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Artist: Cream Title: Wheels Of Fire Label:   Atco Country: USA Catalogue: 2-700 Date: Jul 1968 Format: Mono LP (also Stereo LP) Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:    Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
In The Studio
A1	Cream	White Room	Jack Bruce, Pete Brown	Rate
A2	Cream	Sitting On Top Of The World	Chester Burnett	Rate
A3	Cream	Passing The Time	Ginger Baker, Mike Taylor	Rate
A4	Cream	As You Said	Jack Bruce, Pete Brown	Rate
B1	Cream	Pressed Rat And Warthog	Ginger Baker, Mike Taylor	Rate
B2	Cream	Politician	Jack Bruce, Pete Brown	Rate
B3	Cream	Those Were The Days	Ginger Baker, Mike Taylor	Rate
B4	Cream	Born Under A Bad Sign	Booker T. Jones, William Bell	Rate
B5	Cream	Deserted Cities Of The Heart	Jack Bruce, Pete Brown	Rate
Live At The Fillmore
C1	Cream	Crossroads	Robert Johnson	Rate
C2	Cream	Spoonful	Willie Dixon	Rate
D1	Cream	Traintime	Jack Bruce	Rate
D2	Cream	Toad	Ginger Baker	Rate

Notes

Produced by Felix Pappalardi by Arrangement with Robert Stigwood

Although this was the third disc of 33.33 rpm that was issued by Cream, this was the first LP that had two discs of 33.33 rpm, and that opened and closed in a similar format of a book. All the tunes of the first disc were made in a recording studio, whereas the songs of the second disc were recorded live at the Fillmore Theatre.

With the exception of the United States and Canada, this disc was both monaurally and stereofonically issued to the record shops. However, this disc of 33.33 rpm was monaurally issued in the United States, but was only available to radio station personalities. Albeit the Atco monaural label discs of 33.33 rpm were of a yellow-orange color that was in the upper arc and of a blue color that was of the Atco logo and of the lower arc of the disc, the label color of this audition copy was of an entire grey background of which the Atco logo was of a black color.

Due to the fact that this is the rarest and most difficult disc of Cream that one may find, a near mint audition copy may easily sell for more than $1000 and a still-sealed copy is likely to sell for greater than or equal to $2000. (Mod edit!...DJ copies in the US weren't sealed..so finding a sealed mono copy is impossible....)

Despite the fact that the recording career of Cream lasted only two years, this group had recorded four discs of 33.33 rpm, which had sold more than 100,000,000 throughout the next few decades. Finally, Cream is one of the few rock groups of the 1960's decade that is very popular among the millennial generation of adolescents.

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frankheussner 8th Aug 2022		WTF? Did it really take all that to say that the Mono release is promo only? The label descriptions make my brain hurt...
Focus B 17th Sep 2020		I don't know but it wasn't uncommon for UK releases of US material to be fold downs of stereo recordings. The mono UK Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys is a fold down of the duophonic stereo remarkably, giving an odd "Double tracked" effect! Can't speak for US releases of UK albums though. I have the UK original mono double set and the stereo "Studio" seperate release. I haven't noticed any differences in the mix, only to say the sound quality and entertainment quality of both mono and stereo versions are equal.
baldybeano 8th Oct 2019		Does anyone know if the mono copy of this album is a dedicated mono mix or simply a fold-down of the stereo mix?

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