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. The album doesnt contain any real songs, but rather a sound collage featuring many different elements: 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 Beat Goes On’ was both masterminded and orchestrated, not by the Fudge, but by its producer (the recently deceased) George “Shadow” Morton. It was he, they claim, who allegedly dragged the powerless young musicians along for a wild ride across four, distinct musical “phases” fusing historical radio broadcasts and tripped out mantras with brief musical vignettes – some of them crafted by the band, others excerpted from the works of artists as diverse as Cole Porter, the Beatles and Beethoven! The end results were so darn freaky and far-out they managed to baffle even the flower children that had taken root all over America’s opposite coast and, if anything, some musical fragments actually resembled the musique concrete creations found on vocal Vanilla Fudge critic Frank Zappa’s ‘Lumpy Gravy’! All of which, made ‘The Beat Goes On’’s relatively strong performance on the charts (it peaked at an impressive No. 17, likely with some help from its more successful predecessor) perhaps the most unbelievable part of this entire story. https://youtube/watch?v=GQP02PWR0Ds
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 07:34:25 +0000
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