The Beat Goes On (album)

Infobox Album
Name = The Beat Goes On
Type = Album
Artist = Vanilla Fudge

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Released = 1968
Recorded =
Genre = Psychedelic rock
Length =
Label = Atco Records
Producer = Shadow Morton
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:leavqjoboj6a link]
Last album = Vanilla Fudge
(1967)
This album = "The Beat Goes On ""'
(1968)
Next album = Renaissance
(1968)

"The Beat Goes On" (Atco Records 33-237/mono, SD 33-237/stereo) is the second album by the American psychedelic rock band Vanilla Fudge, released in early 1968. There aren't any real "songs" on this album; rather, it's a sound collage featuring just about anything and everything to make it interesting: the voices of world leaders past and present, the band reciting pre-written mantras and reflections, and excerpts of songs (done "Vanilla Fudge style") by The Beatles and Sonny Bono.

The group was at odds with their producer George "Shadow" Morton during this album's recording sessions, as Morton made his own concept album without significant input from the band. In the liner notes to the Sundazed Records 1990's CD reissue of the album, the band denounces it as a failed experiment on their producer's part. Vanilla Fudge's third album "Renaissance", which was released quickly after "The Beat Goes On", would be Morton's last collaboration with the band.

While not as successful as their debut album, "The Beat Goes On" was a moderate hit despite the band's reservations, peaking at #17 on the Billboard album charts in March 1968.

Track listing

# "Sketch" (Appice/Bogert/Martell/Stein)
# Phase One
## "Intro: The Beat Goes On" (Sonny Bono)
## Eighteenth Century
### Variations On A Theme By Mozart: "Divertimento No. 13 In F Major" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
## Nineteenth Century
### "Old Black Joe" (Stephen Foster)
## Twentieth Century
### "Don't Fence Me In" (Cole Porter)
### "12th Street Rag" (Euday L. Bowman)
### "In The Mood" (Garland-Razaf)
### "Hound Dog" (Leiber-Stoller)
### The Beatles
#### "I Want To Hold Your Hand" (Lennon-McCartney)
#### "I Feel Fine" (Lennon-McCartney)
#### "Day Tripper" (Lennon-McCartney)
#### "She Loves You" (Lennon-McCartney)
# Phase Two
## "The Beat Goes On"
## Beethoven: "Fur Elise" & "Moonlight Sonata" (Ludwig von Beethoven)
## "The Beat Goes On"
## "The Beat Goes On"
# Phase Three
## "Voices In Time": Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Other Voices
# Phase Four
## "The Beat Goes On"
## "Merchant" (Appice/Bogert/Martell/Stein)
## "The Game Is Over" (Bourtayre/Bouchety): Vinnie
## "Merchant"
## "The Game Is Over": Tim
## "Merchant"
## "The Game Is Over": Carmine
## "Merchant"
## "The Game Is Over": Mark
## "Merchant"
## "The Beat Goes On"
# Bonus Phase [CD release only]
## "You Can't Do That" (Lennon/McCartney)
## "Come By Day, Come By Night" (Appice/Bogert/Martell/Stein)

Personnel

*Carmine Appice - drums, vocals
*Tim Bogert - bass, vocals
*Vince Martell - guitar, vocals
*Mark Stein - lead vocals, keyboards