Single:
White Room entered the Australian singles chart* on 26 October 1968 and was a #1 hit. The song was #13 on the Top 100 of 1969.
Album:
The song is on Wheels of Fire which entered the Australian albums chart* on 16 November 1968. The album reached #1 on 7 December 1968 and was on top for 2 weeks.
Songwriters:
Jack Bruce (composer), Pete Brown (lyricist)
Producer:
Felix Pappalardi
Record label of Australian release:
Polydor Int.
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
BONUS CLIP BELOW – the story behind White Room
Wikipedia:
Jack Bruce sang and played bass on the song, Eric Clapton overdubbed guitar parts, Ginger Baker played drums and timpani, and Felix Pappalardi – the group’s producer – contributed violas. Clapton played his guitar through a wah-wah pedal to achieve a “talking-effect”.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Room
Songfacts:
This song is about depression and hopelessness, but the setting is an empty apartment. The lyrics were written by a poet named Pete Brown, who was a friend of Cream bass player Jack Bruce, the lead vocalist on the track. Brown also wrote the words for Sunshine Of Your Love, I Feel Free and SWLABR.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/cream/white-room
Lyrics:
In the white room with black curtains near the station
Black roof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings
Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes
Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment
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BONUS CLIP
Songwriter and poet Pete Brown tells the story behind the song White Room by Cream. A short 2018 documentary by Top 2000 a gogo (Dutch Public Television).
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