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Group members

JACK BRUCE  [Bishopbriggs, 14.5.1943]:  bass, harmonica, vocals.

ERIC CLAPTON  [Ripley, 30.3.1945]:  guitar, vocals.

GINGER BAKER  [Lewisham, 19.8.1939]:  drums, percussion.

U.K. Albums Discography

< and personal ratings;  click on the title for album details >

• FRESH CREAM  (1966)  B+

• DISRAELI GEARS  (1967)  A-

• WHEELS OF FIRE  (1968)  A-

• GOODBYE  (1969)  B+

• LIVE  (1970)  A-

• LIVE Vol.2  (1972)  A-

U.K. Singles Discography

• Wrapping Paper / Cat's Squirrel  [Reaction 591 007]  1966

• I Feel Free / N.S.U.  [Reaction 591 011]  1966

• Strange Brew / Tales Of Brave Ulysses  [Reaction 591 015]  1967

• Anyone For Tennis / Pressed Rat And Warthog  [Polydor 56258]  1968

• Sunshine Of Your Love / SWLABR  [Polydor 56286]  1968

• White Room / Those Were The Days  [Polydor 56300]  1968

• Badge / What A Bringdown  [Polydor 56315]  1969

Some compilations

• ON TOP  [Polydor 2855 002]  1969  Mail-order only

• BEST OF CREAM  [Polydor 583 060]  1969

• HEAVY CREAM  [Polydor 2659 022, 2LP]  1973

• VOL. 2  [RSO 2479 701]  1978

• THE VERY BEST OF CREAM  [RSO 811 639]  1990

• THE ALTERNATIVE ALBUM  [ITM 960002]  1992  Interesting comp of alternate tracks.

• DESERTED CITIES  [Pickwick PWKS 4127]  1992

Solo discographies (albums)

ERIC CLAPTON

• ERIC CLAPTON  [Polydor 2383 021]  1970  Slunky / Bad boy / Lonesome and a long way from home / After midnight / Easy now / Blues power / Bottle of red wine / Lovin' you, lovin' me / Told you for the last time / Don't know why / Let it rain.

• RAINBOW CONCERT  [RSO 2394 116]  1973  Badge / Roll it over / Little wing / After midnight / Presence of the Lord / Pearly queen.

• 461 OCEAN BOULEVARD  [RSO 2479 118]  1974  Motherless children / Give me strength / Willie and the hand-jive / Get ready / I shot the sheriff / I can't hold out / Please be with me / Let it grow / Steady rollin' man / Mainline Florida.

• THERE'S ONE IN EVERY CROWD  [RSO 2479 132]  1975  We've been told (Jesus is coming soon) / Swing low, sweet chariot / Little Rachel / Don't blame me / The sky is crying / Singin' the blues / Better make it through today / Pretty blue eyes / High / Opposites.

• E. C. WAS HERE  [RSO 2394 160, live]  1975  Have you ever loved a woman / Presence of the Lord / Driftin' blues / Can't find my way home / Rambling on my mind / Further on up the road.

• NO REASON TO CRY  [RSO 2479 179]  1976  Beautiful thing / Carnival / Sign language / County jail blues / All our past times / Hello old friend / Double trouble / Innocent times/ Hungry / Black summer rain / Last night.

• SLOWHAND  [RSO 2479 201]  1977  Cocaine / Wonderful tonight / Lay down Sally / Next time you see her / We're all the way / The core / May you never / Mean old Frisco / Peaches and Diesel.

• BACKLESS  [RSO 2479 221]  1978  Walk out in the rain / Watch out for Lucy / I'll make love to you anytime / Roll it / Tell me that you love me / If I don't be there by morning / Early in the morning / Promises / Golden ring / Tulsa time.

• JUST ONE NIGHT  [RSO 2479 240, 2LP live]  1980  Tulsa time / Early in the morning / Lay down Sally / Wonderful tonight / If I don't be there by morning / Worried life blues / All our past times / After midnight / Double trouble / Setting me up / Blues power / Rambling on my mind / Cocaine / Further on up the road.

• ANOTHER TICKET  [RSO 2479 285]  1981  Something special / Black rose / Blow wind blow / Another ticket / I can't stand it / Hold me Lord / Floating bridge / Catch me if you can / Rita Mae.

• MONEY AND CIGARETTES  [Duck 92 3773]  1983  Everybody ought to make a change / The shape you're in / Ain't going down / I've got a rock'n'roll heart / Man overboard / Pretty girl / Man in love / Crosscut saw / Slowdown Linda / Crazy country hop.

• BEHIND THE SUN  [Duck 92 5166]  1985  She's waiting / See what love can do / Same old blues / Knock on wood / Something's happening / Forever man / It all depends / Tangled in love / Never make you cry / Just like a prisoner / Behind the sun.

• AUGUST  [Duck 92 5476]  1986  It's in the way that you use it / Run / Tearing us apart / Bad influence / Walk away / Hung up on your love / Take a chance / Hold on / Miss you / Holy mother / Behind the mask / Grand illusion.

• JOURNEYMAN  [Reprise 92 6074]  1989  Pretending / Anything for your love / Bad love / Running on faith / Hard times / Hound dog / No alibis / Run so far / Old love / Breaking point / Lead me on / Before you accuse me.

• 24 NIGHTS  [Reprise 92 6420, 2LP live]  1991  Badge / Running on faith / White room / Sunshine of your love / Watch yourself / Have you ever loved a woman / Worried life blues / Hoodoo man / Pretending / Bad love / Old love / Wonderful tonight / Bell bottom blues / Hard times / Edge of darkness.

• RUSH (Soundtrack)  [Reprise 92 6794]  1992  New recruit / Track and lines / Realization / Kristen and Jim / Preludin fugue / Cold turkey / Will Gaines / Help me up / Don't know which way to go / Tears in heaven.

• UNPLUGGED  [Reprise 45024, CD only]  1992  Signe / Before you accuse me / Hey hey / Tears in heaven / Lonely stranger / Nobody knows you when you're down and out / Layla / Running on faith / Walkin' blues / Alberta / San Francisco Bay blues / Malted milk / Old love / Rollin' and tumblin'.

• FROM THE CRADLE  [Reprise 45735, CD only]  1994  Blues before sunrise / Third degree / Reconsider baby / Hoochie coochie man / Five long years / I'm tore down / How long blues / Goin' away baby / Blues leave me alone / Sinner's prayer / Motherless child / It hurts me too / Someday after a while (You'll be sorry) / Standin' 'round cryin' / Driftin' blues / Groanin' the blues.

• PILGRIM  [Reprise 46577]  1998  My father's eyes / River of tears / Pilgrim / Broken hearted / One chance / Circus / Goin' down slow / Fall like rain / Born in time / Sick & tired / Needs his woman / She's gone / You were there / Inside of me.

• RIDING WITH THE KING  [Reprise 47612, CD only]  2000  w. B.B.King  Ridin' with the King / Ten long years / Key to the highway / Marry you / Three o'clock blues / Help the poor / I wanna be / Worried life blues / Days of old / When my heart beats like a hammer / Hold on I'm comin' / Come rain or come shine. 

• REPTILE  [Reprise 47966, CD only]  2001  Reptile / Got you on my mind / Travelin' light / Believe in life / Come back baby / Broken down / Find myself / I ain't gonna stand for it / I want a little girl / Second nature / Don't let me be lonely tonight / Modern girl / Superman inside / Son and Sylvia.

JACK BRUCE

• I'm getting tired (of drinking and gambling) / Rootin' Tootin  [Polydor BM56036, 7"]  1965  His first and now very rare 7"

• SONGS FOR A TAILOR  [Polydor 583 058]  1969  B+  Never tell your mother she's out of tune / Theme from an imaginary western / Tickets to water falls / Weird of Herminston / Rope ladder to the moon / The ministry of bag / He the Richmond / Boston ball game, 1967 / To Isengard / The clearout.

• THINGS WE LIKE  [Polydor 2343 033]  1970  B-  Over the cliffs / Statues / Sam enchanted dick / Born to be blue / HCKHH blues / Ballad for Arthur / Things we like.

• HARMONY ROW  [Polydor 2310 107]  1971  B  Can you follow? / Escape to the Royal Wood (on ice) / You burned the tables on me / There's a forest / Morning story / Folk song / Smiles and grins / Post war / A letter of thanks / Victoria Sage / The consul at sunset.

• OUT OF THE STORM  [RSO 2394 143]  1974  B  Pieces of mind / Golden days / Running through our hands / Keep on wondering / Keep it down / Into the storm / One / Timeslip.

• HOW'S TRICKS  [RSO 2394 180]  1977  C+  Without a word / Johnny B. '77 / Times / Baby Jane / Lost inside a song / How's tricks? / Madhouse / Waiting for the call / Outsiders / Something to live for.

• I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO DO THIS  [Epic]  1980  Hit and run / Running back / Face lift 318 / In this way / Mickey the fiddler / Dancing on air / Living without ya / The wind and the sea / Out to lunch / Bird alone.

• AUTOMATIC  [Intercord 145069]  1983

• A QUESTION OF TIME  [Epic 465692]  1989  B-  Life on earth / Make love / No surrender / Flying / Hey now princess / Blues you can't love / Obsession / Kwela / Let me be / Only playing games / A question of time.

• SOMETHIN' ELSE  [CMP 1001, CD only]  1993  Waiting on a word / Willpower / Ships in the night / Peaches of the east / Close enough for love / G.B. down blues / Criminality / Childsong / FM.

• CITIES OF THE HEART  [CMP 1004, 2CD only]  1993  Live in Cologne (Germany)  Can you follow? / Running through our hands / Over the cliff / Statues / First time I met the blues / Smiles and grins / Bird alone / Neighbor, neighbor / Born under a bad sign / Ships in the night / Never tell your mother she's out of tune / Theme from an imaginary western / Golden days / Life on earth / N.S.U. / Sittin' on top of the world / Politician / Spoonful / Sunshine of your love.

• BBC RADIO ONE IN CONCERT  [BBC 4410, CD only]  1995  BBC sessions from the 70s  Can you follow? / Morning story / Keep it down / Pieces of mind / One / Spirit / Smiles and grins / White room / Hit and run / Slow blues / Livin' without ya / Dancing on air / In this way / Theme from an imaginary western / Politician.

• MONKJACK  [CMP 1010, CD only]  1995  The food / The boy / Shouldn't we / David's harp / Time repairs / Laughing on Music Street / Know one blues / Folk song / Weird of Hermiston / Tightrope / Third degree / Immortal ninth.

• SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD  [Times Square 9003, CD only]  1997  Live '93  Can you follow? / Over the cliff / First time I met the blues / Neighbor, neighbor / Ships in the night / Born under a bad sign / Theme from an imaginary western / N.S.U. / Sittin' on top of the world / Politician / Spoonful / Sunshine of your love.

• SHADOWS IN THE AIR  [Sanctuary 84511, CD only]  2001  Out into the fields / 52th street / Heart quake / Boston ball game 1967 / This anger's a liar / Sunshine of your love / Directions home / Milonga / Dancing on air / Windowless rooms / Dark heart / Mr.Flesh / He the Richmond / White room / Surge.

GINGER BAKER

• STRATAVARIOUS  [Polydor 2383 133]  1972

Pre-CREAM

ERIC CLAPTON

• YARDBIRDS - FIVE LIVE  [Columbia 33SX1677]  1964

• SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON WITH THE YARDBIRDS - same  [Fontana TL-5277]  1965

• JOHN MAYALL'S BLUESBREAKERS - BLUESBREAKERS  [Decca LK/SKL4804]  1965

JACK BRUCE

• JOHN MAYALL'S BLUESBREAKERS - BLUESBREAKERS  [Decca LK/SKL4804]  1965

• GRAHAM BOND ORGANIZATION - THE SOUND OF '65  [Columbia 33SX1711]  1965

• GRAHAM BOND ORGANIZATION - THERE'S A BOND BETWEEN US  [Columbia 33SX1750]  1966

• GRAHAM BOND ORGANIZATION - SOLID BOND  [Warner 3001, 2LP]  1970  Comp of previously unreleased songs recorded around 1965

• MANFRED MANN - MACHINES  [HMV 7EG8942, EP]  1966

GINGER BAKER

• GRAHAM BOND ORGANIZATION - THE SOUND OF '65  [Columbia 33SX1711]  1965

• GRAHAM BOND ORGANIZATION - THERE'S A BOND BETWEEN US  [Columbia 33SX1750]  1966

• GRAHAM BOND ORGANIZATION - SOLID BOND  [Warner 3001, 2LP]  1970  Comp of previously unreleased songs recorded around 1965

Post-CREAM - groups

ERIC CLAPTON

• BLIND FAITH - same  [Polydor 583 059]  1969  A  (Clapton, Baker, Grech, Winwood.  ESSENTIAL!):  Had to cry today / Can't find my way home / Well all right / Presence of the Lord / Sea of joy / Do what you like.

• DEREK & THE DOMINOES - LAYLA & OTHER ASSORTED LOVE SONGS  [Polydor 2625 005, 2LP]  1970  A  (Clapton meets Duane Allman. Side by side with an ace like Duane, Eric plays at his very best. He'll never play like here anymore. Listen to believe! THIS ALBUM IS OBLIGATORY IN ANY COLLECTION!  And if you are a completist, you may check the recent 3-CD version which includes two CDs of jams and alternate takes)  I looked away / Bell bottom blues / Keep on growing / Nobody knows you when you're down and out / I am yours / Anyday / Key to the highway / Tell the truth / Why does love got to be so sad? / Have you ever loved a woman / Little wing / It's too late / Layla / Thorn tree in the garden.

• DEREK & THE DOMINOES - IN CONCERT  [Polydor 2659 020]  1973  B+  (From the 1970 tour. They lost some magic without Duane; anyway, a good album):  Why does love got to be so sad? / Got to get better in a little while / Let it rain / Presence of the Lord / Tell the truth / Bottle of red wine / Roll it over / Blues power / Have you ever loved a woman.

JACK BRUCE

• TONY WILLIAMS' LIFETIME - EMERGENCY  [Polydor 583 574, 2LP]  1969

• TONY WILLIAMS' LIFETIME - TURN IT OVER  [Polydor 2425 019]  1970

• TONY WILLIAMS' LIFETIME - EGO  [Polydor 2425 065]  1971

• WEST, BRUCE & LAING - WHY DON'TCHA  click on the title for details

• WEST, BRUCE & LAING - WHATEVER TURNS YOU ON  click on the title for details

• WEST, BRUCE & LAING - LIVE'N'KICKIN'  [UK RSO 2394128 / USA Columbia KC32899]  1974

• BRUCE, LORDAN & TROWER - B.L.T.  [Chrysalis CHR1324]  1981  C+  Into money / What it is / Won't let you down / No island lost / It's too late / Life on earth / Once the bird has flown / Carmen / Feel the heat / End game.

• JACK BRUCE & ROBIN TROWER - TRUCE  [Chrysalis CHR1352]  1982  C  Gonna shut you down / Gone too far / Thin ice / Last train to the stars / Take good care of yourself / Fall in love / Fat gut / Shadows touching / Little boy lost.

• ROCKET '88 - same  [Atlantic 50776]  1981

• ROCKET '88 - INAZUMA SUPER SESSION  [Epic 460453]  1987

• B.B.M. (Bruce, Baker, Moore) - AROUND THE NEXT DREAM  [Virgin 839728, CD only]  1994  Waiting in the winds / City of gold / Where in the world / Can't fool the blues / High cost of loving / Glory days / Why does love (have to go wrong?) / Naked flame / I wonder why (are you so mean to me) / Wrong side of town.

GINGER BAKER

• BLIND FAITH - same  [Polydor 583 059]  1969  A  (Clapton, Baker, Grech, Winwood.  ESSENTIAL!)  see tracklist above

• GINGER BAKER'S AIRFORCE - same  [Polydor 2662 001, 2LP]  1970  B+  (Most people don't like this album.  I like it, instead)

• GINGER BAKER'S AIRFORCE - 2  [Polydor 2383 029]  1971  C+

• GINGER BAKER, FELA RANSOME KUTI & THE AFRICA BAND - same  [Regal Zonophone SLRZ 1023]  1972

• BAKER-GURVITZ ARMY - same  [Vertigo 9103 201]  1974  B-

• BAKER-GURVITZ ARMY - ELYSIAN ENCOUNTER  [Mountain 101]  1975  C

• BAKER-GURVITZ ARMY - HEARTS ON FIRE  [Mountain 111]  1976

• B.B.M. (Bruce, Baker, Moore) - AROUND THE NEXT DREAM  [Virgin 839728, CD only]  1994  See tracklist above.

• JACK BRUCE - CITIES OF THE HEART  [CMP 1004, 2CD only]  1993  Live in Cologne (Germany)

• JACK BRUCE - SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD  [Times Square 9003, CD only]  1997  Live '93

Other participations

ERIC CLAPTON

• BEATLES - same ("White Album")  [Apple PMC/PCS 7067/8, 2LP]  1968  A-  Surely plays lead guitar in While My Guitar Gently Weeps, but probably he plays here and there (but not everywhere).

• GEORGE HARRISON - WONDERWALL MUSIC  [Apple (S)APCOR1]  1968

• JOHN LENNON & PLASTIC ONO BAND - LIVE PEACE IN TORONTO  [Apple CORE2001]   1969

• GEORGE HARRISON - ALL THINGS MUST PASS  [Apple STCH639, 3LP box]  1970  B

• DELANEY & BONNIE & FRIENDS - U.S. TOUR  [USA Atco SD33-326]  1970  Eric toured with them in 1970 and appears in this live album.

• JOHN LENNON & PLASTIC ONO BAND - SOME TIME IN NEW YORK CITY  [Apple PCSP716, 2LP]  1972

• BOBBY WHITLOCK - RAW VELVET  [USA Dunhill DSX50113]  1972  C

• CORKY LAING - MAKIN' IT ON THE STREETS  [USA Asylum 7E1057]  1977  C

• (Soundtrack) HOMEBOY  [Virgin V2574]  1989

• JACK BRUCE - SOMETHIN' ELSE  [CMP 1001, CD only]  1993  see tracklist above.

• T.D.F. - RETAIL THERAPY  [Reprise 46489]  1997

JACK BRUCE

• MARVIN JENKINS - A TRIBUTE TO MY PEOPLE  [Reprise 6013]  1962

• DONOVAN - A GIFT FROM A FLOWER TO A GARDEN  [Pye NPL 200000, 2LP box set]  1965

• NEIL ARDLEY - DEJEUNER SU L'HERBE  [Verve SVLP9236]  1969

• NEIL ARDLEY - GREEK VARIATIONS  [Columbia SCX6414]  1969

• JOHN MAYALL - LOOKING BACK  [Decca LK/SKL 5010]  1969  Comp of non-LP singles from the 60s

• CARLA BLEY & PAUL HAINES - ESCALATOR OVER THE HILL  [JCOA 10034, 3LP]  1971

• ALEXIS KORNER - BOOTLEG HIM!  [RAK SRAKSP51, 2LP]  1972  Probably the songs on which he plays were recorded earlier.

• PETER BROWN & GRAHAM BOND - TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE  [Chapter One CHSR813]  1972

• BOBBY KEYS - same  [Warner 46141]  1972

• MICHAEL MANTLER - NO ANSWER  [Watt 2]  1973

• MICHAEL MANTLER - JAZZ COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA  [Virgin 3001]  1974

• LOCOMOTIV G.T. - same  [USA ABC ABCS811]  1974

• CHARLIE MARIANO - HELEN TWELVE TREES  [BASF 22941]  1976

• LES DUDEK - GHOST TOWN PARADE  [USA Columbia 35088]  1978

• MANFRED MANN - SEMI DETACHED SUBURBAN  [EMI]  1979

• BERNIE MARSDEN - AND ABOUT TIME TOO  [Parlophone PCS7215]  1979

• JON ANDERSON - SONG OF SEVEN  [Atlantic 16021]  1980

• MOSE ALLISON - LESSON IN LIVING  [Elektra 960237]  1982

• KIP HANRAHAN - DESIRE DEVELOPS AN EDGE  [American Clave 1008/9, 2LP]  1983

• JON ANDERSON - ANIMATION  [Atlantic 19355]  1983

• ALLAN HOLDSWORTH - ROAD GAMES  [Warner 92 3959, EP]  1983

• KIP HANRAHAN - VERTICAL CURRENCY  [American Clave 1010]  1984

• KIP HANRAHAN - A FEW SHORT NOTES FROM THE END RUN  [American Clave 1011]  1984

• KIP HANRAHAN - DAYS AND NIGHTS OF BLUE LUCK INVERTED JAZZ  [American Clave 1012]  1985

• THE GOLDEN PALOMINOS - VISIONS OF EXCESS  [USA Celluloid 6118]  1985

• THE GOLDEN PALOMINOS - BLAST OF SILENCE  [USA Celluloid 6127]  1986

• MICHAEL MANTLER - LIVE  [ECM]  1987

• MICHAEL MANTLER - MANY HAVE NO SPEECH  [ECM]  1987

• LESLIE WEST - THEME  [IRS]  1988  B-

• BOYZ II MAN - COOLEYHIGHHARMONY  [Motown 6320]  1991

• KIP HANRAHAN - EXOTICA  [American Clave 1027, CD]  1992

• MICHAEL MANTLER - FOLLY SEEING ALL THIS  [ECM, CD]  1993

• LINKS - same  [Musikerhof 11837, CD]  1994

• LUCY'S FUR COAT - JAUNDICE  [Relativity 1190]  1994

• PAUL HAINES - DARN IT!  [American Clave AMCL1014, CD]  1994

• KIP HANRAHAN - ALL ROADS ARE MADE OF THE FLESH  [American Clave 1029, CD]  1995

• KIP HANRAHAN - A THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT (SHADOW NIGHT)  [American Clave 1036, CD]  1997

• BRUCE CAMERON - MIDNIGHT DAYDREAM  [Brain Cell 1, CD]  1999

• ANTHONY HINDSON - IT'S A CURIOUS LIFE  [Wind In Hare 1001, CD]  1999

• MICHAEL MANTLER - SCHOOL OF UNDERSTANDING  [ECM 537963]  2001

• DICK HECKSTALL SMITH - BLUES AND BEYOND  [Spitfire 13004, CD]  2001

• GOV'T MULE - THE DEEP END vol.1  [ATO 21502, CD]  2001

GINGER BAKER

• ALEXIS KORNER - BOOTLEG HIM!  [RAK SRAKSP51, 2LP]  1972  Probably the songs on which he plays were recorded earlier.

NOTE - As usual, this discography can't be complete, considering the 40+ years career of Baker, Bruce and Clapton.  For each addition, correction, suggestion... please send me an e-mail.  Thanks in advance.

Last updated: 11 Feb 2003