
13. Eleanor Rigby Part One (UK Single 1967)
14. Eleanor Rigby Part Two (UK Single 1967)
15. Ticket to Ride
16. People Get Ready
17. She's Not There
18. Bang Bang
19. Illusions of My Childhood Part One
20. You Keep Me Hanging on
21. Illusions of My Childhood Part Two
22. Take Me for a Little While
23. Illusions of My Childhood Part Three
24. Eleanor Rigby
25. Ticket to Ride (Unissued Single Mix)
26. Take Me for a Little While (1967 Single Version)
27. Sketch
28. Intro: The Beat Goes on
29. Eighteenth Century: Variations on a Theme By Mozart
30. Nineteenth Century: Old Black Joe
31. Don't Fence Me in
32. 12th Street Rag
33. In the Mood
34. Hound Dog
35. The Beatles: I Want to Hold Your Hand / I Feel Fine / Day Tripper / She Loves You / Hello Goodbye
36. The Beat Goes on
37. Beethoven: Fur Elise ; Moonlight Sonata
38. The Beat Goes on
39. The Beat Goes on
40. Voices in Time
41. The Beat Goes on
42. Merchant / the Game Is Over
43. The Beat Goes on
44. Where Is My Mind
45. The Look of Love
46. Sketch
47. Intro: The Beat Goes on
48. Eighteenth Century: Variations on a Theme By Mozart
49. Nineteenth Century: Old Black Joe
50. Don't Fence Me in
51. 12th Street Rag
52. In the Mood
53. Hound Dog
54. The Beatles: I Want to Hold Your Hand / I Feel Fine
55. / Day Tripper / She Loves You / Hello Goodbye
56. The Beat Goes on
57. Beethoven: Fur Elise ; Moonlight Sonata
58. The Beat Goes on
59. The Beat Goes on
60. Voices in Time
61. The Beat Goes on
62. Merchant / the Game Is Over
63. The Beat Goes on
64. You Can't Do That (Recorded 1968)
65. Come By Day Come By Night (B-Side of Single)
66. The Sky Cried - When I Was a Boy
67. Thoughts
68. Paradise
69. That's What Makes a Man a Man
70. The Spell That Comes After
71. Faceless People
72. Season of the Witch
73. Take Me for a Little While (1968 Single Remix)
74. Season of the Witch - Part One (A-Side of Single)
75. Season of the Witch - Part Two (B-Side of Single)
76. Break Song (Studio Version)
77. She's Not There (Live)
78. Shotgun (Live)
79. People Get Ready (Live)
80. You Keep Me Hanging on (Live)
81. Season of the Witch (Live)
82. Break Song (Live)
83. Good Good Lovin' (Live)
84. Ticket to Ride (Live)
85. Medley: Moonlight Sonata / Fur Elise / Eleanor Rigby (Live)
86. Take Me for a Little While (Live)
87. Like a Rolling Stone (Live)
88. Shotgun
89. Some Velvet Morning
90. Where Is Happiness
91. Break Song
92. Heartache Jam
93. Shotgun (Single Edit) (A- Side of Single)
94. Good Good Livin' (B-Side of Single)
95. People (B-Side of Single)
96. Some Velvet Morning (Short Version)
97. Good Good
98. Livin' (Unedited Version)
99. Love Jam
100. Need Love
101. Lord in the Country
102. I Can't Make It Alone
103. Street Walking Woman
104. The Church Bells of St. Martins
105. The Windmills of Your Mind
106. If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody
107. Movin' on
108. Studio Jam
109. All in Your Mind
110. Need Love (Mono Single Version)
111. I Can't Make It Alone (Single Version)
112. Lord in the Country (Single Version)