John Mayall, vcl/piano/organ/harmonica
Eric Clapton, vcl/guitar
John McVie, bass-guitar
Hughie Flint, drums
on A1, A2, A3, A6, B6
Augmented by John Almond, baritone sax on A5
Alan Skidmore, tenor sax; John Almond, baritone sax; Dennis Healey, trumpet on B1, B3, B5
Layout: John Mayall
Sleeve photography by Decca Publicity Art Department
Produced by Mike Vernon
Engineer: Gus Dudgeon
Sleeve notes by Neil Slaven
Printed in England by MacNeil Press, London, S.E.1.
Laminated with 'Clarifoill' made by British Celanese Limited
Anomalies:
"All Your Love" is credited to Rush, Dixon on the sleeve.
"Double Crossin' Time" is listed as "Double Crossing Time" on the sleeve.
"Ramblin' On My Mind" is credited to Johnson on the sleeve.
"Steppin' Out" is credited to L. C. Frazier on the sleeve.
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers Decca LK 4804 Friday July 22nd 1966 is the great original album with Eric Clapton reading The Beano Comic Biffo The Bear-Dennis The Menace and the great tracks All Your Love,Hideaway,Little Girl & Steppin'Out.
John Mayall died this year and he was the great Rhythm & Blues Music of 1966 and The famous LP-The Great icon.
A rare occasion of an album crashing into the British album charts way into the Top 10 without a hit single to accompany it, when this was at a time when albums still usually only sold on the back of hit singles. It was the following year when Psychedelia exploded that this started to change.
This was John's second album, but the first yet only to feature new guitarist Eric Clapton, who added that thick new undercoat to the group's sound, and even sing lead on one track, his first version of Robert Johnson's Rambling On M y Mind, which he re-recorded solo years later.
This album proved even more that Britain had well and truly become this second major ground for creativity.
In the mid seventies, I had to wait around for several hours at Decca. To kill some time I was allowed to browse through Decca's 'music releases' card index. Being a John Mayall fan the first thing I looked at was the 'bluesbreaker' cards. I can confirm that in Decca's opinion, the album title is 'Blues Breakers' and the artist is 'John Mayall with Eric Clapton'. I've been telling people this information for 40+ years! So I was pleased to see that 45worlds has this listed correctly.
Controversy.
The "Beano" album.
You always see it as John Mayall and the Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton or somesuch.
However...
The label and the spine says John Mayall With Eric Clapton; the front cover "Blues Breakers John Mayall With Eric Clapton" and the back the triptych "Blues Breakers John Mayall Eric Clapton".